1. How did you get into 31?
Mirah. hmmmmmm don't exactly remember. Years back I used to search for my favorite artists on amazon and see what people who bought that also bought. I don't know, it was a pretty good way of finding stuff I had never heard. likely that was the case with her. regardless, i fell in love!


2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Man Man. Probably "feathers" because it is the first song on the album I bought of theirs. but I didn't fall in love until "van helsing boombox"

3. What's your favourite lyric by 29?
ha ha The Cramps. "My bird can do the dog. If your pussy can. can your pussy do the dog?" but i love the non-sensical slurring of "She Said".

4. What is your favourite album by 49?
Talking Heads, thats rough. oh shit no its not, stop making sense!!!! I just remembered that was the first album I bought after getting my record player.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
The B-52's!!!!! i have everything on my comp. but physically I have Time Capsule as a CD and self titled and Party Mix/Mesopotamia ! on vinyl.

6. What is your favourite song by 50?
ooo theres a tie at 49 that I didn't realize. Talking Heads and Regina Spektor. Psycho Killer def. wins for talking heads, I went nuts when I heard that for the first time as a kid. And for Regina probably The Ghost of Corporate Future

7. Is there a song by 4 that makes you sad?
theres a tie @ 3 of belle and sebastian and Scout niblett. and yes to both! But they make me horribly happy too.

8. What is your favourite song by 15?
GOD so many ties. Now it is M.I.A. and Dr.Dog. Well for M.I.A. my favorite has always been "Pull up the People" but I have been obsessed with "Jimmy" lately. Hmmmm Dr.Dog, you can't really beat "Oh No" but from their new album, "The Way The Lazy Do" is heaven.

9. What is your favourite song by 5?
Beirut! Has to be "Fountains and Tramways"

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
God Damnit another tie! Crystal Castles and The Microphones. Well, "I Felt Your Shape" is one of the most stellar songs, but I go through ups and downs with it, it can make me feel so romantic and giddy or totally frustrated and horny. as for crystal castles, they make me want to put on my shortest skirt and my gold shoes and dance til dawn.

11. What is your favourite album by 40?
David Bowie. ROUGH. well lord knows that my mom has punished me several times for swipping her copy of "The Man Who Sold The World" from her record shelf. But jesus christ how can I not choose "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars,"??????

12. What is your favourite song by 12?
Well my middle school and high school years are defined by Modest Mouse so this is like gun to my head, have to choose a favorite..."Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright." it took me about 10 minutes to decide on that.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 33?
Tom Waits. he reminds me of my dear dear friend Ariel, who has an amazing amount of love for him. I bought her a print done by this great artist at a street fair of him and gave it to her right before she left for school, so I hope when she sees that she thinks of me because when I listen to him I think of her.

14. What is your favourite song by 37?
another tie. John Lennon and Arcade Fire. "John Sinclair" is great because it reminds me of getting caught smoking weed and being punished (several times), in detention all im thinking is "ya gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta set him free!" "Crown of Love" wins for Arcade fire. It came on at work once and this coworker I am in love with sang along with me to it and then at that part when it gets epic and win butler is screaming we both danced and were jumping around. I wanted to tackle him right then and there and never let go, but I just kept dancing.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
I'm calling this Bob Dylan because he is 16 and there is no 15. I can't listen to "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" without smiling. i mean hes cracking up himself for the first 15 seconds. you gotta love nerdy songs about history and literature.

16. How many times have you seen 24 live?
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Mr Free and the Satellite Freakout These guys are great friends of mine and I have been a devout concert goer for years. jeeze im gonna guess about 2,300,457,031 times. but that is just a ballpark figure.


17. What is the first song you ever heard by 17?
Grizzly Bear. "Knife", come on.

18. What is your favourite album by 11?
no 11, number 12 is Modest Mouse though. Lonesome crowded west is probably my most listened to album of all time.

19. Who is a favourite member of 1?
I won't answer that. its a collective for a reason, they all bring amazing things to everything they create. but god, panda bear and avey's solo stuff are both just organismicly amazing

20. Have you ever seen 14 live?
never seen M.I.A. but have seen Dr. Dog twice.

21. What is a good memory involving 21?
Simon & Garfunkel is a large defining factor of my child hood. It is the best road trip music. just this weekend my mom and I went to phoenix for a day and on the way back we belted "I am a rock." makes me think of Erika too, we have spent hours listening to them together.

22. What is your favourite song by 16?
bob dylan again, well i said happiest, but favorite is another story, "Don't think twice, it's alright" is my most played, but "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" is some of the most passionate and truthful songwriting I have ever experienced.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
Kanye West, ha! lord if I know. the first song I learned all the words to was with Jacque and it was "Workout plan." see him next week!!!!!!!

