my favourite albums of the decade

truthfully i don't know how ppl can really do this at all or atleast when they say "the" best albums of a decade. that statemnet encompasses something i and my pockets could never fathom over the years.
but i can definitely live with listing my favourite albums for the decade that i listened to, most that i remember skipping lunch and collecting single dollar bills in one large roll that would thud when it was time to give it away in place of music packages in the mail .

My favourite albums of the decade:































1.
Merryweather Post Pavillion
Animal Collective

is it hearing these songs live? it's definitely that, that just makes the album priceless for me; flooding tons of memories, sounds smells, and experiences. no group of songs have touched me more, allowed me to make new dancing friends, inspire me to actually go to different cities by myself, make my eyes go wide and scared from seeing open drugs users, and watching a lil avey tare jump around like a crazy mischievious pan. OH AND DUDE GET A FREE VIP PASS AND SEE PANDA BEAR JAM UP CLOSE. all these spectacular things is on the basis of these being really amazing songs making an unbelievable album!

2
fevors and mirror
bright eyes

when i first picked up this album i just felt a turning of events, the cd in my hand was going to be a ticket to a new style of music (to me) that i can definitely feel cool about knowing. not a second later i would be stopped by a '01 hipster couple the guy stopping telling me " that will be the best album you ever listened to it's so good, get it" and get it i did. i can remember so many moments croaking and belting out "haligh haligh a lie haligh" in shopping marts, my backyards in the summer. or sitting on my rooftop wondering who arrienette is and the deeper meanings behind the repetition of clocks calanders mirrors and scales. it was just the best stuff to listen to as a teenager.

3
slgtm s/t
Saturday looks good to me

haha oh saturday looks good to me. i was in west orange HS the worst HS ever. it seemingly came straight out of the movies with cliques and each person being catgorized into a certain group and those groups sticking to themselves. i didn't understand it at all, spending my last couple of years in good ol S.O.M.A. (south orange / maplewood) where most of us were brooklyn natives or hatian natives and we all just blurred into a group of kids that all talked and knew eachother. where maybe the only different groups were two: popular or not popular and those even blended and mingled. anyways one good thing did come from WOHS the kids were more devoted to their music listening and introduced me to saturday looks good to me (not purposely). there was a clique that i just named the Saves the day crew. they were FREAKING CRAZY they wore their patches all over the place and sang their songs down the hall, like every alternative kid was part of this clique. alternative meant you loved saves the day. except me, i wasn't in my stage of killing flies with honey yet and was like "saves the day freaking sux bright eyes is so much better, UGH!" yet somehow i made friends with one of the kids. one day after being very excited of the practically school trip to pa to see saves the day he showed me all the treats he bought. one was of a band that he said was good enough live that he bought the album but they sucked on album. he let me have it, oh thanks haha, but dude i had no idea what a gift he gave me! it was filled with lo fi amazingness and girl boy call and responses. it was dreamy and simply fantastic. it was a fitting escape from the hallways walking down the wooden baracks and maze of a school that was awful W.O.H.S.

4
republic of two
nedelle

OH NEDELLE! PLEASE COME BACK AND MAKE A NEW ALBUM! this album was the soundtrack to my only on again off again (somewhat) relationship (or just friends as he may say). anyways i think magic happens whenever this album is put on, something happens with the weather and my heart and thoughts and they all meld together, and i end up singing and crying in sorrow and happiness. once i put it on after aforemention boy called me while he was away for school or africa or NC or something and a crazy snow storm started. outside was just sheets of fluttering white flakes and grayness it was beautiful. just as the storm was seemingly at its worst and that winter was going to have a longer stay that year THE SUN BURSTS out! the layers of snow all melt and the trees and streets become bare again, water dripping from everything that it sounds and looks like a sunshower. and all this happens during this lovely sad jazz like album which is all but 30 minutes. seeeeeeee MAGIC!

5
wild like children
tilly and the wall

CUZ I KNOW IN MY HEART I WILL NEVER LET YOU TUMBLE TO THE GROUND!

the songs to this album are the songs i heard to the first show i ever went to, which probably was the best and purest of fun shows i ever went to in my life. i don't know it's so perfect i don't even have words for the albums greatness, just memories. like whenever i hear reckless i think about at the bright eyes show and stomping to it with one of the best ppl in the world. and jamies face lighting up when i did my shocking bit. and shaking it out to shake it out. the ice storm big gust and you, my friend getting excited when he saw ppl jumping on stage and him literally pushing me up to dance on the stage at bowery like FTW?! dude they were the best for me ever back then and this album triumphed over everything and just broguht smiles

6 .
my mothers hand (album sleeve is from "handsom danny", couldn't find "my mothers hand")
ben + bruno

never been much for folk music but this album is just too much. it's too much for my heart with its beauty sometimes. ben and bruno is about a guy named ben and his dog bruno and the events that occur in their life: being abducted by a religious fanatic, getting a divorce, loving his daughters, being cheated on, being taken away by flocks of blue birds, watching his wife give birth, and when his death comes. though i shouldn't put it that way cuz it not chronological, so one song will be about his 100 grim reapers and the next will be about him telling his daughter what to do about friend problems, though neither of those are in my mothers hand. for my mother hands there are simple angelic folk songs that just melt my heart, so much prettines that just comes from a strike at a (probably toy) xylophone (it was light) and simple chords but with such touching lyrics (o sweet lung). i just don't know how it's not in everyones ipod in the fall winter spring and summer.

7
a new chance
the tough alliance

AYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

just so much glee comes to me when i listen to these two swedes songs. it just makes me think of a bunch of cute scrappy reckless swedish boys in gangs swinging baseball bats at eachother and robbing and looting and wearing masks over their faces, and then all convening together at night in a basement converting their energy of rumpous acts to dancing crazily around with eachother with their two fellow brethren THE TOUGH ALLIANCE, makes me want to be a swedish boy. oh yeah it also makes me think that all their songs are to eachother and about their amazing bromance, sharing motorcycle rides together and sleeping in bed together and letting one slip their hand in the others pants while sleeping cuz they miss their girlfriend and they're asleep and they're just like "oh jeez are you missing your girlfriend again, get your hands out my pants, wake up, i'm not her!"

