Fleet Foxes — “Helplessness Blues”
From the album of the same name.

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique
Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see
And now after some thinking, I’d say I’d rather be
A functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me

More Music…

Most (if not all) of the songs/music that I’ve posted on this blog since it has started. WITH LINKS!!!

Last Updated: 06/01/2012

2Cellos — “Use Somebody”

Adriano Celentano — “Prisencolinen Sinainciusol” [video]
Allo Darlin’ — “If Loneliness Was Art”
Anaal Nathrakh — “Between Shit and Piss We Are Born”
Anton Maiden — “Run to the Hills”
Arcade Fire — “In the Backseat”
Astor Piazzola — “Buenos Aires (Hora Cero)” [video]

The Beach Boys — “God Only Knows”
Beach House — “10 Mile Stereo” [video]
Beach House — “Zebra”
Beirut — “Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)” [video]
Beirut — “My Night with the Prostitute from Marseille”
Bernard Herrmann — “Theme to Vertigo”
The Birthday Party — “Junkyard” [video]
The Black Keys — “The Flame”
The Black Keys — “Hold Me in Your Arms”
Bloc Party — “Flux”
Blonde Redhead — “Elephant Woman”
Blut Aus Nord — “Procession of the Dead Clowns”
Boney M — “Happy Song” [video]
Boris — “Korosu”
Brian Eno — “2/2”
Brian McBride — “Prelude”
Bruce Cockburn — “Pacing the Cage”
Bruce Springsteen — “Hungry Heart”
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band — “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out”
The Buzzcocks — “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)”
The Byrds — “All I Really Want to Do”

CAN — “Paperhouse” [video]
Cat Power — “Sea of Love”
The Champagne Socialists — “Blue Genes”
Coldplay — “In My Place”
The Cure — “Friday I’m in Love”
The Cure — “The Funeral Party”

D.A.F. — “Der Mussolini” [video]
David Lynch — “Pinky’s Dream”
Dead Kennedys — “Holiday in Cambodia”
Dead Man — “Euphoria”
Death from Above 1979 — “Romantic Rights”
Death in June — “He’s Disabled”
Dee Dee Ramone — “Funky Man” [video]
Dernière Volonté — “La Nuit revient”
Dernière Volonté — “Peut-Être”
Dinosaur Jr. — “The Lung”

Eberg — “Niðurlönd”
Echo & the Bunnymen — “Lips Like Sugar”
Electric Light Orchestra — “Telephone Line”
Electric Wizard — “We Hate You”
The Emergent Order — “Fear the Boom and Bust”
Eurythmics — “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”

Fairport Convention — “Si tu doit partir”
The Flaming Lips — “Evil”
Fleet Foxes — “Helplessness Blues”

G.G. Allin — “Bored to Death”
Gary Glitter — “Rock and Roll Part 1” [video]
Gary Jules — “Mad World”
Genghis Tron — “Endless Teeth”
Genghis Tron — “Things Don’t Look Good” [video]
Georges Delerue — “Camille (from Le Mépris)”
Grim Croce — “A Flock of Necroseagulls”
Godflesh — “Anthem” [video]
Gordon Lightfoot — “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
Gotye — “Somebody That I Used to Know”

Hammock — “The Silence”
The Hidden Cameras — “Death of a Tune” (Learning the Lie 7” Version)
The Hidden Cameras — “Learning the Lie”
The Hidden Cameras — “Underage” [video]
Hüsker Dü — “Newest Industry”

Idaho — “Alive Awake”
Idaho — “Pomegranate Bleeding”
Isis & Aereogramme — “Low Tide”

Jackson Browne — “Lawyers in Love”
Jamiroquai — “Canned Heat”
Jello Biafra & the Melvins — “Those Dumb Punk Kids Will Buy Anything”
Jesu — “Tired of Me”
Jimmy Soul — “If You Wanna Be Happy”
John Murphy & Underworld — “The Surface of the Sun”
Josef K — “Romance”
Joy Division — “Atmosphere” [video]
Joy Division — “Disorder”
Joy Division — “Shadowplay” [video from TV appearance]
Joy Division — “She’s Lost Control”

King Crimson — “Discipline”
The Knife — “Heartbeats (Rex the Dog Remix)”
Kyuss — “Green Machine”

Laibach — “2525”
Leichtenstein — “Roses in the Park”
Lightning Bolt — “Assasins”
Loscil — “Argonaut 1”
Lou Reed — “Walk on the Wild Side”
Lovage — “To Catch a Thief”
Love Among Freaks — “Berzerker”
Low — “Dinosaur Act”
Low — “I Started a Joke”
Low — “Last Snowstorm of the Year”
Low — “Little Argument with Myself”
Low — “Lullaby”
Low — “Over the Ocean” [video]
Low — “Point of Disgust” [video]
Low — “Try to Sleep” [video]
Low — “Words” [video]

Magma — “De Futura (excerpt)” [video]
Magma — “Hhaï” [video]
The Magnetic Fields — “All My Little Words”
The Magnetic Fields — “The Book of Love”
Martial Canterel — “Still a Part”
The Melvins — “A Civilized Worm”
Meshuggah — “Bleed”
Modest Mouse — “Dark Center of the Universe” [video]
The Mountain Goats — “This Year” [video]