24. What is your favourite album by 45?
another tie, but I am calling it Zero 7. I just started listening to them again for the first time since probably 8th or 9th grade. "When It Falls" is really so amazing and brings back memories of Emily and I lying around and talking about boys for hours. that was lame, but this album certainly isn't. im listening to it now having grown up, but I still wan't to make out like a pre-teen with the first boy i see when I listen to this.


that was a good waste of an hour, lord I need to sleep.

1. Animal Collective
First Song Heard: Leaf House
Fell in Love with: Who Could Win a Rabbit
Current Favorite: Winter's LoveTikwid For Reverend Green Banshee BeatI See You Pan

2. The Microphones
First Song Heard: The Pull
Fell in Love with: I Felt Your Shape
Current Favorite: The Mount Eerie album

3. The Trees Community
First Song Heard: Psalm 42
Fell in Love with: Psalm 42
Current Favorite: The Christ Tree album

4. Sufjan Stevens
First Song Heard: The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
Fell in Love with: Come on! Feel the Illinoise!
Current Favorite: Seven Swans

5. Yo La Tengo
First Song Heard: Here Comes My Baby
Fell in Love with: Stockholm Syndrome
Current Favorite: The Room Got Heavy

6. The Beach Boys
First Song Heard: Probably Surfin' U.S.A.
Fell in Love with: In My Room Don't Worry Baby Pet Sounds
Current Favorite: Sunflower

7. Sonic Youth
First Song Heard: (I Got a) Catholic Block
Fell in Love with: Schizophrenia
Current Favorite: Hoarfrost or Invito Al Cielo

8. Super Furry Animals
First Song Heard: God! Show Me Magic
Fell in Love with: Hermann ♥'s Pauline
Current Favorite: Zoom!

9. Mount Eerie
First Song Heard: Wooly Mammoth's Absence
Fell in Love with: 2 Blonde Braids
Current Favorite: (2 moons)

10. Beat Happening
First Song Heard: Cast a Shadow
Fell in Love with: Other Side
Current Favorite: The This Many Boyfriends Club

11. Half-Handed Cloud
First Song Heard: Feed Your Sheep A Burning Lamp
Fell in Love with: Skip the Rope
Current Favorite: oily...

12. Wilco
First Song Heard: Sunken Treasure
Fell in Love with: Forget the Flowers
Current Favorite: Either Way

13. The Beatles
First Song Heard: I have no idea... I've been hearing there music for as long as I've had ears.. my parents used to play the blue one, 1967-1970 I believe
Fell in Love with: I Am the Walrus
Current Favorite: Julia

14. Neko Case
First Song Heard: Things That Scare Me
Fell in Love with: Outro With Bees
Current Favorite: Star Witness

15.of Montreal
First Song Heard: Tim, I Wish You Were Born a Girl
Fell in Love with: Little Viola Hidden in the Orchestra
Current Favorite: Maple Licorice

I'm really bored :-/

I will probably make more of these when bordeom ensues.

(btw this is in no particular order)

1.I Wanna Be Adored

2.There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out

3.Here Today

4.Nantes

5.I'm Waking Up to Us

6.Hard to Explain

7.Sister, Do You Know My Name?

8.I Want You Around

9.Unlovable

10.I Felt Your Shape


Peace!

ancora Phil Elvrum, come in un journal precedente nel quale proponevo due suoi video. se di proposito non avete voluto vederli, siete brutti. comunque, c'è una canzone. per parlare di questa canzone bisogna andare indietro di qualche anno e riascoltarsi The Glow Pt.2, The Microphones. ci sono degli episodi (parlare propriamente solo di canzoni lo trovo inappropriato) clamorosamente belli qui dentro, basterebbe dire I Want Wind To Blow, The Moon, giusto i primi due che mi sento di nominare. ma non mi interessa ora, perchè ce una canzone (e sì, canzone) che ormai da molto riesce a catalizzare tutto attorno a sè. arrivando verso la fine di questo meraviglioso disco ci si imbatte in quella che è I Felt Your Shape, una storia acustica, genuina verrebbe da dire, dalla cristallinità d'arietta fresca ma sempre con quel senso velato di rincorsa verso i sentimenti più importanti e ricordi più palpabili, quelli concreti. riportone il testo.

