Outro's birthday mixtape #1

So here is my first mixtape to celebrate making it a year and in particular a prosperous early 2010 in which my expectations have been surpassed exceptionally. Thanks for everyone's support.

Most of the songs on this mix I could give 10 minute speeches on what they mean to me, I have stories behind literally every song here so if you want some great new music or understand the enigma that is Simon D. check it out-

Outroversion's Birthday Mixtape #1 (1950-2005)

The unicorns- I do it
Pinback- Loro
Third Eye Blind- Semi Charmed Life
Neutral Milk Hotel- King of the carrot flowers
Beatles- Tomorrow Never Knows, Blackbird
Eels- Guest List
Tom Petty- Last dance with mary jane
Bright Eyes- Easy/Lucky/Free, Goldmine
Paul Mccartney- Jet, Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, Jenny Wren
Blur- Yuko and Hiro, Tender
Bic Runga- Dust
MC Lars- Signing Emo
Our Lady Peace- Innocent
Outkast- Prototype
Vanessa Carlton- Wreckage
All-Time Quarterback- Dinner at 8 in the suburbs
Beach Boys- I just wasn't made for these times
Interpol- Evil
Yellowcard- Ocean Avenue
Broken Social Scene- Anthems for a 17 year old girl
REM- Shiny Happy People
Modest Mouse- Fire it up, The good times are killing me
Laura Marling- My manic and I
Miles Davis- Little Blue Frog
Air France- Collapsing at your doorstep
Camera Obscura- I don't want to see u
CSS- Let's make love and listen DFA
Paramore- Misery Business
Optiganally Yours- Remo
Bloc Party- Banquet
Fall Out Boy- Golden, Thriller
Death Cab- Lowell, Ma, Debate Exposes Doubt, Kelly Huckerby
John Denver- Poems Prayers and Promises
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Power of Equality, Scar Tissue
The Smiths- How soon is now
The libertines- Ha ha wall, last post on the bugle, Time for heroes
Long Blondes- Seperated By Motorways
John Vanderslice- Continuation, Trance Manual

Quick One: Paramore

Quick one: Paramore



Albums:
All we know is falling
Riot
Brand new eyes
B-sides

Best of 2009 Part II

Small one today and the poppiest, most mainstream of all 3 of the posts...

Part II

Paramore- All I wanted
Jay-Z- DOA
Los Campesinos!- Death to Los Campesinos!/The sea is a good place...
MC Lars- Hipster Girl
Mountain Goats- Genesis 3:23
Paloma Faith- Stone cold sober
Rihanna- Bubble Pop
6 Day Riot- O, Those Kids!
Baddies- Open one eye

Hayley Williams- Teenagers (2009)

Woo another excuse to post pictures of Hayley Williams!!! :P

Soooo why did I start this post? Oh yeah- Teenagers lolz

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The Future of Outroversion

... Is good :D

Just wanted to do a quick post on what's coming up on the blog. On the back of the success of my halloween mixtape i'm going to do a christmas one too, it's looking good so far. Will continue doing the albums of the past year but in addition to that i'm going to be doing a lot of posts over the course of the next few months wrapping up the past decade so that includes the albums of the last 10 years but the main thing is the artists that shaped 2000-2009. I've compiled my list and it doesn't include lady gaga, the strokes, franz ferdinand, muse, coldplay or kings of leon so as you can imagine it's going to be pretty amazing. There's ben gibbard, dr. dre, mark oliver everitt, frank turner, dev hynes, conor oberst and about 30 others it's going to be epic.

In fact I think i'll post the whole list here and then put links to the articles as I do them...

Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, All time quarterback)
Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes, Monsters of Folk)
Marshall Mathers (Eminem)
Frank Turner
Brandon Flowers (The Killers)
Mark Oliver Everitt (The Eels)
Anthony Kiedis/Flea/John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Pete Doherty (The Libertines)
Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse)
Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys/Last Shadow Puppets)
Nick Cave (Grinderman/Bad Seeds)
Amy Winehouse
Bic Runga
Noel and Liam Gallagher (Oasis)
Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy)
Bryce Avery (Rocket Summer)
Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters/Them Crooked Vultures)
Shawn Corey Carter (Jay-Z)
Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley)
Devonte Hynes (Lightspeed Champion)
Kate Jackson (The Long blondes/Madame Ray)
Emily Haines (Metric/Broken Social Scene)
Hayley Williams (Paramore)
Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
Billy Joe Armstrong (Greenday/Foxboro Hottubs)
Damon Albarn (Blur/Gorillaz)

If there's anyone you think i'm missing out i'll either put them in or tell you why they're not going to be included. This is going to go on until at least January for I want to do pretty thorough posts for each person.

Paramoaaaar

Paramore

What a journey paramore have had eh. Let me get this straight first of all, I still think hayley williams is super hot and I still enjoy their music buttttttt yeah- they've gotten all humungous with 14 year old fans like death cab (who are also on the twilight soundtrack *forks eyes*) and so yeah the edge has been taken off a little bit.

Thing is, I loved riot. I found out about them when "all we know is falling" was out and i got it at the same time as paul mccartney's (inconsequential piece of information), I dug them and right after that riot came out and I thought it was amazing. Hallelujah, that's what you get, misery business, it was FULL of great songs.

They toured that, playing academys over here and were phenomenal but then twilight happened and now they're playing arena's. I have a ticket for birmingham (if anyone wants to buy it) but am probably not going to go as I can't be bothered with big gigs unless there was never an alternative (foo fighters, chili peppers, paul mccartney).

The new album is ok but they've sold so much on the back of selling their soul to a teen phenomenon but then muse, radiohead, death cab and countless others have also jumped on the bandwagon i mean who could blame them? It's $$$. I like two tracks on it, the single and the closer. The latter which really show cases hayley's voice which isn't particularly utilised on the album and won't have to be live now.

Just get the albums before they become even less cool-

All we know is falling (pressure, emergency)
Riot! (Misery business, that's what you get, hallelujah, born for this, crushcrushcrush)
The final riot (Hallelujah- leonard cohen cover into paramore version)
Brand new eyes (decode, ignorance, all i wanted, brick by boring brick)

Fun.- aim and ignite (2009)

It's an absolute travesty that fun. haven't been on my blog yet. Most days I think to myself that I should blog about then because they're that awesome but i keep not doing it and haven't since I heard "At least i'm not as sad..." around 6 months ago and instead i've been writing about rihanna... Well this all about to change, you NEED this album I swear i'm not as suicidal (as I used to be)

That was a joke... uh lol :D

Anyway like Hayley Williams said on twitter the other day- "At this point, I really don't understand why fun. aren't the biggest band around."

Fun.- Aim and ignite

1. "Be Calm" - 4:10
2. "Benson Hedges" - 4:00
3. "All the Pretty Girls" - 3:23
4. "I Wanna Be the One" - 3:36
5. "At Least I'm Not as Sad (As I Used to Be)" - 4:07
6. "Light a Roman Candle with Me" - 3:05
7. "Walking the Dog" - 3:40
8. "Barlights" - 4:17
9. "The Gambler" - 4:11
   
10. "Take Your Time (Coming Home)" - 7:51

Essential Downloads- 1, 5, 3 7 and 2

Best of October 2009

What a month! I've found some new personal favourite bands of all time (Jupiter one, Espionage of the Loc, Jeffrey Lewis). The twilight saga highlighted Thom Yorke, Death Cab, Muse and others as willing to sell their souls for franchising... Weird thing is all the music is pretty good!.. That is all. I also saw fanfarlo live again. Oh and greenday :D

It was loads of fun doing the Halloween mixtape, I'll definately do one for christmas too. I've put a few tracks by the same artist on here so there will be plenty that aren't on the Indie Rock Playlist but obviously download that also, too, aswell, in addition to :)

