Project 2010

#1; I had no idea The Pretenders had a version of "I got you babe" with UB40. None. It's pretty terrible.

#2: Heard Noah and the Whale's "I have nothing." I'm still obsessed with this album. It's still depressing.

#3: On the other hand The White Stripes cover of "I don't know what to do with myself" is fantastic.

#4: Wow. 3 covers today. Phish doing "I kissed a girl" at SPAC last August. Hilarious but terrible.

#5: "I Love You, but Goodbye" by Longhorne Slim. Apparently this was on a Paste sampler. Really like the lyrics.

Project 2010: Day 90 - Firsts

Wow. 90 days of listening to my iPod in order of song title, yet I'm only on the F's. Oh well. Here are some comments on some things that I've listened to today, which brought me deep into the "Firsts".

I'll spare you the R.E.M. "Finest Worksong," but that doesn't mean I didn't love listening to it.

"Fire and Rain" is one of those songs that I thought I liked more than I actually like. It's always longer than I think it is, and slower than I think it's going to be. See for yourself:



On the other hand "Fire Island, AK" by The Long Winters gets better every time. Also the lead singer of The Long Winters has been hanging with John Hodgeman, which makes him even cooler in my nerdy mind.



Fireworks is one of my favorite Animal Collective songs that isn't on Merriweather.



I have posted this video before because it is maybe my favorite video in the history of the world to go with a song that I am in love with. Hooray for Bright Eyes!



And yet another song I love came up today- again, I know I've posted about Noah and the Whale before, but today was actually "First Days of Spring" day, which it totally is. Apt. Although I'm not going through a horrifying break up at the moment. Here's hoping!

Project 2010: Days 32-33 The First Day of Spring

In 2009 one of my favorite albums was Noah and the Whale's "The First Day of Spring." The album is about breaking up with someone and then realizing that life is OK without them. It is crushing. It is happy. It is full of realization, and the actual music is also pretty great. I listened to it tons of times, and then I saw this picture and listened to it again. And again. Because that is what it is like when you are really into someone. You think about them all the time. And losing them is devastating. But it gets better. And they have a song about that. Here are a couple of selections:





It is funny the way our minds work. I'm spending the majority of my time writing about an album that I listened to about a hundred times in the past few months, while talking less about one that I've listened to two or three times more than that, but over about 15 or 20 years. One is new and novel, where as one is old and novel. That is the way we work, though, I suppose.

So, for much of the 90's every time I would hear "Blister in the Sun I would get a smile on my face. It got even bigger when "My So-Called Life" used it in an episode- strangely enough about Angela being over Jordan Catalano. Really the perfect song to hear after Noah and the Whale.




Also heard Blowin' in the Wind twice. Can't complain about that. Here's the list:

Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
Blonde Over Blue - Billy Joel
Blood Bank - Bon Iver
Blood Like - Lovedrug
Blood Of The Lamb - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Blood On The Ground - Incubus
Bloodline - Conor Oberst
Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan
Blowin' In The Wind - Joan Baez
Blue - The Jayhawks (X2)
Blue Burns Orange - Hawthorne Heights
The Blue Channel - Taking Back Sunday
Blue Collar Suicide - The Refreshments
Blue Denim - Ben Lee
Blue Diamonds - The Long Winters
Blue Eyes - The Few
Blue Headlights - Shout Out Louds
Blue Ridge Mountains - Fleet Foxes
Blue Skies - Noah And The Whale
Blue Sky - The Allman Brothers Band (X2)
Blue Turning Gray - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Bluebird - Blanche
The Blues Are Still Blue - Belle & Sebastian
Blues From A Gun - The Jesus & Mary Chain
Blues Happy - Arrested Development
Blueside - Rooney
Bluish - Animal Collective
Blush - Ben Lee
Boat Drinks - Jimmy Buffett
Bodyrock - Moby
Badysnatchers - Radiohead
Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols
Bones - The Killers
The Bones Of An Idol - The New Pornographers
The Bones Of You - Elbow
Bonus Mosh Pt. II - Taking Back Sunday
Bonus Track - Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise
Boogie - Black Joe Lewis
Boombox Generation - Motion City Soundtrack
Booty Call - G. Love