I thought I felt your shape but I was wrong
Really all I felt was falsely strong
I held on tight and closed my eyes
It was dumb I had no sense of your size

It was dumb to hold so tight
But last night
On the birthday in the kitchen
My grip was loose my eyes were open

I felt your shape and heard you breathing
I felt the rise and fall of your chest
I felt your fall
Your winter snows
Your gusty blow
Your lava flow
I felt it all
Your starry night
Your lack of light
With limp arms I can feel most of you

I hung around your neck independently
And my loss was overwhelmed
By this new depth I don’t think I ever felt

But I don’t know
The nights are cold
And I remember warmth
I could have sworn I wasn’t alone

bene. è così poi che quasi per caso mi imbatto in un altro testo. viene citato sotto il titolo I Felt Your Shape Pt.2, che per la precisione era proprio quello che fino a poco fa appariva qui di lato sulla mia colonna, e per il quale chiedevo contatto in caso qualcuno avesse posseduto la canzone. bene. questo pezzo lo recupero, si trova in un triplo lp di un live a Copenaghen, a nome Mount Eerie. sempre Phil Elvrum, che dopo l'uscita dell'ultimo album a nome Microphones, Mount Erie per l'appunto, abbandona il precedente moniker per il successivo appena citato.
Mount Eerie is a new project. The Microphones was completed, or at least at a good stopping point. I did it because I am ready for new things. I am new.
qui potete leggere tutto, in un'intervista a Discorder.
la canzone è esattamente la stessa di prima, solo allungata, per dar spazio a questa continuazione, a questo epilogo?, chiamiamolo come più vogliamo. eccolo.

no more hugging in the kitchen
no more pats on the back in the hall
no more chest on breasty chest behind the curtain
no more lip on nape of neck in shower stall
no more rosy gardens
no more craving curving
hips on my belly
I'm giving up so I can be free from you
I'm paying fees so I can sever ties from you
Let craving call
and beg and bawl
and face it tall
Let my soft skin have more sweet soft air on me.
Let boulders drown.

che sembra una bella presa di coscienza e di intenti. la canzone non è più bella, nemmeno più brutta dell'altra. è uguale. è solo più completa, forse più giusta, ma non per noi ovviamente. un po' più triste, ma non accorgiamocene.

poi vorrei dire solo un'ultima cosa: in questo live (da sentire PER FORZA) Elvrum propone una natalizia Silent Night. no, così, solo per ricordare che non esiste sempre e solo Sufjan Stevens. che in ogni caso noi siamo più che contenti di averlo.

It's an obvious fact that the vast majority of our planet has never heard of Shoegazing Is Bullshit EP. Hopefully, by writing this journal entry, I can get at least one non-resident of Livonia, MI to listen to the darned thing.

So what kind of music is it? Excellent question my friend! I wish that even I, it's creator, could describe it well. It's not so much that it is unclassifiable or that it transcends classification, as much as it just tends to puzzle the listener. This is, at least, the impression I got from talking with the people who have heard it. Please allow me to run through a track by track summary...

#1 - Organ Party!!!!
This is a relatively short "composition" of mine played on a Casio SK-1 using a very cheezy sounding synthesizer setting. Towards the end of the mix is a "field recording" I made of my fingers on a glockenspiel and a chord being held out by the brass section of my school's band.
Note: the terms in quotations seem extremely pretentious considering the final product, and are a result of my akward music-geek humor.

#2 - Another Late Night
This is a fairly simple acoustic/vocal song that I wrote over the summer. It was kind of pretty, but in the recording my vocals are slightly off key in the beginning, which I hide by adding several layers of even more goofy sounding vocal renditions that in the end just kind of sound like someone vomiting. I introduce the song with the phrase "I am channeling the energies of my anscestors." This apparently scared my friends little brother out of the room. I really don't see what the kid's problem was. Good thing he didn't stick around for the next few songs.

#3 - Family Gathering
I've had this intrumental sitting around for a long time, so I decided to put it to use. It consists of some strange crunching/snoring/barking noises with forward and backward piano playing over it. Recently, to top it all off, I added a "field recording" (ha) of a radio show over it. The end result is something that I'm not ashamed to listen to by myself. Then I realized it sounded a lot like Providence... shattering my illusion of originality.

#4 - September (October Version)
For people who told me that they actually enjoyed the EP, this was usually their favorite track. It's another acoustic guitar/vocal track, but this time with a little circuit-bent synth thrown in. Towards the end you can hear the voices of the people that I wrote the song about. My favorite phrase from the conversations that I added to the song comes along right as the music stops with my friend saying "Yeah, that is kind of wierd." I feel that this moment sums up the EP pretty damn well.
Note: though I had several opportunities to use the term "field recording" in the previous description, I refrained. You can thank me by downloading the EP...

