Category Archives: MP3s

Sweet, True Love

MP3s, Music

In which you hear me sing a song that was written for me to solo on. For real.

Remember my trip to New York last September? To sing on a friend’s acapella album? Well, I saw her over New Year’s and she gave me the tracks.

She doesn’t like them and isn’t going to use them; she wants to re-record the material later this year. I don’t blame her. It’s kinda rough, really. It’s really hard to record acapella material, especially without a conductor.

But anyway. Here, for your listening pleasure, is Sweet True Love by Barbara Morillo, recorded at LiveWire studio in NYC last autumn.

I’m uploading this track specifically because, hey, this site’s all about me and I’ve got a solo in the end of it.

Enjoy! Do please tell me you love me.

Rehearsal Tonight

MP3s, Music

In which I’ll probably not look as young or thin as I once did.

Tonight at House 11 rehearsal we’ll be setting the band room back up (now that the gear is all back from the gig), and then watching the video from New Year’s Eve.

*groan*

The band will now know about that one verse I made the words up for because I’d forgotten the real ones!

In other news, here’s some poppy pop goodness. It kinda sounds like the theme to the Sopranos, but it’s about Internet porn and I love it.

New Drums Are So Hot

Blurbs, MP3s

In which my brother got a new drum kit.

This is one of the dozen images my brother emailed me of his new drum kit.

On the phone today he told me, “My new drum kit is so hot it’s going to have my kids. As soon as I find its vagina, that is.”

In other news, this will cheer you up. He’s so funky, the Purple One.

Santastic!

LOTD, MP3s

For no apparent reason whatsoever:

Santastic

Santastic: Holiday Boots 4 Your Stockings offers a bunch of Xmas mashups to feed your iPod…

…or you could choose to just annoy customers by playing it as hold music. Ooh! Or you could play it in the lobby!

Or maybe you could slip it in the Muzak machine at your local grocery store.

Xmas anarchy, yeah, that’s what we need. Anything to stop the regular ubiquitous holiday ‘music’. I love Xmas music – don’t get grumpy on me, I used to be a professional Christmas caroller fer chrissake – but the crap you’re forced to listen to when you stop for a pack of cigs or a dozen eggs is just plain WRONG.

In other news, here’s a big ol’ list of podsafe Xmas tunes.

Book Of Liars

MP3s

In which you download an MP3.

Found this song browsing the iTunes music store today. I love this song. Used to have it on cassette back in the day… Lord knows where it is now. It’s Walter singing instead of Donald, which is rare, and it’s live.

I love it for the lyric:

Stars imploding
The long night passing
Electrons dancing in the frozen crystal dawn
Here’s one left stranded at the zero crossing
With a hole in its half-life left to carry on
But now the world’s much larger than it looks today
And if my bad luck ever blows me back this way

Then I’ll just look in my book of liars for your name
I’ll just look in the book of liars for your name

So I bought the song, and then I Limewired an unencrypted one. And so here it is for you to check out:

Book of Liars ~ Steely Dan

As usual, buy the album if you like it, blah blah blah.

Time Line

Blurbs, MP3s

In which I’m late for work. Again. But there’s a mix for you to download!

I neglected to change my PPC clock settings from ‘travel’ to ‘home.’ This means that when my alarm went off this morning, it wasn’t a quarter to eight. It was a quarter to nine, and I, as always, was late to work.

Oh, yeah, and it was below freezing outside. With snow flurries.

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On our drive home last Sunday, I took control of the noise situation in the cab for awhile and played the following mix. Since we were tired, and it was grey and overcast and gloomy all day long, I made it a mellow mix. (Truck said, “If I was driving, I’d make you turn it off. But I’m not, and I dug it.”)

