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Friday Genius Ten “Scripts? Make It Up Instead” Edition

Do a random ten or a Genius ten in comments, whichever you wish.

Original song: “Talk Talk Talk Talk”—-Love Is All

I couldn’t find a good video of this song, but here is another video by the band.  They’re pretty awesome:

I’m pretty happy with this mix.  It’s a keeper—-mostly 21st century versions of the sliver of post-punk from the 80s that I’ve seen called “death disco”, a form of music that was wisely brought back.  If only 80s fashions would stay dead.

1) “Heaven”—-Health
2) “Sing Songs Along”—-Tilly and the Wall
3) “OK”—-Shitdisco
4) “Words You Used To Say”—-Dean & Britta
5) “Twelve”—-Forward, Russia!
6) “The Companion”—-The Mary Onettes
7) “Meeting Paris Hilton”—-Cansei De Ser Sexy
8) “To The East”—-Electralane
9) “While We Go Dancing”—-The White Rabbits
10) “Mind Your Own Business”—-The Delta 5

Of course, the Delta 5 are from the first go-round of this sound, but it’s amazing how faithful new artists are to it.  Homemade video to that song:

 

Shitdisco:

Tilly and the Wall:

 

 

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Posted by Amanda Marcotte on 11:20 AM • (27) Comments

my playlist from this morning: http://kvrx.org/node/33614

Comment #1: JonE  on  11/14  at  11:55 AM

Waiting for Apple to deliver your Genius results edition.

OK, let’s try 80s college radio: Base song: “Watusi Rodeo” - Guadalcanal Diary

1. “Catapult” - REM
2. “See How We Are” - X
3. “Victoria” - The Fall
4. “Alex Chilton” - The Replacements
5. “Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely” - Hüsker Dü
6. “Eighties” - Killing Joke
7. “Uncontrollable Urge” - DEVO
8. “Moonshiner” - Uncle Tupelo
9. “Harmony In My Head” - The Buzzcocks
10. “I Love A Man In Uniform” - Gang Of Four

Bonus: “Academy Fight Song” - Mission Of Burma

Comment #2: Sarcastro  on  11/14  at  11:58 AM

First Snow in Denver Mix

1. Hold Ya Mouf Feat. God’s Gift - Dizzee Rascal
2. Bocata de Bonita - DJ Food
3. Lhaso Pumo - Yungchen Lhamo (Excellent Modern meets old school Tibetan singing)
4. Track 7 - Mocket (from “Pro Forma”)
5. Good Bait - John Coltrane
6. Tell It To The Kids - bis
7. Forecast Total Brain Shut-Down - Scissor Girls (this is who Erase Errata ripped off- long live Chicago No Wave!)
8. Bat Macumba - Gilberto Gil
9. Always - Caetano Veloso
10. I’m Beginning to See the Light - Harry James & His Orchestra

2 4 the Brazilians Bonusessess: Sonatine Bureaucratique - Allegro - Andante - Vivace - E.Satie (Aldo Ciccolini)
Biomagic 2 - Farmers Manual

Bonus Smarty Pants Book Buy: “Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction” by Elizabeth Grosz (ISBN:041501400x) (I bought it in 1996, finally getting around to reading it for reals. I have no idea if this edition is still in print.)
She’s great, if a jargon queen like Lee Edelman, if you’ve read her work before. I think this book outdoes any other Lacanian primer that I’ve run across. She wallows in his complexity w/out leaving anyone behind and actually confronts Mitchell’s use/lack of Lacan in her famous book on Freud & feminism. It makes a handy cliff notes for later with nice end of chapter summations of key ideas. Good weekend all.

Comment #3: dooflow  on  11/14  at  12:04 PM

For those who haven’t heard that Mission of Burma song, you really should.  I love them.  They’re a subtle band, and so they fly under people’s radar when they first hear them, but if you really listen to them, you realize how much they rock.

Comment #4: Amanda Marcotte  on  11/14  at  12:05 PM

Apparently, REM released a cover of “Academy Fight Song” as a 1989 fan club single.  In case anyone cares.  I do, though I can’t really decide how I feel about this.  Okay?

Comment #5: Amanda Marcotte  on  11/14  at  12:10 PM

That cover was a staple on their tour supporting Green. My inner IMS must dis anything REM made post-IRS so… those bastards!

Comment #6: Sarcastro  on  11/14  at  12:14 PM

REM’s cover is on ‘Dead Letter Office” I think (maybe not-1989 would be too late I think?). Yes, Burma do bring the rock. Even their new albums are great. “Trem 2” is my fave song ever by them. Ever listen to Birdsongs of the Mesozoic? Roger Miller’s (that’s his name, right?) chamber rock outfit. Sometimes it sounds dated, but still enjoyable.

