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November 20, 2010Episode 1581 is up
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November 19, 2010[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khBT2fVfImk]
Joel’s Hit Show, Episode 86, 17 November 2010 Playlist
November 18, 2010Highlife, Buryingstones
Sahara Hotnights, Keep Up the Speed
Ruby, Beefheart
Azure Ray, Wake Up, Sleepyhead
Run for Cover Lovers, Transmission Standard
Rubies, I Feel Electric
Miriam’s Well, Diamonds
Save Ferris, The World Is New
Polly Scattergood, Please Don’t Touch
Lower Dens, Plastic and Powder
Savath & Savalas, Apnea Obstructiva
Scout Niblett, Big Bad Man
Artefact, Sex Computer
Seksu Roba, Hesitation
Sex Presleys, Teddy Bear
Fitz & the Tantrums, Don’t Gotta Work It Out
7 Year Bitch, Crying Shame
Sea Sick, XX
The Lightfighters, Fade to Grey
She & Him, Thieves
The Selby Tigers, The Prom I Never Had
Sarah Jaffe, Wreaking Havoc
Shonen Knife, Lazybone
Shannon Stephens, Deliverance
Dirty Projectors, No Intention
The Shams, Voices in My Head
She Mob, I Took the $
Nina Nastasia, This Familiar Way
Shellshag, Shut Up
Shelleyan Orphan, Muddied Up
Cheyenne Marie Mize, Kind
Tracy Shedd, People Are Changing
Smoosh, Rad
We Landed on the Moon, On Our Last Legs
Sleater-Kinney, Get Up
Sia, You’ve Changed
Eels, This Is Where It Gets Good
Silversun Pickups, Kissing Families
Sick of Sarah, Daises
Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco, Cucala
The Soviettes, Photograph
The Skys, Bad Guys
Agent Ribbons, Grey Gardens
Episode 1577 is up
November 15, 2010Episode 1576 is up
November 15, 2010Diet Kong “Beautiful Blackout”
November 14, 2010It’s an EP. “Shoot the Freak” is first, and it’s very straightforward peppy pop rock. “A Forest” and “Open” are forgettable. “Skin Color Crayon” is much more fun and even makes reference to a jungle gym. “Beautiful Blackout” has a good beat, but the vocals were mixed strangely, and I don’t get why this was done. But what the hell do I know?
Various Artists “The Vampire Diaries Original Television Soundtrack”
November 14, 2010Lots of your favorite artists on this one. Placebo’s cover of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” is surprisingly good. The Silversun Pickups offering, “Currency of Love,” is exactly what you’d expect.
Bat for Lashes fans can rejoice with “Sleep Alone.” Goldfrapp gives us “We Radiate.” They sound a little more retro on this one. That’s their shtick, though, isn’t it? I was pleasantly surprised with Sky Ferreira. “Obsession” is not an Animotion cover, but it’s a good song in its own right.
What is a cover is Digital Daggers’ “Head Over Heels.” Shed no tears but embrace your fears, because it’s just not that good. It’s three musical styles in one, but with no transition. It’s like a masturbatory mashup, in that it’s just one thing that is pretending to be three. The only times this has ever worked were Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and Big Audio Dynamite’s “Rush.”
Jason Walker gives us light rock, less talk, on “Down.” I don’t know who the woman is singing with him, but it makes the song work. Plumb are here, and I wonder whether it’s the same Plumb that I have a record of from long ago. It could be. “Cut” is an OK song, if you want to see what they sound like now.
“On Melancholy Hill” is the Gorillaz’s entry, and it’s pretty amazing.
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