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evangelism, turning on, and compression

February 19, 2010 Andy 11 Comments

Go go oxford comma!

Ahem. Anyway. So! I’ve always been somewhat of an evangelist – but not in the religious sense (although I did go through a phase that could be said to approximate that O.o). I’ve always been maybe a little too motivated (at least internally) about sharing the music & books that I enjoy with others. Not so much TV & movies – I just don’t care enough. But music and books… those are two things I’m way into.

I’m sure some of it is born of the standard loner desire to have others to actually enjoy your interests with – people you can shoot the shit with about your favorite bands or books and know they won’t be out in the cold. But, there’s at least a touch of genuine altruism in there. If I really enjoy something, I want to share that in the hopes that it will make someone’s day the way it made mine.

NOW. I couldn’t tell you what the exact breakdown is between the two, but I’d wager it’s pretty close to 50/50. If you’ve known me long I’ve probably tried to turn you on to some band or another, or maybe even a book. The funny thing is, for all the time invested, I don’t think I’ve succeeded much. I’ve had the most headway with music I guess, but I can only think of one or two instances where someone has read a book on my recommendation. I’m not sure that says anything about me so much as I tend to hang out with people with very different reading tastes than myself. Which does get lonely I admit, moreso than differing tastes in music.

So maybe that’s why I still blog about books and music (and anything I can’t find someone to yak about with really)? Talking to the air beats talking to nothing, or so I’ve heard.

In light of all this, I decided to make a nice, compressed list of things that I enjoy recommending to folks, just in case anyone ever happens to be open to that kind of thing. Not complete of course, but a nice cross-section.

Some of these are my “favorite” things to one degree or another, others are just things that I enjoy talking about, or think deserve more exposure.

Books:

The Illuminatus Trilogy – The only book(s) I still re-read every 18 months or so. Probably too weird for most people. If you like weirdness, drugs, sex and a little violence and more weirdness…

The Dune series, particularly if you can make it through to my favorites – books 4-6: God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse Dune. Most sci-fi fans read Dune, but for some reason they stop there. This baffles me as Dune, really, is not even the strongest book of the series (for me). It’s the most simple, direct and “sci-fi-ish” though, so maybe that’s what does it. After that, shit just goes off the rails in a way that a lot of casual sci-fi fans might miss, or be pushed back by.

Atlas Shrugged & The Fountainhead – The closest thing to classics I will touch. No, I don’t agree completely with Rand’s Objectivism, but I still find the books enjoyable reading and great conversational fodder (when I’ve recently read them, I forget things FAST).

Night’s Dawn trilogy – Absolutely brilliant “hard” sci-fi. The best written in the last 20 years (ie about the bounds of my sci-fi reading lifetime) IMHO. Just, just brilliant really. Lot’s of pages, lots of text, so you’ve got to have a love of the long works to enjoy this but man is it worth it. I’ve re-read these a few times as well. I’ve bought the entire series maybe 3 times as I’ve moved and lost (then re-found) older copies and even given the entire series to a friend once. He has not yet read it. Some “science” hero he is ;p.

Mistborn trilogy – One of the best new fantasy series that I’ve had the pleasure of stumbling across. A far cry from the simplistic lands of Tolkien this series asks a couple of interesting questions: What if the bad guy (Sauron analogue) won? What if the bad guy winning wasn’t the worst that could have happened?

Serious fantasy fans already have their minds made up about the Wheel of Time series and the Song of Fire and Ice. I say both are must reads, but the latter may appeal more to non fantasy fans.

Bands:

Starflyer 59 – The old stuff at least, I can’t really get behind the last 3 or 4 albums. If you’re reading this post you probably know me (?sadly? in 6 years of blogging I haven’t picked up any non friend/family readers), so you’ve probably heard of and heard these guys. I’m just putting them here (and at the top) for the sake of completion and history – them being the first band that made me want to share music with others and all.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csPEitRRfuM

Gaslight Anthem – Awesome (but with room to grow) modern rock and roll. I’ve extolled their virtues on a number of blog posts, so if you haven’t checked them out by now (at least to decide that you don’t like them), you probably don’t think very highly of my opinion, at minimum.

