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They Might Be Giants - The Onion A.V. Club Undercover series - Tubthumping

AT — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:34:22 CDT

http://www.avclub.com/articles/they-might-be-giants-covers-chumbawamba,53068/

My last recommendation was also from this series - seriously, watch all of them - and mentioned the terrible cover of Birdhouse In Your Soul. This one redeems that and then some, as TMBG recruits a random crowd to shout the chorus and fill the small, round room with more joy than could possibly have been squeezed in any other way.

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Rocky Votolato and Matt Pond - Don't You Want Me

AT — Tue, 03 May 2011 13:56:32 CDT

AV Undercover: get your weekly fix of awesome (and a few awful) covers here.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/rocky-votolato-and-matt-pond-pa-cover-the-human-le,53061/

For awesomeness, see also Wye Oak's Danzig cover. If you have any but the steeliest of constitutions, skip Titus Andronicus' awkward flogging of "Birdhouse in Your Soul."

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Crooked Fingers - Reservoir Songs

AT — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:14:40 CST

So I've liked this band quite awhile, and I'm always a sucker for good covers. I'm super-excited about this album for the sheer audacity of covering this particular group of songs: the best song by Kris Kristofferson (Sunday Morning Coming Down), the only Neil Diamond I listen to (and sing along with) unashamed (Solitary Man), a top-5 best Prince song (When U Were Mine), the best Springsteen song (The River), and maybe the best individual rock song ever (Under Pressure). Who the hell puts these five songs on a single covers EP?

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Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

AT — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:09:57 CST

Apparently all the ancient hipsters loved this album, something something internet something. Maybe the ancient hipsters were correct.

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The Ruby Suns - Cranberry

AT — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:54:15 CST

This one comes in at #6 in my moderately-tentative O Ten Top Ten list, favorite tracks of 2010. Check it and demonstrate your superior taste here:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?created&&note_id=10150098684146413

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Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

AT — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:00:16 CDT

So if you listen to The Current, you've probably heard most of this album already. It contains elements of country music, and what sounds to me like strong Christian imagery. From the song Roll Away Your Stone, the lyrics:

“It seems that all my bridges have been burned
But you say 'That's exactly how this grace thing works’
It's not the long walk home that will change this heart
But the welcome I receive with the restart”

All the Lutheran pastors I've talked to about this song agree that this description of grace is consonant with ours, and it seems to fall into the realm of "translating Lutheran theology to normal-people talk" that I'm always on about.

For a lengthier theological exposition of this song, see here:

http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/03/the-mumford-and-sons-communion-liturgy.html

I'm certainly not one to use some made-up-by-random-people eucharistic liturgy, but I would consider using this song to shape a prayer or worship or sermon experience, I think.

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The New Pornographers - Together - Valkyrie in the Roller Disco

AT — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:25:13 CDT

So I'm sure I need not recommend The New Pornographers to anyone here, as their utter awesomeness is well-documented. I just needed to point out this track, my favorite from the recent disc. I never really know what any of them are talking about in these songs - neither Newman nor Bejar seem to value comprehensible lyrics - but in my interpretation this song is about falling in love with someone at a roller rink, and never actually speaking to the object of one's affection. Besides my love of roller derby, this story is basically what happened to me every Friday night for a couple of years at the end of elementary school. Skating was the only thing for kids in my town to do, and I was nearly as silently-romantic as I was hopeless. I've grown to be calculating and heartless, of course, but this song brings me back to the overwhelming vulnerability of childhood in a way that doesn't make me want to poke myself in the eye. The rest of the album is also great, obviously.

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Free Energy - Stuck On Nothing

Peter — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:31:13 CDT

A while back, The Aforementioned David Brusie recommended that I check out this band. I didn't pay much attention. Then I was at Grand Old Day in St. Paul this summer, and they happened to be playing. Holy cats, they were great. Total new-skool hippie band, and they couldn't have been having a better time.

Just think of it: A band playing on a stage next to Dixie's on a summer afternoon, everyone on stage with long hair, and the singer (who might be 10 years younger than me) points at the crowd during the chorus of the first album track:

"This is all we've got tonight
We are young and still alive
and now the time is on our side."

Old-style guitar rock. Sometimes with cowbell. Music to high-five strangers to.

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Wye Oak

AT — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:41:47 CDT

Considering all the music I've been listening to lately, I'm way past due to start using this site again. Tracks I've listened to include "Take It In" and "I Hope You Die," which are great and can be downloaded free at amazon.com. Actually, the entire Merge Records 2010 sampler that's free on amazon is well worth checking out. I was put on to this band in stunning fashion by the Onion AV Club's truly stellar AV Undercover series, here: http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-kinks,38871/.

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Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop

Peter — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:14:54 CDT

The other night, the title track from this album showed up on the radio. It was weirdly awesome, in an old-skool kind of way. Turns out, the MC is KRS-One, and the album was released in 1989. You'd never know that it was that old. It's perfect.