Comment #7: dooflow  on  11/14  at  12:17 PM

Poor REM.  If they had quit after Out of Time, they’d be revered as indie rock gods.  But now they’re sort of ignored.

Comment #8: Amanda Marcotte  on  11/14  at  12:26 PM

Amanda, do you list the Genius songs that Apple tells you to buy, or songs that come up from your own library? I feel like I can never do the Genius thing because almost all of my obscenely large music collection is on an external hard drive.

Love Is All is the only band (besides the E Street Band) prominently featuring the saxophone that I can tolerate - and I *love* how they use the sax. It gives each song a jolt. Nine Times That Same Song was my favorite album for a long time, partly because it reminded me a little of the ska I listened to in high school (but is nowhere near as chintzy and instantly dated), and partly because few other indie bands are so frenetic - they actually sound like they’re having fun.

Comment #9: JoePo  on  11/14  at  12:32 PM

Songs from my own library, Joe.  And what about the X-Ray Spex?

Comment #10: Amanda Marcotte  on  11/14  at  12:35 PM

Friday Genius Ten Review (videos only)!

Love Is All: I like the chorus effect and the shimmering-y guitar sounds. Best of the bunch.

Delta 5: wtf is this, a punk Kraftwerk? Unlistenable.

Shitdisco: The video’s clever, at least.

Tilly and the Wall: I had to listen for a full two minutes before I realized This is not a joke. This is really what the song sounds like. This makes Yellow Submarine look like The Wall.

Comment #11: MH  on  11/14  at  12:36 PM

Dude, don’t diss the Delta 5.  I will fight you on that one.  Who doesn’t love that song?

Comment #12: Amanda Marcotte  on  11/14  at  12:37 PM

As for the rest: Yeah, I have weird taste in music.  My tolerance for noise and goofiness is high.

Comment #13: Amanda Marcotte  on  11/14  at  12:45 PM

Winter 2 - The Fall
I Want To Hold Your Hand - Al Green
The Night They Invented Love/Au Revoir - Nöel
The White Single [fragment] - Girls On Top
Your Private Dining Room - CRC (Commercial Recording Corporation)
Who Loves the Sun [alt mix] - The Velvet Underground
ROCHBERG:  Octet; A Grand Fantasia, vii, Cadenza (horn & violin) - The New York Chamber Ensemble/Stephen Rogers Radcliffe
Saturday Evening Ghost - Frankie Stein & his ghouls
Mr. B’s Ballroom - Devo
Suits’ Crybaby Blues - R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders

Trouble Every Day - The Mothers Of Invention*
Love Story - 11,000 Switches
Remembering Laci - John Strand

*RIP, Jimmy Carl Black

Comment #14: haydn60  on  11/14  at  12:47 PM

JoePo, I’m in a good mood so I’ll just assume you’ve never heard Essential Logic, X-Ray Spex, or the Contortions.

Comment #15: haydn60  on  11/14  at  12:50 PM

Jimmy Carl Black, The Indian of the Group, died? Oh, sad. He was a really nice guy. I got to talk to him after a show he did with Eugene Chadbourne and he was cooler than cool.

Delta 5 rule.

Rock sax can ruin any song (“I Can’t Go for That” by Hall & Oates). But…Contortions? Roxy Music (first 5 albums only)? Bhob Rainey on the last two Damon & Naomi albums? Math? Flying Luttenbachers?

Comment #16: dooflow  on  11/14  at  12:58 PM

I’ve always been partial to Dead Pool and The Ballad of Johnny Burma by Mission of Burma. Good songs for different reasons. On to the ten.

Genius list based on: Cotton Crown - Sonic Youth

1. Dinner for Two - Deerhoof
2. When You Sleep - My Bloody Valentine
3. Hello Hawk - Superchunk
4. Jenny & the Ess-Dog - Stephen Malkmus
5. Silver - The Pixies
6. Little Rain (for Clyde) - Tom Waits
7. The Perfect Kiss - New Order
8. Lady Godiva’s Operation - Velvet Underground
9. This Ain’t No Picnic - Minutemen
10. Pat’s Trick - Helium

Comment #17: inkybrain  on  11/14  at  01:03 PM

“I Still Love REM” Edition

1.  Margaret Vs. Pauline—Neko Case
2.  Town With No Cheer—Tom Waits
3.  Marrow—Ani DiFranco
4.  Pretty Girls—Neko Case
5.  Reunion—Indigo Girls
6.  Mississippi—Bob Dylan
7.  Rock Paper Scissors—Ani DiFranco
8.  Last Date—REM
9.  Physical Cities—The Bad Plus
10.  Blessed—Simon & Garfunkel

Heavy on the Ani and Neko today….

