I give you … MUSIC! You know that good stuff that you put in your ears, those fabulous rarefactions and compressions that drum your ear and grab hold of your brain stem and make you bob, strut and boogie while you’re working in the shop (or as you try to finish your Ph.D thesis as I’ve been mostly doing these days). I listen to music almost constantly and in my endless quest to find new tunes to occupy my ears I plow though a lot of music and I’ve decided to share some of it with you my Almost Scientific friends.
These tunes wont necessarily be rare and old or new and hip; they won’t even always be good; they are just songs that for some reason I think you should hear.
If you like any of these songs please go see that artist live or buy their mp3s or something because I can’t afford to.
Also, if you know someone who might like one or more of these songs please pass the permalink on to them.
And, kids — always remember to use good headphones.
Let’s kick this one off with one of the new Weezer tracks — Like Beck, Weezer just keeps making great music.
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This next one is from the Daedelus record Love To Make Music to and while this is not the best track on the record this one grabbed me by the ears with its fantastic use of atypical War Games samples.
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These next two are by a great band called Firewater. Both these tracks are off their Golden Hour record which we played in the shop over and over and over and over again while building The Neuron Chamber.
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I’ve been really into Del tha Funkee Homosapien these days …
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This is one of the great tracks Kimya Dawson did for the Juno soundtrack (which is better than the movie) … “My war paint is Sharpie ink …” Loves it.
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Here we have Silver Apples, the 60s-era, psychedelic freak-out band famous for their early use of primitive and home-made electronic synthesizers doing some good old fashioned twang for us here.
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Contemporary Animal Collective’s next with a far more 60s sound, screaming about something.
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Finally, another contemporary embrace of sprawling, 60s style psychedelia by Panda Bear, not surprisingly, one of the animals in the Animal Collective.
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Great choices. I haven’t historically been a Weezer fan, but they are slowly winning me over. The Daedelus piece is beautifully cacophonous, constantly riding the line between music and noise. Firewater is a new one for me; I love their eclecticism. Thanks for sharing these.