teo likes music now? I don't believe it.
3: Post updated with more music for you to hear and possibly like!
|| So, dinner with the parents. Guy at the next table bought us a $200 bottle of champagne, just because. Mom is passed of in my recliner. Rory is putting Dad through a battery of Wii Fit tests to determine if he is allowed to drive home. Good night?|>
5: Everyone's happy? That's a good night. And I'm elated on your behalf.
Oh, minus the possible drunk driving. Yeah, don't do that, if there's any question, and cabs are way cheaper than lawyers and court costs (not to lecture, mind). He might end up with a Republican California state legislator in the car or something.
I've never even heard of Tiësto
This is one of those moments when I realize I live in a little bubble. Dude was on a billboard just past the west end of the Bay Bridge for months. (I think it's finally been taken down).
(If you like Tiësto, you might like this.)
This appears to be a generic song.
8: I didn't actually like that much at all, but I appreciate you sharing it. Barber's Adagio is on my let's-listen-to-one-of-the-the-saddest-songs-ever playlist, which I reserve for special sad moments, so I think that preëmpts it from any techo thing for me, personally.
This appears to be a generic song.
Go on.
10: The description of that mix that convinced me to click on it in the first place was "where Epic Trance felt you up at the apex of the ferris wheel, then vomited cotton candy on your shoes." I would have been... perturbed to find out you'd actually liked it.
(Also, the pedant in me is screaming "that's not techno that's not techno that's not techno" but I figure I'll let Tweety fight that battle.)
6,7: Rory kept them here a good hour longer than I'd have managed and Dad's Wii performance demonstrated agility incompatible with DUI. I have a contented champagne headache. Thank you, random rich guy who convincingly pretended he thought I was Rory's sister.
that's not techno doo-da-doom that's not techno doo-da-doom that's not techno doo-da-doom The system is down that's not techno doo-da-doom The system that's not The system not techno doo-da-doom
Wait, 8.last is a dance remix of the Adagio for Strings? That's really demented.
16: There are a bunch of remixes of the Adagio for Strings. (Classical music in general is kind of the trade secret of trance DJs.)
I've always liked music.
That's not how I remember it!
16: Skip ahead to like minute 1:30. It's pretty obvious, I thought.
Tiësto got his start DJing at burning man. Not really my thing, but yay: burning man!
I can't wait for the dance remix of Reed Phase.
Further to 17: Not really trance, but see also.
18: So much the worse for your memory, then.
I can tell that it's techno, without even listening to it.
Ah, I see.
Yep. Since then, I have in fact begun listening to music.
Seems more like Max Headroom than Tron.
What's with the yellow underlining that has started appearing under some words that cause a annoying window to pop up if you mouse over them? Are other people seeing these? Are people putting these in on purpose?
1. I like the song.
2. I really want the Tegan and Sara haircut. I was even considering posting about this.
Here's my dilemma: I have terrible, ridiculous cowlicks. When I've had bangs, they've just stood straight up. Anytime my hair gets shorter than, say, chin length, it just goes straight up and out.
I'm pretty sure I'm too lazy to actually put product in my hair every day. So: are there any people with pixie-ish haircuts, where it poofs into a big boufant and yet looks okay? Any photos?
Nevermind, I figured out the problem myself and shouldn't have bothered you.
25, 26: Good archives finding. I've been having the best luck filling the hoohole with Yahoo search (has its own different limitations however and mentioned) recently. Got to a couple of items that Google and Bing refused to cough up.
Or does neb use some manner of sysadmin trick?
I don't know, but pixie-ish haircuts look great. Audrey Tautou sometimes has a sort of boufant pixie cut, or slightly longer cheek-length cut. Ditto Shannon Sossamon.
http://www.splendicity.com/snarkstress/files/2009/04/infphoto_963767_audrey_tautou_pixie_cut.jpg
http://fotos0.mundofotos.net/2009/06_02_2009/cinemastars1233950256/audrey-tautou.jpg
And Brit movie actress of the moment, Carey Mulligan has a great pixie cut.
I like that song a lot, despite generally being down on the sythpop righ now. Teegan and Sara's voices, imo, work better for dance pop then the indie-poprocks they normally do.
Dangerous Ponies: Also fun! Have you seen them play? They remind me a bit of locals best friends forever (check out the "Eisenhower" and "handpocket" songs!).
29.2:
I'm no expert, but I don't think there's a way to do that hairstyle without a bucket full of product, though I guess I've seen modified versions using barrettes.
Dangerous Ponies: Also fun! Have you seen them play?
Yes! Super fun show. I also liked the best friends forever link; thanks.
