Fell In Love With A Drummer

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

YOUTUBE: "Year of the Beard"

Respect the beard.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Julianna Barwick -- "Keep Up The Good Work"

Ready for a good pun....I mean a terrible one... "keep up the good work," Julianna Barwick! Man I'm creative... I hope my terrible attempts at humor do not stir you away from the artist I am about to discuss. Julianna Barwick is a Brooklyn (via Louisiana) singer, who I honestly do not know much about. All I can tell you is that her most recent release, which I believe is her first full-length LP, entitled The Magic Place, is astonishing. Along with many other bloggers/music nerds, I found out about this album because of it's "Best New Music" status at Pitchfork. Since I read that review, this album has been playing constantly at my apartment. Barwick's sound is based around large arrangements of her own voice looped, along with few instruments. Some songs enlists the accompaniment of a piano or guitar, while others are simply many Julianna Barwicks singing at once. The angelic quality to this woman's voice is just simply unmatched. The second I heard "Keep Up The Good Work," it was as if an angel came down and said, "post about her. She is the chosen one." This song, along with the rest of this remarkable album, has touched me in such a divine way. Certainly an album that I will come back to throughout the year, Julianna Barwick's The Magic Place is a must listen. I highly recommend listening to "Keep Up The Good Work" and giving the rest of the album a chance.

-- Greg

Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place - Keep Up the Good Work (asthmatic kitty) by pdis_inpartmaint

Saturday, March 5, 2011

200th Post: 50 Most Influential Albums On Our Lives Pt. 1

200th Post! Wow!! Really can't believe this. When I started this blog with Mike I would have never expected to have come this far with such a receptive following. Thank you to all those who support and read the site.

For the big 200 I decided to do a special little post that I am calling a "musical autobiography" of sorts. For my education course here at school I had to write an "educational autobiography," which had me discussing the most important educational experiences in my life. So, I decided to do something in a similar vein for this post. This post is a list of the 50 albums that impacted and influenced my life most. This list was certainly not easy to organize, but it was far simpler than attempting to do what I think are the 50 "greatest" or "best" albums of all time because that is just simply impossible for me to determine. Furthermore, these are the 50 albums that impacted my life most in the order that I felt appropriate. Some of these albums may have changed my view of a particular genre, while others may have simply been a personal favorite of mine throughout the years, but there is no doubt in my mind that the top albums on this list (perhaps the top 5 or 10) forever changed how music has impacted my life. Enjoy!

Quick Sidenote: I wrote Pt. 1 because Mike plans to do Pt. 2 for the upcoming future. Stay tuned!

50.) Modest Mouse -- The Moon & Antarctica
49.) The White Stripes -- White Blood Cells
48.) Shugo Tokumaru -- Exit
47.) Chicago -- Chicago Transit Authority
46.) Pavement -- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
45.) The Strokes -- Is This It?
44.) Sonic Youth -- Daydream Nation
43.) Fishbone -- Truth And Soul
42.) Minutemen -- Double Nickels On The Dime
41.) Nirvana -- Nevermind
40.) Radiohead -- In Rainbows
39.) Wilco -- A Ghost Is Born
38.) Sufjan Stevens -- Illinois
37.) Radiohead -- The Bends
36.) Pink Floyd -- Animals
35.) John Coltrane -- My Favorite Things
34.) Radiohead -- Kid A
33.) The Beatles -- Help!
32.) David Bowie -- Hunky Dory
31.) Santana -- Abraxas
30.) Fountains Of Wayne -- Welcome Interstate Managers
29.) Steely Dan -- Aja
28.) The Rolling Stones -- Sticky Fingers
27.) The Who -- Tommy
26.) Beck -- Midnight Vultures
25.) Pink Floyd -- Meddle
24.) The Beatles -- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
23.) The Jimi Hendrix Experience -- Axis: Bold As Love
22.) Prince -- Purple Rain
21.) Ben Folds Five -- Whatever & Ever Amen
20.) Belle & Sebastian -- If You're Feeling Sinister
19.) The Who -- Who's Next
18.) Spoon -- Kill The Moonlight
17.) The Replacements -- Tim
16.) XTC -- Skylarking
15.) The Flaming Lips -- The Soft Bulletin
14.) The Notrious B.I.G. -- Ready To Die
13.) John Lennon -- The Plastic Ono Band
12.) The Who -- Quadrophenia
11.) Television -- Marquee Moon
10.) The Beatles -- Rubber Soul
9.) Queen -- A Night At The Opera
8.) Radiohead -- OK Computer
7.) Marvin Gaye -- What's Going On
6.) The Clash -- London Calling
5.) Pink Floyd -- The Dark Side Of The Moon
4.) The Beatles -- Abbey Road
3.) Bruce Springsteen -- Born To Run
2.) Ben Folds Five -- Ben Folds Five
1.) Wilco -- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

-- Greg