I’m having a bit of a somber morning. I appear to have returned to a state of intense inner anger over my job being eliminated. I should be listening to something a bit more energetic than Death Cab, but Ben Gibbard and company are my comfort food. Rage Agaist The Machine might be more appropriate….
Category: Music
🎧 Pet Shop Boys’ 2018 album Behaviour: Further Listening 1990 – 1991 🎧
The 2018 remaster of PSB’s 1990 Behaviour is fantastic. I mean, the original was a staple in my CD player and now, this reissue with so many additional tracks of the era is on my regular play here. Being Boring reminds me of the fun of my early and mid 20s, something that does fade…
🖸 Favorite Nala Songs 🖸
It is an Underworld kind of morning here. 1993’s Dark & Long from 1993’s Dubnobasswithmyheadman fits the moment perfect. Note: This should not be confused with Underworld’s more famous Dark & Long (Dark Train) which was a key needle drop in “Trainspotting” as Renton is having his horrible detox nightmare while coming off heroin. An…
🖸 Favorite Nala Songs 🖸
I soooo love Herbie Flowers’ bass on Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side”. I myself have taken many a walk on the wild side in my younger days and while I would love to think the wild side would still be walkable, I think I know better. It is dangerous for The Olds to…
🖸 Favorite Nala Songs 🖸
Wow! I mean, Chicago off of Sufjan Stevens’ amazing 2005 album Illinois is already an amazing track but this demo version? I’m not worthy man! Not worthy! There are just some demos of songs that for me, kinda have a superior rawness and immediacy that the final studio produced version just loses a bit of…
🎧 Iron & Wine’s 2004 album “Our Endless Numbered Days” 🎧
I was turned onto Iron and Wine by his beyond amazing reinterpretation/cover of The Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights” back in 2005. As much as I love Electronic, Alt Rock, EDM, and a dozen other genres of music, there will always remain a place in my heart for the simplicity of singer/song-writers plying their trade.
🎧 Graham Gouldman’s 1980 Soundtrack to the film “Animalympics” 🎧
I have been an Animalympics stan since I was 11. I replayed endlessly on Showtime in 1981 and I must have watched it 150 times that summer. It is great animated comedy/spoof with a soundtrack and incidental music by the Yardbirds’ Graham Gouldman that is a billion times better than it has any right to…
🎧 Yot Club’s 2019 EP “Bipolar” 🎧
Another little EP from a musician I recently discovered.
🎧 Car Seat Headrest’s 2013 album “Living While Starving” 🎧
I only recently came to discover Car Seat Headrest though they’ve been around since 2012. I am really loving them!
🖸 Favorite Nala Songs 🖸
Coldplay gets a lot of flak. But I like a lot of them. They were accused of stealing some of this from a band named Creaky Boards. Then guitarist Joe Satriani sued them for copyright infringement on this. Then Cat Stevens said it was similar to one of his songs. Then some music professor said…