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I've realized that my new favorite thing is getting a group of about 15-20 people and just taking over a random dive bar that otherwise would have more bartenders than customers. Playing pool and conversing this song came on the jukebox

Tina Turner - I Can't Stand the Rain

right after

Alice Cooper - Feed My Frankenstein

Tutti gusti son gusti, but it's no secret that I love the 80's pop sound bleeding over into italo disco. I don't care how much flak I get for putting these up. The songs in their entirety aren't exactly what I'd listen to, but rather little snippets: the initial vocal chord of Alice Cooper, the intermittent synth power chords with Tina Turner, and her arpeggiated bass line. Truth be told, I like this version better as a song

Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain

I do like parts of Tina Turner's voice on the track because it reminds me of a black Alison Moyet. Maybe the track harks to my deep desire to constantly jam to Yazoo with its minimal backing track thereby accentuating the her vocals.

I didn't like hair metal until I started listening to WLUP in the summer of 2000 driving around in my dad's 1987 Camry that would overheat in the summertime and then you'd have to crank up the heat to full blast to get it to cool off. I took that car to see Bon Jovi in Tinley Park then listened to an all Bon Jovi set on The Loop afterwards. After a Scorpions concert or three, it further crystallized the 80's in me.

Side note to Jimbo Baggins:

Remember when we drove back from the Bon Jovi concert and we saw the construction worker guy driving in front of us throwing sandbags on the horses? He kept missing until he finally got one, we honked, he yelled, we gave thumbs up, he smiled.

Honestly the only reason this song is back on the radar for me is because I recently saw Wayne's World again and forgot how sweet Alice Cooper is in it.

Canadance

Granted I'm still smoking the same hookah from before, I can't in all honestly do two posts about chill tracks; that's not me. I figure it was time to delve into the more upbeat stuff that I received some time ago from the Victorian era region.

Handsome Furs - Legal Tender

Dan Boeckner's voice reminds me of Philip Oakley of the Human League. Sorry, ADD here. Human League = 80's -> octavian chord progressions. In the same vein of the same playlist from the same gal this track is worth mentioning

Metronomy - Holiday

Metronomy - A thing for me

I don't really want to write about these songs. I am too focused on lower appendage perturbations. Where is that impromptu dance party that I keep trying to start?

Wow. I could never write for Pitchfork if I keep this up.

Where there's fire

Whenever I smoke the hookah nowadays, I'm reminded of that one evening where I took my first trip to Neo and then came back to watch Blade Runner on mute, listen to dubnobasswithmyheadman by Underworld, and smoke. It's too bad that no one was there to accompany my retreat into my personal relaxation chamber that was my living room. Right now, my body is drained from an evening of egotistical happiness, 5hrs of sleep, a morning of biking on Father's Day, mother's steak, but I have a restless mind of self-reflection. I tried to nap but whereas my korperteil is tired, my brain is not: hence hookah.

Múm - Behind Two Hills,,,,A Swimmingpool

Múm - We Have a Map of the Piano

The internet has been out at the place for about a week now, and I don't blog at work so I figure I write some stuff in textedit (notepad) to pass the time. Mum is one of those groups that is heavy on the ambient chill, meaning there is a flurry of background noise (to me, but some can argue that it is DnB) with the overtones of simpler, slow relaxation in the foreground that you can nod (off) to.

Styrofoam - It Wouldn't Change a Thing

Styrofoam - Forever, You Said Forever

Exhibit B is Styrofoam. I find similarities in peoples faces all the time as if God ran out of genetic permutations and localized them enough such that I could discover them. It is more that certain folk trigger a familiarity and even though I say "Hey isn't that Cheryl?" I should really be asking my companion of that moment "Hey, that looks like Cheryl, no?" However, auditorily, I got it right with Styrofoam and my then companion in late college verified (she was good like that); it is a project by Arne Van Petegem with Markus Acher, (part of The Notwist). The structural concept is similarly in line with Múm's style although the tone is rather melancholy. I wonder if there is a genre name for these guys. (Wikipedia says glitch electronica)

Now if you excuse me, I will retire to my radishes...

Make a new album already

Gawd, I never though I wouldn't ever want to hear that song again and just had been tactfully avoiding it, but I heard 'Kids' last night at the Hungry Brain. After about 15sec I noticed a small rush to the jukebox to try and figure out where the button was or at least dump some dollars in and make a wish for it to end.

Oh hey MGMT, what's up!? Didn't see you there. Yes I saw the video you just made of your #1 smash hit. (inspiration). I have to say that babies actually crying because they can't act isn't really my bowl of pudding, but your ending animation was excellence.



This doesn't really fly 100% with the MGMT thing, but here is probably the first coherent blog post I've read on HRO that didn't use alt-bro-2k10 language to excess. And speaking of meme's,

The original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ
The mp3: Play him off, keyboard cat.

Another cutsie-poo video

First of all: Rose, we're really sorry for missing your birthday party.

Second, here is a video invite to a wedding. Maybe I'll crash it.



I just had a concept for an art show. Sam was just putting tacky paper on the back of a Michael Jackson puzzle in our place that has been up for a while, but the paper is what you would use normally to line your cupboard shelves. As he turns it around, he exposes the puzzle. Now, what if the entire show was of paintings with a normal pattern on the one side, however it is your job as a viewer to turn around the painting and look at the other side, which has the real artwork. It is a bit like unwrapping a present, however I think it'd be a joke for me just to stand there and look at people looking at the art and not understanding why are they at a gallery opening for shelf lining.

Anything is better than Girl Talk

I'd have to say that I was within the whirlwind of hype that is Girl Talk. I was interested in the concept of mostly hooks and only 20sec of any song. However, it's like eating just the frosting off a bunch of cupcakes: you never get into the substance. As a result, your teeth (brain) rot. It's great for the ADHD youth of the nation but why promote it? I shouldn't be likening Pretty Lights to Girl Talk, but he does plenty of sampling and seamless puts them all together. I guess a better comparison would be to an earlier RJD2 who used primarily all samples (versus now where he writes his own stuff). This sound is similar in groove, downtempo, chill step, whatever to RJ.



Good news for you, all of Derek Vincent Smith's stuff is available for free at his website. Why? I don't know; I'd probably buy an album and play it for the babies. Give the guy some money, folks. In the meantime...

Pretty Lights - Cold Feeling

Patrick Watson

This guy is rather neat. I heard about him here. He definitely has that dreamy, floating sound. Go reverb! It's time for bed, so this mini-set is perfect.

GAH!!

Ok, so I knew about Flosstradamus playing at the Burlington way back when and I either didn't go there because:

a) I was doing something I thought was better
b) The last Flosstradamus set I saw at Sonotheque I wasn't impressed with
c) I said 'Eh, fuck it'

Well hearing from this guy about the sexy results that ensued sent me in a rage of disappointment for about 5sec... apparently DIPLO showed up and started to PLAY A SET that night. FML.

Ok, enough dwelling on the past, let's reminisce instead. How about a choose your own adventure? Would you rather:

a) Take Charge at 16Hz


b) Conquer the Wind


or

c) Shoot and Drive Away via Giorgio Moroder

P.S. Remember, a Stamos boner, is not an awkward boner.

P.P.S Thanks TNUC.