Bonus Track:  Man-Sized Wreath—REM

Comment #18: V. Bacfarc  on  11/14  at  01:10 PM

Holy crap, I didn’t even hear of Jimmy Carl Black’s passing. Damn.

And I watched Master Ninja 2 last night, one of several MST3Ks containing the riff “It’s Jimmy Carl Black!” (the call-back being “The Indian of the group?”) when a vaguely Native American guy is on screen.

Comment #19: Sarcastro  on  11/14  at  01:11 PM

Dude, don’t diss the Delta 5.  I will fight you on that one.  Who doesn’t love that song?

Hell yeah!  And if he’s too chicken to fight you, I’ll fight him. 

Randomness today:

Shriekback - Glory Bumps
Ramones - Pet Sematary
Shadows - Man of Mystery
Slits - Heard it Through the Grapevine
Johnny & the Hurricanes - Crossfire
Sleater-Kinney - Steep Air
Gor Mkhitarian - Godfather Tom
Essential Logic - Quality Wax Crayon OK
Juaneco y su Combo - Vacilando con Ayahuasca
Ventures - Walk Don’t Run ‘64

Comment #20: TomHilton  on  11/14  at  01:14 PM

My list, containing odd references to Ralph Waldo Emerson, over at my place.

Yeah, I don’t know, either.

Comment #21: jp  on  11/14  at  01:41 PM

my Ipod isn’t cool enough to do “genius”, my Iphone is, but uh, screw that- I’m at work edition:

1. “Fish Fourteen”- Should
2. “Noah”- The Notwist
3. “Turn”- Therapy?
4. “Calculated’- Heavens to Betsy (OH. FUCK YEAH!)
5. “Only Drowning Man”- Calla
6. “It’s All For You”- Scout Niblett
7. “Rocket”- Working For A Nuclear Free Society
8. “Filler”- Minor Threat
9. “Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening To Neu”- Ciccone Youth
10. “Everybody Come Down” - The Delgados

Bonus “Work’s totally sucking today’-
“You Bore Me”- Llama Farmers- (HOW’D THEY KNOW?)

Comment #22: holly. e.r.  on  11/14  at  02:49 PM

Haydn, I indeed have not. Though I think I have a few X-Ray Spex songs from a punk box set I got a long time ago. The Clash used sax to great effect in songs like “The Right Profile,” so I’m not virulently anti-sax. I think I was poisoned a little by Galaxie 500’s Blue Thunder with Sax.

I wish Genius could call up songs from my iPod and make playlists out of those.

Comment #23: JoePo  on  11/14  at  03:27 PM

Here’s a random 10:
Silent All These Years by Tori Amos
Here Comes The Flood by Peter Gabriel
Dr Seuss by Autoclave
The Lie And How We Told It by Yo La Tengo
Darkening Of The Light by Concrete Blonde
Heaven by Talking Heads
No Feelings by Sex Pistols
All I Wanna Do by Sheryl Crow
Aurora by Foo Fighters
Bugs by Pearl Jam
Gotta Serve Somebody by Bob Dylan
I Want You by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

I also like Mission of Burma, but I didn’t like them as much as some of the other early 1980’s Boston bands (I forget many of them, but there’s the Neighborhoods, Nervous Eaters, Human Sexual Response).

Comment #24: JohnL  on  11/14  at  04:29 PM

Human Sexual Response became the Catholics behind Frank Black didn’t they?

Comment #25: dooflow  on  11/14  at  05:50 PM

I mostly just listen to Foghat, but I carry around the following in my portable record player:

1) The American Metaphysical Circus - The United States of America
2) Translucent Carriages - Pearls Before Swine
3) Bracelets of Fingers - The Pretty Things
4) Venus In Furs - The Velvet Underground
5) The Parable of Arable Land - The Red Crayola
6) Orange & Red Beams - Eric Burdon & The Animals
7) Rack My Mind - The Yardbirds
8) You’re Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators
9) Medication - The Chocolate Watch Band
10) Madman Running Through The Fields - Dantalian’s Chariot

Comment #26: Rugged in Montana  on  11/14  at  06:57 PM

80’s rainy day edition

1)  Ballet for a Rainy Day - XTC
2)  It’s Different for Girls - Joe Jackson
3)  Another Nail in My Heart - Squeeze
4)  Oliver’s Army - Elvis Costello
5)  That’s Entertainment - The Jam
6)  Left of Center - Suzanne Vega
7)  I Got You - Split Enz
8)  Love is the Drug - Roxy Music
9)  Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan
10) Someday - Marshall Crenshaw

Should I be mortified that one of the kids who works for me has never heard of Robyn Hitchcock?

Comment #27: ol cranky  on  11/14  at  07:33 PM
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