No. 20
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love
Slightly crazy idea that a mid-low level plodder might achieve a BQ if he put his mind to it. I might talk about music, motorbikes or cycling if the mood takes me as well.
Current PBs
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Monday, December 05, 2005
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Wednesday the 11th of May, Night Shift - Playlist
Festival of 2005
1. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
Pretty spectacular, this is. "Yeti" is a freak-out of major proportions. "Subotnik" has a real 60's vibe to it, especially the guitars, and "A Final Warning" is all motorik beats, vaguely unsettling nostalgia, flittering noises and backwards masking.
And that's just the first three tracks.
This album lets go some of the jazzier flourishes of "Up In Flames" bit it adds some really psychedelic ones. Some of these grooves could stretch to infinity.
I think this is better than Superwolf. I'm gonna listen to that next.
2. Bonny Prince Billy/Matt Sweeny - Superwolf
3. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
4. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
and again. this album is the great.
5. M.I.A. - Arular
much hyped, long awaited and acxtually pretty damn great.
6. Magnolia Electric Co. - What Comes After the Blues
7. Hood - Outside Closer
Festival of 2005
1. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
Pretty spectacular, this is. "Yeti" is a freak-out of major proportions. "Subotnik" has a real 60's vibe to it, especially the guitars, and "A Final Warning" is all motorik beats, vaguely unsettling nostalgia, flittering noises and backwards masking.
And that's just the first three tracks.
This album lets go some of the jazzier flourishes of "Up In Flames" bit it adds some really psychedelic ones. Some of these grooves could stretch to infinity.
I think this is better than Superwolf. I'm gonna listen to that next.
2. Bonny Prince Billy/Matt Sweeny - Superwolf
3. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
4. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
and again. this album is the great.
5. M.I.A. - Arular
much hyped, long awaited and acxtually pretty damn great.
6. Magnolia Electric Co. - What Comes After the Blues
7. Hood - Outside Closer
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Tuesday the 26th of April, Night Shift
Playlist
1. Swans - Children of God
2. The Tea Party - Transmission
3. Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain
Teenage Fanclub make me think I can sing along. Then I try. I can't sing, but I don't care. These songs are built to be sung along to. The harmonies are stunning and the melodies are awesome. It sounds like summer.
4. Tortoise - TNT
5. Wilco - A Ghost is Born
6. Four Tet - Rounds
7. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
8. Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower
9. Monty Python - Contractual Obligation Album
10. Sonic Youth - Dirty
Playlist
1. Swans - Children of God
2. The Tea Party - Transmission
3. Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain
Teenage Fanclub make me think I can sing along. Then I try. I can't sing, but I don't care. These songs are built to be sung along to. The harmonies are stunning and the melodies are awesome. It sounds like summer.
4. Tortoise - TNT
5. Wilco - A Ghost is Born
6. Four Tet - Rounds
7. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
8. Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower
9. Monty Python - Contractual Obligation Album
10. Sonic Youth - Dirty
Monday, April 25, 2005
Monday the 25th of April Night Shift Playlist
Not Yet Played... shuffle!
1. Brian Wilson - Song For Children (Smile)
2. The Who - My Wife (Who's Next)
3. Dianogah - Take Care, Olaf (Millions of Brazillians)
4. Morphine - Pulled Over The Car (Opuim Bootleg)
5. The Cure - Coming Up (Bloodflowers)
6. Modest Mouse - A Different City (Portland OR, 15/01/2000)
7. Beck - The Golden Age (Sea Change)
8. Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit (You Forgot It In People)
9. The Postal Service - This Place Is A Prison (Give Up)
10. Wilco - Magazine Called Sunset (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Demos)
11. Tool - Undertow (Royal Theatre, Canberra 2002)
12. Bluebottle Kiss - Thunderclouds Drag Me Deep Down Holes (Higher Up The Firetrails)
13. Red House Painters - Shock Me (Retrospective)
