cardboard adolescent

This playlist was compiled mostly by chance
(though limited obviously by my collection)
See if you can guess the theme.

Playlist 1: Moon Picks
1.Chuck Berry – Havana Moon

Before I put together this compilation, I'd never listened to this song before, which is a shame because it's very good. Very minimalist, centered around a simple but charming motif and Berry's stripped down vocals. It tells a poignant story and fades out as abruptly as it started, leaving you with that warm and fuzzy feeling that all the rest of the music on this playlist will try to stamp out.

2.Dead Kennedys – Moon Over Marin

Only a band as versatile as the Dead Kennedys could write a punk song so simultaneously beautiful and dark. The lyrics deal with our fascist soldier protagonist in a nondescript dystopian future world enjoying his segment of the beach, despite oil spills and dead fish littering the sand. It's a powerful political statement delivered as unobtrusively as possible, and for those not interested in hearing it is backed by one of the most sentimental melodies ever written by a “hardcore” band.

3.Bauhaus – Honeymoon Croon

Bauhaus are bad-ass.

4.Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon

I cannot listen to this song without flashing back to the scene of Donnie waking up dazed and confused, unaware of his location, and then dreamily riding his bike down the hill. Those images perfectly mirror the dreamy, intoxicated infatuation presented in “The Killing Moon.” The Bunnymen's spiraling take on new wave is half jangle, half pop, pure pop rock bliss.

5.Big Star – Blue Moon

Alex Chilton is a genius. This song should send shivers up your spine (if it doesn't, you might be spineless).

6.Nick Drake – Pink Moon

What does this song have in common with the last track? No, it's not the similarity in title, they're both two minutes and six seconds long. Weird, huh? That, and they're both two of the most beautiful folk songs ever written. There's not much to say about Nick Drake that hasn't been said before, all it takes to understand is to listen.

7.Bob Dylan – Moonshiner

This is one of those good Bob Dylan songs.

8.The Doors – Moonlight Drive

Good upbeat Doors song off Strange Days.

9.Can – Moonshake

This song sees Can locking into a great jazzy groove, bringing together a lot of disparaging elements (some sort of strange combination of Latin and musique concrete) and marrying them to some surprisingly conventional vocals that work like a charm.

10.Chrome – Blood on the Moon

Driven by a slow, hypnotic drumbeat and an oscillating undercurrent of feedback, this song comes off as a fusion of Neu and Black Sabbath. Not one of the most memorable songs, but a great mood piece nonetheless.

11.Brian Eno / David Byrne – Moonlight in Glory

From My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Brian Eno and David Byrne's amazing sample-based electronica album. This song in particular highlights the contrast between Byrne's driving, ethnic rhythms and Eno's oblique sound collages, and the incredible balance these artists managed to achieve.

12.My Bloody Valentine – Moon Song

A particularly well executed meandering tune featuring predominantly Kevin Shields' strained vocals. Absolutely hypnotic and dreamy, just what you'd expect from MBV.

13.His Name is Alive – Blue Moon

Turns Big Star's folk classic into a stunning dream pop masterpiece.

14.Cat Power – Moonshiner

Takes that good Bob Dylan song and turns it into a good Cat Power song.

15.Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention – Concentration Moon

This song is ridiculous. And absurd. And brilliant. And stunning social satire, and- it's Frank Zappa, dude, what more do you really need? Also, any song that describes America as a “scab of a nation driven insane” must be worth at least one listen.

16.Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Moonlight in Vermont

Probably the most accessible song on Trout Mask Replica, which might be a bit startling if this is your first exposure to Captain Beefheart. That having been said, it's still a rape of most standards of rock n' roll with each instrument playing in its own time signature and Beefheart ranting absurd lyrics off like a determined madman. Especially unsettling is the effect of his vocals being disjointed from the rest of the music, supposedly caused by his singing along to the studio echos rather than wearing headphones, but more than likely intentional.

17.Television – Marquee Moon

This track is crystalline. It makes my head spin.

18.Explosions in the Sky – The Moon is Down

This is the song that hundreds of bands are trying desperately at this very instant to emulate.

