Category: Music

Aw, crap. Spent all morning harassing the fine d.j.’s at KEXP about a song that John played this morning around 7:11 AM.

See, it was a Radiohead song that I’d never heard, called “The Amazing Sounds of Orgy”. And because I only saw the song in the playlist but tuned in too late to hear it, I became, well, a teeny bit obsessed.

Because the listing on KEXP didn’t show an album title, I assumed it was new music, music from a forthcoming album. Couldn’t go back in the KEXP archives to listen to it (it takes several hours for the archive to update or be updated). Wanted to know more.

And both John and Cheryl are great on-air personalities. But wit the email, they’re not so communicative-y. Got terse answers from them. Didn’t help.

Well, I guess I should have just Googled the damn song. Turns out it’s a B-side from Amnesiac. Or so saith atease.web.

Still not a song I’ve heard, but now I can live without having the song. Since I apparently have to get my hands on a Japanese import to own it legitimately.

Question for my musically-interested readers:

Is the new Eels album (“Blinking Lights and Other Revelations”) worth buying?

The only review I’ve read is over at The Onion AV Club and it said that it’s long (2 CDs) and most of it is just the normal Eels stuff but there’s buried gold amongst the average tracks.

Today being payday, I finally bought some of the CDs I’ve been craving:

• Beck, “Guero” (a solid Beck at his Beck-iest)
• The Decemberists, “Picaresque” (rockin’!)
• Louis XIV, “The Best Little Secrets Are Kept” (exactly what I expected!)

As per usual, there were several others that I wanted but when I got to the music store I completely forgot what they were. I should keep a list or something.

Curse you, KEXP! Curse you, morning DJ John in the Morning!

John (in the Morning) just played The Go Go’s this morning and now I’m gonna have “Vacation” (and Belinda Carlisle in a swimsuit) running through my head all day!

…and as if that’s not enough, clicking around on The Go Go’s official site, I stumbled across the all-male Go Go’s tribute band We Got The Meat, headquartered (where else?) in my hometown Portlandia, Oregonia.

More wisdom from Harvey Danger:

drive across the country, tell your story walking. no one’s keeping you captive in the town that let you down (so sorry). blame it on the television, blame it on the company; don’t blame it on the fundamental fact that no one owes you something. “i’ve come about my share, i only want what’s fair. anyone who knows me knows that i’m not greedy. like everybody else, i wanna pay my dues. (i only want someone to tell me who to make the check out to.)”

My emphasis added…

Music I want to actually pay for:

• The Wedding Present, “Take Fountain” (due out 2/14/2005)
• new Sage Francis, “Healthy Distrust” (I’ll probably buy this at his show later this month)
• LCD Soundsystem (due out 2/15/2005)
• new …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, “Worlds Apart”
• Louis XIV, “Illegal Tender” (their song, “Finding Out True Love Is Blind” — It. So. Good.) (playing Feb. 22 at The Meow Meow with Hot Hot Heat
• Ray LaMontagne, “Trouble”

Hmmm… any more suggestions? Comment away, commenting mofos!

Sorry, I keep updating this post with new stuff as I remember. Technically, I should be adding them in the comments myself, but it’s my site and I’ll do as I please…)