Great songs of the 00s (Part 44)

Earlier this month I did a post in this series which included songs featuring guest artists, and here's another one.

Have at it.

(mp3) Pugh Rogefeldt feat. Laleh - Jag är en liten gosse
Available on Opluggad Pugh (2005)

(mp3) Infinite Mass feat. Roger Daltry - Bullet
Available on The Face (2001)

(mp3) The Tiny feat. Ed Harcourt - Sorry
Available on Starring: Someone Like You (2006)

(mp3) Soulsavers feat. Mark Lanegan - Some misunderstanding
Available on Broken (2009)

(mp3) Scarlett Johansson feat. David Bowie - Falling down
Available on Anywhere I Lay My Head (2008)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #86

Boycott Halloween. You know you want to.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #86 (64 mb)

1. Kyuss - One inch man (1995)
2. Black Sabbath - After forever (1971)
3. Torche - Grenades (2008)
4. Clutch - Pure rock fury (2001)
5. Wino - Silver lining (2009)
6. Primus - Camelback cinema (1997)
7. Kvelertak - Tribulus parts 4 and 9 (2007)
8. Sleep - Nebuchadnezzar's dream (1991)
9. Mínus - Kolkrabbin (1999)
10. Karst - Vision of insane hope (2003)
11. Damad - One word (2000)
12. Monster Magnet - Cage around the sun (1993)

Pay for your music, hombre.

Great songs of the 00s (Part 43)

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(mp3) Bring Me The Fucking Riot... Man - I sold my soul on eBay
Available on Disco Avant-Garde No! (2007)

(mp3) Hank Williams III - The grand ole opry (ain't so grand)
Available on Damn Right, Rebel Proud (2008)

(mp3) Duffy - Stepping stone
Available on Rockferry (2008)

(mp3) The Mary Onettes - The companion
Available on S/t (2007)

(mp3) The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Available on Fever To Tell (2003)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 42)

Just had a nice pizza and some kickin' cider (Kopparberg's Apple Cider 7% ftw) and today my new washing machine will be delivered. I'm just gonna sit here buzzing with my thumb up my ass and do laundry all night. I'm on my last pair of clean underpants.

Life is good. Oh yeah, baby. Life is good.

The image of Karl Pilkington at the top of this post just reminded me of something: You're watching An Idiot Abroad on Sky, aren't you? If you can't get Sky, just download torrents of the five episodes (of eight) that have aired so far. Episode six airs tomorrow night.

Cunding brilliant. Perhaps the best tv show ever.

(mp3) Man In Band - The man in band song
Available on ??? (2008)

(mp3) The Magic Numbers - Mornings eleven
Available on S/t (2005)

(mp3) M83 - Kim & Jessie
Available on Saturdays = Youth (2008)

(mp3) Neil Diamond - Man of god
Available on 12 Songs (2005)

(mp3) Triumph The Insult Comic Dog - I keed
Available on Come Poop With Me (2003)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 41)

Whatever happened to Khonnor? After a couple of online releases (as "I, Cactus" and "Grandma") Conor Kirby-Long released Handwriting, his first album as Khonnor, at the age of 17. He'd recorded it at 16, secretly in his basement with shitty equipment.

Apart from a single or two, he hasn't released a proper follow-up to Handwriting. There would be no point anyway I suppose, as this album is as sublime as anything you could imagine. Truly one of the best albums of the last few decades, I must've listened to it hundreds of times and I never get sick of it. The one song I got here doesn't do it justice, you really gotta hear the whole thing. Perfect for this time of year too, great for crisp winter days. If you're lucky enough to have those.

If you can find it, download the Khonnor episode of MTV Europe's This Is Our Music from 2004 in which a documentary crew follow Khonnor and his friends around their hometown of Saint Johnsbury, Vermont.

There's a torrent on the bay of pirates but it doesn't seem to be working right now. Keep an eye out for it though, it's brilliant.

