(1) Friday night Killam School auction was a success. They wanted at least 30k, hoped for 50k and got 60+. This will allow them to outfit all the class rooms with smartboards. These things are neat - originally developed for military planning, they allow interactive teaching/activities between computer and the projected images/writing. The event was held at the local golf club and the vibe was definitely a less dressy 80's high school prom. For our cash, we got a couple hundred bucks worth of restaurant and daycare gift certificated and the big item, Maddy gets to be principal for one day.
(2) Saturday morning up early and headed towards Manchester, VT. Snow was coming down at a steady rate. the main problem is there is no direct route between Boston and Manchester. So you go northwest, then due south then due west or you go due west, due north then due west again. We adventured off highway to take the straight route. Thank god for four wheel drive as the pot holes and semi-cleared roads were crazy. Indirect route recommended, lesson learned.
(3) Arrived in Manchester around noon. Before check in time, we hit the outlets - armani, orvis, banana republic. Spending exceeded auction donations and we only got out alive because Bose doesn't offer a HD DVD player (even though we don't have a hd tv).
(4) Checked into the the equinox. Once again, disappointed. Room was much nicer than before, but they are under a major renovation. This meant that the bar (really tavern) was closed and anytime you wanted to go anywhere int he hotel, you had to go outside. Plus service was very weal.
(5) Early dinner at candeleros. Last time we were in Manchester, Liz ended up on the e-mail list so we had coupons. Plus excellent mole, red and green sauce and all-star tequila list.
(6) After dinner, headed over to northshire/ for coffee and to browse bookstore. Top 5 bookstore in New England and possibly the country. Easy to lose hours in the place as it ranges across four floors and numerous rooms. It's superstore size, but small business vibe/management. Also, guy who produced Family ties was reading from his memoirs (OK, not a high point for us or him - sit ubu sit).
(7) Did I mention that despite constant snow fall, there was not consistent snow on the ground (on the mountains plenty of snow). So the XC skis stayed in the crv, we packed snacks and headed up Equinox Mountain early Sunday. Put on the snowshoes after half an hour. This is also where we realized we had forgotten the camera, yet again. After climbing 1600 feet (1200 feet to go) we stopped for a snack. By this point, we had shed all our layers and where dripping sweat. I made fun of Liz for pointing out the trail was double black diamond but she was right. I checked my blackberry and had text messages from my friend Jason who was staying at the equinox with his family and had sent us a bottle of champagne the night before. He was leaving early and couldn't make dinner but did we want to meet for beers. Given the mountain was clouded over, our legs were sore and we like beer, we headed down and an hour later, we were back at civilization.
(8) Lunch at Mulligans with Jason. Two high lights The 24-ounce mug ("Vermont" size) of Long Trail. The Gorgon-zilla burger - Kobe beef burger with Gorgonzola cheese and bacon. While Long Trail is always good, Kobe beef burgers are inconsistent. This was one of the best, with only Bonfire in Boston and Capital Grille in the same class.
(9) After some time in the hot tub, we headed over to the perfect wife for dinner. We discovered this place as the only affordable eats in town as well as a great bar. Unfortunately, they are closed on Sundays (and Mondays too). So we headed back to Candeleros. This allowed me to hit the Tequila sampler. Same idea as a beer sampler, but with 4 shots of anejo tequila instead. I had fun and highly recommend.
(10) Monday morning, we checked out and headed north. Checked out Rutland, which has a new mall and super center concentration but down town seemed hopping. Unfortunately, cool artisan store closed on Mondays. But our real goal was the long trail brewery outside Woodstock. This time a beer sampler which is now 8 rather than 6 little glasses. Some sandwiches, a t-shirt and a case of Coffee Stout (featuring the wrong but upside down labels), we were headed back to Reading to celebrate St. Paddy's day and more importantly, my Dad's 65th birthday (free health care! welcome to the system, old man).
