It seems apparent that this blog has become a receptacle of compilations and playlists, and not much else. This is fitting, as my mood is highly influenced by my musical tastes, or is it the other way, that my music tastes are influenced by the moods I am in, probably both. Anyway, this next compilation is one for summer, as solstice is upon us, of which I will be celebrating as I usually do by watching naked people ride bikes through Fremont followed by cold beers into the evening.
I hope you enjoy this one as I feel it really captures the soundtrack to our summer months of hanging out and enjoying each others laid back company. Yes, it begins with weirdness, Animal Collective, however, don’t we all feel a little awkward in Seattle as the grey blanket is pulled from the sky, to be replaced by a burning orb of light, once our eyes adjust to this new found light, we want to get out and frolic in the grass, which is portrayed with Fleet Foxes. The rest of the summers attributes are whimsically laced here within, including the song by Extra Golden, Obama, of which we will all hear plenty about this summer and into the Autumn months. Enjoy.
1. Animal Collective - Water Curses
2. Fleet Foxes - English House
3. Foals - Balloons
4. Crystal Castles - Vanished
5. Black Lips - Veni Vidi Vici
6. French Kicks - Abandon
7. Hazelwood Motel - Break Myself In Two
9. Ladytron - Black Cat
10. Health - Glitter Pills
11. Tokyo Police Club - In A Cave
12. No Age - Eraser
13. Extra Golden - Obama
14. Thao Nguyen - Bag of Hammers
15. Bishop Allen - Click, Click, Click, Click
I have so many memories driving around, listening to all the great music that was actually on major labels while I was in high school. With my birthday coming up next week, turning 26, it has been 10 years since I was liberated with the concept of an automobile. This accelerated my ability to do illegal and mischievous things around town, it also provided me with a faster means of high tailing it out of bad situations. Anyway, during all of this I was most likely in either Mike’s or Alex’s car, and occasionally in Matt’s lil’ Festiva (the go cart) as I myself did not have my own car until college.
There was always a soundtrack to rollin’ around, usually hip-hop in Alex’s Accord, while in Mike’s GMC pickup it was usually a mix of rock and anything else, with ample amounts of Sublime.
So enjoy this mix, preferably while driving around, remembering what it was like to finally be free to go where you wanted, when you wanted, and then realize that it costs you about a dollar a mile now, and rollin’ around isn’t fun anymore.
Cheers!
High Schoolers Driving Cars
1. 2Pac - Amitionz As A Ridah
2. Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
3. Aaliyah - Back and Forth
4. Beastie Boys - Body Movin’
5. Beck - Devil’s Haircut
6. Daft Punk - Da Funk
7. The Fugees - Fu-Gee-La
8. Nada Surf - Popular
9. Nirvana - Serve the Servants
10. Outkast - Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac)
11. Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution
12. Rage Against the Machine - Bombtrack
13. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
14. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Ain’t No Fun
15. Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days
16. Stone Temple Pilots - Pretty Penny
17. Sublime - Smoke Two Joints
18. Sublime - Pawn Shop
19. Weezer - Buddy Holly
20. Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph
21. Pixies - Debaser
As a fan of Bob Marley, I have found all compilations/best of albums done to date lacking. They lack a certain progression, and comparison of how Bob Marley would write politically motivated songs, which were always backed by powerful religious and spiritual embodiment. I have decided to create a Best of album for Bob Marley based on what I find to be his most powerful and moving words, not solely based on the most popular and top selling songs, as most best of albums are. The majority of these songs are of the political spectrum, ones that fueled a rebel movement in Jamaica focusing on love and nonviolence. Cheers.
My Legend
1. Natural Mystic
2. Running Away
3. War
4. Concrete Jungle
5. No More Trouble
6. Midnight Ravers
7. Exodus
8. Them Belly Full
9. Work
10. Jammin’
11. Blackman Redemption
12. Redemption Song
Oh greenpece, you are always there to point things out in such clever ways, however, you could have done a better job bastardizing the song LA Breeze by Simian.
So, I made this playlist with the idea that it can brighten up any mundane task, such as washing dishes, vacuuming (headpohones), or working out, whatever, this playlist is The Spice of Your Mundane Life!
01. Feist - My Moon My Man [Boyz Noize Remix]
02. The Rapture - First Gear
03. Uffie - Pop The Glock
04. Simian - LA Breeze
05. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
06. Pete Shelley - Homosapien
07. The Rakes - Terror!
08. MGMT - Electric Feel
09. Yeasayer - Sunrise
10. Ghostland Observatory - Vibrate
11. Death From Above 1979 - Blood On Our Hands [Justice Remix]
12. Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
13. LO-FI-FNK - The End
I posted this on my work blog (not public), thought it was worth reproducing here:
Upon my random perusing of wikipedia.org, I found an interesting path of correlation. It was when looking at the entry for DOOM (video game) that I found this path: DOOM was built on the DOOMengine which was based on the NeXT platform, the first port of NeXT to MSDOS was for DOOM, ironically, the NeXT engine was developed by the company NeXT Software Co., the company that Steve Jobs formed after leaving Apple back in 1985. Furthermore, NeXT evolved into OPENSTEP, and elements of OPENSTEP made their way into OSX. So in a way, DOOM and OSX are long lost cousins.
I am not an active member of the Catholic Church, however it is in my family heritage and culture. I decided to partake in this years Lent not as a religious right, but as a away to clense my body of a toxin I abuse. No, it wasn’t alcohol, it was sugars. My largest temptation I give in to is sweets, ever since I was a child I have loved sweets. For Lent I gave up all refined sugars, High Fructose Corn Syrup, baked goods, candies, ice creams, glazes, syrups, all of them (fruit was ok, as it was naturally residing). The hardest thing was finding items without HFCS, it is in everything. I did on occasion have some ketchup, but according to Reagan, it is a vegetable, so why not.
So, on Easter Sunday I will have gone without my sugary crutch for 6 and a half weeks. I will be celebrating this with the delectable indulgence in a Pan au Chocolat and a cup of coffee, which was my breakfast every morning while visiting France.
While I sit here, listening to the awe inspiring sound of Royksopp’s What Else Is There, featuring the singer of The Knife, while indulging my palette with a well balanced Lost Abbey Ale, I ponder the recent decision I have made.
For a portion of my pre-teens and teen years I played a pen and paper role playing game entitled Rift’s, a post apocalyptic fantasy/sci-fi game that helped me deal with my youthful anger and passions. Escaping to an alien filled, disaster of a world where black and white seemed to be the prominent element of decision, helped me to grow and accept things. One of my closest friends, Darryl, had moved away to Texas after 8th grade, and ever since then, playing Rift’s ceased. The books have been sitting on my shelf ever since, occasionally picked up to browse the beautiful illustrations, that irreplaceable tactile memory of flipping to a page that had spent so much time open on that it pulls your place to it every time your flip through.
These books have only sentimental value now, and therefore only really exist in my memories. I have decided to relieve myself of the burden of these items, however, I will keep one book, as I never want to risk the complete loss of the memories I hold that are momentarily released when I hold this book. This has been a decision nearly 10 years in the making, how interesting human behavior can be, especially towards books of white paper containing printed letters of black ink.
