#1: So, on my theme of being a 15 year old girl, this song makes me smile:
#2: Phish with Alison Kraus is really delightful. Something I didn't know- Jonathan Frakes plays trumpet on the "Hoist" album.
#3: I've been having a hard time figuring out why I like Dashboard Confessional's first four albums so much and his last two less so. Tonight I have figured it out. There is just less injury. "If You Can't Leave It Be" is a pretty great example of the urgency that was around in those earlier albums.
So, I took a little over a week off of project 2010 to catch up with some podcasts and listen to some music that just suited my fancy. Now I'm back in the early I's.
#1: The Rooney song "I'm A Terrible Person" isn't the greatest song ever, but sometimes it just suits my mood- and maybe even describes some of my actions. Oh well.
#2: "I'm Amazed" by My Morning Jacket is perennially on any playlist I have made over the past couple of years.
#3: I love this song. It sounds like 1987.
#4: I feel like I got a lot of Wilco today- which is fantastic! Plus it's always nice to know Jeff Tweedy loves you. I think that might be a continuing theme of his music...
#1: On Blink-182's eponymous album it is as if they actually found talent. They were fun and amusing before, but then this album is something different, and shows something different. "I Miss You" is what's making me thinking this.
#2: There were albums that I listened to a lot. I mean A LOT. Pretty constantly. Then after a couple a years I just stop listening to them totally, and can go for years without listening to it again. Incubus' Make Yourself is totally like that. I must have listened to that album 50-100 times over a couple years but haven't listened to it all the way through in years. Maybe on a big car trip.
#3: Guster's "I Spy" is great. I'm still not 100% sure what it's about. I think I know, but maybe it's what I want it to be. I do know that May parade is Gay parade live... This isn't a great version of it.
#4: Is there a place for someone like Harry Chapin in music today?
#5: Listened to three different versions of "I Want You" today. Couldn't help myself.
#1: The Early November is totally a band that I have listened to more of since I've started this project. I really seem to like them every time they come up. Today I listened to "I don't know how to say this."
#2: Ben Kweller just has such a unique voice. The second I start to hear him sing I totally know that it's him. Not a ton of people like that. Today I listened to "I don't know why." Not my favorite of his but still.
#3: R.E.M.'s Monster still sounds great. It has to be at least 15 years. Probably more. After "I don't sleep but I dream" I was startled when Star 69 didn't come on immediately afterward. Yet another odd thing about this project, I suppose.
#4: One of the things I like about Straylight Run is that sometimes you get Matt doing the vocals, sometimes his sister, and sometimes they sing together. There are a few bands where different songs have different lead vocalists (I listened to Out Of Time this weekend and forgot that on at least a couple of tracks Michael Stipes gave up the microphone). I think in a lot of cases this really works and lets the band expand their sound. I listened to "I don't want this anymore."
#5: Heard my favorite Conor Oberst song (solo, not Bright Eyes):
#6: Since I'm a sucker for war protest songs, I was all happy about Country Joe & the Fish singing "I feel like I'm fixing to die rag."
I'm on 2,746 of 7,178. Don't really feel like I'm getting closer to finishing.
#1: I really like Muse. I'm not sure why. I think it's maybe because they are one of a very few bands that still make music that could still be called Rock and Roll. Maybe not. Maybe it's just because they're music is interesting, and you can belt it out in a car.
#2: In 1996 my friend Rachel wore a Live T-shirt a lot this one particular summer. Not all the time, but it was a distinctive shirt, and pretty cool. Whenever I hear Live I think of her.
#3: I have way too many favorite R.E.M. songs, but any song with Superman is a winner. Really.
#4: Wilco's "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" has already become a classic in my head. I don't know what an aquarium drinker is, but I assume I am one.
#5: "I and Love and You" by The Avett Brothers. Find it. Listen to it. Love it.
#1: I'm surprised more people don't know about The Go! Team. They are an incredibly fun band. I first saw them live about 5 years ago at a festival outside of Cleveland that was the Thursday before Lollapalooza. They grabbed a bunch of bands that were on their way to Chicago for the weekend and it was a great line-up and a lot of fun. For some reason it wasn't really successful, which is too bad.
The Go! Team's live show was full of energy and everyone in the audience was dancing and seemed to really be enjoying themselves. Ladyflash is just superhuman in my mind, in terms of how much she puts into her performance. This is all my way of saying that today I heard "Huddle Formation" which made me want to go out for a run.
This is just a clip at them performing at Lolla in 2008 (I was actually there). The sound is Terrible, but watch her move!
Here is "Huddle Formation."
#2: The Killers album "Day and Age" took me a while to warm up to. I loved their first two albums, but this just seemed totally different, until I realized it was just an all out dance album. "Human" isn't my favorite, but it's still pretty good.
#3: Sharon Jones is amazing. Her voice is killer. I love it.
#4: Bob Dylan's "Hurricane" is a pretty catchy song about social injustice. But long. Really long.
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