14. Radiohead - Airbag (Live in SF, April 1998)
15. !!! - Theme From Space Island (Louden up Now)
16. Modest Mouse - Doin' The Cockroach (Portland OR, 15/01/2000)
17. Loretta Lynn - God Makes No Mistakes (Van Lear Rose)
18. Bob Dylan - I Want You (Blonde On Blonde)
19. Liz Phair - Strange Loop (Exile in Guyville)
20. The Flaming Lips - Felt Good To Burn (Hit To Death in the Future Head)
21. Ween - Ice Castles (Live at Stubbs)
22. Stereolab - Nihilst Assault Group (Mars Audiac Quintet)
23. Bela Bartom - Hungarian Peasant Song #6 (Songs)
24. Shihad - Yr Head is a Rock (Shihad)
25. Mission of Burma - Outlaw (Mission of Burma)
26. Les Savy Fav - Obsessed With The Excess (Inches)
27. Dianogah - Wrapping the Lamb, Sir (Millions of Brazillians)
28. Radiohead - No Surprises (Live, London May 25, 2003)
29. Peter Sellers - Unchained Melody
30. John Prine - Donald and Lydia (John Prine)
31. Radiohead - Lucky (Live in SF, April 1998)
32. New Pornographers - Ballad of a Comeback Kid (The Electric Version)
33. Augie March - Lazy Pines (B-side)
34. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls (9:30 Club, Washington)
35. Grandaddy - Beautiful Ground (The Sophtware Slump)
36. Buzzcocks - Why Can't I Touch It? (Singles Going Steady)
37. Drive Like Jehu - Luau (Yank Crime)
38. Radiohead - You and Whose Army? (Montreaux Jazz Festival 2003)
39. Cannibal Ox - Straight Off The D.I.C. (Cold Vein)
40. Teenage Fanclub - Start Again (Songs From Northern Britain)
41. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Breathless (The Lyre of Orpheus)
42. Tom Waits - Jitterbug Boy (Small Change)
43. Seefeel - Polyfusia (Polyfusia)
44. Big Heavy Stuff - Eric Remains (Maximum Sincere)
45. Ween - Voodoo Lady (Live at Stubbs)
46. Art of Fighting - Where Trouble Lived (Second Storey)
47. Liz Phair - Soap Star Joe (Exile in Guyville)
48. Snout - Greenbelt Fields (What's That Sound?)
49. Outkast - Dracula's Wedding (Speakerboxx/The Love Below)
50. Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Mr Soul (Year of the Horse)
51. Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
Not Yet Played... shuffle!
1. Brian Wilson - Song For Children (Smile)
2. The Who - My Wife (Who's Next)
3. Dianogah - Take Care, Olaf (Millions of Brazillians)
4. Morphine - Pulled Over The Car (Opuim Bootleg)
5. The Cure - Coming Up (Bloodflowers)
6. Modest Mouse - A Different City (Portland OR, 15/01/2000)
7. Beck - The Golden Age (Sea Change)
8. Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit (You Forgot It In People)
9. The Postal Service - This Place Is A Prison (Give Up)
10. Wilco - Magazine Called Sunset (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Demos)
11. Tool - Undertow (Royal Theatre, Canberra 2002)
12. Bluebottle Kiss - Thunderclouds Drag Me Deep Down Holes (Higher Up The Firetrails)
13. Red House Painters - Shock Me (Retrospective)
14. Radiohead - Airbag (Live in SF, April 1998)
15. !!! - Theme From Space Island (Louden up Now)
16. Modest Mouse - Doin' The Cockroach (Portland OR, 15/01/2000)
17. Loretta Lynn - God Makes No Mistakes (Van Lear Rose)
18. Bob Dylan - I Want You (Blonde On Blonde)
19. Liz Phair - Strange Loop (Exile in Guyville)
20. The Flaming Lips - Felt Good To Burn (Hit To Death in the Future Head)
21. Ween - Ice Castles (Live at Stubbs)
22. Stereolab - Nihilst Assault Group (Mars Audiac Quintet)
23. Bela Bartom - Hungarian Peasant Song #6 (Songs)
24. Shihad - Yr Head is a Rock (Shihad)
25. Mission of Burma - Outlaw (Mission of Burma)
26. Les Savy Fav - Obsessed With The Excess (Inches)
27. Dianogah - Wrapping the Lamb, Sir (Millions of Brazillians)
28. Radiohead - No Surprises (Live, London May 25, 2003)
29. Peter Sellers - Unchained Melody
30. John Prine - Donald and Lydia (John Prine)
31. Radiohead - Lucky (Live in SF, April 1998)
32. New Pornographers - Ballad of a Comeback Kid (The Electric Version)
33. Augie March - Lazy Pines (B-side)
34. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls (9:30 Club, Washington)
35. Grandaddy - Beautiful Ground (The Sophtware Slump)
36. Buzzcocks - Why Can't I Touch It? (Singles Going Steady)
37. Drive Like Jehu - Luau (Yank Crime)
38. Radiohead - You and Whose Army? (Montreaux Jazz Festival 2003)
39. Cannibal Ox - Straight Off The D.I.C. (Cold Vein)
40. Teenage Fanclub - Start Again (Songs From Northern Britain)
41. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Breathless (The Lyre of Orpheus)