8
I heard the angels sing
fred thomas

dude this album shattered me when i got it. just shattered me. the songs are so strong but delicate at the same time. they were so delicate with feeling and missed loves and sometimes just saying oh well but then saying you can't hide all the sadness with others kisses or bottles of wines or scattered records that you relate to in the summer, cuz that one, oh that one, will always be there.

9
psychic chasms
neon indian

everyone i get a chance to, i make them listen to deadbeat summer. "oh yeah you're sick? that's awful! yo but speaking of sick... listen to this SICK song by neon indian". ok i know this choice might be rash and yes he is a newcomer, and like the album just came out a month or two ago. but dude this is SUMMER, this is my favourite season. this is what i wait for all year around. this is what i want to hear and feel like on those hot sunny days that melt together with the break of some air to breath when the sun goes down. with too many boys on the mind that they're all fuzzy, and you can't make them out for the life of you. the feeling of hot slow sticky happiness that if you look a lil deeper and form some lines on the nebulous clouds that there's probably a slight unhappiness or mornful feeling to it. but no matter cuz on the grander scale it's amazing/confusing and hot and you feel good and want to drunkinly dance and drop it down in time to the beat.

10
gorillaz S/T
gorrilaz

You remember freshmen year you remember when the box was canceled and mtv2 came on instead? i do it was when i was introduced to gorillaz. this album is just a medley of so many genres and backgrounds of music. but it was still always gorrilaz. it was ingenious i loved it, plus they were cartoons that i thought were cute. like word i wanted 2-D's 2D baby.

11
read music / speak spanish
desaparecidos

i still can't pernounce their name correctly! and i like it that way. closest i've ever got to music with a cause. god knows though i didn't care at all about the message, conor oberst just made it sound so good and powerful to sing along to!

12
deep geems
glass candy

this is what i want my dance music to sound like!

13
good evening
nite jewel

another newcomer that i just can't help but add. she was the first i remember ever hearing with that glo-fi sound thats so popular this year that i'm so excited about. anyway her album i only have on record, no cd or ipod and i don't think i'd have it any other way. pretty much only being able to listen to it when i'm about to go to bed. i love this being the sound track to my sleep, like tripping on cough syrup, certain that it's slowing down these beats. but you remember "no i don't even have cough syrup in my system" and then you're happy cuz someone is smart enough to know sometimes you have to slow it down and chop it up.

14
euphemystic
son ambulance

this album was such a favourite in my teens. i would go out for drives with my parents and when we'd finally get to the destination i would stay in the car just so i could play this album and listen to it in good stereo sound. unfortunately one day my sister ruined it for me right during my favourite song "violet" and confessing awfulness to me. i just remember both of us in a home depot parking lot in the back seat both crying our eyes out like we were 1 and 3 again it was very sad with violet developing and crashing in cresendos matching precisely with our conversations exasperation. haven't really been able to listen to that album again since. it was just too much for my innocent 16 yr old heart.

15
nite drive
chromatics

i always dream of this perfect ideal atmosphere for after hours dancing. when you're actually dancing with your partner and not just some random boy trying to grind on you (ewwwww) and it's dark with slightly glowing lights. and everyone around you seems really tired and probably just getting off a high and if they were normal and if you were normal and if your partner were normal you would all be home sleeping or feeling eachother. but you're not normal and everytime you wipe the sweat off your face you find a slight glittering glow now smeared on your hands that frightens you till you remember that you rubbed florescent glitter all over your face and now its smeared on your partners cheeks and shoulders and neck. and then theres this music playing, this pervasive, slightly throbbing music that somehow has become background music and though you had forgot about it mentally you know it was what was carrying and moving your body all this time. and it stops all of a sudden and just when you feel your body is going to give out you see the producer hunch over and play the rythmic blitzed keys and a voice coolly coo and your partner smiles and lifts you and spins you around and you're ready to dance some more, glitter and all. with this album i have atleast found that pervasive music in the background.

16
3/07 - 9/07
high places

have you ever heard such lovely drifting tropical songs in your life?! but still with a pounding beat that drops you right back to the earth, but then enough lightness to carry you back up?

17
night falls on kortdella
jens lekman

i fear i will never see this man play live... EVER

18
transient
david dondero

i once actually compared him to bright eyes, at the height of my bright eyes craze

19
person pitch
panda bear

it was one of those cds that i just didn't get at all when it first came out besides just one song. but it has really grown on me quietly and passively. (i'm kind of wondering why it's so high up on my list, just something about it makes me want to put it above the ones below)

20
tout gache tout perdu (ruined everything lost everything)

francois virot

this album is so beautiful and tender. just a few hand claps and taps at guitar but it's one of the lushest albums to ever hit my ears. the songs are pretty timeless to me. i would just spend my dreary train rides back home from school listening to this and feeling better even though it was raining and leaves were falling, and my mind didn't want to stop thinking of awful boiled eggs. but the songs of francois virot took that away for a lovely sing along for two (my ipod and i).

21
faces down
sondre lerche

22
dear catastrophe waitress
belle and sebastian

23
rise above
dirty projectors

24
wavvves
wavves

25
ugly organ
cursive

26
danse macabre
the faint

27
where the humans eat
willy mason

28
september girl
kelly jean caldwell

29
mvp
nat baldwin

30
smoke
white williams

31
boy life
lo-fi fnk

32
nutones
nomo

33
relationship of command

at the drive-in

34
black out
the good life

35
weirdo rippers
no age

36
alphabetical
pheonix

37
forever heavy
black moth super rainbow

38
sing out america
decibully

39
a place where we can go
jeremy jay

40
who will cut our hair when we're gone
the unicorns

though it'd not in top twenty i still have to write about this album:

it was a dark and gloomy night on halloween. i was forgotten by parents and was sitting outside my job hopeless with no cellphone at the time and way to scared to ask any passing cars for a ride on the night that it was. 1 am finally came and i lost all hope of my parents remembering me at all. so i mustered up my courage and began my track from route 10 to the woods and mountaineous reservations of new jersey. i almost fell down a cliff, my lil ballerina flats fell apart, my messanger bag broke, i had to squat in the open to pee (and of course got some on my pants) with no tissue, walked a mile the wrong way, met eye to eye with glowing green eyes, and then worst of all my cd players batteries died in the middle of the trip! but before the cd player died carrying me through half my journey was this album. don't know why cuz its so spooky to listen to! thank god for those drunken teenagers coming from their halloween party that gave me a ride. finally got home at 6.

dude also i had a pretty crazy experience recently, where i was like "when did stuff like this started happening to me?" i just totally shared drinks with one of the dudes from the unicorns thanks to a friend who invited me to come. it was kind of hilarious and he was a funny mischevious instigator now that i think about it.

