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Quite Suppresed Yet Quite Revealing: Thursday, March 7 2008-03-06 23:34:00 i know most of what i put here is rock music, and everything i've talked about here so far has been popular music of some vein. but...i love choral music, too. i sing in a choir now, and have been in various ones over the years. i picked this one, "Lux Aurumque" by Eric Whitacre, because i was singing it in practice today, and it's a lot of fun to do. there are a lot of recordings of it on YouTube...some of them are gorgeous, and some of them aren't too good. this is my favourite that i found. the voices blend together beautifully. Read more:Thursday
, March
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Wednesday, March 5 2008-03-05 23:39:00 rock over london. rock on chicago. Wesley Willis is awesome...and "Cut The Mullet" is one of his funniest songs. it's also practical advice for your everyday life. mullets are no good, and should be cut at the earliest convenience. Read more:March
, Wednesday
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Tuesday, March 4 2008-03-04 17:14:00 weird covers makes me happy. an acoustic nerd balladeer covering Sir Mix-A-Lot? it's genius...and the first time i heard this song, my friend who was driving almost drove the car off the road.presenting..."Baby Got Back", covered by Jonathan Coulton. Read more:March
, Tuesday
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Monday, March 3 2008-03-03 10:08:00 here, have another sweet, delicious taste of the nineties: "Not An Addict" by K's Choice. it's a bummer they didn't make it any bigger in the states; i never got to see them in concert before they broke up. this was the only song that got much play here. however, if they were going to have one song get popular, this was the song...they have a lot of solid tunes, but this has always been my favourite. Read more:March
, Monday
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Saturday, March 1 2008-03-01 19:58:00 Weird Al Yankovic is brilliant...and "Trapped In The Drive-Thru" is a spot-on parody of "Trapped In The Closet". it's a long song (over ten minutes), but well worth it for the hilarious treatment of the absolutely mundane. Read more:March
, Saturday
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Friday, February 29 2008-02-29 22:02:00 i always loved "Tired" by Matchbox20. it was the B-Side to the "Push" single, and wondered why it never made it on to an album. the vocal lines during the verses are awesome...it's almost like he's rambling, but it's a little too rhythmic for that. Read more:Friday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Thursday, February 28 2008-02-28 08:07:00 no more rap. no more disco.instead, it's a song that fifteen-year-old girls love: "Sugar, We're Going Down" by Fall Out Boy. this is one of the times the fifteen year olds got it right. i'm not a fan of most of Fall Out Boy's stuff, but this song is fantastic. the tune is catchy, and it's fun to sing along to. plus, the line "i'm just a notch in your bedpost/but you're just a line in a song" resonates with me. it's a theme of mutual use. Read more:Thursday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Wednesday, February 27 2008-02-27 17:33:00 i know. this place has been cracked out this week. but, what can i say? i'm cracked out. i have a huge paper due at school, and it's making me crazy. [a life outside of this blog--how scary that!]it's making me crazy enough to post disco.i'll be sane again by saturday. i promise. Read more:Wednesday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Tuesday, February 26 2008-02-26 10:20:00 this song is one of my ultimate guilty pleasure songs. when i was in high school and this song was on MTV all the time, i would harass my brothers relentlessly for liking it so much. then i got to college and realised that the song was hilarious. i caught myself liking it too; listening to it puts a stupid little smirk on my face. it might be the beat, it might be the smugness of the lyrics. i don't know.anyway, enjoy..."Forgot About Dre" by Dr. Dre and Eminem. Read more:Tuesday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Monday, February 25 2008-02-25 13:35:00 today's song is a brilliant and clever rock and roll theme and variation: "Time To Waste" by Alkaline Trio.i love the incorporation of motifs throughout this song. the piano starts with a melody and builds...then the guitar picks up a close variation of it that pulls it squarely into the world of rock. all of a sudden, the verse starts, and the music is completely different from that piano bit at the beginning. it sneaks up on you, though, because each part seems to flow so naturally from the last. conversely, you never notice how similar the chorus is until right before the bridge. the second repeat of the chorus ends, and the piano comes back during the bridge. it's a reworking of the beginning of the song, leading back to the final repeat of the chorus.whenever i listen to this so Read