Part I

Espionage of the loc- Another fine sunny day
Yes giantess- Tuff N Stuff
Ex Lovers- Just a silhouette
Golden Silvers- True Romance
Marina and the diamonds- Mowgli's road
Parts and Labour- Nowhere's night
Editors- Papilion
Katherine Williams- Come with me
Espionage of the loc- Start again
Frankie and the heartstrings- Fragile
Doctors and dealers- Snow child
Margot and Ugga- Goodbye July
Cath Le bon- Hollow Trees house hounds
Girls- Hellhole Ratrace
Scary Mansion- Scum inside (2009 version)
Jeffrey Lewis- When I was 4
Leopold and his fiction- Come back now i'm here
MC Lars- Signing emo
Upside down- Number twenty nine
Lixian Hantover- Rachel's new apartment
Nicole Reynolds- When we meet again
Local natives- airplanes
Grace potter and the nocturnals- Oh mary/Mr Columbus
Joy Formidable- Greyhound in the slips
Old canes- Little bird courage
Peter Yorn and Scarlett Johannsen- Relator
Vampire Weekend- Horchata

Part II

Ben Gibbard- California Zephyr
Young Galaxy- Long live the fallen world
Lovely feathers- Lowiza
Foo Fighters- Wheels
A broken robot- All here
Butch walker- Going home
Brand New- Bed
Band of skulls- Friends
Jupiter one- Flaming arrow
This machine is dying- 1
Atlas Sound- Sheila
Muse- I belong to you (twilight new moon mix)
Bosque Brown- So loud
Bowerbirds- Beneath your tree
Sea wolf- the violet hour
The submarines- You me and the bourgeousie
Gentleman caller- Jamie all my days
Kindercastle- Postmaster general
Pet ghost project- Wires from the ceiling
Sound of guns- Alcatraz/Architects
Ellie Goulding- Under the sheets
Boy of girl- Hot chocolate boy
Drums- I felt stupid
When I was 12- Make believe hearts

Part III

Music Go Music- I walk Alone
Julian Casablancas- Out of the blue
Pocketbook- Cross the line
Slow Club- Because we're dead
O. Children- Dead disco dancer
Paramore- All I wanted
Tegan & Sara- Someday
Caroline Smith and the goodnight sleeps- Where has sally gone
Dead man's bones- Pa pa power
The soft pack- Answer to yourself
NNeka- Heartbeat
Ravons and chimes- Hearts of palm
Enola Fall- I don't drive
Charlotte Gainsbourg- IRM
Platicines- Barcelona

No net for a couple of weeks

Every now and then you don't have the net, that's life... well that's modern life anyway. Each time I don't have it I feel like I'm behind as heck with music. This post will be short as I feel the names I'm about to drop outline just how much I'm looking forward to get back on track. All of these have been released or leaked in the past week-

Jay Z- The blue print 3
Isalnds- Vapours
Stardeath and white dwarfs- The Birth
Monsters of folk- Monsters of Folk
Sufjan Stevens- BQE
Paramore- Brand New Eyes

Also I'm torn on whether to post links as I keep getting stuff taken down and would like some feedback on whether you think this blog is still worth it without them? Thankyou for reading.

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Here comes the serious bit Pt. II















Probably don't read if you don't want to know how emotionally insecure i am uh- lol

So I wrote about TWLOHA a little while ago and the main focus was rocket summer, I wanted to give a shout out to all the other bands that help out the society. I still don't talk about it but I know i'm going to have to start soon, fact of the matter is in the past few years i've had a parent and a friend commit suicide, the former on my birthday and the latter the same day I was in a car accident, two friends die in seperate car accidents, my grandad and aunt die, and when I try to list them all like this I forget some because I've blocked it all out and it comes out through self-harm. But recently i've been going through hard times and even when I tried to take a break I couldn't escape myself. I feel like I've had my last drink as that was just another way of hurting myself. I'm done with all that, I just want to be healthy and not feel like this.

