This explains why Tyrion Lannister is so bitter (c.f. 3:35 until the end). Edit: apparently not Peter Dinklage, but instead some other little person who looks like Peter Dinklage.
So now I've processed One Christmas at a Time. It's not terrible. Mostly it's what you'd expect from a Jonathan Coulton Christmas record (I haven't heard enough of Roderick to say how typical it is for him). There's only one re-recording that I'm aware of (Christmas Is Interesting, from Smoking Monkey), and since I never much liked that in the original, it obviously doesn't do a whole lot for me, but Uncle John, at a minimum, is probably worth the price of admission and will end up permanently in my holiday rotation alongside Chiron Beta Prime. For ten bucks, you could do worse. I would, in fact, totally link in Uncle John, because I like the funky bass riff, but this shit is so fresh that it's apparently not up anywhere yet, but it's a song about your awful uncle (in the surly and mean and classless way, rather than the rapey way, which might be a little much for Coulton), so, you know, imagination or whatever.
A drone metal cover of MBV's 'Only Shallow'. Why the FUCK didn't anybody tell me about this before? As a special bonus, Nadja also does a version of Elliott Smith's 'Needle In The Hay':
My newfound obsession with Bonobo continues. This falls somewhere between downtempo electronica and modern chamber music.
Yeah, I picked the new one up after listening to the covers album a bunch of times and so far I really really like it.
Have I said you guys about the Asylum Street Spankers? I don't know whether they're still doing farewell shows (if you're in Austin, this is a thing you should probably find out, and shame on you for missing them when you had the chance if they aren't), but the rest of you should probably run out and buy some of their records anyway. All but one of them is available online (if you want Live, the last time I checked, you basically had to dig it out of eBay or an Amazon seller). Maybe the best performance of a song that like six people in history have ever bothered to record: One of my favorites, in the original, because I don't quite have the time to listen to all of the live performances: Guy Forsyth doing his thing (I prefer the album cut from Spanks for the Memories, but what are you gonna do?): Wammo's in this band as well, though he doesn't seem to have the stage presence I would have expected of him: Oh, and also Christina Marrs sang with them for pretty much the duration:
Hol Baumann. http://soundcloud.com/hol-baumann It's ... I don't know. IDM I guess. I'm not very good with electronica genre names. :P It's clicky, there are samples, it meanders, sometimes it's dancey but seems like it isn't or vice versa. Complex enough to be appealing, but not so much that it distracts from coding. Charles I liked your link. Makes me think of the Moon soundtrack but er, less soundtracky (more purely creative, less needing to create, sustain and direct tension). That was Clint Mansell, I believe.
This is really cool, whatever genre you want to call it. You might like the Bonobo tracks I posted on this page if you're into this kind of intricately arranged electronica.
Yep, already on my Mog list, courtesy of this thread I think. :) Hol Baumann has a few albums out, so the soundcloud isn't the end of those works.
I was recently reminded of the existence of Balkan Beat Box. This was a good thing, as they're awesome.
I think that after all that Kreaycommotion I started in the thread for dumb music I will tro to appease ye gods with some super skilled DJ's
It also feels a lot more like a Swans album than My Father Will Blah Blah. It's good to hear Jarboe again. Edit: I'm feeling album-of-the-year about it, but I haven't really listened to a lot of new music this year.
On that subject, I am diving back into everything I've bought this year in preparation for my unnecessary best albums of the year list. Going to be tough to winnow it down to ten.
Rubber Soul. I hit a like for L'oncle's 'concert for george' instance of google/record companies being bastards because it's a brilliant concert but I have no idea which song was being played. I remember sitting in a carpark and crying because George Harrison had died. I can see "in my life" is up next which I've always loved but I've spent an hour or so writing this, listening to the music and revisiting the concert for george and I'm happy.
After resurrecting them in my mind for another thread, I've been listening to Sunny Day Real Estate's How It Feels to Be Something On and it's a lot better than I even remember. Yay!
Boston. motherfuckers. the little plastic guitars are long gone. Toto is coming up next followed by celine "sit on a bus and make me enter a shit music competition will you?"Dion. PUT HEADPHONES ON
Really liking the new Deftones album. Koi No Yokan and Diamond Eyes have been a fantastic return to form.
