1 post tagged “music horoscope”

First up is "Take What You Take" by Lily Allen. I'm gonna be honest, this is one my few choices on my top 10 of last year that I don't kinda regret (for example, I vastly overrated that Joanna Newsom album, which, in retrospect wasn't nearly as good as The Milk-Eyed Mender). I still love this album. Does that really mean anything, "musical horoscope"-wise? No. But it's still worth a listen.

This is probably my favorite Animal Collective song. I once saw a video on YouTube of Avey playing this song acoustic and screaming at the top of his lungs during that part at the end. It might just be my favorite recording of an Animal Collective song ever.

Yeah, I guess if I'm gonna talk about that video, it should be in the post, so here it is, over to the left. Might as well go  to YouTube and watch it, though, since there's no way I'm posting that thing at full size on this entry, here.

Next is "Sit in the Middle of Three Galloping Dogs" by A Silver Mt. Zion. It's a song built on violin drones that sounds like the soundtrack to black helicopters coming to take you away. Which seems like the sort of feel a band like them would go for.

That was followed by "I Heard Her Call My Name" by The Velvet Underground. It's got that awesome, noisy, loud as fuck White Light/White Heat feel to it. Like the one where you can tell Lou Reed is calling most of the shots. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go buy a copy of White Light/White Heat. Seriously. There's no excuse for not owning a copy of that album. It's one of the Velvets' best.

Next is "Walken's Syndrome" by Fugazi. It's nowhere close to being one of my favorite Fugazi songs, but it's on the same album as a few of them. I always dug Guy's vocals just a little better than Ian's, which might put me in the minority of Fugazi fans (the ones who listen to Rites of Spring a lot, basically).

The next isn't a song, but rather, a field recording. If you've never heard The Conet Project, I'd strongly recommend checking it out. Long story short, the world's governments use numbers stations over the shortwave band to send messages with covert agents in the field. This particular recording has an incredibly hard to understand voice talking in a language I don't speak, and a little morse code. Honestly, a few of these have come up, but I've resisted actually posting any of them until this one, where I finally broke down and did it, just because I think you should listen to The Conet Project.

Next is some Dungen. Psychedelic rock with elements of Swedish folk music. Pretty cool stuff.

The next is this little instrumental thing by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. I really never understood the hype surrounding this band, and was kinda disappointed since I bought the album based solely on that hype and that one single, which was a really good song. The rest of the album isn't bad, but it isn't as good, either. This track isn't bad, though, for an instrumental thing just kinda tossed into the middle of a more or less vocal-centered album.

I saw this next band, Love of Diagrams, live, opening for Ted Leo and The Pharmacists. They had a cool, Sonic Youth-gone-new-wave feel to them. Sweet ladies and dude, too. One of those really awesome bands that no one really seems to know or care about, unfortunately.

And last of all, some Orchid. I have no idea when this song came out, but it sounds like something they would've done sometime before the self-titled album (also known as Gatefold), given the vocals. Still, just as intense and heavy as ever, and that's why I love this band. The CD this is on also has their remastered demo tape hidden on it! Try and find it!

So yeah. How any of that constitutes a "musical horoscope," I don't know. That's a fucking stupid question anyway. Here's some stuff to listen to.