RHMB Communal Lyrics Mix!

"Music is meaningful."
Lyrics are serious business. Because of this, I usually don't pay much attention to them. "Argh! Your mouth sounds are getting in the way of the synthesizers and static", I say. But ok, I can stop being a hater for a minute and listen to some music with clever, earnest, even narrative lyrics, about people and ideas and... stuff. Since I don't have much experience in this sort of thing I begged the good people at the RHMB to help me out, and this is the collection they came up with. Thanks, folks! Boardie who picked the song is in parentheses beside their track below. If you want to find out what the lyrics mean, or whatever, ask them (or check the always reliable songmeanings.net):

1. Hello Saferide - Lund (pocki)
2. Elvis Costello - Big Boys (demo) (pocketbook angel)
3. Zita Swoon - About the Successful Emotional Recovery of a Gal Named Maria (stu)
4. Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (TiltedEarth)
5. Scott Walker - Farmer In The City (Wesley Crusher)
6. Brian Eno - China My China (~Harri)
7. Sharon Van Etten - One Day (Miss Modular)
8. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lay And Love (Brian of Nazareth)
9. The Dears - 22: The Death Of All The Romance (heyimafishy)
10. Emmy The Great - MIA (The Grolsch)
11. @ir - Playground Love (UnleadedBlue)
12. M0by - The Day (M E C H A N I C A L A S T R O N A U T)
13. Qu33ns Of The St0ne @ge - Go With The Flow (Romi)
14. Arab Strap - Packs Of Three (lonely minotaur)
15. Why? - The Fall of Mr Fifths (Absentia)
16. R@ndy Newm@n - My Life Is Good (Sarah Juice)
17. Grandaddy - Saddest Vacant Lot in All the World (_)
18. Loreena McKennitt - Prospero's Speech (seasons)
19. Killah Priest - Heavy Mental (revilo)
20. S@r@h McL@chl@n - Possession (radiokidb)
21. Mount Eerie - I Whale (fradleybox)
22. Leonard Cohen - One of Us Cannot Be Wrong (a)

http://www.mediafire.com/?26eo2pdz3x9t1ug

Sounds good! It's a bit long, 1:25ish, so I'm not really sure what a good time for a listening party will be. Let me know when you want it, please.

lawyer up,

~Harri

P.S. for anyone looking for the last two Thom Yorke Office Charts check the chatbox for links (thanks to pukirocks and JOEB for putting the stuff together). I have not posted these because I am actually so lazy that I can't even type words about things then click (a) button(s).

Miss Modular's Erland Øye Mix!

the quietest boy alive
Thank's to Miss Modular for the great Erland mix! This was her message:

Miss M.: Hey Harris, I made an Erlend Oye mix, because I found a bunch of songs that I like :D

To that I would add a hardy <(^). Here's the tracklist:

1. Erlend Øye - Sudden Rush (The Twelves Remix) (4:04)
2. Korsakow feat. Erlend Øye - I've Been Waiting So Long (4:13)
3. The Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage (4:08)
4. Erlend Øye - The Black Keys Work (FM Attack Remix) (5:22)
5. Kings of Convenience - Toxic Girl (David Whitaker String Arrangement) (3:06)
6. Kings of Convenience - Brave New World (3:39)
7. Röyksopp - Remind Me (3:41)
8. Erlend Øye - Fine Day (Phonique's Radio Edit) (3:23)
9. Kings Of Convenience - Failure (Kings Of Convenience Arrangement) (3:38)
10. Ada/Erlend Øye - Luckycharm/Intuition (3:32)
11. The Whitest Boy Alive - Courage (4:22)
12. Kings of Convenience - Beat Of The Drum (3:16)
13. Erlend Øye - No Train to Stockholm (2:26)
14. Röyksopp - Poor Leno (3:59)
15. Erlend Øye - Sheltered Life (w/Soviet) (4:22)
16. Erlend Øye - A Place in My Heart (Jori Hulkkonen rmx) (3:44)

http://www.mediafire.com/?qcqvdim6ewoe1eo

No listening party planned yet. We will have to see if Miss M can find some time for one. She is busy! >(O)

~Harri

P.S. Define: Cutty

Office Chart: Tea Bags For The Fly Over Lands

Gotta love that J. Tillman.
From Dead Air Space:

office chart.. tea bags for the fly over lands
1. Crosswinds by J. Tillman
2. Raga Megh Malhar by Charanjit Singh
3. VCR(Four tet rmx) by XX
4. Forget About by Sibylle Baier
5. Hot Swap by Pablo Mandelbrot
6. In The Deep by T.Williams
7. The Leap Home Pt.2 by Radio People
8. For 12 by Other Lives

a desert emptiness can breed fear and ignorance. visit the sea and see the wider picture.

Thom

http://www.mediafire.com/?74bx71oq64vmakd

Thanks to pukirocks in the chatbox for the upload! I'm assuming this Office Chart is in reference to enjoying hot tea while literally flying over a desert (or sea?) of some sort and isn't a metaphor (or something) about the nightmarish right wing insanity that's raging in the US, so (^)< mmm, tea! <(^)

Harris

Sarah Juice's 60s Dylan Mix!

Sarah Juice has this to say about the mix:

This is the dreaded Dylan Mix. Well... Part One of the dreaded Dylan Mix. The catalogue is too big and he changes styles, voices, and even religions throughout the now 50 years he's been recording, so I decided to break it down into the 1960s, 1970s, and then 1989-2010.

Part One: 1960's. Dylan started off the 60's with folk and protest songs. I didn't include any protest songs here cos you'd all hate that stuff, but you know a lot of them already: Blowin in The Wind, Times They Are a Changin, etc. So from folk we go straight into rock. The bulk of the mix is this mid 60's golden era of Dylan's rock phase, but at the tail end we cover his brief country phase. In between are some of his most popular hits and some other stuff you may never have heard, or heard from other artists. I'd say enjoy, but I'm not stupid enough to think you will. So: Good luck!

http://www.mediafire.com/?jrdv3ud2er4xb4b

Listening party time TBD, but probably best during the middle of the weekday EST so SJ can see all the wonderful comments! edit: OK it's been decided! Two listening parties on October 26th, the first at 1PM EST the second at 8PM EST!

~Harri

P.S. UGH I've got that fucking Patton / Tomahawk "hey ya hey ya hey ya oh" song stuck in my head. *chugs Drano®*

Deckard's (Mostly) American Mix!

"Follows a loose theme of black American music during the civil rights movement of the 60s and 70s, with a couple of others thrown in (Burroughs on Apocalypse, and Peter Walker) just because I like them.

127mb mp3 192k/bit. Approx 1 hr 20 in length." -Deckard (Will)

1) Peace Go With you Brother (As-Salaam-Alaikum) – Gil Scott-Heron
2) 102nd Psalm – Peter Walker
3) One Second After Death – Grant Green
4) Running – Baby Huey
5) Loose Here – Kain
6) Apocalypse – William S Burroughs
7) Let My People Go – Darondo
8) Two of a Kind - Memphis Slim
9) The First Minute of a New Day: A Talk – Gil Scott-Heron
10) Saturday Night Special - The Lyman Woodard Organization
11) White Elephant - Mike Manieri & Friends
12) I Love The Lord He Heard My Cry Pts. 1 & 2 / Someday We'll All Be Free – Donny Hathaway

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=06H4I47O

It's posted as one long mp3 and for the playlist, download here.

Enjoy!

Harri