(Bonus) Another high light of the trip was Love is a mixtape that we listened to on cd in the car. The story of guys who fall in love with a smart woman who loves baseball and music, gets her to fall in love with him and still lose (no spoilers) hits just a little close to home for me. A true story, with great taste in music (his favorite bar band is the hold steady), you'll get the vibe and probably the music references too. We had attempted an Augusten Burroughs book but after one chapter, I wasn't in the mood. But this book turned out to be a good love story for Gen Xers like us. We laughed, we cried, it was better than cats.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Liz's 'Best of' 2007
Spending so much time with Andy, you can't help but think about things. Especially this time of year, where he had been doing so much work on his annually anticipated 'Best of' music list and commentary. After throwing out suggestion after comment to him about what I enjoyed, and having them summarily dismissed because I don't have any cred (that's not fair to Andy - I still get credit for finding Lucero), I thought I'd just throw my faves out to you all. Most made the list because they were the kind of songs that I just couldn't get out of my head - but in a good way. Some I still like, some I got sick of quickly. You guess which ones are which.
As I didn't put as much thought into mine as Andy did, the list is short. More like an off the top of my head thing. But when you think about it, isn't that the best way to determine what really made an impact on you? Let me know what you think! Any guilty pleasures from 2007 that you are borderline embarrassed to admit to? Don't be. Mine are included on the list. Share yours!
So, in the order in which they popped into my head, here they are:
1. Hang me up to dry - The Cold War Kids
2. Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani
3. Hey there, Delilah - Plain White Ts
4. Thrash Unreal - Against Me!
5. Rehab - Amy Winehouse
6. Signal Fire - Snow Patrol
7. What Light - Wilco
8. Paralyzer - Finger 11
9. Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne
10. Rock Star - Nickelback
11. Cupid's Chokehold - Gym Class Heroes
12. Straight Lines - Silverchair
13. Shadow of the Day - Linkin Park
14. Anything by Daughtry
As I didn't put as much thought into mine as Andy did, the list is short. More like an off the top of my head thing. But when you think about it, isn't that the best way to determine what really made an impact on you? Let me know what you think! Any guilty pleasures from 2007 that you are borderline embarrassed to admit to? Don't be. Mine are included on the list. Share yours!
So, in the order in which they popped into my head, here they are:
1. Hang me up to dry - The Cold War Kids
2. Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani
3. Hey there, Delilah - Plain White Ts
4. Thrash Unreal - Against Me!
5. Rehab - Amy Winehouse
6. Signal Fire - Snow Patrol
7. What Light - Wilco
8. Paralyzer - Finger 11
9. Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne
10. Rock Star - Nickelback
11. Cupid's Chokehold - Gym Class Heroes
12. Straight Lines - Silverchair
13. Shadow of the Day - Linkin Park
14. Anything by Daughtry
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Big Week!!!
I got my Shandler yesterday (baseball draft in two weeks and no work so far). Downloaded new NIN album (5 bucks...36 songs...must be something in there). Plus new Stargate sg-1 drops on Tuesday (ok, bigger for Liz with Old 97's on the horizon) and we're off to VT for long weekend after school auction on Friday.
Best of 2007
It's been a busy year and no let up in 2008 so we're running late. But here are my thoughts for 2007. Just bear in mind, these are not necessary the "best" but what I enjoyed and spoke to my life in the last year.
Last Year's picks: These still dominate the playlist. Lucero and the Hold Steady definitely hold the most played spot, carrying over from last year. To round out the country-fied side, a lot of Chris Knight and Tim McGraw (the singer, not the pitcher). Really, for the first three quarters of the year, there wasn't much new stuff that I really got into.
The Internet: The year I finally really tapped into the power of the internet for music. I'm not a myspace or itunes or file-sharing kinda of guy, but the blogsphere will keep you going for hours and hours (if I had the time). So I've attempted to use as much stuff from the internet that you can't get elsewhere (b-sides, remixes,bootlegs). My favorite is the dead artist/old web site. Checkout http://www.imaginarybaseball.com/. They were dead before 2007 began but "the hieress" and "from arkansas, with love" are great songs.
The 60's: To me, the early 60's were more motown and r&b than rock and roll (although by 1970, this had clearly flipped). But while we've seen the grunge revival and the 80's revival, 2007 was probably closest to the 60's revival to me. Detroit Cobras do motown. Bettye Lavette is probably the oldest person ever on a Feltus "best of" cd. Even Dan Wilson doing a Beach Boys thing. Check out Eli "paperboy" reed doing a mean Junior Walker. Heck, there were two versions of "don't let me be misunderstood" from opposite ends of the spectrum: Common and Yusaf.
No one more than Amy Winehouse epitomizes this. She is everyone's favorite car wreck in motion but her dark secret is that she owes her sound to Sharon Jones and the Daps (or her producer does). Don't beleive me? Ms. Jones and her band did the backing for the grammy winner and Mick Ronson did the producing. They've been doing it for almost twenty years; maybe they will at least get paid.