41

bring it back
mates of state

tonight Beach Fossils

they played the night that my animal collective extravaganza had occurred but don't plan to miss them again. the songs that i've heard i really like. and for some reason the voice reverb or whatever that they use seems more poignant and nice then the rest lat usually use it and just give off the effect to purposely sound hazzzy and garbley
yay and it's at the cameo

Do you love ANIMAL COLLECTIVE?! I DO TOO!!!

so because of my love i went to see both nights at the bandshell. both were amaing, though one was excedingly spectacular. it was also emotionally charged so blue egauls neutral or music and black means emotional that you may want to skip reading if you're not me haha

day 1
August 14, friday

i met up with my lovely lil friend which was great because before hand my happiness was dashed to peices the night before and the following morning. somehow i had a giant falling out through text messages with a friend after hangin out with them. this left me pacing around my room all day and biting my lip reciting absentmintedly "all is ok you're gonna see animal collective and have a blast. agh but how can i be happy knowing a friendship has come to this? ah whatever he's an idiot. stupid stupid stupid". but i finally managed to put on my dress and go and then talk to my lil wise friend who always helps me in these situations. so we left her house with my head a bit cooled off. we got to the bandshell and the line was tremendous! Tremendous! but reached the end. i heard "what did he say" playing and was like "oh my god is that nite jewel? is that her sound checking?! don't tell me she's opening! it can't be, that's just the house dj right?!" of course it was the latter. shortly after they let us in. i had no idea that the bandshell area was such a monstrosity, it felt like an arena to me and i couldn't imagine the place actually being sold out to fill compacity (ofcourse i was wrong). this time around after my crazy stint of having to be upfront and crazy for all their past shows i opted to play it cool this time. my friend knowing i'm crazy offered for us to make it to the front, and i was like "nah lets just sit oh the uphill field i bought BLANKETS!" i was so chill, and i could tell she really appreciated it. i swear after screaming thank you thank you when they started playing chocolate girl as the first song at terminal as if it were for me, i wanted to keep as much distance as being sited as the crazy animal collective girl. we got some jambalya (amazing) and jammed through the set of dam funk, though somehow we thought his name was dj EZ but liked calling him dj FEEL GOOD way better. he had the whole thing feeling like a back yard BB-Q and he was the dj your uncle hired with free food and bear as his pay, ofcourse on a much larger scale though. then it was black dice. i suppose we turned into those sniggering girls that music boys think are real idiots and that we only came cuz we love panda pear and my girls. sorry. but we couldn't help but to crack a few jokes on them just cuz of the scale of the show and the obscurity of the band. we figured that this definitely had to be a case of the emperors new clothes in order for ppl to show exasperated emotional movement to it, or just really F'ed up on something. we also wondered how the whole writing process goes cuz it sounded so improved. i know the very idea of sample music means it can't be totally improvised cuz they have to have preconcieved ideas of what sounds they planned to load to use for the show. maybe that's an appeal about sammple music the sound of improve and freeform that it gives although it is way preconcieved and technical. but alas i'm not a musician nor sampler so have no idea. i haven't seen them since north six when they opened for animal collective, but they were a completely different band then from what i saw now. they were packed with latest artillery of sample machines. but i have to admit they still had the same energy. i then admitted to my friend that i did have a album of theres and i was really into eric copelands album and had seen him before at DBA. i suppose just like all other genres of music each group and their product isn't for everyone, and black dice just isn't for me. i then decided that there wasn't much difference musically from black dice and animal collective and the appeal of animal collective is that there is singing that you can atleast make sense of and relate to plus the composition of their songs has some normal song structure to it like choruses and then rise and falls, black dice is just all over tha place.
finally animal collective came on. i couldn't see a thing and wish i had brought my glasses very bladly. avey tare entered and that was my cue to stand up and be ready to dance! and they started with what whould i want sky which was an interesting opener slow and drowny kind of reminded me of the days when they would open with the dancer. then i think they did who could win a rabbit which is so amazing live and infectious. i realized during the show which i didn't mention before they had this extravagant set which look like from a school play. so durring there whole set the diagrama would move and change which was pretty neat. it was weird my friend and i were the only ones dancing through the thing even she had to sit down during the spaced out part of daily routine. which had started with chores i think right? which i flipped on! i hadn't heard chores since their webster shows! but word no one got up to dance except for during my girls and bro sport, and aye was bro sport just an explosion of sounds and movements for me, i kept worrying that i was going to step on our neigbors bears and trying my best not to be an annoying girl while still having fun. i swore at one point i thought i heard samples of peacebone but i was wrong :/ but the highlight was definitely guys eyes. guys eyes always hits home for me. it's the song that they played during SSS that made me think twice about this band and realize that they are now my new love of music, it's that sound. when i first heard it sound like an implosion like the sound would explode out but then sucked back in. anyways i teared and then stomped all over my area to that song till my necklace broke. i laughed in shock threw on my blanket and continued jumping and stomping. i really love that band they're so good.