Anberlin- Audrey Start the revolution
Paramore- We were born for this
Copeland- No one really wins balls
Rocket Summer- Cross my heart
Bayside- Just enough to love you

I have so much more respect for the people at gigs drinking fruit juice than the people drinking beer, sweating and making out with strangers and I know this used to be me but the feeling that I felt was so profound that I feel like I wouldn't even consider doing this again, I want to be all I can be.

(Bombay Bicycle Club- Always Like This)

Ipod Shuffle #3

It's that time of the week! Spin that wheel!

Justin Timberlake/50 cent/Timothy Baland- Ayo Technology
Slightly Stoopid- Righteous Man
Muse- Take A Bow
M.I.A- Come around
Amy Winehouse- You know i'm no good (Live)
Rothko- Give
Crystal Castles- Courtship Dating
Paramore- Pressure (Live)

O.K once again there's always one that I feel I need to explain myself for! I thought Ayo Technology was a pretty original name for a track and the videos pretty cool, I downloaded it and it's actually alright. "your hips your thighs you got me hypnotised" It's just something that happens to be on there...

At least that shows I do these things honestly! No skipping!

Secondly there's the frat band slightly stoopid, I downloaded their library on the stregnth of the name of the album name "slightly not stoned enough to eat breakfast yet kinda stoopid" I figured, here's a band that can make up for the lack of blink 182 and the bloodhound gang inspired college rock in my life!

Muse, one of those 21st century bands that everyone else in england seems to love but I just don't get their cultural relevance. They join a list with numaries such as radiohead, coldplay and kings of leon. Apparently their live shows have lasers and stuff which make it worth £60 a ticket. I'd only pay that much if they invented a machine to bring people, not only back from the dead but make them and their bandmates younger and could take them back to a certain time and did it to the beatles and they went on a sgt. peppers/white album tour and I'd still privately curse the economy.

One Thing I was amazed by MIA about is that she releases a song that blows up like nobody's ubsiness and has a kid while the money's rolling in, she like planned exactly the coolest time to do it because she wasn't all over the stupid tv shows and festivals as a one hit wonder and instead gets to release another album next year and actually think about grinding it out as a career artist. Pretty cool. She's also hot and looks like konnie huq. Oh yeah- there's a pornstar called "Connie Fuq".

Ah what can I say about Adubs, I got into her around 2002 and was well pumped for her debut album Frank and absolutely loved it, told everyone to get into her and she was gonna be huge, the album was nominated for the mercury prize and rightly so I thought it was awesome. Anyway I forgot about her, went to canada and saw her cd on the shelf while at uni and I was like... That's weird... I come back and she's like the female Jesus over here and then she blew up over there with the grammys to, it was pretty insane. The second album was very professional and well thought out.

Rothko have apparently been on the grind since 1997, this is the first i've heard of them, and my first impression is a bass driven rhythmic yet at the same time avante garde instrumental band. I don't like instrumental bands but if you like that kind of thing then I would say listen to this in a room that lets in little light but enough for it to be depressing.

Ah crystal castles, marmite, peanut butter and jelly, I got into them with crimewave and because for whatever reason and I have no idea what it is, I find alice glass supremely hot! The video for courtship dating sold this track to me and I really dig it. I'd love to see them Live, I missed out at the nme awards and as expected not everyone got what it was about.

Paramore, the girl's hot has a cool voice, writes catchy songs, the guitarist and bassist are good the drums are effective, they're a really good band I think they'd be fun to see live but I don't care if I don't.

I'm not too impressed with how mainstream this shuffle was, muse, paramore, justin timberlake, amy winehouse, MIA. But that's the way of the shuffle, last week it turned up some great tracks... It's still on shuffle and oh man I don't wanna say what just came on! Ha, I think it's doing this on purpose. But anyway, if you just take away from this that's a result right?