Self Helpless - Her Space Holiday
What Am I to You? - Norah Jones
The Youth - MGMT
Don't Deconstruct - Rilo Kiley
All At Once - Jack Johnson
Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John
Hills - Thao Nguyen
Typical Situation - Dave Matthews Band
Glass Figurine - Andrew Bird
Words Cannot Describe - Mirah
Dreaming of the Plum Trees - White Hinterland
Fidelity - Regina Spektor
Dry Lips - Lightspeed Champion
The Past and Pending - The Shins
Bathwater - No Doubt
Asleep on a Sunbeam - Belle and Sebastian
Good Day - Jukebox the Ghost
The Perpetual Self, Or "What Would Saul Alinsky Do?" - Sufjan Stevens
Fancy Footwork - Chromeo
I Will Possess Your Heart - Death Cab for Cutie
Kanske Ar Jag Kar I Dig - Jens Lekman
Little of Your Time - Maroon 5
It's a Disaster - OK Go
Off the Hook - CSS
It's a Fact (Printed Stained) - Matt & Kim
Bluegrass Stain'd - Mark Ronson, Nappy Roots, and Anthony Hamilton
The Girl You Lost to Cocaine - Sia
Showing posts with label andrew bird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label andrew bird. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
I've started to post reviews regularly! Just kidding, it's more Andrew Bird.
Lucky for you, I never get sick of Andrew Bird. Here's two tracks off his 2005 album, "Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs".
Measuring Cups - Andrew Bird
Skin Is, My - Andrew Bird
Both of them have a line in them that just hits me the right way-- I don't know if it's the meaning, or the rhyme, or the melody, but I get the urge to play those few seconds over and over.
In "Measuring Cups": so put your backpack on your shoulder / be the good little soldier
In "Skin Is, My": let it be printed on every t-shirt in this land / on the finest of cottons and the hippest of brands
It's bizarre how catchy these songs can be, when they sound so atypical of a hook-y pop song. Oh, Andrew. It's true love.
Measuring Cups - Andrew Bird
Both of them have a line in them that just hits me the right way-- I don't know if it's the meaning, or the rhyme, or the melody, but I get the urge to play those few seconds over and over.
In "Measuring Cups": so put your backpack on your shoulder / be the good little soldier
In "Skin Is, My": let it be printed on every t-shirt in this land / on the finest of cottons and the hippest of brands
It's bizarre how catchy these songs can be, when they sound so atypical of a hook-y pop song. Oh, Andrew. It's true love.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Fragments
The name of this blog (Broken Loveseats, if you've developed a sudden case of amnesia) is taken from the lyrics of "Frankie and Annette", by Casey Dienel. The other day I was listening to the song, and I realized that the word "hubcaps" was indeed singular: "hubcap coffee cups and broken loveseats". I haven't the faintest idea what a "hubcap coffee cup" is, and if I ever meet Ms. Dienel that is the first thing I plan on asking her. Until then, the extended name remains. (And if anyone knows what on god's green earth the lyrics mean, please pass it on.)
Sia (see-uh) is great. Her newest album, "Some People Have REAL Problems", was released last week. I unfortunately missed the free shows in New York but I plan on seeing her in March. I'll try to describe her with misguided and vague references: Sia's voice sounds like a cross between Regina Spektor and Amy Winehouse and her band sounds kind of like Feist, but fuller.
Cat Power has the sexiest voice ever bestowed upon a human being. Ever. I would like to lose my virginity to Cat Power, but if she won't have me I could probably settle for having sex to her music.
I'm a stickler for basic quality, so it should say something that I've been listening to the High Fidelity soundtrack on repeat, even though there are at least two audible skips in my favorite song. I'm pretty sure "I'm Wrong About Everything" is supposed to be a sad song, but I don't care. It makes me laugh. And I'm crap at analyzing songs anyway, so you should probably just give it a listen without any preconceptions. I was super nice and got a decent copy of the track to upload, too. Thank me later.
In another life, I'm a performer, my voice is stellar, and I'm not completely tone-deaf. Few songs inspire this break from reality as much as "Why", by Andrew Bird, recorded live on Fingerlings. He is so suave and captivating on this track, it is nearly impossible to suppress the desire to be him.
Frankie and Annette - Casey Dienel
The Girl You Lost to Cocaine - Sia
The Greatest - Cat Power
I'm Wrong About Everything - John Wesley Harding
Why - Andrew Bird
Sia (see-uh) is great. Her newest album, "Some People Have REAL Problems", was released last week. I unfortunately missed the free shows in New York but I plan on seeing her in March. I'll try to describe her with misguided and vague references: Sia's voice sounds like a cross between Regina Spektor and Amy Winehouse and her band sounds kind of like Feist, but fuller.