day 2
August 15, Saturday

day 2 was substantially better in soooooooo many ways. well first the day started out way bad for me. the stages i were in yesterday were enraged, crazed, and then it all just seemed funny to me. but this morning i woke up and was just soo sad and kept reading the three messages that my newly estranged friend wrote me during the show the day before. thank god for my lil wise amie she somehow managed to keep me from writing him back. but now with no help noon or something stroke and i called and left a message offering to explain, and got heat stroke on my stoop. wondered the streets of new york looking for ganapas and finding boys juggling that made me even more melancholy. finally found some ganapas and hit the subway to head over to the bandshell. i came later this time so it was nice and cool and turning dark. this time i was planning just to sit outside the bandshell and listen (not so much watch) this time for free. found a spot on a hill infact where the hill i sat at within the park the day before but on the otherside of the barricade. pretty prime spot as you can get for free. took out my book layed out my scarf and ate my ganapas. low and behold a figure comes and hovers over me. it's my estranged friend. i was pretty happy i told myself if they were a good friend they would try to find me hear to talk. ofcourse we didn't talked we ate ganapas and shared beers and then danced to animal collective when they started. and oh how they did start!!!! they started out with GRACE. and i flipped my lid i couldn't believe it and then plan flut. all i could was squeak and then jump around to pan flute. then it was like leaf house or something, a good song that i really liked and then #1 i think. my estranged friend was like "what what happened" and i said "NUMBER ONE I CAN'T" believe this. then song for ariel played and it was amazing the sounds just so amazing i told him how i had broke my necklace yesterday and he said that sounds highly unlikely and i got really soar over the fact that he didn't believe in my bodies devoutness to loosing it's ish when they play. then my girls began, which sad to say got me really giddy cuz i knew my friend really liked the song, so i told him to be panda and i'll be avey as we always do. it was so joyous. i dance like a lil fool. so much so that a man came up to me and was like: "i have a vip ticket, but i can't go in cuz my friend has a dog. but you can have the vip ticket and enjoy the show right up front!"
AYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! so after finishing the duet to my girls i ran through fireworks to make my way to the entrance. ofcourse when getting there realized that i hadn't made ammends at all, so we did and i even gave him my ganapas and said so long sadly. but as soon as i turned towards the gates i sprinted with the knowledge of vip access on my wrist. i skipped through the gaurds with such a big smile they even smiled and went straight to the front of vip the way it was set up i could see panda bear wailing at the drums for once during fireworks, a bit prolific, but sad i could barely see avey. but i danced and dance which was kind of funny cuz non of the vipp ppl were dancing to pay that amount on tickets and to just sit back like your in a cafe? i could never. but they were all nice enough to say i moved beautifully hahahahaha (i always thought it was cracked out, but ok beautiful). it was just stunning. bro sport just put me in a rapture till my head hurt. i even got to go to their dj after party for free (with vip wrist band) and met avey tare. it was a beautiful night.

Steely Dan / Toro Y Moi

i saw steely dan tonight... last night... whatever. i finally saw them, it was about 10 years too late though from the hight of my love for them. it was aja in it's entirety which is very fortunate of me cuz it's the only ablum that i know and love, by the time my parents bought a cd version of gaucho i was out of my stage of listening to what they do and raging to blink 182. it was my first seated concert too, which has it's plus' and minus'. i think as i get older the plus will become more advantageous as i become less and less of a dancer. i hope i end up like the cute lil 60 year old lady today dancing in the balcony with her lil short hair cut, that would be cute to be a cute old lady. though i enjoyed the concert thuroughly it was kind of said cuz it almost exactly like listening to the cd in my room. they sounded exactly like their recordings, so i was just glad that i didn't pay for my ticket (yikes). wish they played ricky don't loose that number.
Note: when i was lil i would sit and look at that album cover to try and figure out what in the world was going on in it, i still can't figure out as much as could back then, which i imagine is a lady in a komono but what direction is it wrapped so confusing.



oh guess what toro y moi is playing tomorrow at the cake shop, i'm going! hopefully it's like 5 bux (it's 7). never was aware that cake shop had a two drink for one special before 8 that's actually pretty appealing. but yeah so i'm going. must remember that he plays at 8:30 and cake shop is only fashionably late with their shows
Note: that like volume high volume low switch thing that he does with his songs kind of hurts my ears but still so good

Nedelle Nedelle, where are you Nedelle?

Nedelle i need new fresh songs about heartbreaks from boys. all your other songs i associate too well with past boys.
p.s. i should've went to see Cryptacize last friday instead of Lucky Dragons, for shame

Did you go to NorthSide festival?...No, oh well good for you!

cuz i did, and i must say it was pretty lame. i don't know if it was due to my own fault, or what. but man oh man. somehow it was just a big lame hassle trying to see everyone i brought my 40 dollar badge to see. i'm not sure if it was like this for the whole festival or just for me. but yeah i would get to a show and find out the artist either canceled (FRANCOIS VIROT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH THE HORROR), was a no show (marnie stern) and they wouldn't even let me in with my badge to see majik markers after that crazy trek, it was another brooklyn band with the same name (Discovery), i was just completely retarded and as usual confused excepter for ecstatic sunshine (why do i always do that?), their band members were like two hours late and even though i saw them coming it was like 2:30 in the morning and i had to wake up to go to TILDEN BEACH the next day (Kurt Vile), or no one came to dance at their dance party, with a very empty dance floor as a result (jonothan toubin ny night train). so yeah that was my gist of the northside festival, i would like to say that i remembered the bands that i did see and that i cared, but the festival was mostly made up of obscure local bands so if the ones that you particularly know didn't show up the whole thing was a bust. i felt like i paid 40 dollars to walk around williamsburg in the mist and rain. oh WAIT FRIDAY!!!!!!!!! friday was a decent day
i went to death by audio got some free icecream and saw like three acts, one was with cute guys playing rock n roll, the other i don't remember, and then this girl whom i forget though i've been meaning to see her play. she was decent but i was tired and anticipating the show to come at glasslands (and being sent crazy text messages about how i have awesome taste in music hahaha). for glasslands i went to see that group crap, what's their names, they're part of that ever growing mgmt circle ahhhh Acrylics, they were ok, just remember not exactly what was going on. nothing on stage or coming from it seem to link together or was in context with eachother perhaps it was due to exhaustion. i got to get a free D + T magazine with a feature on grizzly bear. i guess to be fair there was saturday too though it was highly dimmed by the Kurt Vile incident, seeing the new version of the Muggabears (Grooms) was very exciting for me even though i liked the MBs wistful slow reverb style the grooms punk sound was very welcomed as well, then their were Woods, they were ok. it was my second time seeing them, it's hard for me to get excited over this new crop of brooklyn bands, they're just so eh to me. but hey maybe i'll love them in another year. then Blues Control, who i really like, kind of funny though i was telling a kid that they have a very textural and loop noise sound definitely not rock, and like the first two songs they play are crazy guitar riffs, hahaha they changed a bit since the last time i saw them

who are they?