#5 - Shoegazing Is Bullshit
Ah yes, the title track! "But I love shoegazing!" you may exclaim. Well, so do I (ok, so maybe Loveless is the only 'shoegazer' that I listen to), but sometimes we just have to make fun of ourselves and our obnoxious terminology. The irony is that you could probably classify this song as 'shoegazer'. I'm not going to tell you anything specific about it though. I would appreciate it if you found out what it sounds like by listening for yourself.

#6 - I Felt Your Grape
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the worst cover of all time, complete with album out-takes patching up the parts where my female accomplice and I fuck up. Originally known as I Felt Your Shape, this song only really becomes recognizable towards the end, but is a fitting epilogue to the original tunes that precede it.

Enjoy.

I beg you...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/d0kdeq

Note: these recordings were completed long before my "Manufacturing Inspirado" journal entry was written, and before I had access to any decent recording equipment.

Kay-Double R-Sea Reed Colege, ninety-seven point nine eff emm PORTLAND

10/2

The President's Dead

This song did actually manage to startle some people. Of course, if you actually bother to listen to the lyrics, it's not some sotrt of dumb "I wish Bush would die" attempt at a protest song, but hey.

Send in the Clouds
Jumping Fences
C'mere
Venus
Ex Lion Tamer
We Live NE of Compton
Everyone Choose Sides
J'Taime
Substitute
Ruby
Girlfriend in a Coma
Grass
Clinically Dead
Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby
The Air Near My Fingers
A Day in the Graveyard II
Advance Cassette

10/24

Hey Bulldog

One of the most underrated Beatles songs, which is hard to be.

Jenny & the Ess-Dog
Mark David Chapman
She's a Jar
Hewlett's Daughter
Snow Song
Maybelline
September Gurls

I got kinda obsessed with this band recently, to the point when I'm pretty sure my roommates started to recoil in horror whenever they heard me start up with the chord changes to "Thirteen."

Also, somewhere in here I started broadcasting the World Series live from the dinky little Gameday thing from MLB.com on my laptop. Almost as good as the real thing. By which I mean Tim McCarver and Joe Buck, so yeah, I kinda suck.

Do the Whirlwind
If We Can Land a Man on the Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart
Everyone Loves To Cha Cha Cha

I love to cha cha cha. Just putting that out there.

Pay No Mind (Snoozer)
She Belongs to Me
Tonight's The Night (Part 1)
Castles Made Of Sand
Big Rock Candy Mountain
1979

Find this bootleg if you can. Pavement playing the Smashing Pumpkins! You know, nature kids, I/They don't have no function, I don't understand what they mean and I could really give a... If this entry weren't so long already, I would transcribe some of SM's lyrics changes, because they are hilarious. Look for it, kids.

10/31

Bike
Knuckles
Ohio
Alison
Heaven
They're Red Hot
Waiting for the Kid to Come Out
Damn, Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains)
The Ballad of El Goodo
The Village Green Preservation Society
They Won't Let Me Run
The Book of Right-On
I Felt Your Shape
Glosoli
My Dreamgirl Don't Exist

In addition to the "weed makes you listen to indie rock/ Sufjan Stevens KILLS" (which he does, or at least turns ya queer) antidrug ad linked on Pitchfork on Monday (I'm too lazy to find the link), I read several excerpts from politicians' dirty, dirty novels, as linked on Slate.

http://www.slate.com/id/2152402/nav/tap1/

My favorite excerpt, by my man William F. Buckley:

"But this time she led him upstairs into a room he had never laid eyes on, a bedroom with a king-size bed and not less than six oil pictures of Ayn on the walls, one of them showing her bare-breasted, the Ayn of twenty years ago. The shades had been drawn and Nathaniel could savor the scent. Today her lover was being welcomed with synesthetical concern for all the senses, only the music missing. But as he lay and later groaned with writhing and release, he brought the full force of his mind to transmuted, voluptuarian elation in this physical union with the very woman who had created John Galt and Dagny Taggart and Henry Rearden, and had touched down her scepter on him, Nathaniel, igniting his mind, and his own scepter, which paid, now, devoted service."
-William Buckley

Sweet.