The 80's: Almost as prevalent as the 60's but more of a hero worship thing than a trend (we already did an 80's sound revival a few years back). This is headed by New Order and the Smiths. They made a movie about Joy Division, but the covers are everywhere including top ten Rhianna cover. Smiths only got doc'd by the BBC but when Radiohead covers you (with freaky stero mix - a tough best of cut) you have arrived.
The disappointing follow up album: If you asked me in March how I thought 2007 would pan out (musically), I was pretty excited as I saw a half-dozen bands that I loved (or at least liked a lot) coming out with new albums. Amazingly, most of them disappointed. They were consistently good but failed to make any progress. Nine Inch Nails (more on that later), Fountains of Wayne, Son Volt, Interpol and The Smashing Pumpkins (this did prove that Billy Corrigan was the brains of the operation) all failed to follow through on the momentum of previous albums (ok maybe pumpkins jumped before the last one). Even Spoon was a let down (very small). Actually, these were all pretty damn good albums and if it was the first album I had heard by these bands, I would love them. But each was just enough of a let down to disappoint.
NIN: When Year Zero came out, I was whelmed, to say the least. It was a couple of good singles and bunch of instrumental tracks presented as political commentary. Lacking the emotion of previous outings, it was a big disappointment (see above).
But it became apparent things were not as they seemed. First, this was his last album for the label (can you say contract fulfillment rather than artistic endeavor) and it only took him 18 months vs. traditional five years. Then Saul Williams released his album. This blew me away. Trent had always threatened to release a rap album and he did it with Saul doing the Mc'ing. But it's really a Trent album (download sunday bloody sunday to see true political commentary). Then, there was the remix of Year Zero...with a little help from his friends, it didn't suck anymore. Trent still has a little life left.
Album of the Year: Modest Mouse "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" beats out
Albuquerque's Shins by a hair. I consider these to be post-hype victories. For years, I've heard so much about these two bands but never really loved them. These two albums changed that. Every song on both is good. But MM wins due its more aggressive, more interesting songs. Adding Johnny Marr of the Smiths was genius. At first, it seemed why was this old guy hanging out with these young hipsters. First MM was formed in 1993 making them almost contemporaries. Most bands ride the interplay of a harsh guitar (you can only listen to electric guitar for so long) and lush vocals but Isaac Brock's vocals are as harsh as an electric guitar and it makes more than a song or two tough to listen to. Adding Marr's jangly guitar fills softens the songs and allows Brock's song writing to shine through. It doesn't make him a great vocalist, just better songs. I've never been able to listen to a whole album of their's before - this one I've listened to time and time again. Great one liners "We got a new position and carried it off so well." "Our ideas didn't hold any water and we used them like a dam."
Song of the Year: Joining Joe Jackson's "Sunday Papers" for Sunday songs is Ko-s Sunday Morning For 9 months, almost all I had for 07 was Modest Mouse, Shins, Akon, the Kooks, a guilty pleasure and this song. This grabs you the minute you hear it. No other song comes close this year.
Most Overrated: Or at least most over-hyped. Young Folks. The song is not bad but the drum beat is awful. If you must, watch Kanye West's version. I have included a remix of the Shin's "Australia" by Peter Bjorn & John.
Guilty pleasure: Avril Lavigne "Girlfriend" So what if she ripped it off? While you are there check out the Chipmunk version and the foreign versions (I like the Mandarin one personally). Almost as good as Sunday Morning
What the Kids are listening to: If you didn't know, 2007 was the year Disney took over music. Not only was High School Musical 2 the number 2 album of the year (the first one was number one last year), Hannah Montana was the hottest ticket of the year. We won't even mention the Jonas Brothers. We'll go with crossover hit Gwen Stefani/Akon song also know as "woo-hoo" (or is wee-hoo"?) Shockingly, new B-52's song (funplex) sounds like a Disney rip-off.
Rap: Maybe I'm getting old. Maybe rap is getting old, but the sales data agrees with me. There was a severe lack of songs that grab you this year. The Beastie Boys went instrumental. Jay Z seems to be back but I need to listen more. However, the misses are more memorable. I couldn't even get myself to commit to Kanye's new album, even if he did beat fifty-cent.