(mp3) Khonnor - Daylight and delight
Available on Handwriting (2004)

(mp3) DJ Format feat. Abdominal - The hit song
Available on Music For The Mature B-Boy (2003)

(mp3) Doug Stanhope - School shootings
Available on Die Laughing (2002)

(mp3) Spiritualized - Lord can you hear me
Available on Let It Come Down (2001)

(mp3) Ane Brun - My lover will go
Available on A Temporary Dive (2005)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 40)

Does anyone else have a problem telling Air and Daft Punk apart or is it just me?

It's just me, isn't it?

(mp3) Johnny Boy - Fifteen minutes
Available on S/t (2006)

(mp3) LaZee - Rock away
Available on Setting Standards (2008)

(mp3) Daft Punk - One more time
Available on Discovery (2001)

(mp3) Larry Jon Wilson - I am no dancer
Available on S/t (2008)

(mp3) Hayseed Dixie - Rockin' in the free world (Neil Young cover)
Available on A Hot Piece Of Grass (2005)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 39)

Lancashire hotpot is a dish made traditionally from lamb or mutton and onion, topped with sliced potatoes, left to bake in the oven all day in a heavy pot and on a low heat. Originating in the days of heavy industrialization in Lancashire in the north west of England, it requires a minimum of effort to prepare.

It is sometimes served at parties in England, because it is easy to prepare for a large number of people and is relatively inexpensive.

(mp3) Anekdoten - The war is over
Available on Gravity (2003)

(mp3) Mark Lanegan - Wedding dress
Available on Bubblegum (2004)

(mp3) Phoenix - Too young
Available on United (2000)

(mp3) Robert Johnson And Punchdrunks - Rubber room
Available on Fried On The Altar Of Good Taste (2000)

(mp3) Lady Gaga - Teeth
Available on The Fame Monster (2009)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 38)

The 00s were not only a great decade for music, but also a great decade for movies. But that's an obvious thing to say, there's been fuckloads of great shit in every decade.

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and The Return Of The King were both monumental film experiences in two completely different ways. And yes, I cried during both. So this post contains a song from each of them.

Since I know how much my opinion means to you, I shall share with you a list of some of the movies that rocked my world over the last ten years. These are films you are meant to watch. You may have missed some of them as the decade has whizzed past, but it's never too late to catch up.

For the sake of conveniences sake I've narrowed it down to one film per director. Apart from the case of Tomas Alfredson, as I simply had to include both Let The Right One In and Four Shades Of Brown, two of the best movies I have ever seen in my entire life.

21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2003)
24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom, 2002)
All The Real Girls (David Gordon Green, 2003)
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2002)
American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000)
American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, 2003)
Apocalypto (Mel Gibson, 2006)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
The Believer (Henry Bean, 2001)
Big Fan (Robert D. Siegel, 2009)
Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer, 2006)
Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass, 2002)
The Boat That Rocked (Richard Curtis, 2009)
Brüno (Larry Charles, 2009)
Bubba Ho-tep (Don Coscarelli, 2002)
Caché (Michael Hanneke, 2005)
Capturing The Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki , 2004)
Changeling (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
The Comedians of Comedy (Michael Blieden, 2005)
Control (Anton Corbijn, 2007)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)
The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie, 2005)
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly , 2001)
Falkenberg Farewell (Jesper Ganslandt, 2006)
Fear X (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2003)
The Fountain (Darren Aranofsky, 2006)
Four Shades of Brown (Tomas Alfredson, 2004)
Frailty (Bill Paxton, 2002)
Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004)
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)
God Willing (Amir Chamdin, 2006)
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck, 2007)
Good Night, And Good Luck (George Clooney, 2005)
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
The Guitar Mongoloid (Ruben Östlund, 2004)
Hard Candy (David Slade, 2005)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Guillermo Del Toro, 2008)
High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000)
Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2009)
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (Sam Jones, 2002)
Ichi The Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001)
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007)
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 2008)
It's All Gone Pete Tong (Michael Dowse, 2004)
The Invention of Lying (Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson, 2009)
Jackass Number Two (Jeff Tremaine, 2006)
Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007)
King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005)
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow, 2007)
Let The Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
The Machinist (Brad Anderson, 2004)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir, 2003)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003)
Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
Narc (Joe Carnahan, 2002)
No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
Paper Heart (Nicholas Jasenovec, 2009)
Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez, 2007)
The Pledge (Sean Penn, 2001)
The Prestige (Cristopher Nolan, 2006)
Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004)
The Proposition (John Hillcoat, 2005)
The Princess And The Warrior (Tom Tykwer, 2000)
Ravenous (Antonia Bird, 2000)
Revolution #9 (Tim McCann, 2001)
The Room (Tommy Wiseau, 2003)
Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004)
Slim Sussie (Ulf Malmros, 2003)
Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000)
Some Kind of Monster (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 2004)
Spider (David Cronenberg, 2002)
The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy, 2003)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton, 2007)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, 2004)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
This is England (Shane Meadows, 2006)
Tideland (Terry Gilliam, 2005)
Together (Lukas Moodysson, 2000)
Triangle (Christopher Smith, 2009)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shalmylamyalmlmamlamlayan, 2000)
The Way Of The Gun (Cristopher McQuarrie, 2000)
Where The Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze, 2009)
Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself (Lone Scherfig, 2002)
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2005)

