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My favorite SXSW tracks
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2014-01-27
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The SXSW music festival features music from hundreds of artists, and I check it all out. If you like this podcast – currently on break – you might like my favorite songs from them, via a Spotify playlist (still in progress), like the one I made last year.
This Was Hardly A Moment by cortex
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on 2014-01-13
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Romantic comedies have tropes like meet-cutes, and sparks found in a moment of connection. This Was Hardly A Moment is a rock song that takes a look at those tropes and says, “uh, no.” There are songs about love at first sight, and this is like an anti-love song.
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After the Summer Has Gone by Karlos the Jackal
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2014-01-09
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After the Summer Has Gone is a chamber pop song – think Magnetic Fields, with autoharp and marxophone. It was also part of the “summer song” Music Challenge, but it’s more about how the summer in the past tense.
Edit: The feed isn’t updating. I’m checking it out.
Edit: Something’s up on the server – perhaps there are too many songs? I’ve updated software, plugins, and the server type, and it’s working again. I’m leaving this as the song for tomorrow too.
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Viral by Babblesort
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2014-01-08
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Viral is some relatively spare electronica, with a synth line and percussion; it works as background music, or a soundtrack. It sort of rolls along.
It samples a speech from “The Matrix” and a commentary for “Brazil.”
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Listen to Your Heart by dacre
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2014-01-07
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Listen to Your Heart is a clubby dance song, with pulsing synths, autotuned vocals, and a piano outdo. It’s like a muscular and relentless steamroller. It’s fun and ridiculous.
The original version, by Roxette, is a pop ballad. It’s really sedate by comparison.
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Summer’s Calling (remix) by unSane
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2014-01-06
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Summer’s Calling (remix) is cheerful garage pop rock. It was part of a Music Challenge about summer songs.
Coming up on the podcast this July: Christmas songs!
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Waltz #2 by chococat
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2014-01-03
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Waltz #2 is a pretty if downbeat acoustic ballad, with lovely harmonizing.
It’s a cover of a Elliott Smith tune. The lyrics, and the biographical details behind them, are dark.
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Sin and Vice Vice by l2p
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2014-01-01
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Sin and Vice Vice is a lovely bit of garage rock with a 60’s vibe. It’s l2p’s first time on the podcast.
Happy New Year!
Edit: Whoops, I put down 2013. This will be tomorrow’s song too!
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Happy Bunny by ageispolis
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-31
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Happy Bunny is a fun dance song, with a few layers – a staccato synthetic gamelan, a cosmic boing, and other synths galore. I like its metronomic rhythm.
Airy by dunkadunc
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-30
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Airy is an instrumental synthpop song, with cold and somewhat piercing synths.
Lean Back by dunkadunc
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-27
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Lean Back is a lovely, dreamy, layered and instrumental track, with fuzzy synths.
Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom by cortex
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-26
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Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom is a dumb, fun, and short punk rock song. Oh, and it’s catchy, too.
The title’s inspired by a weird news item.
Nightlights by dunkadunc
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-25
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Nightlights is a sorta synth poppy song. It reminds me of the soundtrack to Drive, with colder synths.
Edit: This is weird: this song isn’t showing up in iTunes for me. I’ll try to dig into the problem later!
Edit: It’s working now.
Bad Romance by ZsigE
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-24
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Bad Romance is a one-man indie pop ukelele and synth cover of the Lady Gaga song, which I now recognize prefigures a couple of elements of Miley Cyrus’ Wrecking Ball video – namely, some nudity and the crying close-ups. Is this a stretch? Sure it is, but I felt like linking the Chatroulette version of the video. It’s like an early Christmas gift!
A Nighttime Song by malocchio
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-23
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A Nighttime Song is a dreamy pop song, with a bit of a dark side to it. The background “pipe organ” makes me think of a carousel in a nightmare.
It’s malocchio’s first time on the podcast, with their first song!
