The songs I can't stop listening to 5/31/13

1. Daft Punk - "Derezzed" (Rhythm Scholar Remix)
2. Kate Bush - "Waking The Witch"
3. The Weeknd - "Montreal"
4. Sébastien Tellier - "Fingers Of Steel" (Hypnolove Remix)
5. Zeus - "Are You Gonna Waste My Time?"
6. Catatonia - "Valerian"
7. Fake Problems - "5678"
8. Cake - "Never There"
9. Liechtenstein - "Heads On Golden Plates"
10. Incubus - "Are You In?"

Weird mix. Particularly beautiful: The Weeknd, Sébastien Tellier.

Start with Daft Punk.

Wake the witch.

Oui j'ai pleuré mais ce jour-là
Non, je ne pleurerai pas
Non, je ne pleurerai pas
Oui j'ai pleuré mais ce jour-là
Je ne pleurerai pas

Je ne pleurerai pas

[...]

Happiness exists when you don't know a thing
So I hope you don't think this song is about you...

I picture you sometimes
And imagine you alone...

Are you gonna waste my time?
Are you gonna be mine?

Never meant you no harm
Never spun you no yarn...

Don't let them in
They cannot be trusted.

A golden bird that flies away
A candle's fickle flame
To think I held you yesterday
Your love was just a game

This is just catchy.

Are you in?

The songs I can't stop listening to 5/24/13

1. Tapes 'n Tapes - "Badaboom"
2. Laura Veirs - "Sun Is King"
3. Grayson County Railsplitters - "Ain't That Trouble In Mind"
4. The National - "Mistaken For Strangers"
5. Tori Amos - "Little Earthquakes"
6. Reptile Youth - "Black Swan Born White"
7. The Phantom Band - "Walls"
8. Muddy Waters - "I've Got My Mojo Working"
9. Lotus Plaza - "Eveningness"
10. Marissa Nadler feat. Black Hole Infinity - "No Surprises" (Radiohead cover)

Pretty epic mix. Best tracks: The National, Tori Amos, The Phantom Band, Lotus Plaza, Marissa Nadler. And of course, Muddy Waters.

Man, you are the madness in my ear
I'll be alone tonight and I'll be in the clear
Take me for a night I said, take me for a year
I'll be your year, my dear

did you see the ice in his eye?
did you see the dagger caught in his smile?
innocent as a summer flower
with a serpent coiled under his collar

If trouble don't kill me
I'll live a long time
Ain't that trouble in mind?
Ain't that trouble in mind?

You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
When you pass them at night...

oh these little earthquakes
here we go again
these little earthquakes
doesn't take much to 
rip us in to pieces

i can't reach you
can't reach you
give me life
give me pain
give me myself again

I'm a black hole eating optimism
I'm a black swan born white
I'm a depression still under construction
But you can make it all, yeah you can make it all
Right tonight

walls will come down all around us...

Got my mojo working but it just don't work on you
I wanna love you so bad 'til I don't know what to do...

I've seen how you've changed...

A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won't heal
You look so tired - unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us
I'll take a quiet life
A handshake of carbon monoxide
With no alarms and no surprises...

The songs I can't stop listening to 5/17/13

1. Adventure - "Smoke And Mirrors"
2. Beyoncé - "If I Were A Boy"
3. Dirty Projectors - "Cannibal Resource"
4. Bush - "Body"
5. Indian Wars - "Tom Dula" (Neil Young/Kingston Trio cover)
6. The Wind - "Oh, Hadihu"
7. Ben Rector - "Dance With Me Baby"
8. Violens - "Violent Sensation Descends"
9. DIIV - "Earthboy"
10. Jeff Buckley - "Your Flesh Is So Nice"

The songs from The Wind and DIIV are particularly beautiful. And Dirty Projectors are always amazing. And oh, Ben Rector...

I know exactly where you're from
Southern lover come undone
There's something more to what they say
I guess I'll know another day

It's a little too late for you to come back
Say it's just a mistake, think I'd forgive you like that;
If you thought I would wait for you, you thought wrong...

Look around at everyone
Everyone looks alive and waiting
The wind is up, the stars out
The sun is calm, the light is fading
But we are

Still counting on cannibal resource...