DO YOU KNOW THEM?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i mean yeah it seems like everyone "knows" them or atleast there songs, but is there anything else (though that's probably all you really need to know)? whenever i listen to their albums on my ipod i worry that my ear hasn't been kept to the ground (or eyes/monitor) close enough and have completely missed out on them playing a live set somewhere near me. i know nothing about this band except that i love their songs trully and madly. they have a record lable that they run with other really good tropical/ summer like swedes on it (even that's an intimidation to go to if you don't know what you're looking for). and that they've wanted us to BE STILL for like the past two years. and still i am, waiting for the day of news that they are playing somewhere close by (even if they are lip synching) . it's times like these that i wish i knew swedish.

Koka Kola Veins is a really good song

p.s. and speaking of loving tough alliance, did you hear that jens lekman got H1N1 (swine flu!!!!!!!!!!!!!). i just know it he's gonna die before i ever get to see him play live, not to sound calous but my luck of never getting to see him play is just so uncanny.

REALLY? REALLY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!

are they kidding me?!

i feel like someone is pulling my leg. some one is pulling my leg right? why is every band producers now, i should've known that the world of noise/synths/sampling would blur so easily to bands just becoming producers. but even with that it seems like seeing them live will be fun and not to miss (without missing francois virot though)

Thursday Afternoon’s News at Tympanogram

grrr wish i knew html code you can find the song through this link (orange shirt)

this song kind of hits me and i can't help but like it in all of it's cheesiness like a bootleg the DREAM

i think they're playing at the Northside festival unless there is another brooklyn Discovery. a lil weary cuz i haven't seen an official blog state it.

Thursday june 11 @ Spike Hill: Gigantic Hands, Himalaya, Discovery, Me

White Williams vs (The) Fakers

so i've just been kind of worried lately. i know everybody is abandoning their more accessible sounds for weirdo loops and samples and god knows whatelse these kids use and the noiseier groups are abandoning the noise for accessibility. but yeah anyways i'm really worried that if White Williams makes a new album that maybe it will fall more towards the lines of his work with the fakers. or if not that, that maybe fakers is just his new project. that's why i really wanted to go to that bell house show, to maybe get a preview. i wonder?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGKZed3gNDU

this song makes me wanna be a better person

Mon francais Avey Tare

Francois virot is quickly rising to be my favourite artist of the moment. actually i think it's very safe to say that he is. first time i heard him was awhile ago, i was getting songs from his album tout gache tout perdu ( all spoilt all lost... if my rusty french serves me right). my friend, who i think released a 7" of his, sent me links of Say fiesta and Casscade Kisses. i would listen those songs non stop on my ipod. unfortunately my ipod broke and i lost the songs and his name (i couldn't remember his last name for the life of me) so it was hard to find him again. but recently i've been following the scheduling of the Northside festival since i bought a badge and i found out that Francois Virot is opening for a show at union pool the first night! how excited i was to see that name and that i automatically recognize it. since then i've been devouring all songs i could find and listening to them on repeat. as before, Say fiesta and Casscade Kisses are reigning over my ipod (sleeker version now).

it's hard not to mention animal collective when listening to his stuff, i'm not one to compare artists to artists, but this time it's kind of hard since animal collective are my current fly by night "favourite" group. but the styling of alot of his songs especially tout gache tout perdu can really make you think of campfire songs, even some of those avey and kria songs, and sung tongs particularly winters love . but don't think of it as a copy cat. i think rather it was more of a zeitgeist sort of thing cuz i think both releases were around that same error (don't quote me). but where animal collective left off with their "freak folk" francois stuck too it evolving it to a fresher, crisper, and more joyous album in Yes or No. he's definitely his own artist with his own voice and it's even clearer in this album, i love it so much!

completely contemplating of pretending that this is an official blog and asking him for an interview for "what cute girls listen to" even though i'd be the only one reading it. just feel like their should be more on him especially in the US, and i wouldn't mind being the first to start it.

http://virb.com/francoisvirot

http://www.blogotheque.net/Francois-Virot,2776

http://www.blogotheque.net/Francois-Virot-2,3339

he's playing the following date(s) over here:

Thursday June 11 @ Union Pool w/ sharon van etten and others

(gotta find someone that i can text so i can see what time he's about to begin when i'm over at spike hill to see discovery and himalaya, may not be worth the trouble though if i miss the UP show)

Saturday June 13 @ house show "somewhere" really hoping that's somewhere in the tristate area

Bitte Orca

did you know that NPR is currently streaming Dirty Projectors new album: Bitte Orca?
for a week till it's released. that's pretty amazing! i'm listen to my second round of the album, i'm not gonna say anything cuz i've only listented to it twice, and i know none of the nuiances and finer details have settled in my conscious yet. But i have really high hopes for this album on first listen. as i said to my friend when asking what i think of it

"it's really beautiful and delicate and intricate, it's like a light pastry that melts in your mouth with a subtle hint of amazing taste that doesn't overwhelm you while walking on a summer day with a light breeze just when your mind was slightly begining to think that the sun was beating a lil too hard on your back, but the breeze comes before you actually notice. in other words upon two listens
it's pretty perfect so far."

and as she replied:

"gahhh i wish you cut all that imagery crap in the beginning. i actually hate
when ppl review albums and they put all that fluff in it. "

!!! but it's trully what it makes me feel when i listen to it. kind of funny how ppl want reviews but don't like you to relate it to things. but how else can you explain something new, but by associating it with things you already know. i say imagery is better than saying, it reminds me of simply red and the guy with the mole on his face done with dirty projectors guys stylistics, maybe not.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104578357

friday june 19 @ OTHER MUSIC!!! (so funny i had a preminition they'd be playing other music)

buy my ticket june 5th at 12 (run during lunch)

Sunday July 19 @ Williamsburg Waterfront w/ Magnolia Electric Co (whoa)

can't wait to see them. with my experince of the venue for the 888 boardums boadrums thing i'm really excited, seems perfect for the band and this album
WHAT?!