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Joshua Radin - Simple Times - Sky, Brand New Day, You Got Growin Up To Do (featuring Patty Griffin)

jlukis — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:08:39 CST

All in all a really great album, but those three songs I find particularly catchy. I find it hard to write, or read with lyrical music in general, but this album somehow breaks that rule (I wrote a couple of my very final seminary papers to this album). It's got a pleasant, folky, productive feel to it.

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Two Star Symphony - Danse Macabre ...

jlukis — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:02:51 CST

My favorite sermon writing music is a station that I have created on Pandora Radio, seeded with the soundtrack by Clint Mansell from the movie "The Fountain." I get all kinds off eerie orchestral music, and I love it. This song "The 9th Level" popped up sounding like it had come from a Tim Burton film, but it took a lot of digging to find anything about it, or the band. I clicked the "buy it on Amazon" link Amazon didn't have anything by "Two Star Symphony." This of course made them all the more intriguing. After finding the official website/blog I found that this track was written as part of the "sophisticated and dark puppetry art (theater) in the three-part collaboration, Danse Macabre."

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The Grates - Teeth Lost, Hearts Won

Peter — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:54:47 CST

With bands like Bis and Yeah Yeah Yeahs slowly shifting over to a more electro-disco sound, it's kind of great to find a band that's still rocking that late-90's good-natured-Riot-Grrl rollerskate-punk sound. If Bikini Kill had to play at a high school sock hop, it would sound a lot like this.

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The Magnetic Fields - Realism

Peter — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:40:31 CST

So, I tend to listen to The Magnetic Fields a whole bunch at a time, and while that's always a great thing, it lets me forget how different in both form and content they are from other bands. They always have this weird folky instrumentation, and on this album in particular, the lyrics are really simple but describe situations that are kind of fascinating and weird, and combination of all of it makes me wistfully remember a fictional time when I was in the circus in spring and all day long clowns were straightforwardly professing either their love or dislike for each other, regardless of whether there happened to be an audience there right then or not.

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Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!

cwm — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:18:52 CST

Sugarfoot. Man, it's been a long time since I played air bass guitar this hard.

http://www.last.fm/music/Black%2BJoe%2BLewis%2B%2526%2BThe%2BHoneybears/_/Sugarfoot?autostart

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They Might Be Giants - Here Comes Science

blukis — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:55:40 CST

I've been really digging "Here Comes Science", TMBG's 4th children's album, the last few weeks. Their other children's albums were varying degrees of ok. But this one stands out from the others. I think I actually like it better than their last "grown-up" album, The Else.

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Bela Fleck

cwm — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:22:31 CDT

I haven't posted anything for a very long time, so I thought I'd throw something different at you. Bela Fleck, banjo playing like you've never heard before.

http://www.last.fm/music/B%C3%A9la+Fleck+and+the+Flecktones/_/Big+Country?autostart

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Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul

AT — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:50:32 CDT

You can read the convoluted story and listen to the album free and whole here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104129585

The opening track just kills me, and was one of my top songs of the summer, and now that I've bothered to find the above-listed website I can get further into the rest of the album.

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fun. - Aim and Ignite

Peter — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:26:49 CDT

I played this at Katie, and she said, "It this The Format?" Turns out, the lead guy is the same. I'm gonna go ahead and call this genre "Symphonic Pop". I'm a sucker for "Na na na na na na" choruses. And for albums where you probably need a decent pianist onstage.

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Fanfarlo - Reservoir

Peter — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:11:59 CDT

This band is a weird collision of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Devotchka. It totally works.

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Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Peter — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:09:12 CDT

Vaguely electro-indie band. If you're leaving in the early afternoon for a road-trip towards the West to find high adventure, you should probably be listening to this album all the way through, on repeat.

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Say Hi - Oohs and Aahs - Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh

Peter — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:37:30 CDT

The rest of this album is pretty laid-back, and sounds like Pela, which is really pretty admirable. But this track is awesome.

"It's the shape of her legs,
It's the way that she curses."

You've never heard synth-horns used this well.

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Neko Case - Middle Cyclone

AT — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:30:37 CDT

So last night I had the opportunity to see Neko Case as part (all?) of the annual PDHVH Day festivities. I had yet to purchase this album, and had only heard a few of the songs. Still, I found these new tunes to be my favorites in the live show, which is really saying something. Of course, she didn't play anything off Tacoma-themed Furnace Room Lullabies, which I bought in CD form at the show along with Middle Cyclone. Man, this living in the TC thing is going to increase my spending on music by astronomical proportions. Perhaps ironic, as here I can listen to The Current free and easy, yet that seems to be what drives me to pay for great music and shows. Anyway, Neko Case = the loveliest, still.

