What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library

Angels & Airwaves - We Don't Need To Whisper - 2006 - **



Debut album from Blink 182 frontman and pals. Reaching #4 on the Billboard charts after release of the first single, The Adventure. Nominated for 4 MTV awards for that single and album.


Favorite Track - Start The Machine

The ash set in then blew away (then blew away)
It's getting lost into the sea (into the sea)
I grew so close to all the thoughts I had, to leave forever.
I left the chill and voice of screams and kids,
And ran for shelter.

You know I won't say sorry.
you know I won't say sorry.
The pain has a bad reaction.
A blend of fear and passion.
You know what it's like to believe,
It makes me wanna scream.

I see a glow from far away (far away)
A faint reflection on the sea (on the sea)
I left some words quite far from here to be a short reminder.
I laid them out in stone in case they need to last forever.

You know I won't say sorry.
you know I won't say sorry.
The pain has a bad reaction.
A blend, of fear and passion.
You know what it's like to believe,
It makes me wanna scream.

I see the stars they’re in your eyes
A playful kiss, can't you tell I'm excited?
A fast escape in the nick of time
You lost your wish, can I help you to find it?
I'm on my knee, just one to start
A fresh new start, Don't be undecided

If love’s a word, that you say
Then say it, I will listen

If love’s a word, that you say
Then say it, I will listen

If love’s a word, that you say
Then say it, I will listen

If love’s a word, that you say
Then say it, I will listen

If love’s a word, that you say
Then say it, I will listen

If love’s a word, that you say
Then say it, I will listen

I will listen
I will listen
I will listen
I will listen
I will listen


1) Valkyrie Missile - **
YouTube - Angels And Airwaves- Valkyrie Missile Live 7th Ave. Drop
2) Distraction - **
YouTube - Angels & Airwaves - Distraction Live From San Diego
3) Do It For Me Now - ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQZaSNVL_s8
4) The Adventure - **
YouTube - angels and airwaves - the adventure live on letterman
5) A Little's Enough - *
YouTube - Angels And Airwaves, A Littles Enough
6) The War - **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYCNdTwvymY
7) The Gift - *
YouTube - Angels & Airwaves - The Gift - 7th Avenue Drop
8) It Hurts - **
YouTube - Angels and Airwaves - it hurts live!!!!
9) Good Day - **
YouTube - Angels & Airwaves - Good Day (Live)
10) Start The Machine - ***
YouTube - Angels & Airwaves Start The Machine - Live whispers 7th ave

3's - 2
2's - 6
1's - 2

Rating - 2.0


Let's start the machine that begins the war that will impact the adventure, which I'm sure will be a distraction from the gift I have to give. But if you choose to do it for me now I'm sure you'll have a good day, even though I know it hurts to have to decide which valkyrie missile will make the point that a little's enough to actually make one.

[Music Head]

"My Infatuation" - James Chance & The Contortions

Great mix of the aesthetic elements (namely the dissonant saxophone) of free jazz and noisy punk rock. Hard to believe this is from the 70's.

Got an album by these guys. Forget the name of it but this song is on it.

YouTube - James Chance & Les Contortions- Contort Yourself

Strange album, good strange, especially like you say, from the 70's. Think there's a lot of improv going on, which is great.

[Iota]

Iggy Pop - Lust for Life

Just watched Trainspotting. Great film.

[trbc08]

That's crazy. I just saw that movie the other night and it sent me on a Stooges/Iggy Pop kick.

[CMB1888]

Fantastic film - recently heard that they might also be making a film of Walsh's 'Porno' follow-up - that'd be cool.

[Iota]

Yeah but Ewan McGregor doesn't want to play Renton again.

[Music Head]

from my library

Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine - 2005 - *



Third album. Probably my least favorite of the three. No telling how long it sat on the shelf, but 3 years in the making. Reached #7 on Billboard charts but did not sell as well as the first 2. Love the title track, but the rest, not so much.


