December 2009
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Song of the Day playlist for NOV-DEC 2009 →
This will be my last post of the year and I figure the best way to finish up would be to post a playlist of all my songs of the day from the last few months. I am always fascinated by the songs that resonate with people on a day to day basis. How a particular song may seem to capture the emotion of the moment. How it feels as if by sharing our songs, that perhaps we will impart some of that...
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Cream - Under a Bad Sign →
This song just rocks me. It’s the perfect song for when shit isn’t going your way, but you are still totally unphased and feel like a badass. I like to ride my bike in dangerous ways while listening to this song. ‘Born Under a Bad Sign’ by Cream off their 1968 album Wheels of Fire.
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Modest Mouse - Baby Blue Sedan →
And it’s hard to be a human being And it’s harder as anything else And I’m lonesome when you’re around And I’m never lonesome when I’m by myself And I miss you when you’re around
‘Baby Blue Sedan’ is a song off Modest Mouse’s collection album Building Nothing Out of Something released in 2000.
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Miho Hatori - In Your Arms →
I knew Miho Hatori for years, I just didn’t know it was her that I was listening to. She is one of those rare musical gems that pops up in various experimental musical projects, which feel personal and intimate because of their obscurity. I had heard her on Beastie Boys, Dan the Automator, Prince Paul, Prefuse 73, and Gorillaz projects for years, yet I never put it together that it was her...
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Dr. Dre - Let Me Ride (feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg) →
Say what you will about what happened in the aftermath after the G-funk Dr. Dre put out in the late 80’s and early 90’s, but he started a legacy that cannot be denied. More than any other rapper, Dr. Dre was responsible for moving away from the avant-noise and political stance of Public Enemy and Boogie Down Productions as well as the party vibes of old-school rap like Whodini and Run...
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My Dream Last Night
I had a crazy dream last night. Two things before I begin, I can’t believe I had this dream and I can’t believe I remembered all of it to such great detail.
I was in my childhood house, chilling in the living room, watching some cartoons when I had this feeling that someone was coming. So I get up and look out the window (which there was no glass in) and see this pudgy dude coming...
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The Allman Brothers Band - It's Not My Cross To... →
For the first half of the 1970s, The Allman Brothers Band was the most influential rock group in America, redefining rock music and its boundaries. The band’s mix of blues, country, jazz, and even classical influences, and their powerful, extended on-stage jamming altered the standards of concert performance — other groups were known for their on-stage jamming, but when the Allman...
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Outkast - Liberation (feat. Cee-Lo and Goodie Mob) →
Aquemini is too good of an album to just attribute one song to it. Many, including myself, consider this an essential addition to any music lover’s collection (especially hip hop heads). There are no bones about it, this is a long album at 75 minutes, but front to back this album is a masterpiece and thus that time just breezes by. This song is the longest on the album at 8:45 and it still...
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Holiday Party Dance Mix Part 2 →
Here is the next hour of our Funky Ones Holiday Party dance mix. This gets into more electrofunk, house, dubstep, breakbeat territory. Chunks of it are taken directly from Freq Nasty and Cut Copy’s mixes on the Fabriclive series 42 and 29 respectively, so don’t think I’m too original. Enjoy.
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Elbow - Don't Mix Your Drinks →
I love this song and I love this album. The song could be about being cautious of who you should run around with and how the wrong crowd could lead you to trouble. It is also just as possible that the singer doesn’t want them to go and he is saying this to keep this person around. Both interpretations interest me because I have thought in both of those ways, both selfishly and cautiously for...
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Holiday Party Dance Mix Part 1 →
This is the first hour (6 hours total) of music from the mix I did for the holiday party we’re hosting on saturday. Most of the music on it is from early to mid 2000’s because I’m unhip like that.
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George Clinton - Bop Gun (featuring Ice Cube) →
This song is off of a George Clinton greatest hits album that came out in 1996 called Greatest Funkin’ Hits. This really isn’t a Clinton album so much a hiphop re-imagining of classic Clinton jams and it is damn good. It has tracks featuring Ice Cube, Digital Underground, and it even has a track that features Q-Tip, Busta Rhymes, and ODB. This is a must have album if you ask me. Here...