Cat Power has the sexiest voice ever bestowed upon a human being. Ever. I would like to lose my virginity to Cat Power, but if she won't have me I could probably settle for having sex to her music.
I'm a stickler for basic quality, so it should say something that I've been listening to the High Fidelity soundtrack on repeat, even though there are at least two audible skips in my favorite song. I'm pretty sure "I'm Wrong About Everything" is supposed to be a sad song, but I don't care. It makes me laugh. And I'm crap at analyzing songs anyway, so you should probably just give it a listen without any preconceptions. I was super nice and got a decent copy of the track to upload, too. Thank me later.
In another life, I'm a performer, my voice is stellar, and I'm not completely tone-deaf. Few songs inspire this break from reality as much as "Why", by Andrew Bird, recorded live on Fingerlings. He is so suave and captivating on this track, it is nearly impossible to suppress the desire to be him.
Frankie and Annette - Casey Dienel
The Girl You Lost to Cocaine - Sia
The Greatest - Cat Power
I'm Wrong About Everything - John Wesley Harding
Why - Andrew Bird
Thursday, November 22, 2007
RIGHT NOW
Before I get back to shows I’ve seen and reviews I’ve promised to write, I wanted to throw up a few mp3s that I am listening to RIGHT NOW. As in, look at my last.fm page, you skeptical son of a bitch, I am not lying to you.
Kanske Ar Jag Kar I Dig – Jens Lekman
Jens Lekman is my new love. No, not like-like. LOVE. I stupidly decided to listen to him for the first time the day after he played a show in Philly which I very stupidly did not attend. I will be kicking myself for this until I get to see him live. Although, I heard from a friend that the recent show he saw was solo acoustic, and thus nowhere near as awesome as his albums. Anyway, Kanske Ar Jag Kar I Dig (Swedish for “maybe I’m in love with you”) is jingly and fun and bouncy and I enjoy it very much. And who can’t love a song with the lyrics “the best way to touch your heart is to make an ass of myself”?
Plasticities – Andrew Bird
A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left – Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird is another one that’s been sitting in my itunes for ages, and I’ve finally given him a listen. Again, I am so glad I did. He fills the void in my life for a male vocalist with less instrumentation than Sufjan Stevens, more edge than Jack Johnson, slightly less whine than Jesse Harris, and a mild enough listen that it can be background music if I so desire.
D.A.N.C.E. – Justice
Okay, so I’m way late on this one, but this song owns. Come on, it’s about Michael Jackson- and with a children’s choir?! Try not to dance. You fail.
Ayo Technology Remix – Tugboat
Tugboat, the one man 8 bit band, is Jesse Novak. J-Nov is also $mart Geniu$ (nothing short of ridiculous) and the musical mastermind behind Olde English Comedy. I can’t stop listening to his remix of Ayo Technology, which ironically sounds much better over Nintendo noise. Someone start playing this at parties.
Unfulfilled promises coming soon. Promise.
Jens Lekman is my new love. No, not like-like. LOVE. I stupidly decided to listen to him for the first time the day after he played a show in Philly which I very stupidly did not attend. I will be kicking myself for this until I get to see him live. Although, I heard from a friend that the recent show he saw was solo acoustic, and thus nowhere near as awesome as his albums. Anyway, Kanske Ar Jag Kar I Dig (Swedish for “maybe I’m in love with you”) is jingly and fun and bouncy and I enjoy it very much. And who can’t love a song with the lyrics “the best way to touch your heart is to make an ass of myself”?
Andrew Bird is another one that’s been sitting in my itunes for ages, and I’ve finally given him a listen. Again, I am so glad I did. He fills the void in my life for a male vocalist with less instrumentation than Sufjan Stevens, more edge than Jack Johnson, slightly less whine than Jesse Harris, and a mild enough listen that it can be background music if I so desire.
Okay, so I’m way late on this one, but this song owns. Come on, it’s about Michael Jackson- and with a children’s choir?! Try not to dance. You fail.
Tugboat, the one man 8 bit band, is Jesse Novak. J-Nov is also $mart Geniu$ (nothing short of ridiculous) and the musical mastermind behind Olde English Comedy. I can’t stop listening to his remix of Ayo Technology, which ironically sounds much better over Nintendo noise. Someone start playing this at parties.
Unfulfilled promises coming soon. Promise.
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