Favorite Track - Extraordinary Machine

I certainly haven't been shopping for any new shoes
-And-
I certainly haven't been spreading myself around
I still only travel by foot and by foot, it's a slow climb,
But I'm good at being uncomfortable, so
I can't stop changing all the time

I notice that my opponent is always on the go
-And-
Won't go slow, so's not to focus, and I notice
He'll hitch a ride with any guide, as long as
They go fast from whence he came
- But he's no good at being uncomfortable, so
He can't stop staying exactly the same

If there was a better way to go then it would find me
I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

I seem to you to seek a new disaster every day
You deem me due to clean my view and be at peace and lay
I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way, and say,
I've been getting along for long before you came into the play

I am the baby of the family, it happens, so
- Everybody cares and wears the sheeps' clothes
While they chaperone
Curious, you looking down your nose at me, while you appease
- Courteous, to try and help - but let me set your
Mind at ease

(Chorus)

-Do I so worry you, you need to hurry to my side?
-It's very kind
But it's to no avail; I don't want the bail
I promise you, everything will be just fine

If there was a better way to go then it would find me
I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine


1) Extraordinary Machine - ***
YouTube - Extraordinary Machine
2) Get Him Back - **
YouTube - Fiona Apple- Get Him Back (Live)
3) O' Sailor - **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjrLwUg0eAk
4) Better Version of Me - *
YouTube - Fiona Apple- Better Version of Me
5) Tymps (The Sick In The Head Song) - *
YouTube - Fiona Apple- Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song)
6) Parting Gift - *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSedNthxokQ
7) Window - **
YouTube - Fiona Apple- Window
8) Oh Well - *
YouTube - Fiona Apple - Oh Well (unreleased version)
9) Please Please Please - *
YouTube - Fiona Apple- Please Please Please
10) Red Red Red - *
YouTube - Fiona Apple - Red, Red, Red (unreleased version)
11) Not About Love - *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krTE0AJkqj4
12) Waltz (Better Than Fine) - *
YouTube - Fiona Apple & Nickel Creek : Waltz (Better Than Fine)

3's - 1
2's - 4
1's - 7

Rating - 1.4


Please please please, just get him back because you know he's an extraordinary machine, but it's not about love and as I look out the window, I know his parting gift will be that he made a better version of me. O; sailor, remember when we did the waltz and you made the remark about my lips being so red red red, and all I could say was oh wellm as you led me into a verse of tymps.

[Erixouther]

"Take It And Leave It" - ANdy & mE

Great song by a great band, you can find them on purevolume.com

[Music Head]

listened online

The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love - 2009 - **



I found it a little hard to classify this debut album from English band formed in 2007, which I usually do unless it's just obvious. Got a contract after winning the best new band at the NME awards. Hit single Dominos is climbing the British charts with Velvet set to follow.


Favorite Track - Dominos

These girls fall like dominos, dominos
These girls fall like dominos
These girls fall like dominos, dominos

As soon as I love her it's been too long
Talks of future with you makes me ill
Swallow my sugar, cause I needed a loan
Let's get out and smash any dreams of love

These girls fall like dominos, dominos
These girls fall like dominos, dominos
These girls fall like dominos, dominos, dominos

Three words we shared said you weren't only all
Stuck with forever to the point of tears
Swimming with the villa where we slowly drown
Ending at never haunting melody

As soon as I love her it's been too long.
And I really love breaking your heart
These silver apples will shine on I was wrong
The hardest love has the coldest end

These girls fall like dominos, dominos
These girls fall like dominos, dominos
These girls fall like dominos, dominos
These girls fall like dominos, dominos, dominos

These girls fall like dominos, dominos
These girls fall like dominos, dominos
These girls fall like dominos, dominos
These girls fall like dominos, dominos, dominoes


1) Crystal Visions - ***
YouTube - The Big Pink Crystal Visions
2) Too Young To Love - **
YouTube - The Big Pink-Too young to love
3) Dominos - ***
YouTube - The Big Pink - Dominos (Official Video)
4) Love In Vain - ***
5) At War With The Sun - **
6) Velvet - **
YouTube - The Big Pink - Velvet
7) Golden Pendulum - *
8) Frisk - *
9) A Brief History Of Love - ***
YouTube - The Big Pink: A Brief History of Love
10) Tonight - **
YouTube - the big pink tonight live @ bestival 2009
11) Count Backwards From Ten - **
YouTube - The Big Pink "Count Backwards From Ten" LIVE at Mercury Lounge NYC

3's - 4
2's - 5
1's - 2

Rating - 2.2


To describe a brief history of love I will need you to count backwards from ten and pretend you are swinging on a golden pendulum that causes you to have crystal visions as if you were at war with the sun behind a velvet cloud. Tonight I will ask you to frisk me, but you will love in vain because you think you can push me over like dominos and you know we are too yound to love.