Nadja — “No Cure for the Lonely”
Napalm Death — “Time Waits for No Slave” [video]
Napalm Death — “You Suffer” [video… by yours truly]
The New Pornographers — “Letter from an Occupant” [video]
Nouvelle Vague — “Love Will Tear Us Apart”

Otis Taylor — “Ten Million Slaves”

Pale Sketcher — “The Rainy Season”
Passion Pit — “Sleepyhead” [video]
Peter Sarstedt — “Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?”
Petra Haden — “God Only Knows”
Portishead — “Sour Times”
Portsmouth Sinfonia — “Also Sprach Zarathustra” [video]
Primus — “Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver”
Prince & the Revolution — “When Doves Cry”
Pyramids — “The Echo of Something Lovely”

The Rapture — “Whoo! Alright Yeah… Uh Huh”
R.E.M. — “Losing My Religion”
R.E.M. — “Radio Free Europe”
Roy Ayers — “Coffy is the Color”

Serge Gainsbourg — “Le chanson de Prévert”
Shirley Collins & the Albion Country Band — “The Murder of Maria Marten”
The Sight Below — “Without Motion”
Simon & Garfunkel — “The Only Living Boy in New York”
The Smiths — “Asleep”
The Smiths — “Last Night I Dreamt that Somebody Love Me”
Stars of the Lid — “Anchor States”
Steeleye Span — “All Around My Hat” [video]
Strawbs — “Benedictus” [video]
Strawbs — “Witchwood”
The Streets — “It’s Too Late”
Striborg — “Digging a Ditch to Die In” [video]
Stryper — “Calling on You” [video]
Sunn O))) — “Big Church [Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért]”
Sunn O))) — “Cursed Realms of the Winterdemons” [video]
Swans — “New Mind”
Swans — “No Cure for the Lonely”
Swans — “Stay Here”
Symphony of Science — “A Glorious Dawn” [video]

Team Sleep — “Natalie Portman”
The Thermals — “Brace and Break”
Tom Waits — “Martha”
Tom Waits — “That Feel”
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross — “Hand Covers Bruise”
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross — “In Motion”
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross — “In the Hall of the Mountain King”
Tullycraft — “The Punks Are Writing Love Songs”
The Twilight Singers — “I’m Ready”

U2 — “Gloria” [video]
Ulver — “Tomorrow Never Knows”

The Walker Brothers — “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”
Weezer — “Pink Triangle”

Xasthur — “Prison of Mirrors” [video]

Zentherstick — “Santa Fe” [video]

Þeyr — “Killer Boogie” [video]

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• Plus there are a couple of clips from the Bugle: one about Pat Robertson’s reaction to the quake in Haiti, and one about a terrorist who shoved explosives in his anus.
• Prof. Robert Whaples talking about why higher education is so goddamn expensive.
• Marcus Brigstocke takes on the Copenhagen summit.
• My college roommate reading six chapters of the worst fanfic ever.

Swans — “Stay Here”

From their first album Filth.

If there were a strip club which catered exclusively to goth robots with leather fetishes, I imagine this would be playing over the PA system.

^After you listen to the song, this statement makes more sense.

Low — “Last Snowstorm of the Year”

Swans — “New Mind”

Strawbs — “Witchwood”

I feel folksy. Actually, I feel tired, but it’s a folksy kind of tired.

The Cure — “Friday I’m in Love”

I saw this image come over my tumblr feed (courtesy of secretlifeofastargazer), so I couldn’t help but post this song.

I guess Tom Waits will have to wait for another day…

Idaho — “Alive Awake”

Liechtenstein — “Roses in the Park”

Everybody I’ve heard talking about these gals says they sound very reminiscent of the C86 bands of the 80s.

However, this song, for some reason, reminds me of the Butthole Surfers’ “Human Cannonball.”

Fairport Convention — “Si tu doit partir”

A cover of Bob Dylan’s “If You Gotta Go, Go Now” sung in French.

I played this while I was at work a couple of months ago and one of my coworkers bitched that I listen to way too much creepy(!) music. Then again as far as I know, he has three main ways of categorizing music:

1) Music that creeps him out,

2) Music that makes him want to kill himself,

3) Daughtry

The Hidden Cameras — “Learning the Lie”

From their 2006 album AWOO. I saw these guys live at Cornell back in 2004 as the opening act for another Canadian band: the Arcade Fire.

documentary:

This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison’s 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.

[Even more than all that, I think it’s a great example of Richard Dawkins’s concept of the meme, its replication and its evolution into alternate forms in order to propogate its own survival.

…

And here’s a link to the book Against Intellectual Monopoly.]

Tullycraft — “The Punks Are Writing Love Songs”

From the Album Every Scene Needs a Center.

Heard this song blasting out of the college radio station one day while randomly standing around in Park.

It’s what I think of when I hear the word/neologism/portmanteau(?) “cuddlecore.”

raptoravatar:

When I look at this picture, I finally understand how many Red-Staters felt when they saw Bush clearing brush with his chainsaw or posing in a cowboy hat.

Barack Obama totally wishes he could use some Jedi mind-tricks on his opponents right about now. I guess he’ll have to settle for Jedi Mind Tricks.

[NOTE on link: Upon seeing the song’s title (“Death March”), I am pretty sure Glenn Beck will simultaneously shit his pants and ejaculate all over his crazy-man blackboard]

syntheticpubes:

The Black Keys — “Hold Me In Your Arms”

I can’t help but hear “heal me with your touch” as “hit me with your tongue.” Join me.