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Two Tune Tuesday: OK GO

helenboyd — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:06:27 +0000

They’re otherwise famous for the video of “A Million Ways” but I had their “I Want You So Bad I Can’t Breathe” come up on Pandora the other day, and so went hunting for it, which is when I discovered their lovely cover of “Antmusic” — which is a song I never expected to like a cover of, so props to them.

so bad i can’t think straight /
so bad all my bones shake /
so bad i can’t breathe.

Two Tune Tuesday: Goldfrapp

helenboyd — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:23:53 +0000

Two Tune Tuesday: Photographs (from the 80s)

helenboyd — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:46:55 +0000

How can you not love a band that came up with “another Kodak whore, winking” and “see the red light rinsing another shutter slut wincing”? I know, I know, slut-shaming is bad, but I still love the sound of those lyrics. The song is more critical of the objectification of women in fashion than anything else.

& The AFOS song is kind of lovely in an awful, precious New Wave sort of way, no?

Two Tune Tuesday: Sergio Mendes

helenboyd — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:29:56 +0000

Two Tune Tuesday: Terry Hall

helenboyd — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:04:45 +0000

Terry Hall’s best known as one of the voices of the ska band The Specials (although many will know “Ghost Town” only), but 80s types will know him equally well as the emo-before-emo voice of The Fun Boy 3.

(There was the brief stop with The Colourfield, too, most of which is horribly dated, except maybe this song because it was snagging sounds from another era already.) There’s something about the quality of his voice that still knocks me out.

Two Tune Tuesday: Foster the People

helenboyd — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:59:59 +0000

I kept noticing “Pumped Up Kicks” because the guy’s voice reminded me of Ray Davies’ and that’s just not a bad thing.

Trippy and sweet electronica, what isn’t often my thing, but sometimes it hits when there’s some kind of nice noise & a pretty voice.

Two Tune Tuesday: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

helenboyd — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:02:54 +0000

I miss Roddy Frame, but now I don’t have to.

(Of course it’s not Roddy Frame, but still.)

Two Tune Tuesday: Bud Powell

helenboyd — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:54:39 +0000

Okay, no laughing, but since the three listening choices I have now that I work at a university with a conservatory are (1) world music, (2) classical, and (3) jazz, I’m trying to learn something about the latter. I’m not sure I get it, but I like this guy:

It was the tune “Tempus Fugue It” that I liked most, first — who can resist a Latin joke? — but you get the idea from these.

Two Tune Tuesday: Grief, Grace, & Hope

helenboyd — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:49:00 +0000

This Week’s Playlist!

Friday night I listened to the Buckley; I knew Aeneas was going soon, & wow did I not want to let him go, but Buckley’s voice is so beautiful in this one; it’s more a cri de coeur than a song. Then yesterday, out of nowhere, I heard Matt Johnson’s voice in my head, found myself humming this song which I haven’t listened to in a long, long time:

In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch
All the thoughts unuttered and all the feelings unexpressed
Play upon our hearts like the mist upon our breath

It seems a particular good song for summer solstice, too, seasonal in its grief.

Two Tune Tuesday: Cars

helenboyd — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:33:09 +0000

Guess who’s learning how to drive this summer?

Yes, more Garbage, but “Driving Lesson” is a hot, hot song, no? I would be remiss not to mention “Cartrouble Pt. 1″ too, so here are the Ants doing it live.

Thanks in advance to the friends who drive stick who are stepping up to take some the pressure off my lovely, patient wife. Did I mention I’m learning how to drive a standard? Well of course. Why make it easy?