Airborne Toxic Event – Another band I’ve pushed a bit on this blog. A little like the National in genre/sound, but a bit more energetic.

The Crush & Death on Wednesday – two long defunct bands, both of which I really loved and tried to share with others. The Crush is alt/punk/rock in the grand Twin Cities tradition and DoW is rockabilly/rock/punk a la nothing quite like it at the time. Both bands that I think had enough commercial appeal to blow up (but never did), and enough chops and genuine flavor to appeal to the rest.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzZwHbxWV28

Elvis Costello – the early stuff mostly. Hard to try and describe a guy who’s worn so damn many shirts. His first 4 albums are where most of it is at, although there are many, many later tracks that I love as well – I just don’t find the complete albums as enjoyable to listen to. Here’s a video of one of my favorite EC classics. The video is from the year I was born…. which is crazy.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j7JFP6ZOCI

Joe Christmas – another favorite dead band of mine that never really got any kind of recognition. Sadly, the singer’s later bands well, sucked.

Hum – Yep, another dead band. Post shoegazer droney wall of distortiony awesomesauce. Albums 3 & 4 should be on any alt music aficionado’s shelf (or iPod) IMHO.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTl8HcvYRqg&

Morphine – What is it with dead bands? Well, not many had a dude playing 2 saxs at once and another on two string slide bass. Don’t let that scare you off though :). The saxophonist (?) is only playing one in the vid below, sorry. Ahh, found one, second vid has the double sax action.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=985JGeGq_tc

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6naQ195c_k

The National – NOT a dead band! A band a certain Science Hero turned me on to that is chock full of awesome nuggets. Not even sure what to call the sound other than some flavor of indie.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhA9ARZ6pjk

Tiger Army – Pyschobilly! Like, faster rockabilly basically. Except they’ve got a groovy little goth theme going on with songs about beautiful death and violence and the like. Here’s one of their mellower songs:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–NyHw8rQ3I

TV on the Radio – Another not dead band. One of the pinnacles of alt/indie “rock” at the moment I think, quality and creativeness wise. Past Arcade Fire imho, by quite a bit. Not that there’s any reason to compare the two BUT I keep hearing references (still) to AF as “it”. TVotR is also “it”. QUITE.

Here’s an older one of theirs:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHrTOQ18yzU

Let’s call that enough for this post. Hopefully this was interesting to someone. If you’ve got the time, and you haven’t already formed an opinion about a given band, at least check out the various song videos. Good for background noise if nothing else.

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audio, Music

songs that “mean something” to me

May 5, 2009 Andy

I’m sure this is probably a meme…how can it not be right? But it came to me on my way to lunch today, so I’m going to roll with it and pretend I made it up.

So, the task:

Songs that trigger an emotional resonance, or strong memory, when you hear them. THEY DO NOT HAVE TO BE GOOD SONGS! Just songs that have a strong memory attached, etc. That being said, I think most ofmine are good songs ;).

I’m trying some new tech to get the songs to you, so bear with me hear. I’m using 8tracks.com to attempt to get some full playlists and not have to embed each song one by one via vox. They have some weird restrictions, like the second time you play the list it will be out of order, but whatever you can skip through them to the appropriate songs. So, just hit play and leave this tab up while the list plays, then read below for the stories…or whatever.