Tongue tied and a visceral third degree
Feel warm, center of gravity
Wash us all away
Body never lies...

A great cover of Neil Young's version of the Kingston Trio version of the old North Carolina folk song:

You are sunborn, sacred, gentle
You are kindness' reminder to the world
A bird in the sky that sings just to bless life

And I find that I am divided between here and there
And them and you and me
And I know this dream that I am chasing
Can very well go and be the death of me
So darling, don't you worry
I'll be there before you can close your eyes
I'll be there to kiss my baby
And dance with you until the morning light

A sudden violent sensation descends
It may be aimed at you
Cause baby
I've learned what I could never do

If I'm alone and you're free now we know nothing's ever meant to be
But come along with me and by my secret side that no one sees
I built a throne from a burden of need
Earth boy gets harvested or else recedes so while you're cold
Numb my dream and I'll chew rocks and splinters
Sob and scream earth boy on your throne
You sit alone

Your flesh is nice
Let me take a bite.

The songs I can't stop listening to 5/10/13

1. Fiona Apple - "Please Please Please"
2. Daniel Rossen - "Up On High"
3. Chromeo - "Hot Mess (Jokers Of The Scene Remix)"
4. Ian McCulloch (of Echo & The Bunnymen) - "The Fountain"
5. The Black Crowes - "Struttin' Blues"
6. Jonny Lang - "Before You Hit The Ground"
7. Burial + Four Tet + Thom Yorke - "Ego"
8. Gorillaz vs. Spacemonkeyz - "M1 A1 (Lil' Dub Chefin')"
9. Drew Holcomb - "Eastbound Wind"
10. Florence + The Machine - "What The Water Gave Me"

Exquisitely beautiful: 2, 4, 7, 9, 10

Please please please
No apologies
At best they buy you time
Until you next step out of line
Please please please
No more remedies
My method is uncertain
It's a mess but it's working
And maybe if you tried it out
You won't like it when you're crying out

With your head full of stars
That crowd all you see
Sing for me
With your mouth full of stones
Grindin' your teeth
Speak for me

You're a hot mess
You act like you've got nothing to lose
But I've already lost my temper

What a way to waste your wishes
Changing something for somehow
What I'd pay to taste your kisses
Oh yeah,
Here and now, here and now
Here and now, d'you hear me now

Will there be thunder?
Will lightning strike?
Will I kneel in wonder
In a tunnel of light?

[...]

Hallelujah, hallelujah
I got to you

Got my head spinnin' round
Wonderin' when it's gonna stop

You better look up or you're gonna be gone
Before you hit the ground

I feel light up on my feet
From the way you look at me
You open up the universe
Yeah I bet you get this all the time

I crumble when you touch my wings
But that's okay 'cause I'm nothing
I'm tougher than you think
Yeah I bet you get this all the time

Usually I hate things with reggae beats, but I make an exception for this.

Drew Holcomb writes the most beautiful songs.

Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow...

The songs I can't stop listening to 5/3/12

1. Ewert and the Two Dragons - "Good Man Down"
2. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - "December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)"
3. Neko Case - "Fever"
4. Phantogram - "Running From The Cops"
5. Jim Noir - "Driving My Escort Cosworth To The Cake Circus"
6. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "The Sun Highlights The Lack In Each"
7. Indigo Girls - "Making Promises"
8. Deana Carter - "Love Ain't Worth Making"
9. Mac DeMarco - "I'm A Man"
10. Tauk - "Side Project"

How could you shoot a good man down
Leave without mourning
Broken-hearted on the ground
Like the others before him
A burden heavy as a rock
Ain't nobody gonna stop her
Go ahead and walk alone
And regret it somewhere else

Sweet, sweet oldies.

Oh, how I love Neko Case.

My dreams, they never come true
And if they ever, ever do
It's never you

This is weird, but I kinda like it.

O my
Our friends all within reach
And the sun highlights the lack in each

What am I gonna do with you?
So far away, it makes me blue
I never mind just being alone
But I felt defeated and I let it show

You know I could have ridden the rainbow
And this once I needed you to let me know

Love ain't worth making
When it makes you the fool...

Fun little song.

And some instrumental jazzy/whatever goodness.