42. Tom Waits - Jitterbug Boy (Small Change)
43. Seefeel - Polyfusia (Polyfusia)
44. Big Heavy Stuff - Eric Remains (Maximum Sincere)
45. Ween - Voodoo Lady (Live at Stubbs)
46. Art of Fighting - Where Trouble Lived (Second Storey)
47. Liz Phair - Soap Star Joe (Exile in Guyville)
48. Snout - Greenbelt Fields (What's That Sound?)
49. Outkast - Dracula's Wedding (Speakerboxx/The Love Below)
50. Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Mr Soul (Year of the Horse)
51. Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
Sunday, April 24, 2005
Saturday the 23rd of April
Night Shift - Playlist
1. Rounds - Four Tet
Some say that Four Tet are the Coldplay of electronic music, and they may have a point. There's nothing too shocking about this, but by jeez there are some good tunes on this album. There's something very pleasing about the way the elements of these songs coalesce into grooves. These are some meticulously constructed songs, and the beauty of it is that they don't sound slaved over or forced. 'Rounds' isn't what you'd call a difficult album, but there's enough noisy little inclusions and jazzy interludes to keep it interesting. Honestly, some of it, like 'My angel rocks back and forth', is just downright pretty. Sometimes that's enough.
2. Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
These guys are mad. In a ranting, barking, hectoring kind of way. They spit bile and invective. In the best possible way.
Besides, any album with a song titled "The world loves us and is our bitch" deserves praise.
ps. "my love is bigger than your love, we take more drugs than a touring funk band. sing it!"
3. Messiaen - Quatour pour la fin du temps
I'm seeing if I can figure this one out. It just seems so random.
4. Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
I haven't heard this yet, and it's got some songs I've heard referred to as classics. Listening to the first minute of "Dramamine", I'd say this could be one of them. Woah, I just got to the vocals and did someone say Built to Spill? I think Modest Mouse have really developed their own sound since this album came out. Yeah, this is good, but way less developed, as would be expected. Alright, "Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset" is pretty tops too.
5. Tim Rogers and the Temperance Union - ...Play Spit Polish
This is such a damn fine album.
6. Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
Another one I haven't listened to before. I liked "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road", so I've got big hopes. It's not too bad either. It's probably a dirtier rocknroll record than "car wheels...", so yeah, this is pretty damn good.
7. Radiohead - Amnesiac
My opinion of this album has skyrocketed since I first heard it. It's a work of genius, pure and simple. And it sounds terrible on these tiny speakers. I'll have to listen to something else.
8. Mastodon - Leviathan
Good god this is impressive metal.
9. A Sliver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra La La Band With Choir - This is Our Punk Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather and Sing.
Despite the silly name, this is some gloriously strident music. The choir on the first track "Sow Some Lonesome Corners So Many Flowers Bloom" are all complete amateurs and it shows. But I think it's all the more moving and awesome for the flat notes, the untrained voices, the harsh harmonies. It's an audible version of what I like to think the Constellation bands are about: group action, imperfect but trying for and hopefully achieving something lasting and inspiring.
The choir comes back on the track "American Motor Over Smouldering Field" and it's amateurishness is right in your face. These people can't "sing" but the don't care. They are singing, and it's all the more awesome for the flaws.
10. Tom Waits - Live on VH1 Storytellers.
Night Shift - Playlist
1. Rounds - Four Tet
Some say that Four Tet are the Coldplay of electronic music, and they may have a point. There's nothing too shocking about this, but by jeez there are some good tunes on this album. There's something very pleasing about the way the elements of these songs coalesce into grooves. These are some meticulously constructed songs, and the beauty of it is that they don't sound slaved over or forced. 'Rounds' isn't what you'd call a difficult album, but there's enough noisy little inclusions and jazzy interludes to keep it interesting. Honestly, some of it, like 'My angel rocks back and forth', is just downright pretty. Sometimes that's enough.
2. Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
These guys are mad. In a ranting, barking, hectoring kind of way. They spit bile and invective. In the best possible way.
Besides, any album with a song titled "The world loves us and is our bitch" deserves praise.
ps. "my love is bigger than your love, we take more drugs than a touring funk band. sing it!"
3. Messiaen - Quatour pour la fin du temps
I'm seeing if I can figure this one out. It just seems so random.
4. Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
I haven't heard this yet, and it's got some songs I've heard referred to as classics. Listening to the first minute of "Dramamine", I'd say this could be one of them. Woah, I just got to the vocals and did someone say Built to Spill? I think Modest Mouse have really developed their own sound since this album came out. Yeah, this is good, but way less developed, as would be expected. Alright, "Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset" is pretty tops too.