more:Monday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Sunday, February 24 2008-02-24 14:03:00 i'm having one of those days where i'm sick, i'm tired, and all i want to do is complain. instead of complaining here, i'll just post the most complain-y song i can think of: "King for a Day" by Caroline's Spine. musically, it's actually a really fun song...but the lyrics are full of complaining. Read more:Sunday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Saturday, February 23 2008-02-23 12:02:00 i didn't list these guys on my list of the best Chicago music you've never heard, because this song did come out on a major label release. however, Beyond The Calm of the Corridor never got the airplay it deserved, and the band broke up soon after. "Thicker" is one of my favourite songs on the album. it's angry, the kind of song that is very therapeutic to wail along to when you're having a terrible day. Read more:Saturday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Friday, February 22 2008-02-22 09:43:00 i've been told several times that this is heresy, but i don't care. "How Soon Is Now" by Snake River Conspiracy is better than the original. it's far more sarcastic, and i appreciate that. Read more:Friday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Thursday, February 21 2008-02-21 10:23:00 i had forgotten all about "B.Y.O.B." by System of a Down until this morning, when a clip of it was played on a podcast i was listening to. System of a Down is very hit or miss with me. some of their songs are more melodic than others, and i really only like the melodic ones. i like this song a lot; the slow parts have such a danceable groove to them. even though it was just clips, i was making a moron of myself dancing down the sidewalk as i walked. it's a good early-morning song. Read more:Thursday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Wednesday, February 20 2008-02-20 09:22:00 it still makes me very sad that Memento only released one album, Beginnings. i stumbled upon the band because one of my friends kept talking about it in the spring and summer of 2003. he wasn't sure i'd like them, but i was sold when i heard their song "Shell." i bought the album...and realised that i had hardly scratched the surface. the last song on that album, "Figure 8", is twelve minutes and forty-eight seconds of pure bliss. the song ebbs and flows. it has specific, discernible movements that all fit together to make a coherent, beautiful whole.some extremely long rock songs just seem gratuitous, but not this one. "Figure 8" by Memento needs to be as long as it is to completely fill the world it creates. Read more:Wednesday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Monday, February 18 2008-02-18 10:22:00 after the bitchfest that was yesterday's 74 Minutes or Less, it's time to go back to some music i really, really love. i found out yesterday that Eve 6 got back together in October. that makes me so happy...they were one of my favourite bands of the late nineties and early aughts, and i only had the chance to see them live once before they broke up. two of them formed The Sugi Tap, but they were never quite as fun as Eve 6. Eve 6 were the kings of fun, clever wordplay in their lyrics...and their music put me in such a good mood whenever i listened to it.so, in honour of this momentous news...here's "Bring The Night On" by Eve 6. Read more:Monday
, February
74 Minutes or Less: When Good Bands Go Bad 2008-02-17 22:53:00 welcome to the sixth installment of 74 Minutes or Less.74 Minutes or Less is the weekly supergig playlist. the concept is simple: i pick a theme, i choose at most 74 minutes of music that fits the theme, and i discuss it here. if you, or i, or anyone else thinks the playlist is so awesome that it deserves to be compiled and burned to CD for posterity, it won't be a problem--because it's no longer than 74 minutes.this week is a special week. usually, i choose music i really like; i'm turning that on its head for now. this week's theme is When Good Bands
Go Bad. it happens with almost every act...as much as you love any particular act, there's always going to be a song, or a handful of songs, that don't quite grab you the same way as the rest of the music. it doesn't mean you like the ar
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Sunday, February 16 2008-02-17 12:26:00 i love The Rasmus. i go back and forth with which song of theirs is my favourite...there are about five of them that contend for the title. this is the one i've been loving lately..."Lucifer's Angel." it's really fun to listen to--so fun, in fact, that sometimes i'm known to start dancing down the street when it comes on my iPod.