Song of the week.

This is gonna sound like music snobbery (or is it snobishness?) but 2005 was a very unspecial year for music in my opinion. A lot of very good albums came out, some of them I may even call great, but none of them were spectacular. This week's song of the week comes from one of those great albums of 2005. The New Pornographers released Twin Cinema in August and this song stood out to me. I like the New Pornos but after a while their sound is so tight that it gets tired. This song deviated from their typical formula slightly and for that reason it was my favorite song off of what was one of the great (not spectacular) albums of 2005. I've got a good feeling about 2006 though...

Enjoy!

New Pornographers - The Bleeding Heart Show

-Derek

Song of the week.

It is time for a special Valentines Day edition of "Song of the week". With that in mind, I give you "Crazy on You" by Heart. This song epitomizes what Valentines Day should be all about. It gets past the bullshit commercialism. The heart shaped cards, the silly stuffed animals and the boxes of candy. This song skips all of those pleasantries and gets right down to the business of getting down. So tonight, as you're sitting at the dinner table with your sweetie, throw the Hallmark cards and Russell Stover candies down and look him/her in the eye and say:

"There's nothing left to do tonight, but go CRAAAAZZZZZZY on you."

Enjoy!

Heart - Crazy on you

-Derek

Song of the week.

This week I am giving you guys the new song from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It's called "Gold Lion". This song was first revealed to the world through a Diplo Mix. Now that both the real version and the mix version are out people (and by "people" i mean the rampant world of MP3 blogs) are comparing and contrasting the two versions. People are really fond of the Diplo mix. I'm gonna throw them both down there for you guys to listen to and make judgements on. Let me know what you think in the comments.

Thanks to Badminton Stamps and Palms Out Sounds for unknowingly (News of bandwith theft travels quickly) letting me borrow their MP3 links.

Ok, here we go.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
and
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion (Diplo Remix)

-Derek

Song of the week.

The song of the week this week is from a band called Charlottefield. Charlottefield released an album last year called "How Long Are Staying". This is the first song from that album. This song will burrow deep inside your head and create a colony of dissonant screams, frenetic drumming and catchy guitar riffs. You will be a citizen of this colony and you will sit in your thatch-roofed colonial house humming this song in a state of complete and total euphonious bliss. Well, that may be an exaggeration, but it's a rad song all the same. Enjoy.

Charlottefield - Nine Tails

Thanks to Thomas, who doesn't know he's hosting this song.
-Derek

Song of the week.

The song of the week this week is from Cat Power. Cat Power will be releasing a new album January 24 (yeah, that's tomorrow) and this is the title track off of that new album. Enjoy.

Cat Power - The Greatest

-Derek