We are pleased to present our 25th installment of Sound Advice featuring z†. A society of 12 individuals who craft, collaborate and create objects, products and ephemera, z† is.
Sound Advice 25 – z†
01 King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1 – Neutral Milk Hotel
02 This Is The One – The Stone Roses
03 Lost – The Mary Onettes
04 The Old Man’s Back Again (Dedicated To The Neo-Stalinist Regime) – Scott Walker
05 This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) – Talking Heads
06 So Sad – The Everly Brothers
07 Gentle As – Elbow
08 Remember (Walking In The Sand) – The Shangri-Las
09 The Selecter – The Selecter
10 This Is How We Walk On The Moon – Arthur Russell
11 Chistelle – ESG
12 October (Love Song) ‘86 Version – Chris & Cosey
13 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next – Manic Street Preachers
14 Life’s Little Tragedy – Lambchop
15 Golden Hours – Brian Eno
16 Goodbye Sadness (Tristeza) – Astrud Gilberto
17 Days I Had With You – Kings Of Convenience
18 Kicker Of Elves – Guided By Voices
19 Break My Body – Pixies
20 Disintegration (Live XFM Great Expectations) – The Cure
21 Vapour Trail – Ride
22 happY – frYars
23 No Fit State – Hot Chip
24 The Wanderer (Featuring Johnny Cash) – U2
25 Bonus Medley
It’s not just your earbuds that’s affecting your hearing. I found this really amazing, geeky article about the”loudness war” that is currently being fought in the recording booth. It is a very interesting read about how music is losing its dynamic range. Today’s artists turn up the volume so they can be heard above everyone else, very king of the jungle if you ask me. It’s gotten to the point that a non for profit group, Turn Me Up has been formed to bring dynamic range back to music. If you love music check out the story and all the charts and diagrams. Also, check out the video after the jump that explains it all.
We are pleased to present our 24th installment of Sound Advice featuring Hallie. Hallie is my sister, and since she had a heavy influence on my music when I was a juvy (she introduced me to Ice T) I felt it necessary to give her the Sound Advice I was supposed to do. Enjoy.
Sound Advice 24 - Hallie
01 Heart it Races (DJ Rupture remix) – Architecture in Helsinki
02 Pray for Grace – Michael Franti
03 Bag of Hammers – Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
04 Egyptian Reggae – The Modern Lovers
05 African Sunset – Zap Mama
06 I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend to Dance – Black Kids
07 The Love You Save – Jackson 5
08 Sky is Falling - Blackalicious
09 Up the Ladder to the Roof – The Supremes
10 Sweet Darlin’ – She & Him
11 I Confess - The English Beat
12 Alone Again Or – Love
13 Knotty Pine - Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
14 For No One – The Beatles
15 Lover – Devendra Banhart
16 No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature – The Guess Who
17 Love Me or Leave Me – Nina Simone
18 Vicious – Lou Reed
19 Furr – Blitzen Trapper
20 Queen Bee – Neil Halstead
21 Lived in Bars – Cat Power
22 Straight to Hell – Lily Allen
23 A Postcard to Nina – Jens Lekman
24 Les Champs Elysees – Joe Dassin
25 Hang On to Your Ego – The Beach Boys
26 Burning of the Midnight Lamp – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
27 The Man Who Danced Too Soon – Baka Beyond
28 Saturn – Stevie Wonder
StreetCarnage has a great Mike Muir radio session/interview where the Suicidal Tendencies’ frontman plays a solid variety of tracks and does some storytelling (including a funny one about actor Bill Paxton towards the end). Remembering how I’d literally listen to these guys as I’d go to bed each night, there is something so oddly calming about this…
(Note on the image choice, though the “Join the Army” cover is a close contender for classic album art, I think this one for “Feel Like Shit/Deja Vu” was always my favorite Suicidal cover, also fitting that this specific release is twenty years old this year)
