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Library SoundTrack Fridays! Old Favs! Pulp w/ Sun Kil Moon

February 11, 2011 //

Some old favourites have been key to my successful work-week’s soundtrack.

Let’s start off with Pulp‘s “This is Hardcore”.

I didn’t like this one when I heard it for the first time, back in like 1999. It’s melodramatic, languid drag grew on me. Now “This is Hardcore” has to be my favourite Pulp song. You have to love the intro dialogue: “Hey, I went to college once. And, all they found were rats in my head.”

And, Sun Kil Moon.

Thoughful, a little mournful and haunting, but sort of expansive – this song is perfect for day-dreaming about solitary road trips down wintry backroads. I’ve enjoyed this band for years, precisely because his songs are so simply and honestly written. Mark Kozelek’s album of Modest Mouse covers is pretty stellar, too.

Have a great Friday afternoon!

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Library SoundTrack Fridays! – Entire Cities w/ The Mountains & The Trees

February 4, 2011 //

I was torn, so I’m posting two picks from my weekly data-fixing soundtrack.

Toronto’s Entire Cities!


Some people compare the singer’s voice to the Hold Steady. There’s the same prediliction of blues rock, but filtered through Canadian indie-folk congeniality.

I also strongly suggest their song “Gimme a Ride“.

And… The Mountains & the Trees, hailing from Corner Brook, NFLD (home of the McDonald’s my family would drive to when I was little. Seriously, we had to drive 45 minutes to get a cheese burger. Thanks mom and dad.),

What can I say…  just sort of nice.

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NEW! Library SoundTrack Fridays! Teen Daze

January 28, 2011 //

teen haze albumy thing

I listen to a lot of music at work. Frankly, when you’re scouring database records, you need something… or else you’d go a little go buggy.

Here’s my pic/fun discovery for this week: Teen Daze.

I’d describe them as somewhere between the Beach Boys and the Postal Service.

Listen to more at their CBC3 page!

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Another Word’s Worth

January 21, 2011 //

Really... what DID we doGround breaking computer graphics in your music video are just not enough to make people feel the love anymore.

From CBC.ca:

The 1980s song Money for Nothing by the British rock band Dire Straits has been deemed unacceptable for play on Canadian radio.

In a ruling released Wednesday, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council says the song contravenes the human rights clauses of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ Code of Ethics and Equitable Portrayal Code…

Last year, a listener to radio station CHOZ-FM in St. John’s complained that the ’80s rock song includes the word “faggot” in its lyrics and is discriminatory to gays…

A CBSC panel concluded that the word “faggot,” even if once acceptable, has evolved to become unacceptable in most circumstances.

The panel noted that Money for Nothing would be acceptable for broadcast if suitably edited.[source]

Hot on the heels of the muckitymuck about Huck Finn’s vocabulary, Canada finds itself facing a similar (if less literary) debate.

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