Giver of thanks

Happy thanksgiving!

Have fun overeating, drinking beer and watching football. It's not like you don't do that every week or anything. Only this time you're doing it surrounded by relatives you rarely see and don't like that much.

Happy thanksgiving!

(mp3) Bob Dylan - Turkey chase
Available on Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (1964)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 58)

Gorgonzola is the fucking shit.

Any questions? No? Alright then, move along.

(mp3) Be Your Own Pet - You are my bicycle
Download-only single (2008)

(mp3) Bob Frank & John Murry - Madeline, 1796
Available on World Without End (2006)

(mp3) The Soggy Bottom Boys - In the jailhouse now
Available on O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack (2000)

(mp3) Chuck Ragan - For broken ears
Available on Feast Or Famine (2007)

(mp3) Vincent Vincent and the Villains - I'm alive
Available on Gospel Bombs (2008)

The answer is you just grab it and jack away

It's always interesting how people find their way to your blog, and this case broke my heart. Some poor soul whose boyfriend has lost the bounce in his spring and she/he googles desperately for a solution.

I'm here to help: You just grab it and jack it for all it's worth.

Now here's Dick Hyman with the weather:

(mp3) Dick Hyman - Eleanor Rigby
Available on Brasilian Impressions (1966)

(mp3) Beastie Boys feat. Q-Tip - Get it together
Available on Ill Communication (1994)

(mp3) Outkast feat. Cee-Lo - Wailin'
Available on ATLiens (1996)

(mp3) Bonnie Raitt feat. Tom Waits - Sweet and shiny eyes
Available on Home Plate (1975)

(mp3) Pet Shop Boys feat. Dusty Springfield - What have I done to deserve this
Available on Actually (1987)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 57)

This is one of my favorite installements to far.

The Secret Machine's The Road Leads Where It's Led is a solid New Order-ish number I must've listened to close to a thousand times by now.

And you can never go wrong with a bit of Dälek, can you?

(mp3) The Donnas - 40 boys in 40 nights
Available on The Donnas Turn 21 (2001)

(mp3) Old Crow Medicine Show - Down home girl
Available on Big Iron World (2006)

(mp3) The Secret Machines - The road leads where it's led
Available on Now Here is Nowhere (2004)

(mp3) Dälek - Asylum (permanent underclass)
Available on Absence (2005)

(mp3) The Libertines - Time for heroes
Available on Up The Bracket (2002)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 56)

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(mp3) Scott H. Biram - Lost case of being found
Available on Graveyard Shift (2006)

(mp3) The Depreciation Guild - Nautilus
Available on Nautilus (2006)

(mp3) Escort - Starlight
Available on Starlight (2006)

(mp3) Shack - Carousel
Available on Here's Tom With The Weather (2003)

(mp3) The Gray Brigade - One way ticket to the stars
Available on Fanfare (2007)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 55)

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(mp3) Cari Lekebusch feat. Krister Linder - Shaded
Available on Shaded (ep, 2004)

(mp3) Electric Eel Shock - Rock 'n' roll can rescue the world
Available on Go Europe! (2004)

(mp3) KVLR - Slow clapping
Available on S/t (2004)

(mp3) The National - Lit up
Available on Alligator (2005)

(mp3) Kelis - Trick me
Available on Tasty (2003)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 54)

In this the 54th edition (!) I recommend Ed Harcourt's Apple Of My Eye from the Maplewood EP (superior to the later version on the Here Be Monsters album) and the worrying psycho-country blues of Jay Munly. That man should be in a straitjacket.

(mp3) Cat Power - Free
Available on You Are Free (2003)

(mp3) Ed Harcourt - Apple of my eye
Available on Maplewood (ep, 2000)

(mp3) Jay Munly - Big black bull comes like a Caesar
Available on Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots (2004)

(mp3) Atmosphere - Trying to find a balance
Available on Seven's Travels (2003)

(mp3) The Last Shadow Puppets - In my room
Available on The Age Of The Understatement (2008)

Great songs of the 00s (part 53)

Putting the pieces together to rock your audio world!