19.The Kronos Quartet – Half Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight

Think if John Cale started a string quartet. Keeps your socks glued to your balls, that's for sure.

20.Tod Dockstader – Two Moons of Quartermass, First Moon

This is the most cold, alienating music imaginable, stripping the moon of any sentimental value and describing it instead as a distant revolving sphere.

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NoMeansNo

Wrong

NoMeansNo were sold to me as the premier “jazz-core” band. On Wrong, I didn't really hear it. It's definitely technical and has a lot of shifting time signatures, but it didn't strike me as sounding particularly “jazzy.” For the most part, any jazzy tendencies were trampled by the drive of punk energy. Despite this, however, I was in love almost immediately. “Rags and Bones” is the undeniable peak of the album, with its perfect bass riff and epic song structure, it manages to show the band reaching for dizzying new lyrical heights, taking on religion and Moby **** in their typically tongue-in-cheek manner. All in all, its one of the most original and compelling punk albums you're likely to hear.

Mama

Here we are. Mama, released in 1984 (five years before Wrong), shows the band playing what I could certainly identify as jazz-core. Where I expected an earlier, less known album to be grittier and rawer, it instead sounds much more contained, with all the focus on the rolling and throbbing bass. The basslines are aided by some very tight and technical drumming, all occasionally aided by very jazzy, funky guitar lines. Songs like “My Roommate is Turning into a Monster” are aided by absurd, over-the-top lyrics which emphasize their funk and flow while counterpointing their tight playing. It's basically everything good about Primus five years before they even recorded a record, and more compelling if you ask me.

John Cale - Fear

John Cale's abrasive viola playing and avant-garde tendencies propelled The Velvet Underground to the blissfully noisy extremes of their first two albums, ensuring that their bold innovations would be noticed by rising generations of radical and rebellious musicians. It's rather odd, then, that John Cale's solo output, finally liberated from Lou Reed's influence, would be marked by gentle pop and folk melodies. That was particularly true on his first four albums, culminating with Paris 1919, a lush, layered piece of baroque pop. Fear, recorded the next year, is a different beast altogether. Pop, rock, folk, and blistering viola drones and noise are all presented, carefully balanced, in a remarkably controlled and mature way. His technique works best when his songs slowly devolve into the chaos and nihilism hinted at by the lyrics. “Fear is a Man's Best Friend,” for instance, slowly transforms from a pretty piano ballad, albeit with creepy undertones, into a brutal cry against the human condition. “Gun,” an eight-minute long epic, benefits most from Cale's screeching, detached viola playing. Overall, its a very well balanced album that unfortunately suffers from a few pointless/distracting songs. Its highlights, though, more than make up for it.

Iva Bittova & Vladimir Vaclavek – Bile Inferno

This album is so good it hurts. Very minimalist – guitar, viola, voice. But that's really all you need, it explores the ranges of all three while always staying in a realm of tranquil beauty.

Ui – Answers

Some stellar grooves here. Probably my favorite post-rock album, always focusing on the rhythm. Great driving music.

The Jesus Lizard – Goat

This album, put very plainly, rocks. Scuzzed-out noise rock that more or less renders the whole “grunge revolution” irrelevant.

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic – faultline

Started by Roger Miller from Mission of Burma after developing a pretty serious case of tinnitus, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic are one of those bands that are nearly impossible to peg to a genre. Popular opinion categorizes them as “avant-prog,” which does give you some implication of what to expect: elements of fusion, classical song structures, modernist experimentation, etc. But still, there is no genre term that will tell you just what this album sounds like, and that pretty much sums up everything I love about it. If you really need a clue, think Zappa's more elaborate instrumental pieces infused with post-punk attitude and aesthetic, and the exploding possibilities of electronica in the late 80's (released in 1989). And don't assume its dry, boring, and intellectual, in fact, it's a rather accessible up-beat album characterized by subtle humor.

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The ones in the last post aren't working for me
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looks like they expired.
i guess this goes for everyone:
if you want an album just pm me
and i'll send it.

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Now this is what I call contributing to the boards! I will look forward to listening to them. Those links have expired and I did'nt get time to get any of them as I was offline for a week.