Love is All You Need

last night i went to my old haven MAXWELL'S. i haven't been there in ages! it was my most favourite venue ever since my first concert there. but recently has been forgotten with all the diy spaces in brooklyn... or perhaps my short stint of only going to ragers.
i missed the first band that played, wonder if they were anygood. i'll have to check them out (remember the last time a similar instance happen i found a love in chairlift). but i did catch the second opener Real Estate, they were nice, i know i've seen them before at some todd p show but didn't go to see them and kind of wrote them off (last time i did that was with vivian girls haha. but my first experience just so wasn't my thing i haven't ventured into delving to see what the buzz is all about and if they got better). glad i got to see them intentionally this time cuz i know there are a couple of shows that i'm going to that they're going to be playing at (wavves and northside festival). unfortunately most of their music was kind of lost from my distraction of this dude dancing, not sure dancing as to physical espression, or maybe i'm just so unfamiliar to seeing daning at rock shows perhaps it was. it was definitely interesting to watch and at times awkward. but enough about audience observations back to real estate (hmm maybe the fact that i'm so easily distracted from them is saying somethin) their music was nice and subtle, there were some rocking songs to liven up the set a bit, but i guess for the most part it was pretty forgettable for me, i suppose the stylings just aren't my cup of tea. but they were from jersey! Yeah Jersey!
then was time for love is all. i'm not gonna lie my sudden intrest in love is all is for dual reasons, the better more reasonable of the two was when i sampled thier cd when other music told me to, and i was like oo la la. but before that a lil seed was planted in my head when i saw pictures of a show of theirs and it was just filled with adorable boys, unfortunately i can't find the pictures anymore, which leads me to believe it must've been a totally different groups pictures i saw. going to the show definitely finalized that, cute boy drought! hahaha but no biggie cuz love is all was just a joy to dance to. their songs jump and pop and tell your body to do so as well. you can't help in a live setting to do what you do infront of your mirror in your bedroom while listening to their songs, and maybe more! i like that in the live setting the horns aren't as abbrasive as their studio productions which sometimes make me skipp a song or two cuz i feel like i'm listening to ska, or whatever you call that 90's music that they would always play blips of on The Box, or you can probably still find playing on radio stations in the jersey shore area. the front-woman is a dream to watch perform, just brimming with cuteness. she belted and cried out her lyrics, as if they were her favourite songs too. i was actually able to leave the show sweating a bit, i haven't done that in awhile. those sweaty concerts are always the best concerts! oh yeah just kind of wish i wasn't next to a drunken douche who kept stepping on my foot and not even apologizing, and completely pushing me out of my original spot :( dear duders let's always have fun but let's not get drunk till after the show, or if you do make sure your not a heavy dude next to frail ppl, Thanx! Oh man and i love the bartender! we had a small conversation of how prince never get's old, i forgot your name bartender but thanks for being the only person that talked to me besides the weirdo dancer. ahaha

Glasser: big bang in small adorable package

so friday night not only did i burito it out and buy my wavves ticket, i also set out to go see Glasser at Zebulon.
i had originally set off to go to monster island basement first and Catch BELUGA (i adore beluga), which probably started at 10, but zebulon advertised glasser to start at 10 so i figured i should risk not seeing a local band to see a not local band. i was a bit nerved when i came at 10 and the show didn't start till 11, and worst it wasn't even glasser, glasser didn't play till 12. but even with that i enjoyed both peroformances. the first act was this thick deep psych sounding band. as i chocked down my long island ice tea i enjoyed bobbing my head along. the first song had this crazy catchy riff that girl kept playing it was killing me with goodness. another funny suprise was for the first couple of minutes i was astounded by the cymbal crashing which seemed to be pre recorded till someone actually moved out my way and i was able to see a drum tearing it up on a kit to the far right. OUTSTANDING!
GLASSER. now glasser was just so amazing to watch the girls voice was remarkable very dreamy and haunting which seems to be a very popular style these days which i'm not oppose to. it was a charm to watch them mainly cuz the singer found everthing funny and worth a giggle. she was also full on ready to get serious to coo the audience and cover the room with her lovely voice. once the riffs would begin to play from her accompanied band mate/ guitarist who also seemed charmed by her showmanship. ofcourse the stand out for the show (to me) since i still didn't have the ep yet and only knew two songs were the two songs. Glad was a nice mid song that made me think i was in ancient china via a lovely lil LA chantress. the last was the song that i found myself repeating on my Ipod called Apply, man thats one of the better tribal like songs floating out there these days. they had a pretty spectacular visual projection going too which she named "my video", hahaha kind of reminds me of the cuteness of nite jewel (disclaimer: not comparing them!)

Wish I lived in Colorado

the Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Health
Monotonix
Passion Pit
Harlem Shakes
Woodhands
the Walkmen
Frightened Rabbit
Thunderheist
The Thermals
Deer Tick
Starfucker

this is about half the line up so far for the Monolith festival in Colorado that i wish i could go to, and this half is just the ppl i'm interested in seeing! my god how full it is.
but now to make things worst, NEON INDIAN HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE LINE UP
but really this is probably good news cuz it's hope that they'll be touring soon and hopefully it'll be before this festival meaning a perfect summer season setting (hopefully outside show).
if not hopefully i'll find a good job buy then that gives me vacation

WAVVES, bump it i got my tickets

speaking of Rusty Santos
i've recently been listening to these acoustic cuts made by wavves. which are so eerie and good kind of leans toward the better parts of the wavvves albums that i enjoyed the most.
one really reminds me of rusty santos for some reason (if ppl read this my head would probably be chopped off) and the other obviously kurt cobain (i've never even listened to nirvana before, kind of funny in this day of age you can never pic up an artist album and not only do you know how they sound but you can imagine when others sound like them)
http://www.wvkr.org/2009/02/wavves-wvkr-set/
thanks to the crazy whirlwind of contrversy circling this poor group i'm finding alot of links of crazy footage and gems of music that i was never aware of

so speaking of Wavves, last friday i found out that i'm losing my job after this week (dang life's a crackhead :/) so i immediately just started thinking oh man i really need to start saving. but then was like "Bump it!" and bought a 8 dollar burrito from Chipotle and trotted to mercury lounge to buy my wavves ticket for the Bowery show in july.
i don't know what's up with all the turmoil but i just know from my expericence (2 albums and a show in Feb) that all aspects of wavves is fun to me, short and sweet but definitely makes me diddy bop and shake my head in that weird way that girls tend to do to lo fi punk surf like music.
CAN'T WAIT (if it still happens)!

