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As a kid, when I really started to get into music it was largely through my parents’ record collection. For hours I’d pour over the album art. I’d sit, listening, entranced watching the middle of the disc spin round and round. Sometimes I’d try reading the track listing as it turned 33 times a minute.
Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of the records that I managed to pilfer from my folks house last time I visited. However, I yearn to have that experience with current music. I want a collection of records that represents the best of my time. All the really solid albums from right now. Maybe someday, if I ever have kids, the can sit and bop their heads to Voodoo, trip out on the album art of Friend and Foe, steal my copy of Le Fil the first time they do mushrooms, or geek out on the harmonies on Bitte Orca. But, in the meantime, I want to do all of that, from the inconvenience of my own home.
To this end, for the price of two drinks, I’ve decided to treat my self to a new record once a week. This week’s record was The XX. It looks so good when it spins.
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Santigold - Go! (Feat. Karen O) 2012 (get it)
“It’s got the beat that’ll make your stuffed animals bop from side to side.” - Pitchfork (not Pitchfork)
Other personal favorites: Disparate Youth, This Isn’t Our Parade, and The Riot’s Gone.
Seriously, this whole album is fantastic.
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Miike Snow - Devil’s Work 2012 (get it)
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Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (TheFatRat Remix) 2012 (get it)
I know. I know. I know you’re over this song…
It’s rare, but every once in a while someone covers a song, giving it a completely different and new life, somehow maintaining that thing that made the original appealing in the first place. …ie. José González’s version of The Knife’s “Heartbeats.”
Rarer still, is the remix that is able to accomplish the same feat. On that note, let’s take a moment and celebrate TheFatRat, for a remix that does just that.
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Of Monsters And Men - Dirty Paws 2012 (get it)
PS. I want to direct a music video for this song. Anyone have any fur lying around, or any large mammals I can borrow for a week?
“The pig was happy!”
Kids review Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android”
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D’Angelo - She’s Always In My Hair 1998 (Get it)
Out last night, I heard this song for the first time in years.
So. Good.
The original by Prince is also amazing, obviously. But, I wanted to post the D’Angelo version, because as much positive energy his way can’t hurt and might help to keep him performing and hopefully release another recording…
He’s too damn talented for just two albums. Just sayin’. (…ahem, Justin Timberlake)
