Flackadelic

Time to Pretend by apropl

For your listening pleasure, here are a bunch of songs I’ve been loving lately:

1. Time to Pretend by MGMT
2. Fixed to Ruin by Sam Roberts
3. Pâte Filo by Malajube
4. Trans Canada by the Constantines
5. No Name #1 by Elliott Smith
6. I Stand Corrected by Vampire Weekend
7. Resurrection Fern by Iron & Wine
8. Jesus, Etc. [Live] by Wilco
9. Oliver James by Fleet Foxes
10. Unguided by The New Pornographers
11. Over the Ice by The Field

Note: this post original appeared with a Mixwit player. Mixwit has since joined the dead pool.

photo: Time to Pretend by apropl

Hey yo. Here I am with this week’s Phive.

[Note: this post original appeared with a Mixwit player. Mixwit has since joined the dead pool.]

1. Take On Me by Ah Ha

Take On Me by Ah Ha goes out to my childhood friends Mel and Jen (who had this  album on “tape”). On Sunday I met their husbands and adorable kids, we got caught up and had lots of laughs.

2. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt 2 by the Flaming Lips

Reflecting Spoon by ArtNow315

This one came up on Party Shuffle tonight. Groovy. Love that Party Shuffle.

3. My Little Japanese Cigarette Case by Spoon

I’ve got all kinds of time for Spoon these days.

4. Over the Hills and Far Away by Led Zeppelin (Live from How the West Was Won)

It is all about Rock Band. I adore it. Mr. Flackadelic (drums) and I (guitar) decided to play an 11-song all 90s set on Wednesday night. We got all the way to the final track (#11) only to have it be Enter Sandman which we totally pooched, thereby losing all the stars (points) gained through the first 10 songs. Good times. Good times.

We bought a bunch of tracks this week for Rock Band (from the comfort of our living room) stuff from Oasis, Radiohead, Fall Out Boy, Stone Temple Pilots…  The entire experience blows my mind. I can’t wait for more songs and artists to climb on board. Zeppelin is likely a bit far fetched, but we can dream.

5. California Waiting by Kings of Leon (from the Holy Roller Novacaine EP)

A personal fave to end this week’s list. And with that, I’m out for the night.

photo: Reflecting Spoon uploaded by ArtNow 314

[Note: this post original appeared with a Mixwit player. Mixwit has since joined the dead pool.]

micro fireworks by Pixel Addict

Up first on this week’s Phive is an acoustic version of Fireworks by the Tragically Hip. This goes out to the Belleville Bulls who are headed to the Memorial Cup after they annihilated the Oshawa Generals 11-0. From the Belleville Intelligencer:

The Belleville Bulls blasted their way to the OHL Final – and a bonus berth in the 2008 Memorial Cup tournament in Kitchener – with a spectacular 11-0 demolition of the Oshawa Generals Wednesday night at Yardmen Arena to win the best-of-seven Eastern Conference championship series 4-1.

They love their hockey in Quinte.  I’m heading down to Bellevegas tomorrow to visit friends. Maybe I’ll pick up some Bulls swag to wear around T.O. A flag for my car perhaps?

Next we’ve got Up Against the Wall by Peter Bjorn and John. These guys have been ubiquitous over the past few years. This track was used in Levis commercial; Young Folks was the iTunes 2007 song of the year; the band has a best t-shirt according to Rolling Stone … I’m starting to get a hankering for some new stuff.

Mr. Flackadelic requested My Valuable Hunting Knife by Guided by Voices be played as part of the Phive. His first request was something by Iron Maiden. [vetoed]

I don’t know if you’ve been watching (maybe too busy playing), but Guitar Hero and Rock Band are a major distribution channel for music.

Primotech: “…sales of Guitar Hero and Rock Band brought in more revenue in 2007 than digital music downloads from services like iTunes. The two videogame franchises made their respective publishers $935 million USD combined, while digital music sales came in at about $835m.” (via Tumbleona)

This week, Doolittle by the Pixies and The Cars by the Cars were added as full playable albums to the Rock Band juggernaut. So, track 4 on this week’s list is Wave of Mutilation by the Pixies.