Wednesday 7/15/09 @ Bowery Ballroom: Wavves, Woods, Real Estate, Popo

Rusty Santos vs. VEGA Bushwick eats Greenpoint

So Sunday I gave up on spending the day with friends after a many of “hey girl what are you up too”s and my own “hey what are you doing?”s. I found myself traveling all the way over to far rockaway only to get there part way to find out I got on the Lefferts train, which when you ask a person does it go to rockaway, why yes it does, rockaway blvd and perhaps park but NOT FARrock. As soon as the train stopped at its final destination a down pour began! Threatening to ruin my fresh doobie. Decided that a plate of food wasn’t worth the slow hassle of A train transfers and headed back to Manhattan figuring that the rain (or isolated thunderstorms as weather.com forewarned me) would have pass when I got back. Hoorah I was right.
So I pulled my hair up in a bun and trekked around the city passing time listening to a interesting mix of weirdo folk songs by rusty santos and retro dance anthems by vega. For these two were my highlight for the day. Who needs friends when you got genius music kids. After finally finding that soft pink scarf I’ve been wanting (and now needed to cover my cleavage) and having a giant cockroach climb on my foot (the shivers still attack my body when I think of it) I headed to Starr Space, a charming lil place that I rencently went to for the first time to see the Harlem Shakes and Hospitality. This time that I went though was quite different, I was welcomed by an adorable lil girl ready to take my money and stamp my hand with a starr (!!!). I took a seat and enjoyed the readings of a dude, which was pretty lost on my ears, my listening comprehension is so awful. He gave an extended definition of words and explained what a new term coined by him, retro sexual, was, which I guess the kids found quaint. Then there was a performance by Momus whose music I’m vaguely acquainted with but not with his stories and that’s what I was treated too. It was pretty retarded it was about his father having an affair with a goose. Which the kids were in stitches over :/ it was kind of lost on me. But the zinger was when the father came with goose in hand to his mother in the kitchen and said “this is the pig I’ve been sleeping with!” to that his mother said “but that’s not a pig that’s a goose” his father than yelled “I wasn’t talking to you!” at which his mother ran out the house. Haha I have to admit that part of the comedy was pretty funny. Then the man who was first reading gave a nice show and tell of some things he found at his house, it was quite an abundance of trinkets and finds, I imagine he didn’t plan for it to strike so much interest because he barely presented half the stuff on the table, everybody was very into the nature finds. I was instantly interested in the cicada shells, I wanted to ask him about the cicada swarm that I was welcomed to as a kid in new jersey but never saw again, but was too shy to in front of the other kids asking questions. Then more Momus, by that point I was just too tired and bored and waiting for Rusty to play, something about a news station implanting bugs into their skin, it was just disgusting, but yet again HILarious to the audience.
He then ended and said rusty was up next! Hoorah! A dj played some dubby jams and I wondered if it was one of the same djs that have played between animal collective sets. They always seem to give us haunting/retro, summery, and syrupy dub jams. Then rusty santos came up to the stage and I was instantly shocked! The lil musician didn’t come up with what I usually expected, his lil guitar to bang/strum out some interesting freak folk jams, but instead he stood behind some technology which a lot of musicians seem to be doing these days so I shouldn’t have been that surprise especially with his latest venture the presents. Unfortuanately I’m pretty blind so I couldn’t see exactly what he was using, but I was instantly reminded of what half of the Fakers play with cuz it had some light action going on, and I was wondering if it was a light touch pad like system too, those things are pretty awesome to watch a person go at (for those who don’t know the fakers, something like lil boots lil thing too). Anyways his sound was pretty dreamy and beyond bassy it really filled the room. With my luck of course I had chosen the wrong spot with two girls talking through the whole thing asking one of the(ir) owners/friends if it was ever going to get “wooo!” later on in the night, I don’t know who these chicks were but they intimidated the owner enough for him to talk down rusty santos stylistics, or maybe he really is just some weirdo woo woo artist? Anyways after many threats of them leaving but not and just talking very loudly I just went across the room which was so much better. For one the stereo was situated better for that side the sound felt like a full frontal attack I sat by a girl who was completely zoned out dreaming to the pulsating noise that rusty was pushing buttons and turning knobs to make, when I sat down he began a new song that was completely hypnotic and I slowy found myself drifting to a similar state as my neighbor, I was then pulled out of it when the sweet front girl shook my foot and asked if I had come to see rusty santos, took me a second to associate things to normal again to say yes. He then ended his set with a sweet lil acoustic guitar number, it was a real treat cuz even though I can appreciate noise my heart lies with tangible music that I can relate to.
It was a perfect end and I then began my trek/run to studio B on the other side of two towns. Of course I had to make a stop at a halal spot and was able to grab a 2.50 sandwich (heaven except biting into it and finding just 2slices of meat and the rest filler). When I got to studio b I was completely fretting that I missed the VEGA showcase, when I came in ppl were already dancing on the dance floor and everyone was already too gone so I couldn’t even figure out if Vega had already played. So I figured it wouldn’t hurt to just get a dance in and see if anything comes of it and then go home. The djs were pretty sweet and played songs I knew that were serious bangers for me… though I can’t remember what… so an hour into dancing when I was getting into it, the music is cut off. FTW, then I notice ppl edging over to the other stage and a smoke machine is going off! HEY I didn’t miss VEGA! When he played I danced as hard as I could even though I couldn’t get into that much he kept reminding me of Michael Jackson and the music had that very synthetic after taste to it the kind that you get if you played it on your ipod for a week you then wouldn’t be able to listen to it anymore without getting a head ache two songs into it. I really wanted to back up this venture of alan palamo and have a change of heart since I love his work with Neon Indian soooooooooooooooo much. It was a sweet dance time though I even got to bump into a cute boy watching me from the balcony me unfortunately the height difference made it hard for me to understand what he was saying. I danced a bit to the dj afterward, but got a bit tired of boys only looking at me rather than coming up to dance and then a stalkerish portugese(?) guy so split and made my way back to my hood.
Highlight? RUSTY SANTOS

