I’ve liked the Cardigans ever since “Lovefool” (which I really didn’t like much) was popular. Since then, they have gotten older and darker and I’ve loved each album they’ve done in the past ten years or so. This first one is off of their latest album “Super Extra Heavy Gravity (2005),” and the second one is from “Gran Tourismo (1998)”. I suppose that’s all there is to say. What do you think?

Loosing My Favorite Game

I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to be Nicer

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I couldn’t decide which I liked better, so here’s both videos from “Later with Jools Holland” (One with each singer).

No Lucifer

Waving Flags

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1987: The year after I graduated from high school. My bands used to play with Screaming Trees now and again when they came to Eugene. They’ve always been one of my very favorite bands. I still don’t understand how they weren’t huge.

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I fell in love with this sound on Robyn Hitchock’s “Airscape” from the eerily beautiful album, “Element of Light”, but I’ve never really heard a whole song played on a Glass Harp. This guy is really good.

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I was visiting my friend John’s MySpace page a minute ago and saw that he has posted a trailer for a documentary about one of my favorite bands from Seattle, Silkworm. Halfway through the trailer they start talking about Michael’s death. I hadn’t even known he had died.

It was a little more than two years ago when, apparently, his car was hit by a woman speeding and trying to kill herself. Michael was a great drummer with - as I recall - an amazingly sweet personality and no pretension. That was rare in the 90s rock world of Seattle.

I remember standing to the side of the stage at the Off Ramp watching him play. Coincidentally - after posting just an hour or so ago about smiling rock musicians - I remember him smiling shyly as he played. Man, he really hit the drums hard.

I’m sorry he’s gone and my thoughts go out to his family and the rest of Silkworm. Cheers, Michael.

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Why haven’t I posted this before? This is one of my favorite bands: great lyrics, great music, great energy. And a fucked up perspective. Yay.

I picked this version because it sounds pretty good (not as good as the official video, but live is better for me). This version of the song performed live at Bonnaroo is great too. The sound isn’t as good, but I feel good every time I see how happy Craig Finn seems at the start of the song. It reminds me of how playing shows used to make me feel.

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Again with the video. What the fuck? If I had something to say, I’d say it. I guess I’m just an Everyday Normal Guy.

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I know it’s monumentally lazy to stroll back here every few weeks to post a video, but…well, I guess that’s all I have room for. Hell, it’s not like anyone reads this fucking blog anyway.

I found this video on YouTube of NoMeansNo back before they had a guitar player. I think I saw them at the Vatican in Eugene as a duo, but can’t remember those days all that clearly. This probably would have been from the mid-’80s sometime. I played with them a couple of times around 88 or 89, but they had grey hair by then.

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I’ve recently started using Simplify Media to share my home iTunes library so I can listen to it at work. It’s working great so far and I’m now letting all my friends know that they should install it and share with me. The application installs an IM-like client in your system tray where you add up to 30 friends. Then, in iTunes, you see all of your new friend’s libraries for you to play to your hearts content. Install it and let me know.

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Diane reminded me that there are probably people out there vitally interested in what is surging through our headphones feeding voices from another world directly into our brains. So here’s another installment of Listening Party:

• Band of Horses - Everything All the Time Seattle sounds better than it did when I lived there.
• Bloc Party - A Weekend In the City Sure, it has ups and downs (and a ripoff of a Bangles cover of a Simon and Garfunkel song), but sounds good on the headphones.
• The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Just lovely. My favorite album of the year.
• The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America “She was a really cool kisser and she wasn’t all that strict of a christian. She was a damn good dancer but she wasn’t all that great of a girlfriend.” Awesome.
• Lily Allen - Alright, Still Boinky ska-pop. It’ll probably really get on my nerves in a month or two.
• Parliament - Parliament’s Greatest Hits ‘Cause for a minute there it felt like spring.

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This was a few months ago, but I hadn’t seen it until now. Really great performance.

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Here it is! My first good mash-up. I’ve been playing around with Acid Pro for a while now and put together a few different kinda-almost mashups. This one is the first that’s really come out well. I’ve been trying to figure out what it is about mashups that turns me on. I guess part of it is that I’m a musician, temporarily without other musicians to play with. But then there’s the appeal of mashups themselves. More on that later. For now, enjoy Jay-z vs. AC/DC - The Girl’s Got Dirt.”

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I was in a band in the 80s (no, not that ’80s; the 1908s…like as in the decade?). As it turns out, the band was kind of cool. And now you can all hear it.

• Pelican (mp3)
• Roseland (mp3)
• Dreamtigers (mp3)
• Chrysalis (mp3)
• TheWayTheRiverRuns (mp3)
• Icon (mp3)
• Both (mp3)
• Departure (mp3)

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