In the first link of Audry Tautau, where she has the big curls in back, is probably what it would look like all over. Big uncontrolled waves.
Best friends forever reminded me a bit of The Roches. (Probably it was their geographic specificity.)
The Roches are adorable! I only know two of their songs. But I like them.
Dammit apo, I was waiting for you to show up so I could give you a, "How 'bout dem 'Heels!" jab, but now it would be really crass for me to do so in this thread.
43: That was one godawful ass-kicking. At least the season is mercifully over.
What about an unlikely ACC tourney run!
Winning one would be an unlikely tourney run.
I like the song as well (though it is somewhat generic). I thought it did a good job of building energy gradually and that it used Tegan and Sarah's vocals well, and was a good showcase for them.
But, Stanley, don't you feel at least somewhat badly about linking to music that has no drums?
But, Stanley, don't you feel at least somewhat badly about linking to music that has no drums?
I can't tell if this is a serious question, or if you're funnin' me. If serious, do you mean does the drum machine bug me? Not remotely, when it sounds good, as it does here.
I can't tell if this is a serious question, or if you're funnin' me.
I'm mostly funnin' you. I was just noticing how obvious the drum machine was -- that it wasn't even, as the saying goes, a drum machine that payed tribute to a real drum.
As I said, though, I liked the song.
that it wasn't even, as the saying goes, a drum machine that payed tribute to a real drum
I'm pretty open-to-whatever on these types of things. One of the best things I ever got to play in an orchestra setting was a rusty wheel well with a railroad spike. CLANG!
I guess that's moving almost into sound-effects territory, but anyhow, there were sparks if you hit it just right. And that's what's really important.
On the subject of music we're late to: I've had The Everybodyfields on heavy rotation recently, though obviously I'm late to the game, seeing as they broke up last summer. It's a shame because Jill Andrews afflicts me with impure thoughts, which would probably have been brought into greater relief sharing the stage with Sam Quinn's formidable neckbeard.
re: 50
I saw the Disposable Heroes in a club,* when they were touring their first (only?) album. The wee guy doing percussion was creating wild sparks. Angle grinders on wheel rims, clanging hammers of bits of rubbish, bashing bits of metal with electric tools. It was great.
Ditto Varese's Ionisations, which is one of the most compelling things I've seen in a concert hall.
re: drum machines. I think part of what makes the best 80s Prince records sound great is precisely the completely mechanical, and very sparse, nature of the drum programming. There's all kinds of funky things happening on top, but the drums are minimal, and robotic.
* the fantastically named King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
I saw the Disposable Heroes in a club
I saw them in a club on a bill with Arrested Development and Public Enemy, and it was the same thing. They really stole the show.
ttaM will surely be happy to see, if he hasn't already, that the Disposable Heroes' frontman has finally achieved pop success in the US. It's been a long road.
re: 53
Cool, seeing Public Enemy, in a club, back then when they were at their peak must have been great.
re: 54
Yeah, I'm familiar with his post DH output. I listened to Spearhead a little years back, but, tbh, it's not really my 'thing'.
It's certainly different, that's for sure!
He has been heard for the past decade on all the well-meaning liberal and Putumayo-style radio stations. And finally, this song was actually on pop radio.
I saw the Disposable Heroes open for Billy Bragg. Both played great sets and then the two bands got on stage together for the encore. As you would expect, it was a powerful expression of their shared political commitment. Oh wait, no, they played "Groove is in the Heart". And it was fucking AMAZING.
So sad about Mark Linkous.
It's certainly different, that's for sure!
Wait, so the guy behind that song is also responsible for good music? Huh.
It's certainly different in quality, that's for sure!
I confess that I used to get Burning Spear and Spearhead confused.
35: You're welcome!
37: I can see that, especially via the non-standard harmonies, which was I think was linking term for me with Dangerous Ponies and bff too (see also All Girl Summer Fun Band).
Jem Cohen, of Benjamin Smoke sub-fame had a short film on Mark Linkous, called Nice Evening, Transmission Down". According to Cohen's website, its not available on DVD right now, but I remember watching it on IFC 8-9 years ago. Good stuff.
Cool, seeing Public Enemy, in a club, back then when they were at their peak must have been great.
I saw Public Enemy with Run DMC and DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince when I was pretty young. It was my brother's birthday, so we went as a family. I'm guessing '86 or so. I got a Fresh Prince shirt, which I still have, but which is childsize, which I am no longer.
I got a Fresh Prince shirt, which I still have, but which is childsize, which I am no longer.
But now you have a child!
I saw Disposable Heroes with public enemy as well. They were good.
