Song of the Week 4

Tis the weekend for Christmas parties.

How about a Christmas song this week that EVERYONE needs to own? Here's one of the songs featured in everyone's favorite holiday special A Charlie Brown Christmas. Coincidentally, you can download the entire album at eMusic. So, if you don't already have it, its an excellent collection of Christmas oriented jazz songs. Plus, it might even store up a few memories along the way.

Vince Guaraldi - Christmas Time is Here

Also, The Leather Canary seems to have put together a couple Christmas mixes (they're currently up to five at the moment). You can download individual tracks or the entire mix in the form of a zip file. There's some real gems on there.

Finally, in the spirit of the holiday's, I'm going to include one more Christmas track in this weeks Song of the Week. Its another one my favorites.

Phil Ochs - No Chrismas in Kentucky

Enjoy.

RR

Song of the Week 3

Man, its been one of those weeks...ya know? One of those weeks where on Tuesday you're like, "Oh my God, I can't believe its only Tuesday!!", then on Thursday you're like, "Holy crap, its already Thursday??" And you feel like you didn't get anything done.

Neither is ever a good feeling, but when they both happen in the same week it sucks even more. So, when stuck in a situation like this I like to do one of two things....rent and watch a funny movie (i finally saw Superbad this week) or listen to a loud song very, very loud and attempt to do permanent damage to my ear drums. That usually makes me feel better for a few minutes.

So, that's what we'll do with this week's Song of the Week. Here's The Black Keys performing "10 a.m. Automatic" live at the Cannery Ballroom in Nashville. No more explanation. Just turn the shit up and rock out for the next three minutes and four seconds.

The Black Keys - 10 a.m. Automatic

Feels a little better doesn't it???

RR

Song of the Week 2

Back with my second Song of the Week here....doesn't even feel like its been a whole week, though....but the calendar doesn't lie.

So, I listen to my ipod all day at work. Constantly. On mostdays, it is what helps maintain my sanity in the lab. Well, for the past three or four days, you would think its filled with 4 GB of nothing but Modest Mouse, which is most certainly not the case. I know good and well the things on shuffle, but damn ipod.....mix it up a little. I mean, i like modest mouse just as much as the next guy, if not a little more....but shuffle means random. And I suppose playing an overload of Modest Mouse is just as random as occasionally playing it, or not at all....but still....

With that in mind, it only seems fitting to make a MM song the Song of the Week. Congrats mice. Instead of choosing something from the newest album though, how abouts I go back just a little further. I'm going to choose the first song that really made me realize I liked Modest Mouse, "Gravity Rides Everything". This is from their third album, The Moon & Antarctica, which came out back in 2000. Who knows where I first heard it....probably on some stupid commercial or something the way things seem to go these days....i don't remember.

Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything

So, if you already like the song, awesome. Try to give it an extra listen this week. If you haven't heard it, give it a listen. Its easily one of my favorites.

Holla

RR

Song of the Week 1

In lieu of kgb v2.0's First Birthday coming up this friday (Nov. 23, i believe) I'd like to start a new segment here. Each week, for what I hope to be the entire next year I'm going to post my Song of the Week. I suppose this will likely proceed like what once was Kendall's Six Pack.....except I'm only posting one and it'll only be up for a week (assuming I remember to take the others down). They will not be topical in any particular sense (meaning this weeks song will NOT be about Thanksgiving). Just a song I want to post, but for no other good reason than its a good song, and I've been listening to it a lot recently. And hopefully, by this point next year it'll be fun to go back and look at the years worth of songs.......maybe. We'll see.

There are a lot of good single tracks out there, which I can never find enough to say about to devote an entire post to, so hopefully this alleviates this problem and finds itself a worthwhile complement to my other posts as well as those of my fellow bloggers. So, with that said, let's get to it....kicking this "year" off:

Ryan Adams - Dear Chicago

Dear Chicago,

Your NL baseball team sucks.
Love, Ryan

So, you know how you've got all these songs you love, but for whatever reason you sometimes forget about some of them? Then, almost accidentally, you stumble upon these songs again and re-fall in love with them? Well, for me that song is "Dear Chicago" by Ryan Adams, and that stumbling occurred yesterday. Sifting around through some Ryan Adams lyrics I rediscovered this Demolition song, which I would've considered one of my Top 5 songs back in college. But, for whatever reason, I just stopped listening to it (the entire CD to be exact). Maybe its because there are certainly better Adams albums than Demolition, maybe not. Who knows?

Adams reverberating guitar strumming in the background of his letter to his ex-lover (I suppose) has always been one of my faves and i'm glad its back in my rotation.

[Buy some of Ryan Adams 1,532 CDs, including Demolition, here]

Everyone have a Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow and in case I forget to post (as a result of a Thanksgiving induced coma, possibly).....Happy 1st Birthday kgb v2.0.

RR