5. Tim Rogers and the Temperance Union - ...Play Spit Polish
This is such a damn fine album.
6. Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
Another one I haven't listened to before. I liked "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road", so I've got big hopes. It's not too bad either. It's probably a dirtier rocknroll record than "car wheels...", so yeah, this is pretty damn good.
7. Radiohead - Amnesiac
My opinion of this album has skyrocketed since I first heard it. It's a work of genius, pure and simple. And it sounds terrible on these tiny speakers. I'll have to listen to something else.
8. Mastodon - Leviathan
Good god this is impressive metal.
9. A Sliver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra La La Band With Choir - This is Our Punk Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather and Sing.
Despite the silly name, this is some gloriously strident music. The choir on the first track "Sow Some Lonesome Corners So Many Flowers Bloom" are all complete amateurs and it shows. But I think it's all the more moving and awesome for the flat notes, the untrained voices, the harsh harmonies. It's an audible version of what I like to think the Constellation bands are about: group action, imperfect but trying for and hopefully achieving something lasting and inspiring.
The choir comes back on the track "American Motor Over Smouldering Field" and it's amateurishness is right in your face. These people can't "sing" but the don't care. They are singing, and it's all the more awesome for the flaws.
10. Tom Waits - Live on VH1 Storytellers.
Thursday, April 21, 2005
ipod on random
1. Pollyanna - Lemonsuck
2. Autechre - Uviol
3. John Prine - Spanish Pipedream
4. Dirty Three - Everything's Fucked
5. Beth Orton - Whenever
6. Buffalo Tom - Kitchen Door
7. The Clean - Franz Kafka at the Zoo
8. Bob Dylan - You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine
9. Hood - Any Hopeful Thoughts Arrive
10. The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket
11. Orchestra Morphine - So Many Ways
12. Nobukazu Takemura - Tadasu no mori
13. Stereolab - Black Ants in the Sound Dust
14. Modest Mouse - Trailer Trash (Live Portland 2000)
15. Nobekazu Takemura - Astral Beads
16. Codeine - New Years
17. Avalanches - part of Gimix
18. Beck - Round The Bend
19. Boyracer - They're Making Money
20. Isis - The Beginning and the End
21. Doves - N.Y.
22. Bela Bartok - Hungarian Peasant Song #2
23. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Miles Away
24. Seefeel - Come Alive
25. Christopher O'Reilly - Blackstar
more fashionable-tech name-dropping later.
1. Pollyanna - Lemonsuck
2. Autechre - Uviol
3. John Prine - Spanish Pipedream
4. Dirty Three - Everything's Fucked
5. Beth Orton - Whenever
6. Buffalo Tom - Kitchen Door
7. The Clean - Franz Kafka at the Zoo
8. Bob Dylan - You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine
9. Hood - Any Hopeful Thoughts Arrive
10. The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket
11. Orchestra Morphine - So Many Ways
12. Nobukazu Takemura - Tadasu no mori
13. Stereolab - Black Ants in the Sound Dust
14. Modest Mouse - Trailer Trash (Live Portland 2000)
15. Nobekazu Takemura - Astral Beads
16. Codeine - New Years
17. Avalanches - part of Gimix
18. Beck - Round The Bend
19. Boyracer - They're Making Money
20. Isis - The Beginning and the End
21. Doves - N.Y.
22. Bela Bartok - Hungarian Peasant Song #2
23. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Miles Away
24. Seefeel - Come Alive
25. Christopher O'Reilly - Blackstar
more fashionable-tech name-dropping later.
Friday, March 25, 2005
Hoho. my first night shift in my new job is... now 40 minutes old. 11 hours 20 minutes to go. rinse and repeat three more times.
recent news is I moved to Brisbane for a job with an electricity transmission company. shift work, but much better pay, and the chance to study whilst I work. seems to be going along ok at the moment, but I'm olny half way through the shift cycle, and the first half is the easiest.
recent news is I moved to Brisbane for a job with an electricity transmission company. shift work, but much better pay, and the chance to study whilst I work. seems to be going along ok at the moment, but I'm olny half way through the shift cycle, and the first half is the easiest.
Monday, February 14, 2005
heh, i sure did get sick of this blogging malarkey.
Currently Reading: The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
Current Listening: quite a lot actually
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Bonny Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
Pan Sonic - Kesto (234.48:4)
Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattior Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
and it's all good dammit.
Currently Reading: The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
Current Listening: quite a lot actually
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Bonny Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
Pan Sonic - Kesto (234.48:4)
Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattior Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
and it's all good dammit.