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We haven't posted any music-related for ages now, but we're getting back into the spirit of things—because everything is so much better with music. Except! Yoga classes! That end with Jeff Buckley singing Hallelujah! And we used to really like that song! (Though not as much as we have loved Bruce Springsteen, no less than last night when he made his guacamole joke. The man can do no wrong.)
Anyway: Robyn. Be Mine. This entire album got us through a transatlantic flight last night. Love it!
We love this song. There's this PSA they play on the TV here about why it's a bad idea to go out on Saturday night and get totally wasted, and this song is used in the background. The problem is that in our opinion this song makes you want to do basically nothing but, so ... er, mission maybe not accomplished. Situational irony (er, we think) aside, this is totally our new favorite song: "These Grey Days" by Eight Legs.
So we are finding it just impossible to believe that it's been 15 years since Exile in Guyville, but apparently it is so—as evidenced by the album's re-release yesterday. Above, 6'1". It seems like such a long time ago that we thought this was the best song we'd ever heard.
We got this email a while back from our friend O.:
Saw the post today about your reader suggestion for Top 25 playlists. Have you heard about Muxtape? A friend of mine just sent me a playlist yesterday—it’s REALLY cool.
We hope people are still enjoying the Great iTunes Playlist Spectacular. We're still getting them, so we're still going to post them, because we are always on the lookout for new music (read: something other than Dashboard Confessional, Kanye West, and now Phantom Planet, which we have listened to 300,000,000 times. Highly recommended!) If you'd like to send us yours—and we hope you would!—email us here. Do us a solid, as they say, and put iTunes in the subject. That way we won't miss it amongst all our offers for Nigerian oil fortunes.
Above: Devendra Banhart! We feel like we have totally missed out on this, like the American Girl series. But we love that Rilo Kiley song, and Jenny Lewis as well. We don't mind revealing that this playlist is courtesy of one of BS's Internet BFFs, and we encourage you to check out their site.
We love this song so fucking much we swear to God it makes us stand up straighter and try harder and just swear that we are going to make cool things that will make at least one other person feel as super-alive as we feel when we hear this song. It just blows up our head, kaboom.
We really used to think of Phantom Planet as excessively whatever, but now our heart just explodes when we listen to this new album. We swear, we just swear we're going to spend the whole summer at music festivals listening to as much music as humanly possible.
We were torn between posting a full, acoustic version of this song and this ridiculous version. We went with the latter. But we do think the album version is even better than either.
Ok, we know we're not quite ground breaking when it comes to the music area, but our favorite band is also one that broke up before we were out of diapers. We are content listening to the same 7 gb of songs on our iPod, and we tend to download a new song here and there every week or two. Last week, we downloaded M.I.A's "Paper Planes", and holy hell, this song has been in constant rotation since.
We drove kind of an obscene amount this past weekend, through 3 states, 2 rain storms, in 2 different cars, and about 9 bottles of Diet Coke. The most challenging point was driving through lower Manhattan, down Canal Street on Saturday. The amount of people buying knock-off bags (perhaps Mother's Day presents, we think) was staggering. As was when we approached the Holland Tunnel and the police turned two cars around and they were not allowed to enter the tunnel. Did we mention we were driving a car that costs as much as 2.5 of our car? Totally stressful, but we listened to this song on repeat about a hundred times and we were remarkably chill when we got to our destination.
We even made it our ring tone, and we've listened to it on our way in and out of work to ease our troubled mind.
So it's the second round of the amazing iTunes spectacular! (See the first one here.) Picking up where we left off, here's our next playlist, from T.. This is as close as we'll see to our own, we think, owing to all that Ryan Adams and Wicked. We hope and pray Ryan Adams know he's constantly next to Wicked in playlists around the world.
Someone we've long being trying to shape into a Sleater Kinney fan—because really, how could someone not be a fan of the best band of like the last million years—recently asked us to name their most accessible songs. This was a bit baffling, since of course we think they are all sort of equally completely accessible ... and completely not. This was our vote, as it was the first SK song we loved. We would love to know if there are other SK fans around, and if so, what they would vote for.
Our favorite SK story: After they were mistaken, backstage, for groupies, Corin was all, "We're not here to fuck the band. We are the band." Oh! Why are we not devoting all of our time and energy to becoming a rock star in the Corin Tucker mode?
This video, btw, breaks our heart into a thousand million pieces, as it's from their last show, and it's obviously a huge sing-a-long and we can't imagine what we could have been doing that was better than attending it. Oh, SK! Come back to us! Sigh.
We had finished this post and realized we needed to share more SK:
We love this song even if in general it's Corin rather than Carrie that makes us so deliriously in love. We were going to go back to art school next semester, but we think instead we'll just make SK videos and post them on YouTube. Please! Come back!
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