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(mp3) Elf Power - Cotton crown (Sonic Youth cover)
Available on Nothing's Going To Happen (2002)

(mp3) Mattias Alkberg BD - Stenar
Available on Jag Ska Bli En Bättre Vän (2005)

(mp3) Fiber, Oh Fibes! - One hour baby
Available on Still Fresh (2004)

(mp3) Tom Jones - Heaven's been a long time comin'
Available on Mr. Jones (2002)

(mp3) Richard Hawley - Dark road
Available on Lady's Bridge (2007)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 52)

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(mp3) Deportees - Missing you, missing me
Available on Damaged Goods (2006)

(mp3) Babyshambles - Delivery
Available on Shotter's Nation (2007)

(mp3) Dropkick Murphys - World full of hate
Available on Blackout (2003)

(mp3) Love Is A Burning Thing - Dancer on a chair
Available on ??? (2006)

(mp3) Gang Starr - Skills
Available on The Ownerz (2003)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #88

So this is the last Friday mix I'll be posting on this blog, as my list of the top 30 albums of the 00s is coming to an end.

Fittingly, it includes a track from the 2nd best album of the 00s. So yeah. That's groovy. And stuff.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #88 (65 mb)

1. Cathedral - Tree of life & death (2006)
2. High On Fire - Turk (2007)
3. Howl - The scorpion's sting (2010)
4. American Heritage - Sickening rebellion (2010)
5. Mindfall - The white (2003)
6. Mumakil - Dawn of slugs (2010)
7. Desalvo - Cock swastika (2006)
8. Coliseum - True quiet (2009)
9. Ghost - Con clavi con dio (2010)
10. Mastodon - Hunters of the sky (2006)
11. Black Pyramid - Caravan (2008)

Pay for your music, hombre.

Great songs of the 00s (Part 51)

"Wow, what a great header pic!" you say.

Yes it is, I reply. It's of Song Kang-ho, one of the best actors in world, from the 2003 movie Memories of Murder. You should see it.

"Why?" you ask.

Because it's the best serial killer movie since Seven, that's why. It's creepy as fuck, but also absolutely hilarious. Dropkicking random people in a ditch = win.

(mp3) Petter feat. AFC - Repa skivan
Available on Ronin (2004)

(mp3) Downy - Anarchy dance
Available on Mudai (2003)

(mp3) Eleni Mandell - It's raining
Available on Country For True Lovers (2003)

(mp3) Johnny Dowd - Johnny B. Goode
Available on Cruel Words (2006)

(mp3) Peeping Tom - Sucker (feat. Norah Jones)
Available on S/t (2006)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 50)

I can't believe I've done fifty installment in this series. In other words, 250 songs from 250 albums. Well, to be fair Daft Punk's One More Time, Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway and The Flaming Lips' The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song got taken down by Mr. Web Sheriff, so 247.

And I still have shitloads of songs left to post before this feature is over. A great decade in music indeed.

By the way, can you identify the woman in the photo? I'll give you ten bucks if you get it right.

(mp3) Martha Wainwright - Factory
Available on S/t (2005)

(mp3) The White Stripes - Forever for her (is over for me)
Available on Get Behind Me Satan (2005)

(mp3) Adiam Dymott - John Denver
Available on S/t (2009)

(mp3) Black Mountain - Stay free
Available on In The Future (2008)

(mp3) Tigarah - Japanese queen
Available on The Funkeira Goes BANG! (2009)

Jack White pwns hard on Conan

You saw Conan on TBS last night, did you?

Those who didn't missed Jack White's cover of Eddie Cochran's Twenty Flight Rock backed by Jimmy Vivino & The Basic Cable Band and Conan himself.