1. The Olivia Tremor Control- I Can Smell the Leaves
2. The Microphones- I Felt Your Shape
3. Death Cab for Cutie- Blacking Out the Friction (Piano version)
4. Simon and Garfunkel- Leaves that are Green
5. Vashti Bunyan- Rose Hip November
6. Devendra Banhart- The Body Breaks
7. Nick Drake- Way to Blue
8. Luna- Moon Palace
9. Iron & Wine- Passing Afternoon
10. Azure Ray- November
11. The Feverfew- By Now
12. Elliott Smith- Color Bars
13. Joanna Newsom- Sprout and the Bean
14. The Decemberists- Of Angels and Angles
15. Sufjan Stevens- Chicago (Acoustic)
16. Beck- Lonesome Tears
17. Red House Painters- Song for a Blue Guitar
18. Smashing Pumpkins- Mayonaise
19. Cat Power- Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Download Link:
http://rapidshare.de/files/35669372/Another_Autumn_Mix.zip.html

This mix is a sorts of sequel to the previous Autumn mix a made a few weeks ago. There's a slight crossover of artists between the two mixes, but just like any good second installment there's plenty of new artists to make it not just a rehash. I didn't quite get into the monthly specifics in this particular mix, but i think it turned out great nonetheless. I'm not going to do an individual rundown of each track like last time, but instead i'm opting for a description of my basic mix making approach.

Okay so in it's simplest definition and form, a mix cd is a compilation of various tracks that you like. It doesn't need to have a specific theme or order to it...in my earliest mix making days when Napster first burst out onto the scene i was making discs filled with my current favorites from modern rock radio. However a mix cd and be so much more than just that. If assembled to do so, a great mix can convey specific emotions and feeling just as well as a great novel or film. The method I use for making mixes is similar to that of writing a research paper. First I find my sources- in this case the artists and specific songs that potentially mirror the theme of the mix, either lyrically or through the feelings that the music itself produces. I'll then write down the all the possible candidates on a sheet of paper. When I finally have a decent amount, i'll open all the mp3s in a playlist, first to check the total length and second to aide in the most important aspect of mix making...coherence. Rather than just being a collection of songs, a true mix like all great albums should have a significant impact on the listener when taken as a whole. With the songs in the playlist I then reorganize them in a logical order. Obviously the opening track has to be amazing, and if there's a heavier more distorted song it can't be played after a sparse acoustic one. If you're going to have a mix of genres on a mix and have it be coherent it's necessary to have a sensical flow. Like take it from an acoustic track to one with clean electric perhaps with light brush drumming, and then maybe through in a song with distortion. You want the listener to think "wasn't i listening to a acoutic folky song a few minutes ago?" not "what the fuck...where did this come from?" Oh the opposite you cannot have too many similar songs in a row. On my mixes i tend to obtain a good mix of both male and female singers, flip flopping between them every few tracks. Another important variable is transitions from song to song. For me personally this takes me the longest when building a cd. Now i obviously haven't perfected the art yet and can't get the songs to float on perfect from one to the next like an elephant six album, but then again to achieve that you'll most always have to do some editing on the tracks themselves. For the first time I did make some cool edit pro modifications on a few songs, yet those were basic changes: removing the applause in the simon & garfunkel track, cutting some extensive silence at the ends of several songs, and adding fade in and outs (most significantly on the cat power track). Now once you finally are set in your track order your last step is simple and easily the most enjoyable...burn and listen. How rewarding that is.


The Olivia Tremor ControlThe MicrophonesDeath Cab for CutieSimon & GarfunkelVashti BunyanDevendra BanhartNick DrakeLunaIron & WineAzure RayThe FeverfewElliott SmithJoanna NewsomThe DecemberistsSufjan StevensBeckRed House PaintersCat PowerI Can Smell the LeavesI Felt Your ShapeBlacking Out the FrictionLeaves That Are GreenRose Hip NovemberThe Body BreaksWay to BlueMoon PalacePassing AfternoonNovemberBy NowColor BarsSprout And The BeanOf Angels and AnglesChicago AcousticLonesome TearsSong for a Blue GuitarMayonaiseKnockin' On Heaven's Door

So the last week I've been completely obsessed with all of Phil Elvrum's various musical incarnations (ie. The Microphones, Mount Eerie, Old Time Relijun, Singers).

I'll update this journal with a playlist soon.

1. The Microphones Instrumental Don't Wake Me Up

2. The Microphones Oh Anna Tests

3. The Microphones Ice It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water

4. The Microphones I Felt Your Shape The Glow, Pt. 2

5. The Microphones bass drum dream Song Islands

6. The Microphones Great Ghosts Live in Japan, Feb. 19, 21, & 22, 2003

7.The Microphones The Sun Mount Eerie

8. Hymie's Basement 21st Century Pop Song (Microphones Remix By Mount Eerie) 21st Century Pop Song - Single

9. Mount Eerie No Inside, No Out No Flashlight

10. Mount Eerie My Burning Seven New Songs

11. Mount Eerie Waterfalls (by Thanksgiving)

12. Old Time Relijun Two Crows Witchcraft Rebellion

13. Old Time RelijunThe Book Of Life And CrimeWitchcraft Rebellion

14. Singers Where Is My Tarp? Singers