New Music? (Meme)

epippen:

I want everyone on here to make a list of their top 15 (or so) favorite songs of all time, please? I want to fall in love with some new music!

Also making my list because who doesn’t like thinking about themselves?

Serious

1. Grizzly Bear - “Southern Point” from Veckatimest
2. The Arcade Fire - “Neighborhood #2 (Laika)” from Funeral
3. Sufjan Stevens - “Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair” from The Avalanche
4. Sufjan Stevens - “Casimir Pulaski Day” from Come On Feel the Illinoise! (the one with Superman on the cover, not the lame-o revised version)
5. Sufjan Stevens - okay, pretty much anything from the Songs for Christmas albums, especially the slow acoustic version of “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” that Friday Night Lights used for its closing montage last week
6. Johnny Cash - “The Man in Black”
7. Rich Mullins - “Surely God is with Us” from The Jesus Record
8. Neutral Milk Hotel - “King of Carrot Flowers Part 1” from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
9. Blitzen Trapper - “Furr” from Furr
10. Belle & Sebastian - “If You Find Yourself Caught in Love” from Dear Catastrophe Waitress
11. Okkervil River - “Westfall” from Don’t Fall In Love With Everyone You See
12. Rilo Kiley - “A Better Son/Daughter” from The Execution of All Things
13. Bishop Allen - “Middle Management” from The Broken String
14. The Postal Service - “Brand New Colony” from Give Up
15. Feist - “Let It Die” from Let It Die

Bonus emo-Jesse tracks

1. The entirety of Bright Eyes’ Fevers and Mirrors, particularly including “Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh,” “Something Vague,” “Sunrise, Sunset,” and “The Calendar Hung Itself”
2. Death Cab for Cutie - “Song for Kelly Huckaby” from Forbidden Love EP
3. The Juliana Theory - “August in Bethany” from Understand This Is A Dream (P.S. do yourself a favor and never listen to any other TJT albums besides this one)
4. Twothirtyeight - “The Hands of Men” from Regulate the Chemicals

Bonus ska-Jesse tracks

1. The entire Five Iron Frenzy catalog, excluding Electric Boogaloo, The End is Near, and The End is Here

Not-So-Easy Listening: It Takes a Trek to Hear This Track →

Interesting article (from the Wall Street Journal, of all places) on a novel form of music distribution chosen by one of Sufjan Steven’s fans.

-1 style points for inane use of the word “curate,” though. It’s quickly becoming the dumbest buzzword of the ’00s.

bauldoff:

In awe of The Beatles: Rock Band opening cinematic by the consistently out-of-this-world Passion Pictures.

This is amazing. Watch it in HD at the link above. Watch it now.

“The Submarines is composed of John Dragonetti, who previously preformed as Jack Drag, and Blake Hazard, great-granddaughter of F.Scott Fitzgerald. The romantically involved couple collaborated on Hazard’s 2002 album Little Airplane. Following their breakup, the album Declare a New State! was created in 2006, with many songs written separately while they were apart, as well as a new band. They are now married.”

I’ve been using Google Chrome to make a few internet radio station “applications.” Each gets its own window (Chrome remembers dimensions and location yay!) and taskbar button. So far I am so in love with this web browser.