Blalocks Indie/Rock Playlist (June 2009)

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1. (00:03:51) Elvis Perkins - 1 2 3 Goodbye
2. (00:05:23) Hopewell - 10,000 Black Masses (Part I)
3. (00:03:13) Phoenix - 1901
4. (00:02:43) Owen - A Trenchant Critique
5. (00:02:35) Bright Brown - Are You Listening?
6. (00:03:10) Lacrosse - We Are Kids
7. (00:04:12) Jack Penate - Be The One
8. (00:04:55) Macha - Believe
9. (00:03:43) Paul and The Patients - Blogspot
10. (00:03:30) Peter Gabriel - Book Of Love
11. (00:05:58) The Flaming Lips - Borderline (Madonna)
12. (00:03:01) Green Go - Brains For Breakfast
13. (00:02:53) Go To Berlin - Call Of Duty
14. (00:03:14) Flunk - Cigarette Burns
15. (00:03:06) Lisa Mitchell - Coin Laundry
16. (00:03:18) The xx - Crystalised
17. (00:03:21) Magic Arm - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
18. (00:03:24) Eulogies - Day to Day
19. (00:05:12) 6pm - Deadbeat
20. (00:03:25) Ape School - Deathstomp
21. (00:03:34) Raised By Robots - Dinner Pill
22. (00:02:56) Chris Garneau - Dirty Night Clowns
23. (00:04:01) The Sounds - Dorchester Hotel
24. (00:03:50) Nick Sheqz - Everything Nothing
25. (00:03:03) When I Was 12 - Explicit Content
26. (00:03:09) Faunts - Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.
27. (00:04:11) Kasabian - Fire
28. (00:03:00) Fanfarlo - Fire Escape
29. (00:02:51) Coeur de pirate - Fondu au noir
30. (00:03:56) Ok Vinyl - Gap
31. (00:04:21) The Peekers - Gather It All
32. (00:04:44) Cara Beth Satalino - Good Ones
33. (00:04:03) Modest Mouse - Guilty Cocker Spaniels
34. (00:02:58) Dios Malos - Hermit (F.Y.P. Cover)
35. (00:03:37) Firewater - Hey Clown
36. (00:03:18) Mimicking Birds - Home & Somewhere Else
37. (00:03:31) Owl City - Hot Air Balloon
38. (00:04:05) Plushgun - How We Roll
39. (00:12:39) IAMX - I Am Terrified
40. (00:04:34) Home Video - I Can Make You Feel It
41. (00:03:12) Wave Machines - I Go I Go I Go
42. (00:04:38) Crocodiles - I Wanna Kill
43. (00:03:33) Aaron Stout - Ice Cream Man
44. (00:03:04) Built By Snow - Implode Alright
45. (00:05:19) Seasons - India
46. (00:03:27) Neils Children - Indifference is Vital
47. (00:03:45) Salim Nourallah - It's Not Enough
48. (00:03:15) Regina Spektor - Laughing With
49. (00:03:59) Passion Pit - Little Secrets
50. (00:02:30) Joie De Vivre - Local Local
51. (00:03:36) Yeti Lane - Lonesome George
52. (00:02:01) Crystal Stilts - Love Is a Wave
53. (00:03:15) The Maccabees - Love You Better
54. (00:02:02) Kelsey Brown - My Fair Lady
55. (00:04:10) The Burning Hotels - My New Romance
56. (00:03:14) And Selby Jase - My Pills and My Slack
57. (00:03:22) Cryptacize - Mythomania
58. (00:04:05) Dinosaur Bones - N.Y.E.
59. (00:02:26) Benjamin E. Morsberger - Near
60. (00:01:30) The Bicycles - One Twist Too Much
61. (00:03:48) Here We Go Magic - Only Pieces
62. (00:03:55) Discovery - Osaka Loop Line
63. (00:03:09) Dananananaykroyd - Pink Sabbath
64. (00:03:52) The Meligrove Band - Planets Conspire
65. (00:04:08) The Old Ceremony - Plate Tectonics
66. (00:02:27) An Horse - Postcards
67. (00:03:31) Florence and The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
68. (00:04:38) New Villager - Rich Doors
69. (00:03:49) Trip - River Phoenix
70. (00:01:54) Marmaduke Duke - Rubber Lover
71. (00:02:06) Telekinesis! - Rust
72. (00:02:09) Sonic Youth - Sacred trickster
73. (00:05:03) GIVERS - Saw You First
74. (00:21:39) Blank Dogs - Setting Fire To Your House
75. (00:03:50) Mika Miko - Sex Jazz (extended)
76. (00:03:25) Director - Sing It Without A Tune
77. (00:03:24) Magic Magic - Sleepy Lion
78. (00:02:44) Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work
79. (00:05:26) Deastro - Spritle
80. (00:03:19) Little Birdy - Summarize
81. (00:03:44) Think About Life - Sweet Sixteen
82. (00:03:56) Harlem Shakes - TFO
83. (00:06:36) The Phantom Band - The Howling
84. (00:02:53) The Paper Chase - The Laying Of Hands
85. (00:03:32) Elevator Music - The Rocketeer
86. (00:03:38) The Tallest Man On Earth - These Days
87. (00:01:58) Coconut Records - This Old Machine
88. (00:05:17) The Barlights - Ticking
89. (00:04:06) The Gathering - Treasure
90. (00:02:50) Datarock - True Stories
91. (00:04:03) Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
92. (00:04:46) Foreign Born - Vacationing People
93. (00:03:36) Data Dog - Wall Kicks Will Work
94. (00:04:59) The Thermals - We Were Sick
95. (00:03:26) Record Of The Week Club - Keewatin Arctic
96. (00:04:07) telegraphs - What's So Good About Goodbye?
97. (00:05:13) Cymbals Eat Guitars - Wind Phoenix
98. (00:04:49) Yellow Tricycle - Yellow tricycle
99. (00:03:22) We Have Band - You Came Out
100. (00:03:39) William - Youngun

