this is killing it this morning.
there seems to be an hd version of it here.
yoko
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrJz9Dh5MsM?rel=0&w=560&h=315]
yes. i’m a fan.
plastilina
[youtube http://youtube.com/w/?v=pj_C5zx7B1s]
another contender for greatest song of all time. how can you not be into this? also this is not the official video or anything. just a means of listening.
jarvis
[youtube http://youtube.com/w/?v=rUb3NkUx2jc&feature=related]
we were there when he made the indy boys with coke bottle glasses and beards cry and support each other lest they faint. when he took off his suit coat with shimmy of his shoulders we thought everyone would throw their glasses at the stage in lust.
sonic youth
in descending order of awesomeness!
washing machine
a thousand leaves
sonic nurse
nyc ghosts and flowers
murray street
evol
confusion is sex
dirty
experimental jet set trash and no star
goo
bad moon rising
sister
the whitey album
rather ripped
daydream nation
the eternal
note that these are only the full length studio albums. note that the top six are fairly arbitrary and could change depending on the day. note that the top six could all just be equally ranked as being my favorite. note that this list is a meaningless exercise and that prolly no one gives a shit what i think.
demons sing love songs
ohrwurm
the stuff that’s been stuck in my head – the true soundtrack of my life.
the theme to elmo’s world
hysteria – def leppard
don’t stop – fleetwood mac
supa emcees – de la soul
the theme to backyardigans
just can’t get enough – depeche mode as sung by the chicago fire fans – generally off key and with a lonesome trumpet.
manic monday – the bangles
1999 – prince
it’s been a mashup of both manic monday and 1999. ponder that.
fisticuffs
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOTedoW6izs&w=480&h=360]
this made me cry the first time i saw it. and even now it cracks me up. especially the reveal at 2:42.
a house in bali
i’ve always been interested in gamelan music. the first time i heard something like it was in the soundtrack to akira. there was a haunting and sad element to it but tremendous energy and beauty. in high school i had a crappy copy of the akira soundtrack and i listened to it over and over again. it was one of those albums where you lay on the floor to listen to it cuz it’s high school and yr so moved by the music that you can’t do anything. it wasn’t until a few years later when i was living in chicago that i came across a used copy of one of the nonesuch explorer series gamelan albums at reckless. i bought it for seven dollars and after i got home and listened to it i was hooked. the music was mind blowing. all the syncopated polyrhythm, the loud soft dynamics. it all killed me. and what was awesome was at the time i couldn’t even imagine what kind of instruments were capable of creating such sounds.
stones
i didn’t know this existed. one of my favorite songs by them. probably the first one of their songs that blew my mind when i was a kid. i always wished they had explored this stylee more. instead we got lame dude bar rock. lame!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_f_tkpFxv4&w=480&h=360]