Haven't seen them? See them.

(mp3) Beck - Everybody's got to learn sometimes
Available on Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Original Soundtrack (2004)

(mp3) Sällskapet - Nordlicht
Available on S/t (2007)

(mp3) Kristoffer Ragnstam - Man overboard
Available on Sweet Bills (2007)

(mp3) Coldplay - Violet hill
Available on Vida La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (2008)

(mp3) Annie Lennox - Into the west
Available on The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King Original Soundtrack (2003)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #85

This week's fantastic mix (they're all fantastic, aren't they?) opens with the title track from the 23rd best album of the 00s. There's also a track by At The Drive-In who made the 10th best album of the 00s.

And some Giant Squid, who you all surely remember from last week's mix. And we have a bit of Om, previously discussed here. And so on and so forth.

I'm so good at making mixes it's ridiculous. Record labels should hire me to put together compilations for them, and they would be truly be the greatest compilations the world had seen.

Modesty is the only thing I'm not good at.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #85 (64 mb)

1. The Mushroom River Band - Simsalabim (2002)
2. Meatjack - Can't see you (1999)
3. At The Drive-In - Helitrope (1999)
4. Modey Lemon - Crows (2003)
5. Killing Joke - Seeing red (2003)
6. The Obsessed - Peckerwood stomp (1999)
7. Giant Squid - Octopus (Syd Barrett cover, 2008)
8. Om - Unitive knowledge of the godhead (2007)
9. Slut Sister - Catch the crimson wave (2007)
10. Sabre - Josiah (2010)
11. Howl - Gods in broken men (2010)
12. Baroness - Bikeage (Descendents cover, 2010)
13. Blacktusk - Triumph of the wolves (2006)

Pay for your music, you schmuck.

Great songs of the 00s (Part 37)

I didn't understand the point of Missy Elliot until I heard Gossip Folks. What a beast of a song that is - great video too. Those three little breakdance girls are awesome, I want to adopt all of them. Ludacris impersonating Timmy? Far out.

Come to think of it, I don't think I've liked a Missy Elliot song since. Hmm.

(mp3) Candidate - Beautiful birds
Available on Nuada (2002)

(mp3) Eskobar & Heather Nova - Someone new
Available on There's Only Now (2002)

(mp3) Eddie Vedder - Hard sun
Available on Music For The Motion Picture Into The Wild (2007)

(mp3) Masayah - One dance
Available on S/t (2002)

(mp3) Missy Elliot feat. Ludacris - Gossip folks
Available on Under Construction (2002)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 36)

Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom, Edward Blom.

EDWARD BLOM!!!

(mp3) Magnus Carlson & The Moon Ray Quintet - Sugar man
Available on S/t (2009)

(mp3) Bubba Sparxxx - Ugly
Available on Dark Days, Bright Nights (2001)

(mp3) Weird Al Yankovic - Genius in France
Available on Poodle Hat (2003)

(mp3) Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The rider song
Available on The Proposition Original Soundtrack (2005)

(mp3) Tweet - Oops (oh my)
Available on Southern Hummingbird (2002)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 35)

Feeling marginally better today, thanks for asking. Check out #33 in this installment of Great Songs Of The 00s. Perhaps you already have, but chances are you haven't, or at least that's what the traffic statistics tell me.

