"Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin..."
Thursday, March 13, 2008

"...but a bottle of gin is not like love," as The Magnetic Fields sang.

So, for the Song Chart group, I made this:



But then after a while it struck me that here both love and gin are equally dissimilar from one another, which doesn't seem in the spirit of the song, so I think this second attempt is more accurate:



Anyway, you can listen:

The Magnetic Fields: Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin (MP3, 1.7MB)

Labels: chart, graph, love is like a bottle of gin, magnetic fields, mp3, music

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Home on the range
Sunday, September 02, 2007

I'm kicking back at the family crib, and hence listening to:

Bobby Malone, Please Come Home (MP3) - Casiotone for The Painfully Alone This is the definitive tune then, all about scuttling back home after an abortive scrap with the big wide world, tail between your legs. Muted robot drums, echo-y old piano, and "a couple of months on the couch, while you figure things out." CFTPA's material is almost purely dedicated to failure, disappointment, youthful folly and the sharp sting of defeat - your enjoyment depends, as one review puts it, "on how interested you are in the tales of sad-sack twentysomethings." It won't surprise you to know that I keep it on heavy rotation then. (While you're at it, enjoy Young Shields (MP3) and New Year's Kiss (MP3).)



Homecoming (live?) (MP3) - Kanye West ft. Chris Martin / From the forthcoming Graduation album. That's some bouncy fucking shit, right there. What this song makes abundantly clear to me is that I should really have tried harder as a kid to establish this sort of relationship, which would probably make returning to suburban Hampshire a little more tolerable. Although I did use to chill with this girl when I was 3 years old, but the last I heard she was an anorexic ice-skater.



Homecoming (MP3) - The Teenagers / No relation to the above, this is the hilarious, sweary tale of a mercifully brief transatlantic romance. Don't forget to send me a friend request! Ha-ha-bloody-ha. Remixed to within an inch of its life elsewhere online.



To Go Home (MP3) - M Ward / Fantastic, joyous, and stompy. "God, it's great to be alive, takes the skin right off my hide, to think I'll have to give it all up someday..."



Home Altars of Mexico (MP3) - Art Brut / A cute little b-side from the Good Weekend single about clutter, mementos, and stuff - "I've got so many things left over, I don't know where they should go - it's not a mess, it's personal! Like the home altars of Mexico..." I, on the other hand, am on a mission to pare stuff down, having thrown away most of my belongings when I moved.



In This Home On Ice (MP3) - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah / THIS IS A BONUS TRACK AND HENCE REQUIRES NO INTRODUCTION (Read: I can't be bothered to write an introduction)

Labels: art brut, casiotone for the painfully alone, clap your hands say yeah, home, kanye west, m ward, mp3, music, the teenagers

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There's damage, but at least you're alive
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Weekly tuneage. Listen and love, my friends.



Crashlander by Adem (from the album Love and Other Planets) is the dense blackness of falling asleep after an ordeal, like the girl on the helicopter flying away from Jurassic Park; the sense of what's done is done, well captured by the word strikhedonia, which refers to the pleasure of saying "to hell with it."



Drinking With You by Jonathon Coulton (from his extensive oeuvre) is an ever so charming ditty taken from this lovely video. Also recommended from JoCo's awesome musical treasure chest is I Feel Fantastic (free download) all about the not-so-subtle charms of mood-altering prescription drugs.

Labels: adem, crashlander, diazepam, drinking with you, jonathan coulton, mp3, music, zombies

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