Behold, my Iowa 80 Rainex Mix, for your downloading pleasure:

  • Let’s Stay Together ~ Al Green
  • Lover I Don’t Have To Love ~ Bright Eyes
  • Woman King ~ Iron and Wine
  • The Way We Get By ~ Spoon
  • Getting Closer ~ Hird
  • Keep You Kimi ~ Hird
  • Drawing Curtains ~ Buck 65
  • Promise The Bite ~ matt pond PA
  • Prototype ~ Andre 3000
  • Feels Just Like It Should ~ Jamiroquai
  • Lucky ~ Radiohead
  • Aganjú ~ Bebel Gilberto
  • Moving On ~ Hird
  • Can’t Get The Stuff No More ~ Tampa Red
  • I Want A Little In My Bowl ~ Nina Simone
  • I’ve Been Thinking ~ Handsome Boy Modeling School
  • Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing ~ Stevie Wonder
  • I’m Still In Love With You ~ Al Green
  • Oh! Darling ~ Beatles
  • Just The Two Of Us ~ Bill Withers
  • Lover, You Should Have Come Over ~ Jeff Buckley

Special thanks for some of these tracks to Squirrelville and The Sean Show, both of whom have caused me to buy CDs because of MP3s I’d gotten from them. (Which is proof, to me, that filesharing makes money. So if you really dig any of these tracks, go buy the music. Or see a show. Or have sex with that geeky drummer who never gets any. You know, contribute.)

If you use iTunes, downloading the XML file should enable you to import the playlist easily.

Oh, to download all these tracks at once try the super trick downTHEMall plug-in for Firefox.

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In other news, if you haven’t listened to this little slut of a track lately, you totally should because, holy shit, what killer production values!

Sounds

MP3s

In which you can hear a few random things I’ve been listening to lately.

For no reason other than I can, I present for your listening pleasure three four tracks I’ve been playing lately in no particular order and with no particular theme:

  • Aganjú by Bebel Gilberto
    A nice, smooth little Latin track. Fun driving music. Yum. [buy]
  • Music Sounds Better With You by Daft Punk
    I luv Daft Punk. This ain’t nothin’ but highly repetitive house, no excuses. I like it to do housewife stuff to – folding laundry goes well with it. If I ever worked out, I’d probably work out to it. Sometimes I just stand in my living room and dance to it… and I can get away with that shit ’cause I live waaaay out in the country and no one can see me. [buy]
  • Dirty (Junior’s Juke) by Earth Wind & Fire
    Old school funky funkerson, an’ you know it. (I still want to have the Tower of Power horn line’s baby.) [buy]
  • This Is It by Kenny Loggins
    Remember this song from AOR in the 70’s? I had no idea it was about infidelity until I heard this live, somewhat-unplugged version. [buy]

Oh, yeah – I ordered a new iPod today. It’s a belated birthday present to myself. I think I’ll give my old one to Brett; he’ll probably lose it somewhere.

Lemmie know if you download or enjoy of any of these tracks.

Oh the vinyl I used to have

MP3s, Music

HealingI keep buying music I used to have (or trying to buy music I used to have only to discover it’s out of print or so obscure it’s never even made it to CD – but that’s another post) and feeding it t0 my iPod.

This album, Healing, I bought originally in high school. I used to live with my dad in Gresham, Oregon, and there was this room built inside his two-car garage out of 2x4s and plywood. That was my room. No windows. Dark as a tomb. I let my friends put graffiti on the walls with my extensive permanent marker collection. When I put an album on the stereo and turned out the lights, it was like being in one of those sensory deprivation tanks they have in Altered States. (Remember that movie? I fucking love that movie.)

The B side of this album (Healing I, II, and III) was really fun to listen to in the absolute darkness of my teenaged sanctuary. It’s like a guided meditation. I usually fell asleep listening to it. It’s really cool.

Mostly I re-purchased this album, though, for the track Shine. I love this track and decided yesterday I absolutely had to hear it. (Thank God for Amazon and 1-day shipping!) It’s your typical weird Todd track: exuberant, strangely engineered, wild, electronic, sweeping genius.

I like something positive once in awhile, too, and even though this track is a little more New Age-y than I’d typically like, it’s still an amazing and uplifiting performance. And the vocal during the outro is typical inspired Todd insanity.

Yes, I realize no one else will like it except other Todd-heads, and this matters to me not at all. Do leave your opinon in the comments, if you bother to listen to it.

Now, please excuse me while I go make a strawberry daquiri in my blender.