[Music Head]

from my library

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible - 2007 - ***



Second full length album + 1 ep, and it keeps getting better for me. Debuting at #2 on Billboardin the U.S. and #1 in Canada. Just hope they don't peak too fast. Mostly recorded in a former church that the band purchased with profits from Funeral. The album received numerous album of the year awards, which is probably one of those hard to surpass moments.

Favorite Track - Antichrist Television Blues

Don't want to work in a building downtown
No, I don't want to work in a building downtown
I don't know what I'm going to do
Because the planes keep crashing always two by two
Don't want to work in a building downtown
No, I don't want to see it when the planes hit the ground

Don't want to work in a building downtown
Don't want to work in a building downtown
Parking the cars in the underground
The voices when they scream, well, they make no sound
Want to see the cities rust
And the troublemakers riding on the back of the bus

Dear God, I'm a good Christian man
I'm your boy, I know you understand
That you got to work hard and you got to get paid
The girl's thirteen, but she don't act her age
She can sing like a bird in cage
Oh Lord, if you could see her when she's up on that stage

You know that I'm a God-fearing man
You know that I'm a God-fearing man
I just got to know if it's part of your plan
To see my darling stand by your right hand
I know that you'll do what's right, Lord
For they are the lanterns and you are the light

Now I'm overcome
By the light of day
My lips are near
But my heart is far away
Tell me what to say
I'll be your mouthpiece

Into the light of a bridge that burns
As I drive through the city with the money that I earn
To the dark of a starless sky
I won't stare into nothing and I'm asking you why
Lord, let me make her a star
So the world can see who you really are

Little girl, you're old enough to understand
You'll always be a stranger in a strange, strange land
Men are going to come while you're fast asleep
So you better just stay close and hold onto me
If mama's mockingbird don't sing well,
Then daddy won't buy her no diamond ring

Dear God, would you send me a child?
Oh God, would you send me a child?
Because I want to put it up on the TV screen
So the world can see what your true word means
Lord, won't you send me a sign?
Because I just got to know if I'm wasting my time

Now I'm overcome
By the light of day
My lips are near
But my heart is far away
But now the war is won
How come nothing tastes good?

Oh you're such a sensitive child
You know you're such a sensitive child
I know you're tired, but it's all right
I just needed you to sing for me tonight
You're going to have your day in the sun
You know God loves the sensitive ones

Oh, my little bird in a cage
Oh, my little bird in a cage
I need you to get up for me up on that stage
Show all the men that you're old for your age
Now in the times of fear
But if you don't take it, it'll disappear

Oh, my little mockingbird, sing
Oh, my little mockingbird, sing
I need you to get up on the stage for me, honey
Show the men it's not about the money
Want to hold a mirror up to the world
So that they can see themselves inside my little girl

Do you know where I was at your age?
Any idea where I was at your age?
I was working downtown for the minimum wage!
And I couldn't let you just throw it all away
Throw me a kid, God, throw me a knife
So tell me Lord, am I the Antichrist?


1) Black Mirror - ***
YouTube - Arcade Fire - Black Mirror (at BBC Radio 2 Session) // Part 4 of 11 (Web Version)[/url]
2) Keep The Car Running - **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3RcSt_m2Ew
3) Neon Bible - **
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjxef8AfVQg]YouTube - Arcade Fire - Neon Bible live in an elevator!
4) Intervention - ***
YouTube - Arcade Fire - Intervention [Live At L'Olympia]
5) Black Wave/Bad Vibrations - *
YouTube - Arcade Fire - Black Wave/Bad Vibrations (at Les Eurockéennes 2007) // Part 4 of 11
6) Ocean Of Noise - ***
YouTube - Arcade Fire "Ocean Of Noise" Music Video
7) The Well And The Lighthouse - **
YouTube - Arcade Fire - The Well And The Lighthouse - 2007/06/27
8) (Antichrist Television Blues) - ***
YouTube - ANTICHRIST TELEVISION BLUES - ARCADE FIRE - GLASTONBURY 2007
9) Windowsill - ***
YouTube - Arcade Fire - Windowsill
10) No Cars Go - ***
YouTube - NO CARS GO - THE ARCADE FIRE - GLASTONBURY 2007
11) My Body Is A Cage -***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4jS536uSSg

3's - 7
2's - 3
1's - 1

Rating - 2.6


When I attempt to interpret this neon bible, I sometimes need divine intervention in the way of a black wave with vibrations, sort of an ocean of noise so I don't get those antichrist television blues and feel like my body is a cage. Meanwhile if you head over to the black mirror that is next to the windowsill, I will keep the car running and meet you at the well and the lighthouse where no cars go.