Music Review No. 3

Hang On The Box: Heroin And Cocaine
Utterly surreal and utterly catchy. Almost as addictive as the drugs about which they sing.

OOIOO: UMA
This one packs a wallop.

Menomena: The Pelican
Basically the best song written by humans with a piano and other noise machines.

LCD Soundsystem: Someone Great
Good background music while shopping for sun dresses.

Deerhoof: Scream Team
Fan tastic.

Conlon Nancarrow: Study No. 6 for Player Piano
Carousel music for the depraved, or just depraved music for people riding a carousel. I feel dizzy just listening to it.

Hanne Hukkelberg: Cheater's Armoury
I just spilled coffee on my favorite shirt but I didn't care because I was listening to this song.

Music Review No. 2

Hang On The Box: What Is Now
Sweet song from China. It's like you want to dance but you're too lazy and you just eat chips instead.

Change: The Glow Of Love
A disco standard. It's pretty good for the ladies, but not so for a Sunday afternoon.

Jimmy Castor Bunch: It's Just Begun
A four star funk jam dance classic. Listen to it and play it for your sweetheart.

Psapp: Hi
I was drinking root beer when I heard this song, and I thought the two stimuli went together perfectly.

Battles: Ddiamondd
Nathan plays this song from his room sometimes and I always think about how cool it sounds, then I wonder who it is, then I realize it's Battles, then I think to myself, "I should listen to Battles."

Krzysztof Penderecki: Threnody For the Victims of Hiroshima
So beautiful that you wouldn't know it's serialist. Like the aftermath of nuclear wars.

The Futureheads: Fallout
A mellow one from these British people. Their first album is better anyway.

Music Review No. 1

The Thermals: I Might Need You To Kill
Pretty sweet and the guitar is pretty sweet.

Giacomo Scelsi: Ygghur for Violincello Solo
Its originality makes me roll on the floor.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe: My Journey To The Sky
Only the best song ever written.

James Brown: People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul
The tops. It makes me wave my arms like a crazy person.

Feist: The Park
Pretty sweet.

György Ligeti: Lux Aeterna
Even better outside the conext of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Apparently simpler to perform than it sounds. Basically the best choral piece ever in the world.

Merzbow: Woodpecker No. 2
It's like, "turn this noise down," but without the value judgment. The recording is just at a very high volume and I was fairly to moderately startled when the track came on in the shuffle.

Esther Phillips: Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
I wept for hours and hours.

White Rabbits: The Plot
Only the best song ever.