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Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel - Return of the Grievous Angel

AT — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:01:42 CDT

Is this the best song I've ever heard? How have I lived til now without knowing this album? Read the damn heartbreaking story ( http://www.avclub.com/articles/week-7-gram-parsons-solo-years-life-hurts,26634/ ), and mourn / celebrate this life.

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Gram Parsons - GP

AT — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:55:14 CDT

So if by now you're not RSSing Nathan Rabin's Nashville or Bust feature at the AV Club ( http://www.avclub.com/features/nashville-or-bust/ ), I can't imagine what we'd have to talk about. Besides the opening Johnny Cash bits, this week's Merle Haggard was great, but I missed until today his entry on Gram Parsons' solo work. Holy fuck, this is the music my soul has yearned for since I was born. His vocal collaborator is none other than Emmylou Harris, and it turns out this is where she made her mark as the greatest harmony vocalist in the history of pop/rock/country music.

Listen to every musical example on here, and if your work internet blocks these things, burn down your office and live in freedom.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/week-7-gram-parsons-solo-years-life-hurts,26634/

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Metric - Fantasies

Peter — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:52:08 CDT

I can list off a string of previous Metric successes, but Fantasies is the best place to figure it all out. The first song is perfect. The last song is perfect. A couple of the middle songs are perfect, too. Electrogirl. Give it a chance. because, wow.

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Bob Dylan with Johnny Cash - Nashville Skyline - Girl From the North Country

AT — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:08:57 CDT

I've been sniffing around this song for awhile, listening to some Dylan and Cash, even listening regularly to a cover by Conor Oberst, M. Ward, and Jim James. Finally I heard the Dylan / Cash version the day Bill DeVille played Johnny Cash on his Honey Do list on The Current. It fucking blew me away. I knew Oberst and the rest were covering Dylan, and I know everyone does that, but those guys do not in any respect hold a candle to the Dylan / Cash version.

I also notice that Nathan Rabin at the Onion's AV Club is doing a wonderful yearlong country retrospective (Nashville or Bust Week 3; also watch the Joni Mitchell duet), and I watched video of Dylan and Cash doing this song on Cash's TV show. Life-changing.

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The Lonely Island - Incredibad

Peter — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:58:57 CDT

While I'm a little reluctant to post silly albums. . . this is awesome. Andy Samberg got a bunch of these songs on Saturday Night Live, and they're pretty amazing. He's got this sense of nerdy-guy-vs.-hiphop, and has some impeccable production.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/56632/saturday-night-live-digital-short-im-on-a-boat#s-p1-st-i1
http://www.hulu.com/watch/1397/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-lazy-sunday#s-p1-st-i1
http://www.hulu.com/watch/1404/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-natalie-raps#s-p1-st-i1

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Bishop Allen

Peter — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:38:06 CST

This band is pretty much what indie rock should be. Their first LP, "Charm School", is really great. I saw them at the Entry shortly after they released "The Broken String", which is just pretty much perfect. And on March 10, their new album "Grrr..." comes out, which is maybe even better.

They're not a big-name band, but they believe in what they're doing, and they do it very, very well. They've got kind of a higlight reel at http://www.bishopallen.com/ .

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The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

Peter — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:17:16 CST

Unapologetic old-style rock 'n roll. It's like it's 1994 on a Sunday afternoon in the summer and you're driving around and your radio starts to pick up a station from the future, but it all makes perfect sense and you just keep on driving west.

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M.I.A. - Kala

blukis — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:51:31 CST

I heard "boyz" a few times on the current, but thought it sounded like just some passing teen fad. I became more intrigued when I independently ran across this amazon.com editorial review:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TJ6CM2/ref=dm_dp_cdp?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1234414132&sr=102-6#productDescription

Now, I think I'm hooked. I was pleased also to hear "Paper Planes" in Slumdog Millionaire.

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Imperial Leisure - The Art of Saying Nothing

Peter — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:40:04 CST

Brit ska/hiphop/rock. Why can't more bands have horn sections?

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"Weird Al" Yankovic - Straight Outta Lynwood - Close But No Cigar

blukis — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:21:36 CST

I was listening to this song on an airplane ride, and it dawned on me that this song borrows so much (musical styling) from Cake, that it is clearly no accident. I think I didn't notice at first because I listen to enough Cake that their sound is more of a genre to me than an artist's sound.

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Oxford Collapse

Peter — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:35:28 CST

Like Pavement, but a little more in control. I'm not quite sure what it is, but I've listened to little else than their latest album "Bits" in the last few days. Thing is, if this band is playing, you'll like it. Maybe you won't know why. That's why they're great.