Republic by Cantdosleepy
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-20
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Republic is a charming, weightless, and wordless electronic piece.
This is Cantdosleepy’s first posted song, and also song #750 on the podcast!
No No No (The Ballad of Gina and Bobby) by uncleozzy
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-19
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No No No (The Ballad of Gina and Bobby) is a fun punk rock song. I love the guitars!
(Nothing But) Flowers by askmeaboutLOOM
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-18
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(Nothing But) Flowers is a relatively straight cover of the Talking Heads tune, with nice world music instrumentation. It’s about, well, someone who finds themselves in a bucolic and pastoral setting, and misses technology. “If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower.”
Today by willc
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-17
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Today is a goofy little, slightly disjointed, sorta-college rock song, with absurdist (and not entirely work-safe) lyrics, and music including a ukelele and drum machine. And, I think, a bass guitar groove.
It’s willc’s first time on the podcast, with the latest song he’s posted.
bitquake 2 by loquacious
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-16
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bitquake 2 is a lofi electronic song, with rumbly bass and glitch sounds and a nice instrumental flow. Ooh, and metronomic pacing, which I’m pretty fond of.
Caerse Muerto (cyan mix) by sleepy pete
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-13
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Caerse Muerto (cyan mix) is like a world music soundtrack to an action movie, with much asskicking. It has throat singing, stabbing strings, drums, and a lush and layered atmosphere with other fun instruments.
“Caerse Muerto” means “drop dead.”
womankind by edlundart
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-12
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womankind is a slow and sincere ballad to the awesomeness of women. It’s acoustic; melodica, piano, and the lap steel that I love.
HighSchoolSweethearts by CarrotAdventure
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-11
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HighSchoolSweethearts is a happy bouncy synthpop song.
Follow Alexandria by multivalent
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-10
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Follow Alexandria is a cool and acoustic “indie folk” song, with guitar and ukelele. This band hails from Glasgow.
Cold Dip by Corduroy
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-09
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Cold Dip is a cool folksy acoustic song, with harmonizing. I find it pleasantly relaxing.
You Can’t Ignore My Techno by COBRA!
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-06
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You Can’t Ignore My Techno is a chill electronic song, with accents of noisy guitar and that sort of steel-guitar-in-the-desert feel. It’s laid-back, happily noodling along.
Honesty by azarbayejani
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-05
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Honesty is a minimalistic electronic track – semi-ambient, as it has rhythms, but it’s instrumental and relaxing. It’s good background music.
Outta Here by unSane
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-04
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Outta Here is an indie rock / garage rock kiss-off tune.
Trampoline by chillmost
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-03
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Trampoline is an acoustic ballad. I love the sound of the guitar here – it sounds like a steel guitar, with the reverb that makes me think of the desert.
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by unSane
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-12-02
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The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face is a more uptempo cover of the song popularized by Roberta Flack, recently covered here by NemesisVex. The uptempo is more like the real first version – like The Kingston Trio, or Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul and Mary. Although this is more uptempo, it’s still folk, with an acoustic guitar.
Are the vocals loud enough? by Zenabi
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-11-29
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Are the vocals loud enough? is mellow and instrumental synth-based background music.
Duck Fat by Dalton
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-11-28
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Duck Fat (note: one nsfw word in lyrics) is an acoustic pop song that’s about how awesome cooking with duck fat is. This is the second and latest song that Dalton’s posted, and both made it to the podcast. (The first was Secular Humanist Love Song.)
It’s fitting to have a song about cooking today. Happy American Thanksgiving!
Edit: Want another Thanksgiving song? Try Tryptophantastic by sleepy pete, previously on the podcast. It’s a lofi garage rock song, loud and distorted. It’s lyrically thematically appropriate, at least.
We are gonna be friends by Corduroy
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2013-11-27
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We are gonna be friends is a pretty faithful cover of The White Stripes song, similarly acoustic and folkish. It’s a warm song about childhood friendships.