This will be expanded later on.
Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room
A smart, revealing documentary that leans too heavily on pop music in the first half. However, it makes up for everything during the closing credits, thumping financial stats to Tom Waits’ “God’s Away On Business.”
Children Of Men
A weird combination of dense and spare, Children combines long shots with showers of ads, background graffiti, and other incidental information that helps viewers put together a picture of the world around it. The clashes are brutally real, and the overall question posed is a terrifying one. Highly recommended.
Strangers With Candy
This early Comedy-Central cult favorite still has a unique and daring personality. Hint: Watch all the extras; Colbert and Amy Sedaris are at their best in their mistakes and dance-number breakouts.
I just got ten CDs in the mail, but I’m still stuck on the first track of the first disc. The Thermals’ “Here’s Your Future” is unstoppable; listen here.
Download the mix here (104 MB).
Beauty - The Shivers
For such a sparsely-arranged song, Beauty has a hell of a climax. I’m looking forward to more stuff from these guys.
Smash Your Head - Girl Talk
Starts out rough, ends nice and smooth. And he’s coming to DC in March!!!
I Am John - Loney, Dear
Just got turned onto this one, and it is consumin’ me. Must hear more from them.
Magick - The Klaxons
This song has one of those videos that, after you see it, you can’t help but imagine when you listen to the track. MA-GICK.
What Can I Do - Talib Kweli & Madlib
Talib and Madlib apparently put out a whole free internet album that is absolutely amazing except that Talib Kweli is on every track. Don’t get me wrong, I like him occasionally and loved his work with DangerDoom, but his subject matter and style don’t really have the peaks and valleys of, say, MF Doom. What Can I Do showcases Madlib’s strongest backup track since Madvilliany, but really, the whole album sounds this good.
I Love You - The Pipettes
There used to be a lot of things, that I didn’t know
And although they still exist, I try not to let them show
But I think that now you’ve seen me / For my true colors
I’m sure you recognize I’m more stupid than the others
But I love you!
With Every Heartbeat - Robyn
This one’s been eating at me for weeks. It starts out as just a good Robyn song, but finishes with this looping punch of strings and keyboard that’s just fabulous.
I’ll Be By Your Side - Sally Shapiro
A lot of restraint in this song. The final result is dreamy and hollow and memorable.
Dream On (feat. Robyn & Ola Salo) - Christian Falk
Okay, so I already posted this like three weeks ago, but I just realized and I’m not going to re-upload the whole damn file. So just download it again.
Hum - Rappers Delight Club
Silver Spring, reprazent. Could Rapper’s Delight Club be DC’s current best band? Yes? Okay.
Second Brain - Kaki King
Ohhh mannnn this is nice.
Sharks (The Russian Futurists Remix) - Cadence Weapon
That title and artist are all you should need to know about this one. Bizarro underwater-pop sampler The Russian Futurists adds their weirdly catchy backbeat to one of Cadence’s denser rhymes.
Discopolis - Lifelike and Kris Menace
I have apparently NEVER put this on a mix. Possibly because it’s like ten minutes long. But what a ten minutes.
Razorblade - The Strokes
This song makes me want to play guitar for a living. Fault the Strokes for what you will, but the intersecting riffs on this are perfect.
Los Angeles - Frank Black
Even though I like Teenager Of The Year more than Black’s solo debut, it got a little sillier lyrically. Los Angeles has that weird, Black Francis anthemic chorus that you have to agree with, even if you don’t understand it.
Really Now - The Dreamletts
I don’t see how Fleetwood Mac survives the ages, but this song is lost. History: Answer to me.
Play It For Today - The Legends
That is one catchy chorus.
All Caps - Madvillain
Madlib and Doom, together forever.
Hold On - Magnet
Sometimes this song works for me, other times, it’s a little grating. Let me know what you think.
Excuse You - MC Paul Barman
Disclosure: This is not a good song. But a rapper who brags “I can rock the mic to Silence by John Cage” gets a post here.
El Presidente - Drugstore and Thom Yorke
I listened to this one a lot in college. I don’t know if anyone else has heard it. Hmm.
Program Ten (excerpt) - Dreamies
And now, to coast out on this super-long Dreamies song.
Things I have done in the past three days:
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Things I am doing for the next three days:
Maybe I’ll get some music up this weekend. But it won’t be pretty.
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Update: A little more work, a little more HighSlide action:
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