Fabulous songs there by Forss and Logh, check 'em out.

In this installment I'd recommend the tracks by Frida Hyvönen and Springsteen. Good shit.

(mp3) Moneybrother - Reconsider me
Available on Blood Panic (2003)

(mp3) Air - How does it make you feel?
Available on 10,000 Hz Legend (2001)

(mp3) Frida Hyvönen - Come another night
Available on Until Death Comes (2005)

(mp3) The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The bunting song
Available on S/t (2007)

(mp3) Bruce Springsteen - Eyes on the prize
Available on We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 34)

I can't think of anything to write here. Except perhaps that today was one of the least rewarding days of my life.

It must be at least fifteen years since I've been so endlessly bored and frustrated for a whole day.

Fuck you, October 18th 2010. I'm glad you're almost over.

(mp3) Text - Sound is compressed; words rebel and hiss
Available on S/t (2001)

(mp3) Gemma Hayes - Hanging around
Available on Night On My Side (2002)

(mp3) Super Furry Animals - Golden retriever
Available on Phantom Power (2003)

(mp3) Carissa's Wierd - September come take this heart away
Available on Songs About Leaving (2002)

(mp3) Die Antwoord - Wat pomp (feat. Jack Parow)
Available on $O$ (2009)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 33)

As with the Jim Gaffigan track the other day, the George Carlin one (though it is indeed great) isn't technically a song. It's one of his signature rants from the book Brain Droppings from 1997, but the audiobook version from which it's taken was released in 2000.

May I also recommend the glitchy electronica of Forss? I think I do.

(mp3) George Carlin - Stuff
Available on Brain Droppings (2000)

(mp3) Logh - Saturday nightmares
Available on North (2007)

(mp3) Sahara Hotnights - Alright alright (here's my fist where's the fight?)
Available on Jennie Bomb (2001)

(mp3) Forss - Soulhack
Available on Soulhack (2003)

(mp3) Gary Jules - No poetry
Available on Trading Snakeoil For Wolftickets (2001)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 32)

This is the installment where I tell you to check out the Scanian disco of Familjen and lush amazingness of Nicole Atkins. The pipes on that woman could resurrect the dead.

Randy's anti-cop/anti-authority/anti-anyone anthem A Man In Uniform musn't be missed either.

(mp3) thisGIRL - ...Has fangs too
Available on This Girl... Has Fangs Too (2002)

(mp3) Randy - A man in uniform
Available on Welfare Problems (2003)

(mp3) Familjen - Det snurrar i min skalle
Available on Det Snurrar I Min Skalle (2007)

(mp3) Broken Social Scene feat. Feist - 7/4 (shoreline)
Available on S/t (2006)

(mp3) Nicole Atkins - Party's over
Available on Neptune City (2007)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #84

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell as we all know I'm doing my epic countdown on the metal blog I'm posting these Friday mixes here instead as to not disrupt the flow of it.

Yup.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #84 (71 mb)

1. Black Pyramid - Visions of Gehenna (2008)
2. Dial - Sweating (2009)
3. Mínus - Flophouse nightmares (2003)
4. Mendozza - Witch hunt (2010)
5. Corrosion of Conformity - Jaguar (2005)
6. Down - Never try (2007)
7. Giant Squid - Throwing a Donner party at sea (2009)
8. High On Fire - Brother in the wind (2005)
9. J. Mascis - War (2009)
10. Stolen Kidneys - We live (2010)
11. Isis - Hym (2002)

Pay for your music.

Great songs of the 00s (Part 31)

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(mp3) Magnus Carlson - Det värsta av allt
Available on Allt Är Bara Du, Du, Du (2003)

(mp3) The Hold Steady - Stuck betweens stations
Available on Boys And Girls In America (2006)

(mp3) Erik Enocksson - The state the sea left me in
Available on Falkenberg Farewell Original Soundtrack (2007)

(mp3) Alfie - Where did our loving go?
Available on Crying At Teatime (2005)

(mp3) The Cure - Going nowhere
Available on S/t (2004)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 30)

Oh man, nobody knew where this screenshot was taken from. It was of course from The Legend of Kyrandia. A bit too obscure perhaps.

