On my blog I came up with a
kind of game to gain space on my full 20 gb jukebox (iPods are welcome as well of course). I play ten songs on shuffle, decide for each song if I want to delete it, skip it or listen to all of it. At the end I choose my favourite of the ten, post an mp3 link and write two or three sentences. It doesn't seem to work out most of the time as I hardly delete anything ever but still. Do you want to join me?
1 a certain ratio - oceans
2 royksopp - remind me (mix)
3 american music club - nightwatchman
4 nick drake - strolling down the highway
5 the breeders - silver (pod demos)
6 mclusky - unmastered albini track 3 from mclusky do dallas
7 field mice - new pop song (live)
8 nada surf - killian's red -> SKIPPED
9 calvin johnson - what was me -> SKIPPED
10 flux information sciences - liposuction
Extremely hard choice. I choose the track which stands out. The last one. Some kind of post-punk. Barren. Annoying in a way but fascinating in another. There was too much twee in that shuffle I had to go for the rougher side of things. Unfortunately I know absolutely nothing about that band.
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)
01. Block Party - Tulips
02. Spirituazlized - Red | You Know It's True / If I Were With Her
03. The Afghan Whigs - Now You Know
04. The Chameleons - Soul in Isolation
05. Mr. Bungle - Squeeze Me Macaroni
06. New Order - Ceremony
07. Broadway Project - Who's To Blame
08. Broadway Project - Plants And Leaves
09. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 2 -> SKIPPED
10.
Black Star - RespirationDISCLAIMER: Once I get home (to my external HD housing my iTunes collection), I'll share that whole Black Star track.
Frankly the choice wasn't much easier for me but the process ultimately similar in that "Respiration" was the track that stood out most from the rest of the pack (though the Bloc Party track, the version from their official website, was a close second).
"Respiration" is a track that easily embodies everything I love best about the Black Star full-length - tasteful, cascading guitar licks and keys dancing between a head-bobbin' bassline and organic-ish drum track (to make no mention of the Latina temptress easily persuading you to "listen, the City's breathing").
Naturally the lyrics are the "conscious" type, NYC-centric critique and praise, we've come to expect from Mos Def & Talib Kweli (& Common, who delivers the third verse).
― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Saturday, 19 November 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)