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P.O.S. - Never Better

Peter — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:23:03 CST

I don't quite know what to say about this album -- it's pretty much everything that's right with hip-hop today. The cd packaging is ridiculously complicated, and you can design your own cover art at the below link (as well as listen to the whole cd.) I recommend the tracks "Savion Glover", "Purexed", and "Low Light Low Life".

http://www.rhymesayers.com/neverbetter/

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School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms

Eric — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:21:55 CST

Hazy but lyric.

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Stars - Sad Robot; Set Yourself On Fire

Eric — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:07:09 CST

Reminiscent of Shiny Toy Guns but more mellow and pop-y. (Also, Canadian.)

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Andrew Jackson Jihad - People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World

Peter — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:27:09 CST

There's a newly-described music subgenre called "Anti-folk". This is that. Banjo and old-tyme feel, with punk-rock stylings.

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The Great Outdoors - Food, Booze, and Entertainment - If I Were a Car

AT — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:32:22 CST

I'd heard this song before, certainly, but as of last night I'm totally smitten with it. Yearning, plaintive harmony, in three, on the edge of country music, it's really obvious that I would love this song. And I do, so there.

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Pavement

Peter — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:11:27 CST

Here's the deal about Pavement: I first listened to them after the waitress in a wine bar in St. Louis loaned me a Matador compilation cd from the bar sound system after she learned that I knew something about Leonard Cohen (thanks Mom.)

So, until today, I've known one song. And that song always made me think, "Do these guys just need to practice more? Or tune more? Or do they just sound like this?"

They just sound like this. If you get over that part immediately, you will be quicker to realize that Pavement is doing something awesome. It took me a couple years. But the chorus off the first track off their "Brighten the Corners" album is "Hey, listen to me! I'm on the stereo!"

I've never had a signature band. But maybe this is it.

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Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and I

Peter — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:45:10 CDT

OCTOBER 22 IS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY. THIS ALBUM IS PERFECT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3oxU9-zeiA

LISTEN TO THAT. THEN LISTEN TO "STEELY", WHICH IS MORE WISTFUL, WHILE STILL SHOUTING. THIS IS THE ALBUM YOU LISTEN TO WHILE HAPPILY BREAKING LAND SPEED RECORDS.

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The Monks - Black Monk Time

Peter — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:25:48 CDT

So, a while back, I and a death-metal guy were lecturing a heavy-metal guy on the origins of punk-rock. We both started describing the movement as starting from the '60s group The Monks. A few nights ago, I found myself talking to someone who knew the lead singer, who now lives in Minnesota.
Allmusic.com says, "To prove that they meant business, the Monks shaved the top of their heads and performed their songs -- crude diatribes about the Vietnam war, dehumanized society, and love/hate affairs with girls -- in actual monks' clothing."

If you wonder what punk music might be like in the 60s, this is it. It's really pretty great.

by Peter

Barcelona

Peter — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:49:12 CDT

Near the beginning of the movie "Vanilla Sky," Tom Cruise's character is offered a few choices for driving-around music. Barcelona is first.

"Gonna be a teenage one-hit washed-up messed-up
megalomaniac. Yeah."

"Have you forgotten the bomb?
Everyone around me looks so happy now
Who am I to bring this party down?"

I found out about them 2 years after they disbanded. Synth-heavy nerd-rock.

I think this band was responsible for this thought: "If these people have a rock band, then people like me can certainly go to rock shows." There's no telling how many times I've gotten my hand stamped in the last year, and I fully intend on becoming one of those weird old dudes at shows with no obvious connections to the band, but who fully appear to be having the time of their life.

Recommended songs: "Indian Names"; "Have You Forgotten the Bomb?"; "Teenage Pop Star"

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The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine

Peter — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:10:25 CDT

First, I can't believe that I haven't posted this album already. It's like indie-rock vs. Old-Testament God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Iobo18U9w

The first verse from the first song on the album:

God reached his hand down from the sky
He flooded the land then he set it on fire
He said, "Fear me again. Know I'm your father.
Remember that no one can breathe underwater"

Plus I love this band. And they are related to All-Girl Summer Fun Band.

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Mason Jennings - Simple Life

blukis — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:40:41 CDT

Mason Jennings has released two albums since last I checked. Simple Life and In The Ever are both solid albums, as far as I'm concerned. They both have the same thing I liked in Boneclouds. (Maybe that thing is Mason Jennings.)

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Radical Face - Ghost - Glory

Peter — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:14:42 CDT

"But I was blessed with bad eyes
There's a lot that I missed,
but I don't mind, I'm not that old.
I'll find out what broke me soon enough."

The whole album is great. But this song breaks my heart every time.

by Peter

Jayber Crow - Two Short Stories - O My God When I Drop Dead

Peter — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:03:20 CDT

2 guys with a banjo and guitar. This is pretty much what I love about folk music reduced to a single song. I don't even know if it's ultimately happy or sad, but it doesn't matter because I just can't stop listening to it.

http://music.for-robots.com/archives/002385.html

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