So let's try an easier one this time - I expect at least someone to get it. Take a look at the image at the top of this post. What game is that from?

Go!

(mp3) A Camp - I can buy you
Available on S/t (2001)

(mp3) Dr Dog - My old ways
Available on We All Belong (2007)

(mp3) Robin Thicke - When I get you alone
Available on A Beautiful World (2003)

(mp3) The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Capitalism stole my virginity
Available on A New Morning, Changing Weather (2001)

(mp3) Justin Timberlake - Until the end of time
Available on FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 29)

Yeah yeah yeah, I realise the Jim Gaffigan one isn't actually a "song" per se. I should've called this feature Great Tracks Of The 00s.

The Khoma track is great, and so is the one by Säkert! (aka Hello Saferide).

(mp3) Khoma - Hyenas
Available on The Second Wave (2006)

(mp3) Jim Gaffigan - Camping
Available on King Baby (2009)

(mp3) Amy Winehouse - Wake up alone
Available on Back To Black (2006)

(mp3) Damien Rice - Cannonball
Available on O (2002)

(mp3) Säkert! - Och jag grät mig till sömns efter all dar
Available on S/t (2007)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 28)

And with this post we conclude our week of skulls in tribute to 666 Skulls.

Blah blah blah blah blah. Of all the rock bands you've never heard of, The Diamond Dogs are one of the best.

(mp3) Nina Nastasia - I say that I will go
Available on Run To Ruin (2003)

(mp3) The Diamond Dogs - Goodbye, Miss Jill
Available on As Your Green Turns Brown (2001)

(mp3) Bob Dylan - Forgetful heart
Available on Together Through Life (2009)

(mp3) The Motorhomes - The man
Available on The Long Distance Runner (2002)

(mp3) Drive-By Truckers - Decoration day
Available on Decoration Day (2003)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 27)

The astute of you will have noticed by now that I've crammed in songs by Swedish artists in every one of these posts. That's the patriot in me. Didn't even know I had one of those in me.

This time it's Teddybears STHLM waving the blue and yellow flag. 666 Skulls, anyone?

(mp3) Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Happiness
Available on Sleep/Holiday (2003)

(mp3) Tom Waits - Hoist that rag
Available on Real Gone (2004)

(mp3) Editors - Release
Available on The Back Room (UK limited edition, 2005)

(mp3) Gorillaz - New genious (brother)
Available on S/t (2001)

(mp3) Teddybears STHLM - Digital cowboy
Available on Rock 'n' Roll Highschool (2000)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 26)

Thåström's salute to the late Gun Club frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce is the one I'd recommend in this the 26th installment of this series. From the looks of it there'll be at least another 26. At least - this shit will never end, homeboy.

Nicolai Dunger is pretty damn sweet too, surely Europe's own Ryan Adams. The Outkast one is excellent as well, and don't miss the amazing Night Of A Thousand Kisses by Mia Doi Todd. Bloc Party's So Here We Are is ace too.

So yeah, they're ALL good. Download all five. Then get the whole albums like a normal person, and make sure you pay for them. Don't be a moocher. And don't forget to check out 666 Skulls, it's brilliant. After all, 666 Skulls is the reason I've been decorating these wonderful posts with skulls all week. A little tribute.

(mp3) Nicolai Dunger - Hunger
Available on Here's My Song You Can Have It (2004)

(mp3) Thåström - Ingen sjunger blues som Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Available on Skebokvarnsv. 209 (2005)

(mp3) Mia Doi Todd - Night of a thousand kisses
Available on Gea (2008)

(mp3) Outkast - Makes no sense at all
Available on Idlewild (2006)

(mp3) Bloc Party - So here we are
Available on Silent Alarm (2005)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #83

This week's Friday mp3 mix is quite sneaky.

It starts off relatively mainsteam and easy listening for the first five or six tracks just to sucker you in before it takes a sharp turn about halfway through and becomes a bit of a noise fest.