(mp3) Jack White with Conan O'Brien & The Basic Cable Band - Twenty floor rock

Great songs of the 00s (Part 49)

Amateurs borrow, geniuses steal.

I hope that's true in the case of Florence Valentine, as Pokerkväll I Vårby Gård is one of the phattest Clash rip-offs I've ever heard. Bankrobber, anyone?

(mp3) Florence Valentin - Pokerkväll i Vårby Gård
Available on Pokerkväll I Vårby Gård (2007)

(mp3) The Flaming Lips - The yeah yeah yeah song
Available on At War With The Mystics (2006)

(mp3) The Radio Dept. - Where the damage isn't already done
Available on Lesser Matters (2003)

(mp3) R.E.M. - All the way to Reno
Available on Reveal (2001)

(mp3) Turin Brakes - The door
Available on The Optimist LP (2001)

Yeah we're like playing the same song and stuff, y'know? (Part 11)

I figured it was about damn time to bring back this feature. This time: Tom Waits and hot chicks covering Tom Waits.

If you haven't read Lowside Of The Road: A Life Of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns you are hereby recommend you to do so. An good read. Buy it here.

(mp3) Tom Waits - Anywhere I lay my head
Available on Rain Dogs (1985)

(mp3) Anna Ternheim - Anywhere I lay my head
Available on Shoreline (ep, 2005)

(mp3) Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I lay my head
Available on Anywhere I Lay My Head (2008)

You ever listen to K-Billy's Super Sounds of the 70s weekend?

How do you improve on a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack? Easy: you just make the soundtrack he would've wanted to make but was at the time unable to.

When his first film Reservoir Dogs came out in 1992 he was a rookie, a nobody with a cool script and little more. So when time came to compile the soundtrack the low budget didn't allow him to include all of the songs he wanted to, so he had to compromise and just include a handful.

With the character of radio DJ K-Billy, voiced by comedian Steven Wright, name-dropping all kinds of classic 70s tracks in the film Tarantino would've loved to have made the soundtrack album into a slammin' K-Billy's 70s Radio Hour instead of having to cut it short at a silly 30 minutes and including recent recordings to fill out the time. Seriously, who the fuck are Bedlam and why are they on the soundtrack? Tarantino hated having to include them.

I of course base these statements on absolutely nothing. All conjecture that I made up just now.

What I did was I took all of the 70s songs on the soundtrack and edited in all of the songs mentioned by K-Billy and the other characters in the film, thus making a perfect 50 minute K-Billy's Super Sounds Of The 70s playlist.

If you were able to step into the movie and turn on the radio, this is exactly what would be blaring out of the speakers and you would love every second.

(zip) V/A - K-Billy's Super Sounds of the 70s (50 mb)

1. K-Billy - And now Little Green Bag...
2. The George Baker Selection - Little green bag (1969)
3. Vicki Sue Robinson - Turn the beat around (1976)
4. Paul Nicholas - Heaven on the 7th floor (1977)
5. Chic - Le freak (1978)
6. Silver Connection - Fly, robin, fly (1975)
7. K-Billy - Rock flock of five
8. Blue Swede - Hooked on a feeling (1974)
9. War - The world is a ghetto (1972)
10. Bo Donaldson & The Haywoods - Billy don't be a hero (1974)
11. K-Billy - Bohemiath
12. Joe Tex - I gotcha (1972)
13. Litte Tony DeFranco & The DeFranco Family - Heartbeat, it's a lovebeat (1973)
14. Vicki Lawrence - The night the lights went out in Georgia (1972)
15. K-Billy - Supersounds
16. Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the middle with you (1972)
17. The Partridge Family - Doesn't somebody want to be wanted (1971)
18. Edison Lighthouse - Love grows (where my Rosemary goes) (1970)
19. K-Billy - Keep on truckin'
20. Harry Nilsson - Coconut (1972)
21. K-Billy - Home of rock

Pay for your music.

