So this is one of my fav 90's songs. It reminds me of better times. Times were I could were bright orange plastic pants, miniature backpacks, and when I could still fit into Gap kids. The title may not ring many bells, but when you hear the song you will def remember this one. Breaking into the top 40, the song took off. Flagpole Sitta has been used in many a pop culture reference; Wierd Al Yancovic did a remix entitled Polka Power!, and it was used in American pie, just to name a few. Harvey Danger released another album [...]
If you went to high school in the late 90's, then you definitely know who Harvey Danger is. His hit song Flagpole Sitta has become a modern alt-rock classic, and has spurred a lip-dubbing movement from our friends over at College Humor . Recently, the band has released a free full download of their album, Little by Little . Below is a sample of the tunes. The band brings back their signature alt-rock sound, and adds some piano to the mix. [...]
Here's a fairly short mix, considering that a few songs wouldn't really meld with the others, and then the links for some of them weren't working anymore, and I'm too lazy to upload them myself! It's quality over quantity, in any case. I should probably mention that while the name of the artist just brings you to their website, the song title will get you the song... with all the long band names in this mix, it didn't seem as intuitive. Bossanova - Calvary - (MP3, 3 MB) This is something [...]
Hello strangers! Sorry I haven't been around lately. When I come back from SxSW next week hopefully I will have tons of good music to share with you. Until then, here's a rather lazy but still (I think) entertaining post for you full of David Bowie covers. Flight of the Conchords - Bowie (not actually a cover, just an amusing song/parody) Of Montreal - Hang Onto Yourself Harvey Danger - Oh! You Pretty Things The Langley Schools [...]
Right, well, aren't you lucky? Business in Milwaukee for the first part of next week is most likely going to keep me from blogging Monday and Tuesday, so I'm going to go a little further today and give you a few songs to hold you over. Maybe it'll become a running theme... once a month or something... "The Friday Five." So today, "Ain't Superstitious, But These Things I've Seen..." is proud to present: The Friday Five: Hey, They Did That One Song in the [...]
Everyone has heard Harvey Danger, for there was a short period in the 90's where they drilled Flagpole Sitta into everyone's heads by way of the radio. Then, according to the blasphemous 'mainstream' folk, they disappeared. This is not actually the case - they followed up 1998's Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? with King James Version , a bombastic record that managed to surpass its predecessor, being significantly catchier, while retaining the same level of lyrical quality ("I had a lovely brunch with Jesus Christ / he said two words about inanity [...]
Happy Xmas to you, Fabulists. To my fellow Jews: I hope you enjoy your chinese food and movies as much as I will. Enjoy these songs (which I give to you, despite normally being vehemently opposed to all music Christmas) and your day. Harvey Danger - Sometimes You Have To Work On Christmas (Sometimes) The Walkmen - No Christmas While I'm Talking Jonathan Coulton - Podsafe Christmas Song The Olivia Tremor Control - Christmas With William S [...]
Yes, I'm posting day 22 on December 23, but unlike the previous times where I was late with these, this time I have a good reason. The hosting where the mp3s are parked went kaput last night, meaning I couldn't put any new songs up onto it, and rather than wait for it to come back up, I went to bed instead. Which once again means that you get a double dosing of Christmas joy (or melancholy) today. Most people probably only know Harvey Danger from their song 'Flagpole Sitta', which was something of a modest [...]
Well, it finally happened. I was finally subjected to my first live performance of the season of "Feliz Navidad," which ne'er fails to make me want to gouge my eardrums out with a knitting needle. I also was at a fancy office Christmas party on Friday night and the soul cover band kept throwing in trombone lines from Joy To The World and Sleigh Ride, etc etc etc. It brought to my attention the fact that this post is long overdue. I've got a pretty sizeable collection of " Christmas Music That Won't Drive [...]
Yes, they're ubiquitous on blogs these days, but there are so many Christmas songs out there that I can't help the urge to add a post myself. To be fair, I did my best to limit it to songs that haven't shown up elsewhere so at least you can get something a little bit different. The Christians and the Pagans - Dar Williams Sure Don't Feel Like Christmas - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones The Christmas Song - The Raveonettes Christmas at the Zoo [...]
We had a little pea soup and manicures party last night. I totally painted my fingernails black (with the cheapest thing I could find: NYC Black Lace Creme ) and glossed the fuck out of them, like I saw was The Next Big Thing in some magazine whilst in the checkout line the other day (probably in an issue of OK! or some similarly low-rent celeb gossip rag). Anyway, they look surprisingly classy. Seriously. Pinkie, as ever, went for the more glam OPI shade of Lincoln Park After Dark , which [...]
"...the founder/head honcho of Kill Rock Stars , Slim Moon, will leave his position at KRS sometime this fall to work in A&R for Nonesuch . Moon's wife, Portia Sabin, will take over both Kill Rock Stars and its 5RC imprint." [ Pitchfork ] XIU XIU - Boy Soprano TWO TON BOA - Cash Machine SLUMBER PARTY - 10-9-8-7-6-5-4 HELLA - Biblical Violence GOSSIP - Listen Up! WOODEN WAND AND THE SKY HIGH BAND [...]
Bound Stems came across my radar thanks to Mike from WOXY . He has said that this is his favorite album of the year, and I am starting to see why. Bound Stems makes rock music with beautiful guitar hooks and a drum pattern (cortesy of ex Harvey Danger member Evan Sult) that seems to veer off the road and corrects itself just in time to make you believe the diversion was part of the plan all along. And that seems to sum up the journey that is [...]
Out and about on the Inter-tubes today. You know, that Decemberists cover of "Bring on the Dancing Horses" (follow link, scroll down) kind of makes me want to kill myself. And not in that "I'm a gothy 16 year-old girl and everything makes me want to kill myself" way -- oh no. It's much, much more melodramatic than that. So, it occured to me just now that most of the time, Decemberists covers are kind of like that Eddie Izzard bit from "Dress to Kill" about how Anglicans can [...]
Sigo teniendo algunos problemas para hacer updated en el blog, Savefile esta a la espera de un nuevo servidor que hasta donde he alcanzado a leer será de 5 Therabytes, cantidad que me provoca babear con tan solo pensar en ella. Me es dificil subir musica porque no me gustan los otros servicios, hay que registrarse o los archivos solo quedan durante una semana o una determinada cantidad limitada de downloads, en algunos casos te logran instalar spyware y la idea no es que ocurra ninguna de ellas. En otros casos hay que esperar a que a la pagina se [...]
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Does This Frame Even Look Like Piano Keys To You? Once upon a time, I tunefully pressed the black and white keys of a piano and did so for three years before I threw out my songbook and deemed the instrument for nerds. I regret ever making that decision, and I shatter to pieces knowing that, had I continued, I probably could belt out the fantastically sequential notes of Spoon's The Way We Get By on my dusty, neglected Yamaha keyboard. I have a sense of respect to [...]
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