I'm a genius.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #83 (55 mb)

1. Pantera - Immmortally insane (2000)
2. Stone Sour - Made of scars (2007)
3. Mudvayne - Not falling (2002)
4. Rammstein - Keine lust (2004)
5. Machine Head - Struck a nerve (1997)
6. Pitchshifter - Triad (1993)
7. Gandhi's Gunn - 23 bodies (2010)
8. Genghis Tron - Chapels (2006)
9. Graf Orlock - A chat with the pentagon (2006)
10. Burnt By The Sun - Forlani (2003)
11. Daughters - Sweet Georgia bloom (2010)
12. Karst - Crusaders and zealots (2004)
13. Sepultura feat. Mike Patton & Jonathan Davis - Lookaway (1996)

Pay for your music, loser.

Great songs of the 00s (Part 25)

Good shit in this edition. As in all of them of course. The blue-eyed soul of The Solution and Dungen's proggy whatever are probably my favorites on this one. Alt-country rockers Hyacinth House damn good too.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot: 666 Skulls. Click it.

(mp3) Dungen - Du e för fin för mig
Available on Ta Det Lugnt (2004)

(mp3) Hyacinth House - Swedish signs
Available on Black Crows’ Country (2008)

(mp3) Midlake - Head home
Available on The Trials Of Van Occupanther (2006)

(mp3) The Solution - Soulmover
Available on Communicate! (2004)

(mp3) Gnarls Barkley - A little better
Available on The Odd Couple (2008)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 24)

I've told you about the blog 666 Skulls, so I've done my part. Your part is to click that link and check it out. Because it's awesome.

Today I recommend Above The Candystore by Paola. Some of you may know her as the girl who sang on the original version of Teddybears' Yours To Keep, before they made the version with Neneh Cherry.

Paola was married to one of the Teddybears, although I can never remember which one, and released her debut album in 2002. Above The Candystore was the first single, and the best song on the album. Notice how the bassline is lovingly stolen from The Mamas & The Papas' California Dreaming.

(mp3) Franz Ferdinand - Michael
Available on S/t (2004)

(mp3) Paola - Above the candystore
Available on Stockcity Girl (2002)

(mp3) 16 Horsepower - Hutterite mile
Available on Folklore (2002)

(mp3) Eages of Death Metal - Kiss the devil
Available on Peace, Love, Death Metal (2004)

(mp3) Har Mar Superstar - Cry 4 help
Available on S/t (2001)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 23)

More skulls! Visit 666 Skulls, fool.

In today's installment: great songs featuring guest appareances. Yeah.

(mp3) The Latin Kings feat. Daddy Boastin - Blend dom
Available on Mitt Kvarter (2000)

(mp3) Warren Zevon feat. Bruce Springsteen - Disorder in the house
Available on The Wind (2003)

(mp3) Björk feat. Thom Yorke - I've seen it all
Available on Selmasongs (2000)

(mp3) The Book of Knots feat. Tom Waits - Pray
Available on Traineater (2007)

(mp3) Bat For Lashes feat. Scott Walker - The big sleep
Available on Two Suns (2009)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 22)

In honor of Slusk and his brilliant blog 666 Skulls, in which he makes a new skull painting every week until he has six hundred and sixty six of them, I shall illustrate every Great Songs Of The 00s post with a skull for a whole week.

Starting today with a pink foam rubber sponge one. Snazzy.

(mp3) Promoe feat. Lutan Fyah - Gunz
Free give-away download (2009)

(mp3) Levon Helm - The mountain (Steve Earle cover)
Available on Dirt Farmer (2007)

(mp3) Glasvegas - Lonesome swan
Available on S/t (2008)

(mp3) Ossler - Svartare än blå
Available on Ett Brus (2008)

(mp3) Doves - Pounding
Available on The Last Broadcast (2002)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 21)

I've been ranting about Christian Kjellvander lately, and I'm not gonna stop just yet. The man is a genius. I've posted one of his solo songs, and one from his f-ing brilliant side project Songs Of Soil.

Today you get a song by Loosegoats, the band he was in before he started going solo. Loosegoats were awesome and their last two albums Plains, Plateaus and Mountains (1999) and Her, The City Et Al (2001) are fantastic. Get them.

