A “chain-blog” from my buddy Gordo:
List five songs that you are currently digging – it doesn’t matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying right now. Post these instructions and the five songs (with artist) in your blog. Then tag five people to see what they’re listening to:
The Shins – “Gone for Good” (aka “A Call to Apathy”): Although it is close to 2 years old, Chutes too Narrow has really been growing on me for the last month or so, and this is easily my fav. track. I love the choral refrain: “I find a fatal flaw, with the logic of love, and go out of my head…”.
Marah – “Walt Whitman Bridge”: This isn’t technically released until October 18, but I was able to score and advance through some industry contacts. I’m still not really sure about If You Didn’t Laugh, You’d Cry as an album, but I do know that WWB shows why I came to love Marah in the first place — just awesome, infectuous rock n roll that harkens back to the Kids In Philly days.
Bloc Party – “Like Eating Glass”: The opening track to the hit or miss Silent Alarm. Man this song is so damn catchy!
Mountain Goats – “You or Your Memory”: A weird band and a weird song, but it just draws me in every time. “St. Joseph’s Baby Asprin, Bartles & James, and you, or your memory…”
2 for 1 – Commerical Songs: “Easy” by Faith No More. It’s strange that these hardcore rockers would cover Lionel Ritchie, but I dig both the Levi’s commercial it resides in and the tune. Also really liking Madeleine Peyroux’s “Don’t Wait Too Long”, currently featured in a Dockers commercial — just a beautiful voice.
Also meriting consideration: The Killers “Mr. Brightside”, Stevie Wonder “For Once in My Life”, Death Cab for Cutie “Soul Meets Body”, Joe Purdy “Wash Away”, anything by Jack Johnson.
Since most of my friends don’t blog, I tag you if you are reading this and are not one of the originators. Feel free to post in the comments section below. Also, link back to Gordo, Wisdom, and K-Mac for their lists.
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5 responses to “5 Songs”
i’m a friend of mike’s & don’t have a blog but love the idea:
1. Bloc Party – Blue Light (Engineers Anti Gravity Mix). Off of the Silent Alarm remixes, this version is one i like better than the original. The ambient mood seems to suit the lyrics just fine. Some of the remixes of the harder rocking songs, such as “Like Eating Glass”, don’t work as well.
2. Cursive – The Matyr. A cool guitar driven track with nice stop-start timing. Its a few years old but this band sounds somewhat unique to me so I go back to them often.
3. Deep Dish – Dreams. A remix of the Stevie Nicks song found on Deep Dish’s latest George is On. Unfortunately its only one of the handful of tracks worth listening to.
4. Donovan – Catch the Wind. I recently watched “Don’t Look Back” again in anticipation of the new Dylan documentary from Scorsese. In addition to Dylan’s own perfomances, Donovan does a great rendition of one of his acoustic tunes “To Sing for You” in a hotel room w/ Dylan. “Catch the Wind” is from the same album as “To Sing for You” and very reminiscent of early Dylan in guitar styling and vocal approach. Of course, this one’s from the recent Volvo commercials.
5. 764 Hero – Without Fire. Fans of Built to Spill / Modest Mouse type stuff will probably like this band.
I almost put “Catch the Wind” on there as well. Great tune.
I’m poking around your blog, and I like a some of what I see, but there are so many dead links I have to wonder how much more I could see…
My 5 songs… Roam – B-52s, Monkey Wrench – Foo Fighters, Sucker Train Blues – Velvet Revolver, Safe European Home – The Clash, Terrapin Station – Dead
Im feeling THE SHINS
im feelin the brazilian mraca thing