Most Horrifying Moments on the Radio: We will only go with non-music here as musical moments are too many to count (1) After playing Placebo's Running up that hill, WFNX dj feels the need to explain who Kate Bush was (is?). (2) DJ proclaims Semisonic a one-hit wonder that disappeared after Closing Time. Well, not only did they have another hit with "Chemistry" (ok they were not the Beatles) but singer-songwriter Dan Wilson (they were really a one man band) released a solo CD this year and won a grammy(s) for co-writing/producing Dixie Chick's latest. Don' t think that counts as disappearing.
Missing the Cut, but enjoyable:
Black Kids - you can dance to it but they need more than synths
Toyko Police Club - classic alternative
Rush - classic rock 25 years in
Cold War Kids -
Band of Horses - I missed them last year but solid
Rodrigo y gabriela - Heavy metal duo from Mexico playing flamenco in Ireland
yusaf - I love Cat Stevens and it's good to have him back
Rhianna - This could have been in what the kids are listening to. Shut up and Drive...a New Order cover
Grinderman - Nick Cave returns to form
Toughest Cuts:
Dinosaur Jr. - guitar driven alternative, a reunion that works
Bird and the Bee - Polite Dance music but a little simple, maybe too polite
Fratellis - hard to describe. it's classic rockabilly but punkish. Sorta of Louis XIV but English
Artic Monkeys - with followup, prove first was no fluke. The guy knows his way around a lyric as well as a tune
2008?
Vampire Weekend
The Virgins
Drive By Truckers
Kate Nash
Tungg
Gutter Twins
Old 97's (slam dunk)
The List
1- You! Me! Dancing! - Los Campesinos! A lot of exclamation points, no doubt I found this chasing down some dance music from Bram
2 - Bend over Beethoven - !!! (that's chk chk chk to the rest of us) and why isn't it pronounced BE-th-oven? But I do like my dance music funky.
3 - We like it wild - Ethos Smiths devottees from Detroit
4 -Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne
5 - The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani
6 - Sunday Morning - K-os
7 - Flyentology - Trent Reznor/EL-P
8 - The Way we get By - Spoon (remixed MY!GAY!HUSBAND!)
9 - Australia - The Shins (remixed by Peter Bjorn and John)
10 - Missed the Boat (live) - Modest Mouse
11 - Your Own Worst Enemy - Bruce Sprinsteen Best album of his in years, very underappreciated
12 - Nobody Listens to Silence - Ryan Adams only one album this year but a goody even though he gave up drinking/drugs
13 - When the Flake Changes Colour - Feist If you don't like Feist, you have no soul.
14 - 15 Step (live) - Radiohead We could talk all day about the Radiohead/internet/future of music, but this is there most pop accesible album this decade (but like Spoon, with the weird rythms). Should have made it song 15.
15 - Before the Money Came (the legend of Bettye Lavette) - Bettye Lavette backed by Drive-By Truckers Does that make it Souther Rock, Liz?
16 - Lullaby (cover) Editors - They really do justice to this one.
17 - What have you done for me lately - Sharon Jones (and Dap Kings) doing her best Janet Jackson cover.
18 - God put a smile upon your face - Mark Ronson - Coldplay meets Hawaii 50 - actually the Daptone Horns (see Sharon Jones for the Daps). All covers all interesting.
19 - Freaky Hijiki - Beastie Boys
20 - See the World (accoustic, live) - the Kooks
Correction : Should have used Kooks cover of Young Folks rather than See the World, which I found the day I posted this. No whistling but no annoying drum machine either. the link:
http://www.savefile.com/files/1421419
Last Year's picks: These still dominate the playlist. Lucero and the Hold Steady definitely hold the most played spot, carrying over from last year. To round out the country-fied side, a lot of Chris Knight and Tim McGraw (the singer, not the pitcher). Really, for the first three quarters of the year, there wasn't much new stuff that I really got into.
The Internet: The year I finally really tapped into the power of the internet for music. I'm not a myspace or itunes or file-sharing kinda of guy, but the blogsphere will keep you going for hours and hours (if I had the time). So I've attempted to use as much stuff from the internet that you can't get elsewhere (b-sides, remixes,bootlegs). My favorite is the dead artist/old web site. Checkout http://www.imaginarybaseball.com/. They were dead before 2007 began but "the hieress" and "from arkansas, with love" are great songs.
