Tuesday, January 26, 2010

You rearranged the furniture

Amanda,

I really like what you've done with the place. I've never had any decorative sensibilities so I am glad you took care of this rather than going to your classes or researching Genocide in Africa.

Good picks last week. I like where your head's at on the instrumental, way to widen the playing field. On the theme of Dylan covers I've got Spanish Harlem Incident covered by the lead singer of the Shins. It's about a gypsy girl. Not as whiny as the original. Just as amazing lyrics.

I think our criteria list looks like this:

1) spine tingling
2)toe tapping
3) gut punching

I vote to add the pepto bismol rule. I am the kind of person who goes through neurotic song listening binges where for like 3 months I will only listen to one band or even one song. As you can probably tell I am still obsessed with Jay-Z and Marvin Gaye. Naturally like a Miley Cyrus song without Biggie, it gets so overplayed that you want to throw up when you listen to it again. So for me the song should be at a level that no matter how many times I listen to it whenever I hear it again I don't go grasping for the antacids.

As for a second song. I can't say enough about The White Panda. It's like Girl Talk if he let a song play for longer than 9 seconds. Better when through headphones.

That's all I've got. I should get back to work. I just found a clementine in my bag. Today is going to be a good day.

pg chillin,

Bayan





Monday, January 25, 2010

HOW DO I POST HOW DO I POST

Bayan,

In case you couldn't tell by the 9 frantic responses I sent you, I am SO happy you set up this blog. Way to make moves. I am excited to take our witty words and hip taste in music to the masses.

Remember when I said I spend much of my time constantly revising my BEST SONGS OF ALL TIME LIST. What did we say our criteria were for this again? Soul stirring and spine-tingling? Songs like "I Want You Back" by the Jackson 5, "The Weight" by, the Band and "Love Story" by, Taylor Swift. Songs that get you in the gut, and make you feel like the little kids in Slumdog Millionaire. Here's hoping that all the songs we post attain that level of greatness.

To that end, the first two I offer are: Richie Havens singing Dylan's classic "Just Like A Woman"--best cover of all time, as far as I'm concerned. The second, a beautiful fiddle duet by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason.

3 Cheers and Blogosphere,
Sperb


Inaugural Post

Dear Amanda,

While I know that this blog will not be read by anyone other than our loved ones and our immediate friends and furthermore they will glean from it how tragically uncool I actually am, they will however discover, if they give it time how much fun and love we derive from music and how bombass our tastes are and how I am utterly incapable of properly using, punctuation. Let's kick this shit off right. Two songs. One I gave you a long time ago, but is still amazing and the other is to encourage you to save the date for the new Hot Chip Album which comes out on Feb 1st. I don't know if I can post a song yet. We'll see.

best,

Bayan