Various flavors of nostalgia, in chronological order, part 1:

http://8tracks.com/mixes/25021/player_v2

Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen – The album is one of the ones I remember my dad having in his truck when I was a little kid…the cover has stuck with me all these years. Since I got back into Springsteen years later, the nostalgia effect is mostly muted – but this song still has it – mostly because it reminds me of the album cover of the cassette in his dashboard.
Down on the Corner – Creedence Clearwater Revival – While my dad did also have a Chronicle I cassette in his truck, and this does stem from that, the real resonance comes in in that I think it was the first song I learned to play on the guitar. Duh du du duh da…etc.
Pure Energy – Information Society -I spent YEARS trying to figure out what this song was. I hear it somewhere around 4th or 5th grade, and just remembered the chorus line: “I wan to know what you’re thinking, tell me what’s on your mind” – or whatever. I had that stuck in my head for years with no way to find out what it was (no internet back then you know, and my parents certainly didn’t know). I eventually found out the name of the song and band *I THINK* from Jeremy J. in 7th or 8th grade. He had a cassette that I think had this album on one side, and their second (not so good) album on the second.
She’s the Queen – Starflyer 59 – I’m not sure why this is the Starflyer song that’s stuck in my head for this period, but it is what it is. It reminds me of when my musical tastes were finally starting to come into their own in 7th or 8th grade. I started getting rid of all the random cassettes I bought as a kid (Beach Boys, Motley Crue, Madonna, a bunch of random stuff really) and moving on to stuff I actually liked for personal reasons.
Selling the Drama – Live –<cheesy as fuck teen-drama warning> OK. So, this was the song I would sing under my breath to keep myself going when my HS girlfriend broke up with me and then I saw her kissing another guy a few days later. I think, that’s how it sequences in my mind anyway. So yeah you know I was like …15? 16? My tiny, angsty world was ending for a few weeks or a month or so there, and instead of talking to people like a normal person I would walk around singing this song. TOTALLY overdramatic I KNOW THIS. But, you know, shit seems important at that age ;). I wasn’t even really a Live fan…this song just stuck for some reason.
Stars – Hum -I can’t quite place this one – I’m not sure if it was late High School (I think it was), or early post-HS. Either way, I’m sitting at the (only) gas station in Templeton (which has since closed down due to the economy – I think there is one other station now though), and I think it’s after midnight because that’s the only time the local rock station plays non top-20 shit…and this comes on and blows my mind. I spend years trying to find the name of the band – (not sure how long it took to find them, but I did eventually!. I’m thinking HS now, because the internet was still small enough that I couldn’t just search up the lyrics.
3 AM – Matchbox 20 -Reminds me of driving around the streets of San Luis, after my first college “party” I think. A guy I worked with at Cuesta had invited me. The whole thing was rather awkward and not particularly entertaining, but still a worthwhile experience. I think I was lost on the way home for a few minutes or something, and it was exactly 3 am, and this song came on the radio. I’m sure the DJ thought it was funny, but it stuck in my mind and locked in that moment.
Molly – Sponge & What do you want from me? – Monaco – Ahh, college. These are the “Isla Vista nights” songs for me. Ahh, San Raf 6th floor. There were more, but these are the two that still cling to my memory. We had several mix cds we made for warming up/pre-drinking…but I think these were on the one I liked the most. Hearing them now I still get a little pumped. And miss alcohol.
Lost Ones – Lauryn Hill – If the two above songs are the San Raf nights, the whole Miseducation album is San Raf days. We all rotated discs on the cd player, and this one was Ryan’s – but I think we all liked it, so it got more play than if just he were playing it. This was the first hip-hop album that really got me into on an album level (although I did have Cooleyhighharmony as a kid). Up until then, it was just the random tracks you hear on the radio. But this – this album was something else. I’ve looked for other hip-hop albums that appealed to me this strongly, but haven’t found one yet (alas, poor Lauren, why the fuck did you have to go crazy?). Every single track on this thing is solid. That’s a rare find for me any genre – but especially for hip-hop. So why “Lost Ones”? Because it’s the first song after that silly intro…it got things started.
All My Best Friends are Metalheads – Less than Jake -This one always reminded me, in college, of the friends I’d left behind from high school. Sort of nostalgia for nostalgia type thing… that”s two levels of nostalgia for your ass! I think I remember these feelings first triggering during on of my radio shows on the campus station too…so it reminds me of that as well.

Feel free to comment with your own songs, make your own blog post, Facebook thing, etc. I’d love to hear what is stuck in the back of your mind, cooking up images all by itself.

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