The 60's: To me, the early 60's were more motown and r&b than rock and roll (although by 1970, this had clearly flipped). But while we've seen the grunge revival and the 80's revival, 2007 was probably closest to the 60's revival to me. Detroit Cobras do motown. Bettye Lavette is probably the oldest person ever on a Feltus "best of" cd. Even Dan Wilson doing a Beach Boys thing. Check out Eli "paperboy" reed doing a mean Junior Walker. Heck, there were two versions of "don't let me be misunderstood" from opposite ends of the spectrum: Common and Yusaf.
No one more than Amy Winehouse epitomizes this. She is everyone's favorite car wreck in motion but her dark secret is that she owes her sound to Sharon Jones and the Daps (or her producer does). Don't beleive me? Ms. Jones and her band did the backing for the grammy winner and Mick Ronson did the producing. They've been doing it for almost twenty years; maybe they will at least get paid.
The 80's: Almost as prevalent as the 60's but more of a hero worship thing than a trend (we already did an 80's sound revival a few years back). This is headed by New Order and the Smiths. They made a movie about Joy Division, but the covers are everywhere including top ten Rhianna cover. Smiths only got doc'd by the BBC but when Radiohead covers you (with freaky stero mix - a tough best of cut) you have arrived.
The disappointing follow up album: If you asked me in March how I thought 2007 would pan out (musically), I was pretty excited as I saw a half-dozen bands that I loved (or at least liked a lot) coming out with new albums. Amazingly, most of them disappointed. They were consistently good but failed to make any progress. Nine Inch Nails (more on that later), Fountains of Wayne, Son Volt, Interpol and The Smashing Pumpkins (this did prove that Billy Corrigan was the brains of the operation) all failed to follow through on the momentum of previous albums (ok maybe pumpkins jumped before the last one). Even Spoon was a let down (very small). Actually, these were all pretty damn good albums and if it was the first album I had heard by these bands, I would love them. But each was just enough of a let down to disappoint.
NIN: When Year Zero came out, I was whelmed, to say the least. It was a couple of good singles and bunch of instrumental tracks presented as political commentary. Lacking the emotion of previous outings, it was a big disappointment (see above).
But it became apparent things were not as they seemed. First, this was his last album for the label (can you say contract fulfillment rather than artistic endeavor) and it only took him 18 months vs. traditional five years. Then Saul Williams released his album. This blew me away. Trent had always threatened to release a rap album and he did it with Saul doing the Mc'ing. But it's really a Trent album (download sunday bloody sunday to see true political commentary). Then, there was the remix of Year Zero...with a little help from his friends, it didn't suck anymore. Trent still has a little life left.
Album of the Year: Modest Mouse "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" beats out
Albuquerque's Shins by a hair. I consider these to be post-hype victories. For years, I've heard so much about these two bands but never really loved them. These two albums changed that. Every song on both is good. But MM wins due its more aggressive, more interesting songs. Adding Johnny Marr of the Smiths was genius. At first, it seemed why was this old guy hanging out with these young hipsters. First MM was formed in 1993 making them almost contemporaries. Most bands ride the interplay of a harsh guitar (you can only listen to electric guitar for so long) and lush vocals but Isaac Brock's vocals are as harsh as an electric guitar and it makes more than a song or two tough to listen to. Adding Marr's jangly guitar fills softens the songs and allows Brock's song writing to shine through. It doesn't make him a great vocalist, just better songs. I've never been able to listen to a whole album of their's before - this one I've listened to time and time again. Great one liners "We got a new position and carried it off so well." "Our ideas didn't hold any water and we used them like a dam."Song of the Year: Joining Joe Jackson's "Sunday Papers" for Sunday songs is Ko-s Sunday Morning For 9 months, almost all I had for 07 was Modest Mouse, Shins, Akon, the Kooks, a guilty pleasure and this song. This grabs you the minute you hear it. No other song comes close this year.
Most Overrated: Or at least most over-hyped. Young Folks. The song is not bad but the drum beat is awful. If you must, watch Kanye West's version. I have included a remix of the Shin's "Australia" by Peter Bjorn & John.
