August 2012
54 posts
“AC/DC and Led Zeppelin aren’t exactly living on the bleeding edge. […] And maybe this speaks to the sorts of hotels I patronize, but the elevator music in the hotels where I stay—when there’s music in them—tends more toward late-’90s chilltronica than it does Lawrence Welk.”
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The CD player in our car has been broken for months, so whenever we drive, we’re forced, if we want to hear music, to listen to the radio. We have six pre-programmed stations: two public radio stations, a classic rock station, WEBN (every night at 10 is Mandatory Metallica), a station that always seems to be playing Whitney Houston, and the station I probably listen to the most: Rewind 94.9. To give you an idea of their programming, I submit their playlist from 10-10:30 this morning:
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Kelly Clarkson - Walk Away
Bryan Adams - Everything I Do (I Do It For You)
Madonna - Borderline
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Rick James - Super Freak
The Cars - You Might Think
Rick Springfield - I’ve Done Everything For You
Look! AC/DC!
They have also at various points today played REM, Blondie, T’Pau, Whitesnake, B-52s, Cameo, and Modern English. Essentially, it’s a nostalgia station for Generation Xers wanting to relive their middle school dances (which of course I buy right into). But apart from reminding me what it was like to be a flat-chested girl with a neon puffy paint shirt rolling her eyes in a corner while more well-endowed girls slow-danced with boys to (the UNFAIRLY long) “One More Try,” it also reminds me that we can’t forget that we’re approaching middle age, and this is middle-aged music, and to try to claim we’re any cooler than anyone else of any age is untrue as long as we hold on to the idea that our music was always the best music. That is just so… uncool.
Yeah. So what Maura said.
(I also have a high school friend on Facebook who is a house music DJ, and he keeps posting about how much he hates dubstep and how there needs to be more house music in the dance scene, and it just makes me shake my head and think ohhhh old man.)
An Incomplete List Of Things I Would Like Never To See Again
1. Venn diagrams
2. Political ads
3. Political ads with Venn diagrams
4. (Don’t even think about it.)
Play
Elephant (Todd Rundgren Remix)
Tame Impala
jcxn:
Tame Impala - Elephant (Todd Rundgren Remix)
Oh. DUDE. All the hearts on the internet. This is my at-bat song.
♥ What Would Taylor Wear? ♥ →
wwtaylorw.com
So this exists. (It’s kind of awesome.)
Anesthetize
Brainiac
I miss Brainiac so much.
(Previously.)
Play
A list of celebrities and what they smell like →
finslippy.com
Craig T. Nelson: Juicy Fruit, civet musk, houseboats
Dianne Wiest: Peppermint-infused beard gloss
Michael Caine: A geodesic dome wrapped in handwoven butter muslin
*SNIFF* Alice, you genius.
Apollo Run, "Bending the Light" (free download) →
artistdirect.com
FINALLY I get to share with you one of my favorite songs from the latest Apollo Run album. I’ve had this in my iTunes for a while and I told my brother I’m disowning him for the month of September so that people will believe I’m unbiased when I tell them how good this is and how often I listen to it. SERIOUSLY.
This particular song is only a taste, but it’s a must listen if you love Muse, Elbow, Imagine Dragons, Nile Rodgers, “Blue Jean”-era David Bowie, or Taylor Swift.
(kidding on the last one. sort of. it’s a breakup song!)
