Sleep Mode Activated
Irradiated by LabRat
Sorry again for the continued radio silence, but now that the dust has settled we’ve downshifted into a combination of catching up on our sleep (good lord am I tired of falling asleep on the couch- or even at my desk) and getting a few projects polished off to wrap up the year. By New Year’s the attic should be fully insulated, our next brew experiment begun, and 2011 metaphorically taken out back and shot.
Anyway, memery is easy content, so I’ll follow Tam and Daddy Bear’s lead and do a top-howevermany songs played by my music gewgaw. Because I am sure you all care intensely.
My software doesn’t allow me to view the straight up most often played tunes, so I set the thing up to spit out a playlist of everything that’s gotten more than ten plays, which turns out to be twenty songs.
1. Fresh Feeling - Eels
2. Short Skirt/Long Jacket - Cake
3. Bohemian Like You - Dandy Warhols
4. Losing Streak - Eels
5. Hey Man (Now You’re Really Living) - Eels
6. Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground
7. Get Off - Dandy Warhols
8. Black Betty - Spiderbait
9. Linus and Lucy - Built to Spill
10. Smile Like You Mean It - Killers
11. Fistful of Fury - Turbo A.C.’s
12. Girls and Boys - Blur
13. Let’s Get Fucked Up - Cramps
14. Psychobilly Freakout - Reverend Horton Heat
15. Dope Nose - Weezer
16. Galaxy 500 - Reverend Horton Heat
17. Alternative Girlfriend - Bare Naked Ladies
18. Pork and Beans - Weezer
19. Jack the Lion - Harvey Danger
20. Nothing’s Forbidden - Turbo A.C.’s
a)You can tell almost to the year how old I was when I started regularly buying my own music rather than listening to the radio or pirating.
b)I’m evidently more of an alternative hipster puke than I thought.
c)The music player and the music software on my main PC have stopped speaking to each other, so this list isn’t so much my musical taste overall as it is what I play when I’m either trying to write something or playing video games while drunk. The player’s stats would probably have a lot more metal and punk, but that’s disruptive when I’m trying to write something that isn’t an angry screed and tends to cover up my healer yelling important information at me like “SLOW DOWN DAMMIT”. He’s been ever so much happier since they added griefgrip to WoW.
December 27th, 2011 at 5:24 pm
There’s a couple bands and songs in there that I actually know, which is more than I expected going in.
I totally understand what you mean by the alternative hipster puke thing though, I’ve been keeping up with things like the Digital Mumbles music blog for long enough now that when friends ask me what I’ve been listening to lately my HONEST answer is, “Well they’re pretty obscure man, you probably haven’t heard of them.”
Even I wanted to punch myself in the face when that came out.
December 27th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Mad, mad props for the Reverend Horton Heat! 8)
December 27th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
If you like RHH, give the Turbo A.C.’s a try sometime.
Them, and Nashville Pussy, who I am honestly suprised not to see in this list.
December 28th, 2011 at 2:50 am
The fun of playing my hunter has diminished significantly ever since our Disc priest figured out that you can lifegrip a hunter out of his feign death, making him fair game for whatever death and destruction just befell the rest of the raid.
And more on topic, I like the music. The Eels were one of my favorites in high school when Novacaine For the Soul came out. Are they still making stuff?
December 29th, 2011 at 9:22 am
Meh… At least your ears are good enough to STILL be able to hear songs…
Catch up on your sleep, and hit 2012 running!
December 31st, 2011 at 6:23 am
So I read this to my wife (she who won’t read blogs. She reads. Just not blogs. Not even mine.), and she liked this, and made me jukebox it through YouTube, and then send her an email with the list (which I hotlinked to the best YT video out of uncharacteristic OCD-ness).
Having watched the videos, my reactions:
This is a good list. How did I not know the Eels? I had heard them, yet not known who they were. I do now.
And I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one who didn’t get too much Cake. I think that that Cake backlash came from people being so righteously tired of the one or two Cake singles that were terminally overplayed by deejays in the mid ’90s. The sound is good, and I dig the horns.
Full frontal in the :”Bohemian Like You” vid. Huh. I’m not offended (it fits the lyrics perfectly, and let’s be honest: I’m just not ever offended by it anyway; especially with even nominally attractive people), but I’m mildly surprised that YouTube hasn’t pulled the video. Someone usually ruins it for everyone.
A fun version of “Black Betty” that I hadn’t heard.
“PsychoBilly Freakout” has, along with “Down On The Ground,” always been the Reverend’s signature live song for stirring up the audience. I first saw them perform it at the Fry St Fair back in 1989, I think, then again at a TINY little bar called the Hole In The Wall at UT Austin in 1991. (I think it sat about 30 people, max.) Always a crowd-pleaser, and redefining rockabilly. Southern Culture On The Skids (a personal favorite of mine, especially their album _Dirt Track Date_) followed closely in the Rev’s tracks.
I’ve liked BNL since their first album _Gordon_, but have missed a lot of their stuff since they hit it big. I’m not looking down my nose at mainstream; I just have missed some of it.
I like the lyrics to “Jack The Lion.”