(mp3) U2 - Sometimes you can't make it on your own
Available on How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (2004)

(mp3) William Elliott Whitmore - One man's shame
Available on Song Of The Blackbird (2006)

(mp3) Loosegoats - Form and the feeling
Available on Her, The City Et Al (2001)

(mp3) Jens Lekman - Rocky Dennis' farewell to the blond girl
Available on Rocky Dennis In Heaven (ep, 2004)

(mp3) Oasis - You've got a heart of star
Available on Heathen Chemistry (limited edition, 2002)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 20)

This time I'm gonna go ahead and recommend psychotic folk weirdos Quix*o*tic's The Breeze. It be badass. Beautiful and worrying in equal amounts.

The Ark's Bottleneck Barbiturate is damn good too, check that one out. This early on in their career, The Ark sounded quite a bit like Queen meets ABBA. Don't worry, I mean that in a good way.

(mp3) Mando Diao - Sheepdog
Available on Bring 'Em In (2002)

(mp3) Lily Allen - Knock 'em out
Available on Alright, Still (2006)

(mp3) Koop - Modal mile
Available on Waltz For Koop (2002)

(mp3) Quix*o*tic - The breeze
Available on Mortal Mirror (2002)

(mp3) The Ark - Bottleneck barbiturate
Available on We Are The Ark (2000)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #82

I just realised there's been a shitload of Clutch and Torche on these mixes the last few months. I haven't heard any complaints so I'll keep going down that road.

This mix is dedicated to Taint, the pride of Wales (not that they have much else to be proud of, the cunts), who announced the other week they're splitting up after sixteens years together.

I made a post about them last year entitled "Why The Hell Don't More People Listen To Taint?", in which I rambled on about how unfair it was that they never achieved the success, the attention or the respect that many of their sludge metal peers got, despite being around for a lot longer than most of them and outrocking nearly all of them. You find that post here. Click it and download some quality Taint songs, including a whole gig from Roadburn 2008.

A lot of people only get the recognition they deserve after they're no longer around, so we can only hope that happens to Taint. Better late than never.

Rest in peace, Taint (that's a very strange sentence).

PS. Listen to the part between 2:23 and 2:40 in Burnt By The Sun's Goliath. That's sex in riff-form.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #82 (82 mb)

1. Taint - Mass appeal sadness (2007)
2. Motörhead - The wolf (1987)
3. earthlings? - Stungun (1998)
4. Desert Sessions - You think I ain't worth a dollar but I feel like a millionare (1999)
5. Clutch - Sea of destruction (2003)
6. Torche - Mash it up (2009)
7. Old Man Gloom - Skull of Geronimo (2003)
8. Burnt By The Sun - Goliath (2009)
9. Kylesa - What becomes an end (2006)
10. Disfear - Demons, demons, demons (2003)
11. Baroness - Isak (2007)
12. Converge - On a shield (2010)
13. Brain Police - The journey is the destination (2003)

Pay for your music, you cheap sonofabitch.

Great songs of the 00s (Part 19)

I mentioned the amazing Christian Kjellvander and his side-project Songs of Soil in yesterday's post, so I figured I'd post a Songs of Soil song as well.

Songs of Soil was a one-off project consisting of Christian, his brother Gustav and assorted members of Christian's band Loosegoats. Their only album The Painted Trees Of Ghostwood came out in 2000 and is a masterpiece. A masterpiece, I say.

Go get it, buy it, borrow it, steal it, I don't care. You need The Painted Trees Of Ghostwood in your life.

Also, who knew Dutch singer Anouk (that annoying Nobody's Wife broad from the late 90s) would ever have anything listenable to offer? Lo and behold, her 2007 album Who's Your Momma is, despite its cringe-worthy title, fucking great.

(mp3) Songs of Soil - Fire away
Available on The Painted Trees Of Ghostwood (2000)

(mp3) Anouk - Good god
Available on Who's Your Momma (2007)

(mp3) P.J. Harvey - Shame
Available on Uh Huh Her (2004)

(mp3) Håkan Hellström - Mitt Gullbergs kaj paradis
Available on Det Är Så Jag Säger Det (2002)

(mp3) Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Through the morning, through the night
Available on Raising Sand (2007)