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UNKLE - Unreal →
UNKLE is a project of Mo’ Wax founder James Lavelle and various DJs/Producers. It was one of the primary acts that helped launch the instrumental mid-’90s downtempo breakbeat revival eventually termed trip-hop. The most successful outing was when Lavelle teamed up with DJ Shadow in 1998 to produce the classic album Psyence Fiction. Here’s my favorite song off the album titled...
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Tree decorations →
Wondering how to spice up your tree this year? Well look no further. Everything you need to know about making the bestest of the best looking holiday tree is here.
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Amr Diab - Aktar Wahed →
Amr Diab is one of the most popular singers in the middle east. He grew up in Port Said and came to Cairo in 1984 and made a musical name for himself. He has won is now one of the leading Al-jil stars, taking top billing at music festivals and enjoying hit after hit in the cassette markets of Cairo. He is the best-selling Arab recording artist of all time, according to Let’s Go Egypt. He was...
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DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World →
DJ Shadow is one of the largest influences and inspirations on my electronic music ventures. I started with percussion, but soon moved on to making beats using programs. DJ Shadow, at his peak, was unrivaled in his ability to put together a completely sample based track. He was able to somehow mix samples of not only completely different genres, but in a seamless and totally harmonious fashion....
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Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life →
Sparklehorse is less of a band and more the work of Mark Linkous, which he began working on in 1995. He crafts strangely beautiful — and beautifully strange — music inspired by down-to-earth sounds as well as spacey experimentalism that wraps deep-seated, often uncomfortable emotions in layers of metaphors and static. Driven by burbling keyboards, drum machines, acoustic guitar, and...
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Belle and Sebastian - The State I'm In →
One of the most wonderful things about Belle and Sebastian is how they mix whimsical, delicate and beautiful melodies with dark and unsettling lyrics. The first time I heard this band I knew they were for me. Their sound seems like my personality in music form: a silly and playful jerk who sometimes gets depressed due to the consequences of the stupid things I do. Song of the day goes to Belle and...
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Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full (Seven Minutes Of... →
They never had large commercial appeal, but it’s pretty much a fact that this duo dominated the ‘golden age’ of hip hop in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Not only was their chemistry superb, but individually, each represented the absolute state of the art in their respective skills. Eric B. was a hugely influential DJ and beatmaker whose taste for hard-hitting James...
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David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones →
David Byrne is one of my musical heroes. He was the frontman for the Talking Heads. He has always made not only music, but art that is adventurous and challenging, yet consumable. He composed the original score for the HBO show Big Love. He also rocks a great show, my parents and I got down at Davies Symphony Hall on my birthday a couple years ago, where everyone was up and dancing in tuxedos....
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Jason Lytle - Rollin' Home Alone →
Jason Lytle was the lead singer/songwriter for one of my favorite bands, Grandaddy. They broke up a couple of years ago and Lytle moved to Montana. What I really like about the songs he writes is how he creates a juxtaposition between nature and technology. He somehow blends them together seamlessly, while maintaining a sense of mysticism about both of them. The songs are slightly sad, but in a...
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Groove Armada - At The River →
Groove Armada is an electronic duo that hails from London. The group formed in the mid-’90s and soon started their own club, also named Groove Armada (after a ’70s discotheque), which featured their spinning. The reason I like these guys so much is that you cannot by any means categorize them in anything aside from the broader genre of ‘electronic’. They can do dance, they...
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WatchI’m not even into this band, but holy shit! This music video titillates my grey matter like someday it may matter. Song is good too. It goes to OK Go’s WTF off their soon to be released 2010 album Of The Colour of the Sky.
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Neil Young - One of These Days →
Somehow this song makes me sad and happy at the same time. Makes me think of all the great people I know and have known and how they’ve impacted my life. Song of the day goes to Neil Young’s ‘One of These Days’ off his 1992 album Harvest Moon.
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Melody Club - Electric →
These guys are some of the creepiest looking dudes you’ll see, which makes sense considering they’re a 80’s-synth-pop/70’s-glam-rock hybrid from Sweden. You can’t help but feel this song though. Cause you know what, I believe deep down we’re all electric and just want to dance. Song of the day goes to Melody Club with their song ‘Electric’ off their...
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Some people are just sloppy
You know who you are.
Keep sloppin it up, you sloppy slop-faced slopper.