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I’ve got a killer headache, I’m feeling extr)emely lazy/tired. Here’s some MP3s you may/mayn’t already have. I don’t feel exceptionally great about these tracks, but they aren’t horrible enough to ignore.
Gnarls Barkley – Reckoner (Radiohead cover)
Surkin feat. Chromeo – Chrome Knight
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks (Live)
Cold War Kids – Something is Not Right With Me
Yesterday, Chicago Sun-Times blogger, Jim DeRogatis leaked the entire lineup for what looks like 2008’s best summer music festival, Lollapalooza. The first four artists on the roster get your blood pumping, but two in particular caught my attention. Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails.
Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have been taking turns giving the music industry the big finger. The Brits made headlines last October for releasing In Rainbows without the control support of a record label, and Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails followed suit with last month’s Ghosts I-IV.
The two bands have also been busy one-upping each other with their innovative promotion strategies. Life was happy having two brilliant bands continuously providing for innovative and buzzworthy ways to distribute digital media, simultaneously help digging record labels’ graves. That is, until Reznor accused Radiohead of ripping their fans off by selling them low-quality files.
Wired has come up with a 10 round face-off between the bands, and looking at the people’s votes, it seems Nine Inch Nails has got Radiohead beat in terms of innovation. Now we pose this question, who will take over Chi-Town this first week of August (Aug 1-3)?
The official lineup is found below
Before the blog-blockage of last weekend, I wrote up a PMA vs Elbo.ws vs Hype Machine post comparing the top artists of each respective party. That was fun and games, but I think it all really comes down to the songs. Its basically the meat between the two breads, if you ask me.
So lets get this cracking. Pretty Much Amazing’s Top Songs:
1. Radiohead – Bodysnatchers DOWNLOAD | LISTEN
2. Duffy – Ready For The Floor (Hot Chip cover)
3. Gnarls Barkley – Run DOWNLOAD | LISTEN
4. Portishead – Silence
5. MGMT – Time To Pretend
6. Does It Offend You, Yeah? – We Are Rockstars
7. Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma DOWNLOAD | LISTEN
8. Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
9. Black Mountain – Tyrants
10. Radiohead – Electioneering
Elbo.ws Top Songs:
1. The Notwist – Good Lies DOWNLOAD | LISTEN
2. Tokyo Police Club – In A Cave
3. The Breeders – Bang On DOWNLOAD | LISTEN
4. Colin Meloy – We Both Go Down Together
5. Gutter Twins – Idle Hands
6. The Ruby Suns – Tane Mahuta
7. The OaKs – The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter DOWNLOAD | LISTEN
8. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Cold Son
9. French Kicks – Abandon
10. Shearwater – Rooks
As I was writing this up, I got a brilliant idea. What about I make this into some sort of poll. Kind of like the Gossip Girl vs Chuck posts (that have somehow disappeared from my interests… for now). Alright good people, I want you to vote on music taste. Does elbo.ws (meaning the “music blog community” as a whole) have better taste than good ole Luis?
Wow, the first month of 2008 is officially over. We survived it guys, give yourself a pat on the back. Now, I am looking forward to February and all, but I am kind of sad to see January leave. It truly was a GREAT month for new releases, and music in general. We had new music from Cat Power, Hot Chip, Kate Nash, Radiohead, Justice, Gnarls Barkley, Hello, Blue Roses, Magnetic Fields, and tons more. There were so many wonderful remixes and covers unearthed and polished for our headphones as well. Here is to January 2008, one of PMA’s best months yet!
NOTE: PMA is not an MP3 dump, even though I do tend to exaggerate on the mp3s and the amount there of, but most of these “lists” are just a means to express my opinion. So I will provide some mp3s, but not all of them, get it? got it? good.
The Best Songs of January 2008
Justice – Hope (it was a FAKE! but still, how fun)
Gnarls Barkley – Run
Kate Nash – Birds
Vampire Weekend – Campus
Cat Power – I Believe In You
Of Montreal – Jimmy (M.I.A. cover)
Radiohead – Bodysnatchers
Chris Walla – Everyone Needs A Home
Counting Crows – 1492
Hot Chip – Made In The Dark
Hello, Blue Roses – Sunny Skies
Wakey! Wakey! – No One (Alica Keys Cover)
Regina Spektor – My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year)
WHY? – Close To Me
Ghostland Observatory – Heavy Heart
Vampire Weekend – Boston
The Helio Sequence – Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Cera & Page – Anyone But You
Snoop Dogg feat. Robyn – Sexual Eruption
Kate Nash – Foundations
Headlights – Cherry Tulips
N.E.R.D. – Everyone Nose
Mountain Goats – Sax Rohmer #1
Radiohead – Nude
Panic at the Disco – 9 in the Afternoon
Evangelicals – Skeleton Man
Black Mountain – Tyrants
No Kids – The Beaches All Closed
Xiu Xiu – I Do What Want When I Want
Missy Elliot – Ching-A-Ling
Feist – The Limit To Your Love
Chris Walla – Sing Again
Antarctica Takes It! – Circuits
Magnetic Fields – California Girls
The Whigs – Right Hand On My Heart
Malice – Cry Now Freestyle
What Made Milwaukee Famous – Resistance St
British Sea Power – Waving Flags
Beat Radio – Closing Scene
The Death Set – Negative Thinking
The Raveonettes – Dead Sound (Peter Holmstrom and Jeremy Sherrer remix)
The Plastic Constellations – Stay That Way
The Heavenly Tenants – Fifteen
Casettes Won’t Listen – Paper Float
Say Hi – Northwestern Girls
Islands – The Arm
Gutter Twins – Idle Hands
I am not usually on top of music leaks like this (at least not anymore), but I have got to admit, I was damn excited when I found this little track in my inbox. I was wondering when Danger Mouse was going to make enough time to work on Gnarls Barkley, but I am happy he did. This new track is called “Run” and it’s off of their sophomore album cleverly titled The Odd Couple. Once again, info on the album falls short, so keep your eyes open for this one.
The song is kind of like a cross between “Smiley Faces” and “Go Go Gadget Gospel”, and thats not a bad thing!
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