DIE SLOW, tropicalia

MARKET YOURSELF FOR BLOOD
MARKET YOURSELF FOR BLOOD
MARKET YOURSELF FOR BLOOD
MARKET YOURSELF FOR BLOOD
MARKET YOURSELF FOR BLOOD
MARKET YOURSELF FOR BLOOD
so the boys from HEALTH are soon to be back at it again. i'm anxiously anticipating their show bringing in the summer and longest (my most favourite) day of the year. it's happening june 20th at Danbro's but as most ToddP affiliated events that's tentative. i really don't care i just know from last year that HEALTH and summer definitely mix well. i've been visiting their site where they're hosting their newest single and a most amazing remix by Picture Plane where he turns their angular noise into a tropical tough alliance like sound. i haven't been so confused on which i like best the original or remix since "Everybody Nose" era. ENJOI!
http://health.muxtape.com/

Her Space Holiday, i wish i saved my last experience with the knitting factory show

So her space holiday turns out not to be what the cute girls listen to… at all anymore. Apparently only old guys, creepers, nerds (the true sense of the word nerd, there is no good nerd or bad nerd to me, if it’s a good nerd then it’s not a nerd, just a cool kid playing farce), and the frumpy and ugly girls that date them.
Let me just say once again Bell House completely failed me! I got to the show at 9:30, 9:30, and the show was already 2/3’s over I made it just in time to see the second to last band end their last song and say thank you and goodnight. Kind of wanted to kick myself. But I should’ve known the same happened when I went to see White Williams, I got their and he played two hours ago. So note when Bell House says show is at 7:30 show is at 7:30. The place was pretty empty, it wasn’t till HSH started setting up that the fat the ugly, the nerdy and moderately homely started lining the stage. Of course all of this has nothing to do with the actual performance. Her space came on and seemed very cheerful and in high spirits he welcomed us and more volume on the guitars and base and was ready to get down! The whole show was very lively. The double drummers for this go round added a nice effect, I got kind of confused sometimes and was waiting for drum solos when the opportune times seemed to show up. Kind of guess it wasn’t necessary to have two drummers for a ho down vibe of music just started wishing they were Aa instead. Although I’m not a fan of country twang honky tonk indie music I could tel that’s where mark bianchis heart now lied. I loved his old style of music but when he played the oldies last night they fell kind flat and weren’t worth the revisit besides the exception of… what it Japanese gum, that turned out to be a bit of a highlight. He slightly jammed it out and let the computer play letting both worlds collide and having fun with it and then to make it an extra gem he extended the jam in the middle to sneek in a verse from something to do with my hands. This was extremely cute cuz he did it for the only two girls that were moderately cute in front who cried for it, after he took a sip from a cup of one of the girl’s water and gave her a wink. Note to boy/guy bands do flirt with your girl audience; I don’t know why more bands don’t do this? HELLO THEY’RE THERE TO SEE YOU if you show a girl some attention in a dead crowd you can bet she’ll be your personal rebel rouser. And that’s exactly what happened that girl started to get the crowd moving pulling every one around getting in on the ho-down with her. Speaking of ho-downs I kind of realized why I always make sure I’m in the front at shows KIDS CAN’T DANCE! It was truly embarrassing and made me feel so awkward to be in the audience, one dude doing this awkward shuffle with spasms and this other dude doing just full on major spasms, and just seizures across the board! There were like another two kids next to me who I think were noticing the awkwardness and refrained from dancing and just tap their toes I think afraid of looking just as weird. Unfortunately when the oldies hit I couldn’t help but move a lil but Charlie horses quickly ensued so I’m sure I looked just as awkward as the rest but I’m almost certain I had rhythm :/. Speaking of these spasms, they were all being controlled until the highlight of the night began, I nice lil closing jam that included 1234’s and shouts and shambling drum solos and jams that I really loved, but I think I’m also getting confused the second to last song with the last song, where the lil bird like drumer came down to the audience with a tambourine and drum stick in hands and a smile on face to get the crowd clapping and find his (twin?) brother to join, them walking around in the crowd was my highlight
Speaking of these bird like brothers:
LYMBYC SYSTEM!!!

LYMBYC SYSTEM, for cute girls of the future

I just want to say: I HATE YOU BELL HOUSE with your stupid punctual timing. While walking to the venue I was worry myself oh my god it’s 9:30 what if I miss the whole show oh no oh no, no no no way will I miss the show at the very worst I’ll only catch her space holiday. Of course in thinking this I was also thinking no chance in heck that the first band has even stopped playing yet. Upon walking into the bell house I find that the very least is happening, and I make in time to catch the last moment of LYMBYC SYSTEMS lush and beautiful sound. What lil I did catch was truly moving and deep and rhythmic. It’s insane that these two small lil happy cute chipmunk like brothers can produce such a huge sound! From the looks there is no pre sampled sounds that they just cue just two kids engrossed in their instruments with perhaps some looping. I wish there was more I could say about their show, but being that I only caught 2 minutes this is a lot. They were also the only part of the Her Space Holiday show that I was paying attention, I wondered why mark even used the lap top as a backing track to the old songs when he had these two geniuses who probably would’ve made the songs a highlight of the night
Oh wells. I don’t think too many cute girls listen to them, but they should. They make me smile from ear to ear. Definitely caught my self blushing and out of words when trying to buy merch from one at the last show, their next show in new york is in july at union pool. I’M THERE