'nuff said ;)

The Rumble Strips- Welcome to the walk alone

Track List:
01. Welcome To The Walk Alone 2:44
02. London 3:10
03. Not The Only Person 2:21
04. Daniel 2:58
05. Douglas 2:38
06. Back Bone 3:11
07. Sweet Heart Hooligan 1:53
08. Running On Empty 2:27
09. Dem Girls 2:55
10. Raindrops 3:49
11. Happy Hell 3:23

Download Link:
http://hotfile.com/dl/4986213/272f135/The_Rumble_Strips-Welcome_To_The_Walk_Alone-_Advance_-2009-DV8.rar.html

Last.fm Hype List

This is more of an experiment that anything else. You're all probably aware of the last.fm charts they have coldplay and radiohead all over them. Each week last.fm records the highest improvement in plays and listeners over the course of the last 7 days in a list called the "hype list". In the past i've seen it full of music from south korea and lady gaga clones but I saw some
interesting names in there today and wanted to give it one more and maybe a final shot...











Elizabeth and the catapult

From new york the lead singer is called elizabeth so she's named the band after herself, which of course is not cool. They claim to be a mixture of jazz, pop and funk which seems to be a trend in popular music these days "these guys are fresh they're a mix of slap-funk, sunshine-happy-handclap and death-star-facefuck". The singer herself is very much like sara bareilles, but without the red hair :( It's really easy to listen to in that the lyrics aren't pop enough to be annoying but also not profound enough to have any lasting effect.

Download: Rainiest day of summer. It's nice and melancholy, very dark feist. It's the least listened of their available tracks, which says alot about what they're being marketed as.











The boy will drown

I think the definition for this is "deathcore"... I'm thinking these guys could be pioneers in the new genre of shitcore though. Unfortunately I didn't make the latter up myself. So they're experimental music wise and have that shouty man voice that all the other bands have. So yeah this happens a hell of a lot on the hype chart, ridiculous, loud, shouty, deathmetal bands. I probably wouldn't waste your time.

Codes in the clouds

O.K A great name, I like it. Turns out they're instrumental though, I like band names that go with their music and this sure does but I'm just not a huge fan of instrumental bands I am not of the opinion that this is the classical music of the 21st century but rather that these guys don't have the balls to say anything important and instead are wasting your time by "jamming out" at you. They're playing the jericho soon with another instrumentalist by the name of "message to bears" who does paint quite inspiring pictures with his music.

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I've looked through the rest of the list and with the exception of bands that people should already know (soft pack, magistrates) it's a whole lot of BS. Ah damn I don't even want to post this blog now but I have to explore all the avenues to find great stuff just sometimes it's not always there.

So yes. In conclusion. The last.fm hype list is supergay.

New Music from Old Bands

Manic Street preachers- Vision Blurred

The manic's sure love a bandwagon! Remember when they got the welsh one from I'm a celebrity get me out of here to sing on a track? Ah ok i'm needlessly bagging but they're already covering horrors' songs?! Everyone makes out MSP are some sort of god-like-genius'... none more so than nme who gave them that award last year ha. I saw them live in 2007 (supporting foo fighters) and it made me think maybe blur shouldn't reform if it's going to be like this!

