unpiano: music

Smiths covers are sort of tricky. There are so many bad ones out there that when a good one comes along, sometimes you can’t be sure. To be fair, both of these songs will never hold a candle to their originals.. but that’s what makes them good. They can be appreciated as a totally different song. Pretend that you never heard the Smiths versions and give them a shot. Also, Mark Ronson’s track segways to one of my favorite Supremes songs.. so that gets extra credit.

Mark Ronson - Stop Me

Burnto Bertolucci - Bake Me Dome Tonight

This isn’t really from the “new” TV on the Radio album anymore, but then again I still can’t buy it on vinyl so maybe it’s up in the air. Regardless, I’m sick of playing this one song from my ipod everytime I dj something. You can buy the import for like $50, but it might just be cheaper to buy one next time I’m in New York. Someone in Brooklyn must know where to get one cheap. By the way, this song is rad and make people dance like crazy.

TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me

Dramarama were an old band from the 80’s that broke up and then reunited in 2003 after being on VH1.. gross. Bands need to stay dead when they die. Anyway, despite all that and frontman John Easdale seeming like a total douchebag, that song ‘Anything, Anything’ continues to be awesome. I really like songs about desperation and this one takes the cake. It’s just so sad..

Dramarama - Anything, Anything (I’ll Give You)

Some ‘oldie but goodie’ tracks from Crime in Choir. I failed math almost every year in school, but I love math rock. That’s not irony, but I think it’s something along those lines. This album was released by Omnibus Records, who put out good quality stuff all the time.

Crime in Choir - A Girl Named Jesus
Crime in Choir - Come Here, Raider

God I fucking love dance music. I don’t know how I ended up in this indie rock hell where everyone is scared of dancing (I think they’re called pussies). I admit that I may be too shy to get down right off the bat, but give me a good enough record or like three beers and I’ll bust out moves from when I was 16. Anyways, here are some songs that have had me feeling like I was back in those days.

MstrKrft - She’s Good For Business
Le Tigre - Deceptacon (DFA Remix)
CSS - Let’s Make Love.. (Spank Rock Remix)
Dj Ayres - La Da Dee (Rough Mixdown)
Breakbot - Chelsea Inn

I was playing Make Up in my car the other day and the person riding with me was super psyched because he hadn’t heard them in years. Then it dawned on me that they kind of slipped out of my head for a minute as well. Anywho, this album was amazing and Make Up rock (even if Ian Svenonius wants to be Prince really bad). He hosts a tv show now on VBS by the way.

Make Up - Walking on the Dune
Make Up - Grey Motorcycle
Make Up - Hey! Orpheus

The new Deerhunter album is pretty weird. I don’t really get too much into the whole Animal Collective, ambient, organic stuff so the majority of the album didn’t do so much for me. Fortunately, they hid this gem at the end, making it worth the purchase (I mean download). The album Cryptograms comes out sometime this month I think.

Deerhunter - Heatherwood

Some new’ish’ remixes I pulled from the Girl Talk myspace page. The first is a remix of ‘Let’s Call it Off’ by Peter, Bjorn and John.. um, yeah.. Amazing. The second is a remix of a track by The Knife that he basically just chops up in a mash-up steez. Girl Talks pretty much can’t fuck up right now.

Girl Talk - Let’s Call it Off (Peter, Bjorn and John remix)
Girl Talk - The Knife (remix)

Apparently Lupe Fiasco is part of the ’skateboard rap” movement, whatever the fuck that means. I think that’s supposed to imply that white people can relate to it and maybe not feel weird about blasting it from their cars (like they do with Clipse or some other thugged out shit). I think I’m late on talking about him anyway, so maybe people are over it. Regardless, Lupe spits crazy. Check out this rhyme from ‘I Gotcha’: “My Ivorys and my Doves, my Leavers and my Zests’, this takes half of your bubble bath to match the freshness”. Sick.

Lupe Fiasco - I Gotcha
Lupe Fiasco - Daydreamin’
Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push

Some singers bore the fuck out of me and I end up couting the seconds until they stop. Emily Haines on the other hand, sings in a way that I don’t hear that often, and most times I can just listen to her sing song after song and not get bored. I think they call that a siren (as in evil singing women). Anyways, she has sung with Broken Social Scene, with her full-time band Metric and sometimes with her other band Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton. She keeps busy.

Emily Haines - Our Hell
Metric - Empty