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #87

I felt like making another Friday mix of vintage goodies like the very popular volume 58, the most downloaded mix yet. If there was any justice in the world (which we all know there isn't) this would be just as popular.

A bunch of old bands and a couple of new bands that sound old. Well, old-ish.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #87 (93 mb)

1. Black Widow - Come to the sabbat (1970)
2. Deep Purple - Comin' home (1975)
3. Jeff Beck Group - Jailhouse rock (1969)
4. UFO - C'mon everybody (1970)
5. Eloy - Madhouse (1974)
6. Ghost - Stand by him (2010)
7. Elf - Ain't it all amusing (1974)
8. Siena Root - Roots (2003)
9. Opeth - Harvest (2001)
10. Aerosmith - Make it (1973)
11. Blue Cheer - Parchment farm (1968)
12. Jimi Hendrix - Stepping stone (1972)
13. Prof. Wolfff - Hetzjagd (1971)
14. King Crimson - The court of the crimson king (1969)

Pay for your music, support the artists.

Great songs of the 00s (Part 48)

Someone help me out here - in the name of Charles Dickens' testicles, does anyone have any info on Jessica Harp's Over Me? I can't for the life of me remember where I first heard that song or when, and my googling skillz did nothing. Not even Harp's own website had any info.

Anybody?

(mp3) Sufjan Stevens - Jacksonville
Available on Illinois (2005)

(mp3) Karin Ström - Darling
Single (2004)

(mp3) Keith Caputo - Honeycomb
Available on Died Laughing (2000)

(mp3) Jessica Harp - Over me
Available on ??? (2004?)

(mp3) John Frusciante - Going inside
Available on To Record Only Water For Ten Days (2001)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 47)

Three songs by bonkable French chicks and two by scrawny English and Irish lads who need haircuts.

Big Sur was one of the finest pop songs of the decade, no doubt.

(mp3) Coralie Clément feat. Étienne Daho - Je ne sens plus ton amour
Available on Toystore (2008)

(mp3) The Thrills - Big sur
Available on So Much For The City (2003)

(mp3) Charlotte Gainsbourg - L'un part, l'autre reste
Available in L'Un Reste, L'Autre Part (2005)

(mp3) Carla Bruni - La dernière minute
Available on Quelqu'un M'a Dit (2003)

(mp3) The Coral - Pass it on
Available on Magic And Medicine (2003)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 46)

November! Wohoo! Bring on Christmas!

The Hellacopters rule. More people should listen to them. If you already listen to them, listen to them more.

(mp3) The Honoured Guest - The race is long
Available on Tastes Change (2006)

(mp3) Tingsek - Proud to be part of these days
Available on Proud To Be Part Of These Days (ep, 2007)

(mp3) The Hellacopters - Leave it alone
Available on Rock 'N' Roll Is Dead (2005)

(mp3) Lyrics Born - I like it, I love it
Available on Everywhere At Once (2008)

(mp3) Peaches - Slippery dick
Available on Impeach My Bush (2006)

Great songs of the 00s (Part 45)

Mark Lanegan has now been featured no less than three times in this never-ending series. Which means everything is in order.

Other highlights here include Nina Ramsby & Martin Hederos' Stänger Min Dörr, a Swedish cover of Betty Carter's Open The Door. Which you can listen to here.

I'm also very partial to RevoLucian's Bale Out!, the excellent dance remix of Christian Bale's tantrum on the set of Terminator: Salvation.

(mp3) Nina Ramsby & Martin Hederos - Stänger min dörr
Available on Jazzen (2006)

(mp3) RevoLucian - Bale out!
Available on RevoLucian's YouTube Channel (2009)

(mp3) Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Who built the road
Available on Sunday At Devil Dirt (2008)

(mp3) Country Mike - One song a night
Available on Country Mike's Greatest Hits (2000)

(mp3) Tenacious D - Explosivo
Available on S/t (2001)