Maybe I should mention the music though right!? Screeching guitars (probably with that pretty boy pouncing around the stage). Let's define a cover- making a song your own. Let's anylyse this- a track that didn't even make it onto another bands album which you've managed to make sound like every single other song you've ever done but also keeping in mind you wish you were u2... Well there ya go I think you've done it again fellas.










Ash- Return of the white rabbit

Couple of things about ash- healining the truck festival this summer which is awesome as I loved all their old stuff but then they decided to do a radiohead and give away their album online. That didn't have the same impact so they've decided to "revolutionise the music industry" release one single a month for the next year. I think this is a good idea as suuuurely that means they're gonna have like a solid month to make each track awesome rather than having recorded an album and just are releasing it like that. If it's the former, that's actually quite cool.

Speaking of cool, this track is just that. The music's great, the bass and keyboards rhythmically pumping this track forward with a resounding chorus. It sounds like this track will go down fantastically live and hopefully a sign of what they're about now. It's a great track, instant 3 stars on my ipod.













The Lemonheads- Dirty Robot Ft. Kate Moss

Kate Moss' singing career eh? First Le Belle Et le ete with Pete which I thought was a nice track as beautifully shambolic that album was and now teaming up with Evan Dando on their new covers album "varshons". It lists them as sleeping together on whatever "NNDB" is?! Ah god you've gotta hate the modern world.

The song in itself, sounds like it could have been made by that band from the mighty boosh. Synths, robot singing, trying to sound like the future you name it it's all there. It's really nice to have new lemonheads but... this isn't exactly lemonheads is it?! Like having seen them live i'm like are they even playing on this record?! Maybe the robot man is E.D. either way- the track- once you've stopped listening to it you will have "i'm a dirty robot" stuck in your head for a bit (I wrote hair there originally... messy) so I guess they've hit one demographic.

















The Twang- Another Bus

I've always been a little racist against scottish bands that sound like they're from scotland. Which is fortunate in a way as the twang are from birmingham... But also unfortunate as I'm racist against brummies in the same way :P Neither people from birmingham or scotland are races so I can say what I want and you can't get mad!

But I love bands that give away songs for free, it gives you a taste of the album that will hopefully make you want to add the whole album to your ipod. It does cause tagging issues sometimes but that's surely the only bad thing.

The track has that twingly dreamy guitar in the background ala silversun pickups and the vocals are certainly in the region of just saying things that go along with the music and not worrying about using cliches "we never really try" "I guess we'll never know" "somethings are better left alone" like, this is unimaginative sure but if you just let the track pass through you it's actually quite nice.
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O.K well 4 new tracks and one that is gonna get a good few listens on my ipod. I call that a result as I have 21000 tracks on there and around 1,100 are rated so that's above average. Kinda bullshit in a way but I'll try and weed them out further in the future for you guys. Hope you're liking this months Indie/Rock Playlist from Blalock.

To write love on her arms #2

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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)

Best of May

Kinda sounds like best of mates so that's nice. The TWLOHA blog will be tomorrow instead, didn't realise the date. I guess also this is unique as i've been so busy this month and also the computer's been broken so it's amazing i've been able to blog as much as i have. I've just amassed these and not found time to post them on the blog so these are all fresh, hopefully a few will be on blalock's indie/rock playlist, make sure you check it out...

Wave machines- i go i go i go
regina spektor- laughing with
phantom band- the howling
dizee rascal- bonkers
iggy pop- king of the dogs
grizzly bear- Two weeks
blank dogs- setting fire to your house
miko miko- sex jazz
loop- the nail will burn
Greenday- before the labotomy
junior boys- dull to pause
marmaduke duke- everybody dance
maximo park- overland, west of suez
patrick watson- big bird small cage
Phoenix- lisztomania
kid congo- i found a peanut
manic street preachers- peeled apples
john vanderslice- too much time
Graham Coxon- Humble man
jarvis cocker- angela

En Francais

So I popped over to France for a few days to see a canadian friend, here is what I wrote on the ferry home,

"While I was studying neuro-linguistics, one practitioner talked about emotional response and how wanting to change something sometimes isn't enough and to produce genuine long-term results you must experience and, react to the strongest and indeed, worst-case scenario."

These were the first few tracks that came on my ipod and also the most poignant, music does that to you...

Camera Obscura- Books written for girls
The Libertines- Can't Stand me now
John Vanderslice- New Zealand Pines
Pete and the pirates- She doesn't belong to me
Sammy Davis Junior- The Girl From Ipanema
Air France- Collapsing at your door

"When I think about me I hate myself woo-ooo!", on that subject tomorrow's blog will be about to write love on her arms again. Great news about this is i've already written the most depressing song of all time today!