Guilty pleasure: Avril Lavigne "Girlfriend" So what if she ripped it off? While you are there check out the Chipmunk version and the foreign versions (I like the Mandarin one personally). Almost as good as Sunday Morning
What the Kids are listening to: If you didn't know, 2007 was the year Disney took over music. Not only was High School Musical 2 the number 2 album of the year (the first one was number one last year), Hannah Montana was the hottest ticket of the year. We won't even mention the Jonas Brothers. We'll go with crossover hit Gwen Stefani/Akon song also know as "woo-hoo" (or is wee-hoo"?) Shockingly, new B-52's song (funplex) sounds like a Disney rip-off.
Rap: Maybe I'm getting old. Maybe rap is getting old, but the sales data agrees with me. There was a severe lack of songs that grab you this year. The Beastie Boys went instrumental. Jay Z seems to be back but I need to listen more. However, the misses are more memorable. I couldn't even get myself to commit to Kanye's new album, even if he did beat fifty-cent.
Most Horrifying Moments on the Radio: We will only go with non-music here as musical moments are too many to count (1) After playing Placebo's Running up that hill, WFNX dj feels the need to explain who Kate Bush was (is?). (2) DJ proclaims Semisonic a one-hit wonder that disappeared after Closing Time. Well, not only did they have another hit with "Chemistry" (ok they were not the Beatles) but singer-songwriter Dan Wilson (they were really a one man band) released a solo CD this year and won a grammy(s) for co-writing/producing Dixie Chick's latest. Don' t think that counts as disappearing.
Missing the Cut, but enjoyable:
Black Kids - you can dance to it but they need more than synths
Toyko Police Club - classic alternative
Rush - classic rock 25 years in
Cold War Kids -
Band of Horses - I missed them last year but solid
Rodrigo y gabriela - Heavy metal duo from Mexico playing flamenco in Ireland
yusaf - I love Cat Stevens and it's good to have him back
Rhianna - This could have been in what the kids are listening to. Shut up and Drive...a New Order cover
Grinderman - Nick Cave returns to form
Toughest Cuts:
Dinosaur Jr. - guitar driven alternative, a reunion that works
Bird and the Bee - Polite Dance music but a little simple, maybe too polite
Fratellis - hard to describe. it's classic rockabilly but punkish. Sorta of Louis XIV but English
Artic Monkeys - with followup, prove first was no fluke. The guy knows his way around a lyric as well as a tune
2008?
Vampire Weekend
The Virgins
Drive By Truckers
Kate Nash
Tungg
Gutter Twins
Old 97's (slam dunk)
The List
1- You! Me! Dancing! - Los Campesinos! A lot of exclamation points, no doubt I found this chasing down some dance music from Bram
2 - Bend over Beethoven - !!! (that's chk chk chk to the rest of us) and why isn't it pronounced BE-th-oven? But I do like my dance music funky.
3 - We like it wild - Ethos Smiths devottees from Detroit
4 -Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne
5 - The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani
6 - Sunday Morning - K-os
7 - Flyentology - Trent Reznor/EL-P
8 - The Way we get By - Spoon (remixed MY!GAY!HUSBAND!)
9 - Australia - The Shins (remixed by Peter Bjorn and John)
10 - Missed the Boat (live) - Modest Mouse
11 - Your Own Worst Enemy - Bruce Sprinsteen Best album of his in years, very underappreciated
12 - Nobody Listens to Silence - Ryan Adams only one album this year but a goody even though he gave up drinking/drugs
13 - When the Flake Changes Colour - Feist If you don't like Feist, you have no soul.
14 - 15 Step (live) - Radiohead We could talk all day about the Radiohead/internet/future of music, but this is there most pop accesible album this decade (but like Spoon, with the weird rythms). Should have made it song 15.
15 - Before the Money Came (the legend of Bettye Lavette) - Bettye Lavette backed by Drive-By Truckers Does that make it Souther Rock, Liz?
16 - Lullaby (cover) Editors - They really do justice to this one.
17 - What have you done for me lately - Sharon Jones (and Dap Kings) doing her best Janet Jackson cover.
18 - God put a smile upon your face - Mark Ronson - Coldplay meets Hawaii 50 - actually the Daptone Horns (see Sharon Jones for the Daps). All covers all interesting.
19 - Freaky Hijiki - Beastie Boys
20 - See the World (accoustic, live) - the Kooks
Correction : Should have used Kooks cover of Young Folks rather than See the World, which I found the day I posted this. No whistling but no annoying drum machine either. the link:
http://www.savefile.com/files/1421419
Friday, March 07, 2008
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