Finally, today marks the one year anniversary of our trip to the Coachella Festival. For the final track, here is Willie Nelson (one of many acts we saw at the festival) with his cover of  Jimmy Cliff’s The Harder They Come.

photo: micro fireworks by Pixel Addict

[I'm using SeeqPod for today's Phive. If you don't see the embedded player, here's a handy link.]

SeeqPod – Playable Search

"Aw wicked." says the Q104 DJ at the end of this live acoustic clip of True Patriot Love recorded live at  the Halifax rock radio station. I too think Joel Plaskett is wicked. I really dig his most recent album Ashtray Rock. He’s up first on this edition of the Phive. Did you miss me?

Next, is Can’t Stand Me Now by the Libertines.  I heard it on my drive to work this morning (cranked up  loud with the sunroof open natch). I’m an easy mark for jangly guitar work.

I’m giving the latest album, Magnificent Fiend from Howlin Rain some time these days. It is *so* very retro. According to Rolling Stone:

"A psychedelic cocktail of Crosby, Stills and
Nash, the Faces, the Damned and author Raymond Carver. "Everyone
dabbles in the history books to get their licks," says [front man Ethan] Miller, "We use
the same roads and highways. But the weather, lights, cars and people,
they’re never quite the same."

I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash is here for its pure pop schmaltzy goodness and for springtimey happy vibes and because I had a bit of a breakthrough this week. I’m dedicating it to Brian from CopyBlogger who sent out three tweets yesterday that resonated with me big time:

Number 1: “You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?’” ~George Bernard Shaw
Number 2: "
   
      “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~Henry David Thoreau
Number 3: “Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.” ~Yoda

Last but certainly not least is All Day Love Affair by Cee-Lo Green. This track dates from his 2004 solo album, before Cee-Lo hooked up with Danger Mouse to become Gnarls Barkley. I hit repeat twice when this one came on this car this morning. It was perfection on a bright sunny Friday morning.

Yeah the sun is shining.
Looking like another wonderful day.
Look for my CD collection. Trying to find some good music to play.
While I am getting ready to face the world doing what I must do.. no sugar..
Nothing compares to waking up this morning to you.

Have a good weekend kids. Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.

I’m working on filling my ipod with playlists. I do an annual “best of playlist project”. This year I cruised many blogs and lists for suggestions:

Top 102 Songs of 2007 (Edge 102, Toronto) – there’s a bunch of 2006 songs on here (if you’re a fussy purist obsessive about your playlists…)

2007 Best Ad Songs (Advertising Age) – bonus Questionable list. Did you know the CCS song (Music is My Hot Hot Sex) Apple used this year was used by Zune in 2006? Sloppy.

The Best Songs of 2007 (Beyond Robson) - LCD Soundsystem tops many lists this year. This Van City blog has Someone Great at number one.

My Poproks Best of Songs of 2007: The Playlist

The Modern Music: Best Songs of the Year 2007

The Top 10 Songs: Time – Part of 50 top 10 lists for 2007.

The Forty Best Songs of 2007 (Central Village) – Great list and a good read.

NPR Music: 2007: The Year in Review from All Songs Considered

The Yellow Stereo > Best Songs of Mid-2007

Best Songs of 2007: Spinner.com

Pitchfork Feature: 2007 Individual Tracks List

Pitchfork Top 100 Tracks of 2007

Rolling Stone: Weekend Rock List: Reader’s Best Songs of 2007

Best Songs of 2007 (Oceans Never Listen)

Poplicks.com BEST SONGS OF 2007

Top 50 Songs of 2007 – Pop Playground (Stylus Magazine)

The Best Songs of 2007, In Bigger Than The Sound (MTV). James Montgomery goes on the record with 33 songs which make up his “Totally killer mixtap of 2007″. Including Paper Planes by M.I.A. at #9:

“Maybe it’s the Clash sample, or the play on Wreckx-N-Effect, or the

gunshots or the ka-ching of the cash register, but I don’t think Ms.

Arulpragasam has ever sounded sunnier (even on “Sunshowers”) or more

personable on a track, even when she’s talking about robbing you,

forging documents, moving drugs or third-world democracy. A positively

vital song, indicative of the shrinking world we inhabit, the

culture-mashing power of the Internet and also probably the reason

M.I.A. had such a difficult time getting a U.S. visa.”