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Temple of the Dog, Hunger Strike.

Never has coming home felt so good. This song always reminds me of a very specific time in Seattle music history. Cornell and Vedder? Yes, please.

Yes! That whole album is really something special. (links)

It’s a tribute to the late great Andrew Wood (youtubes: Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns).

Jan 30, 200911 notes

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“Paper Planes” remixed by DFA

originally by M.I.A.

(via copycats,iveneverheardofyou)

I like the original better. But this one’s still good.

I lost count of the remixes of this track a long time ago. Trill Bass “Swagger Like Us” is still pretty heavy though (first track in player)

Catching up quickly is “Day and Night” by Kid Cudi (original, but that Crookers rmx is the most popular version) which has seemingly been remixed every way but polka at this point. It’s a nice tune, if a bit done to death already. (here’s my favorite version, out of the dozen or so remixes just in dubstep alone)

Jan 23, 2009

Jan 20, 2009

The difficult I’ll do right now/the impossible will take a little while…

Unfortunately, Youtube copyright-blocks vids featuring that particular Billie Holiday gem from the game’s soundtrack, so we’ll go with Bob Crosby “Happy Times” here instead. More appropriate to the general mood today anyway, seems like.

(It’s hard for me to watch some of the scenes from today’s events without thinking stuff like “Oh yeah, that’s where I had to fight all those super mutants.”)

Jan 20, 20091 note

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Jazz Sundays™

Maynard Ferguson - Eli’s Coming

Back in his day, nobody could hit a higher note on the trumpet than Ferguson, and he retained those chops nearly throughout the rest of his life. Eli’s Coming is a great example of his screaming horn, and one of the grooviest jazz numbers I know.

I saw this guy live once and he was a badass. Hell of a player.

Jan 18, 20095 notes

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I gotta get it, I got got gotta get it.

I love this tune! It’s from the first Tribe album.

A sample from this remix was used for the Lil’ Wayne tune A MILLI A MILLI A MILLI A MILLI etc

Jan 16, 20091 note

I used to drive my family crazy...

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by saying “I have his autograph”, everytime Ricardo Montalban came on the TV. And back in the 70s? That was a LOT.

Ricardo Montalban is one of those rare awesome figures that did memorable roles across a long career. I think of him as Khan and Mr Rourke and Genuine Corinthian Leather, but my niece was like “Oh, the guy from Spy Kids!”

TMZ was on tv the other day before I could avert my eyes, and one of their droids had spoken with Bob Newhart, “the guy from Elf.” Really? Even the smarmy TMZ dude was taken aback…”Wait…The Bob Newhart Show? Or Newhart, where he ran that lodge?” (Not to mention that “Button Down Mind” album, which he didn’t. but anyway.) Nope, Papa Elf.

But yeah, Montalban was a classy guy by all accounts. RIP.

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“Top Of The World” by Shonen Knife

originally by The Carpenters

(posted by mi alegria)

This is from a really good Carpenters cover album from awhile back, If I Were a Carpenter (RS linx)

Bettie Serveert’s version of “For All We Know” is a particular standout, but all the tracks on there are entertaining; it’s not as uneven as many such compilations tend to be.

Jan 13, 200913 notes

Jan 13, 20091,178 notes

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