75 posts tagged “daily song”
Although Belle and Sebastian covering the song still does not reach the dizzying heights of fantastitude that the choral version in Muriel's wedding does.
This weekend, the Virgin Music Festival is happening in Baltimore. Mr gaspode has been talking about this for months, because there are a bunch of bands playing that we both like. (Although our priorities are distinctly different - he wanted to go for Bad Brains, Beastie Boys and Interpol. I wanted to go for Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem, Spoon and TV on the Radio. We both wanted to see The Police.) However, with a Saturday forecast of 99 (and that's not including the famous Baltimore humidity) and thunderstorms likely for both days, and the fact that there will be little to no cover at the festival, it pretty much put us out of the running. As much fun as a trip to Baltimore always is (and it is, we have so many friends there, as well, of course, mr. gaspode's family) and as cool as the festival sounds, it's just not worth the ~$700 we would have spent on tickets, travel, etc. Oh well, another time.
At least this weekend we can spend a bit of money and totally justify it with "well, at least we didn't spend all the money in Baltimore!
Because I started running regularly again, I decided that I need a good running mix for my ipod. Now, my running mixes are sometimes a little odd (I've been known to do sprint intervals while listening to Bridge over Troubled Water) because I don't really need a beat to keep me going. That said, the vast majority of the music I like is good to run to. I like pop music is why. But the main quality the music has to have is that I have to be able to sing along to it (in my head! don't worry, I'm not inflicting my voice on the world) because then I get distracted. The sing along aspect means that I don't listen to much techno, unlike other friends of mine who run.
Anyway, here are the artists that are on my running mix at the moment. I personally think that Garbage is the absolute best band to run to; I used to just rock out a few miles to Version 2.0.
The Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Barenaked Ladies, Be Your Own Pet, Betchadupa, Bloc Party, Blur, Candy Machine, The Chemical Brothers, The Clash, The Crystal Method, The Cure, Dead Kennedys, The Decemberists, The Exponents, The Feelers, Garageland, Garbage, Gas Huffer, Green Day, Guns N' Roses, Interpol, INXS, Joy Division, The Killers, Metallica, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, The New Pornographers, New Radicals, Nirvana, Oasis, of Montreal, Orbital, Paul Simon, The Pogues, The Prodigy, The Raconteurs, Radiohead, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, Split Enz, Stellar, Steriogram, Straitjacket Fits, Supergrass, Supergroove, The Thermals, Uncle Tupelo, Veruca Salt, Violent Femmes, Weezer, The White Stripes.
So we saw Les Savy Fav play last weekend. They were fantastic, as usual. And what made them even more awesome was that they closed out their set with this song by Archers of Loaf. If you don't know this song, then listen. It's insanely catchy and wonderful. LISTEN!
This is the exact song that made me start to love music.