[note: the video isn't an official video by the band...a video never was made for this song. but, unlike most fan videos on YouTube, it's actually decently edited] Read more:Sunday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Saturday, February 16 2008-02-16 10:40:00 "Shout 2000" by Disturbed: file this one under covers that are far more awesome than the original. i'm not a big fan of Tears for Fears' original, but i love what Disturbed does with it here. it doesn't sound like a knockoff of the original...they made it their own, and it sounds like a Disturbed song. Read more:Saturday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Friday, February 15 2008-02-15 12:12:00 "Paperthin Hymn" by Anberlin has one of my favourite lines ever.."i just want one more chance to put my arms in fragile hands." i've never heard a more eloquent way of describing a feeling that you need someone to depend on even though you know that the connection is tenuous as best. Read more:Friday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Thursday, February 14 2008-02-14 10:21:00 whether you're single or in a relationship, valentine's day sucks. it's a hallmark holiday full of obligation. couples are pressured to be schmaltzy, and singles are pressured to be bitter about their state. really, it's enough to make a person bitter about all the unnecessary pressure associated with the day."Anti-Love Song" by Cold is a bitter little gem. Scooter screams, yells, curses...it's pretty clearly the angriest song on 13 Ways to Bleed on Stage. he's mad at his ex, he's mad at his friends, he's mad at the world, and he's sick of it. in short...it's a perfect theme song for such a ridiculous holiday. Read more:Thursday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Wednesday, February 13 2008-02-13 00:22:00 sometimes the right song comes around at the right time. i've been feeling very unmoored lately...as if time is passing me by so fast that i'm getting disproportionately far removed from everything that meant anything in the past. i'm just floating around, not doing anything with the time i have. i need to get my bearings back, find meaning in what i can, but it's harder than i expected.these feelings have made it very difficult for me to pick music to fit my mood. none of my current addictions felt quite right. but, i heard "Somewhere on Fullerton" by Allister for the first time today. it's a few years old...i'm shocked that i missed it, because Allister is from Chicago. but, it was like a big hug from a pair of loving, pop-punk arms.the lyrics are a huge part of why i picked this Read more:Wednesday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Tuesday, February 12 2008-02-12 10:11:00 "Almost Easy" by Avenged Sevenfold is an anthem for anyone who has done awful things that are finally catching up with them. it's about wanting redemption, but being unsure whether redemption is deserved. Read more:Tuesday
, February
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Wednesday, March 12 2008-03-12 18:28:00 "Thousand Mile Wish" by Finger Eleven is the mellow song of theirs that i wish got famous. everyone knows "One Thing", although i'm not crazy about that song. still, sometimes they do mellow really, really well...and this song is gorgeous. Read more:Wednesday
, March
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Tuesday, March 11 2008-03-11 18:04:00 i love "Letter From An Occupant" by The New Pornographers. Neko Case's voice sounds really cool in the song, and it reminds me of late-night drunken walks home from Jimmy's Woodlawn Tap, back in college. good times...this song always makes me feel like my days are far more carefree than they actually are. Read more:March
, Tuesday
you've got questions? Supergig's got answers. 2008-03-10 12:49:00 i found a list of questions
about music on another blog...it was a long time ago, so i don't remember which one it was. however, i liked a lot of the questions. they prompted me to start musing about various songs and artists. so, i answered them.1. Which bands/artist do you own the most albums by?i own 17 Wesley Willis albums. that is my biggest music-collecting goal...to own all of Wesley's albums. i've been working on this for about seven years now, ever since the spring of my first year of college. it's not a likely goal to achieve, since many of his albums were self-released and there doesn't even exist a comprehensive list of all of the albums he recorded. but, i want to try. Wesley is one of my favourite musicians ever, and every album of his that i find contains more amusin Read more:answers
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Monday, March 10 2008-03-10 11:37:00 have you ever listened to a recording of someone causing mischief with a pay phone and thought to yourself, "this is great, but i really wish i could dance to it?" wonder that no more. today's song, "Payphone Under a Streetlamp" by DJ Boo, is exactly that, awesomely danceable pay phone mischief.i know it may sound weird to most of you, and nerdy to all of you, but that's why the song is so much fun. Read more:March
, Monday
Quite Suppressed Yet Quite Revealing: Sunday, March 9 2008-03-09 23:22:00 someone decided to make a really, really funny video of "Birdman Kicked My Ass" by Wesley Willis. a dude dressed up in a half-assed bird costume and everything. it's fantastic. Read more:March
, Sunday
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