Mix of the week: all fluff edition
Published by Becky S February 23rd, 2005 in arts
Presenting a new mix of the week to celebrate today’s Futureheads show. The theme is all fluff. Hey, what’s that voice? It’s saying something about an ever-shortening attention span* and lack of focus and a growing inability to understand challenging music. Eh, whatever. Here’s some fun stuff—no attention span required:
- A.C. Newman – On the Table [other songs here]
- The Casual Dots – Clocks [available here]
- The Futureheads – Decent Days and Decent Nights
- Hot Hot Heat – Goodnight Goodnight [via Stereogum; other downloads here]
- Max Raabe – Mambo No. 5 [via Trout Fishing in Central Wisconsin a while back]
- Stimulator – 78 Stimulator [available here]
- The Wonder Stuff – Welcome to the Cheap Seats [via the people who lived across the hall freshman year]
*Thumbs down to long songs, especially wordless, electronic-y ones. Proprieters of Texan weblogs who rhapsodize about this kind of music—and you know who you are—should not irresponsibly post long, electronic-y songs late on Saturday nights because such things confuse drunk people**.
**Seriously, Secret Comics is a great weblog for music lessons and other sundries.
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Glad to be… kinda of service, I guess. I feel you on the ever-shortening attention span, but with a handful of certain bands (like Explosions In The Sky), I can just free my mind and my ass more-or-less follows. These are exceptions to the rule, mind you — I’ve go use for average white bands noodling and/or meandering over 11-minute songs like they’re the Grateful flippin’ Dead. I think you know to whom I refer, Nels Cline or no Nels Cline.
And thanks for the “blog props” — now everyone who’s drunk and looking to be confused knows where to come.
Oh yeah, enjoy the show tonight!
Great mix!
Long time lurker of your great site. Just had to tell you I hauled out all my old Wonder Stuff records only yesterday! Hadn’t heard that song in years. Can you believe it was released in ‘91?
Some long songs are cool, as long as the musicians know what they’re doing. There’s this one song by Something Corporate called “Konstantine,” and it’s about 11 minutes long but it’s the best 11 minutes of my life whenever I listen to it.
Just a little FYI for you Futureheads fans out there: Catch them live on Conan tonite!
WHAT? Futureheads are on Conan? THAT’S why the one guy wasn’t singing last night? Saving his voice for national TV? Huh. More later.
Odd how things in my cupboard (that are given to us by clients of my husband’s or people trying to woo him away from his employer) or things in your cupboard keep crossing over from your blog into my life and vice versa.
Anyway, just an odd observation on an odd and over-white day.