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cardboard adolescent

Playlist 4: lord of the flies
here's a nice little sampler of some
straight up
scuzzed out
rock and roll

enjoy

1. The Homosexuals - Flying
has the swagger of glam rock but all the anger and attitude
of punk... basically what you'd expect from a band called the homosexuals

2. The Misfits - Return of the Fly
danzig's vocals at their peak, it's so retro and yet still so forward looking
there's just something really incredible about it to me

3. Wire - I Am The Fly
dark perfection

4. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Firefly Child
so scuzzy and sleazy you can hardly believe it. masterful

5. Melvins - Eye Flys
such a representative early melvins song... it takes five minutes to build up (just to see if you can make it) and then spends about a minute and a half rocking out but in typical restrained madman fashion

6. Cherubs - Venus Flytrap
noise rock not in the sharp, jagged big black sense of the term, but rather punk rock washed over in feedback (also, was xtc playing in the background the whole time?)

7. Erase Errata - Walk Don't Fly
more jagged noise rock, great chick vocals

8. Grinderman - Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)
approaches birthday party greatness

9. The Cramps - Human Fly
you know when the crazy people in the movies sit in their straight jackets and shake violently back and forth? this is the song playing in their head.

10. Mudhoney - Butterfly Stroke
yay grunge

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1.Chuck Berry – Havana Moon
I really should listen to a full Chuck Berry album.

2.Dead Kennedys – Moon Over Marin
Not a big fan of them at all but this is a really nice song.

3.Bauhaus – Honeymoon Croon
I have to be a coppy cat and say Bauhaus are bad-ass.

4.Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
More songs should sound like this or at least be on my computer.

5.Big Star – Blue Moon
I reckon this is lovely.

6.Nick Drake – Pink Moon
This first time I heard this song was on a (car?) commercial when I was 10. I think if I heard it on a commercial I would be quite enraged considering the present situation but a year or two later I was listening to the radio, I recognized it, and scrambled for the rec and play. I didn't listen to full Nick Drake album until I was 14.

7.Bob Dylan – Moonshiner
One of his best songs or I just fingerpicking, a good story and his voice isn't obnoxious as it's been known to be.

8.The Doors – Moonlight Drive
I'm not a Doors fan anyway.

9.Can – Moonshake
Why can't people recreate krautrock?

10.Chrome – Blood on the Moon
I was considerably bored to be honest.

11.Brian Eno / David Byrne – Moonlight in Glory
Extremely cheesy but I don't mind.

12.My Bloody Valentine – Moon Song
Good for lying in bed.

13.His Name is Alive – Blue Moon
Meh, boring.

14.Cat Power – Moonshiner
I like Cat Power more than I like Dylan. What can I say?

15.Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention – Concentration Moon
cheesy for the best

16.Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Moonlight in Vermont
This song is exceptionally catchy.

17.Television – Marquee Moon
Classic for a reason.

18.Explosions in the Sky – The Moon is Down
These guys write songs that just feel right and make people who say post-rock should stand as background music look silly.

19.The Kronos Quartet – Half Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight
This is intense in a relaxing way. I like the over use of half steps. Minor 2nds are your friends. Yay chromatics

20.Tod Dockstader – Two Moons of Quartermass, First Moon
Is everything (t)he(y) do(es) like this? Feel like I'm about to play some MS pinball.

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1. Melt Banana - Spathic!
Damn my ride getting abilities. I should've known friends would be good for something. Hopefully I'll see them live sometime.

2. Liliput - Night Toad
Sounds like Kim Deal in the background.

3. Teenage Jesus & The Jerks - I Woke Up Dreaming
i like noise!

4. Yoko Ono - Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)
The playlist title seems fitting.

5. Throwing Muses - America
This was actually not put in the folder. I'll find it on soulseek or something

6. PJ Harvey - Man-Size Sextet
This is pretty weird. Cool but weird.

7. Bjork - Human Behaviour
I can only stand Bjork in form of cover.

8. The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World
Well that was cute

9. Nico - It Was a Pleasure Thing
Used to not be a fan but she grows on me.

10. Joanna Newsom - Cosmia
9 out of 10 times I hate Joanna Newsome. This songs pretty cool I guess. She sounds like a bird from time to time.

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