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River Rise by Grangousier

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-02-18 No comments

River Rise is a blues / folk song, a sad song about water.

You Still Look Like You Did Before by chococat

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-02-15 No comments

You Still Look Like You Did Before is a bluegrass song, with upbeat music, melancholy lyrics, harmonizing backup vocals, and banjo by ORthey.

I’m surprised that it’s not the only song with the tags bluegrass or washboard, considering what I thought I knew about my music tastes when I started this podcast.

Distance of the Moon (Albedo Mix) by speicus

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-02-14 No comments

Distance of the Moon (Albedo Mix) is a head-bobbing synthpop song, with a great groove.

Cambie & Hastings by CarrotAdventure

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-02-13 No comments

Cambie & Hastings is a happy noodly electronica song.

Sensitive Artist by askmeaboutLOOM

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-02-12 No comments

Sensitive Artist is spoken word, with some nice accompaniment – flutes, harmonizing backup singers, a keytar, and screaming. It’s a cover, originally by King Missile.

Mr Slug goes back to hell 2009 by fuq

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-02-11 No comments

Mr Slug goes back to hell 2009 has atmosphere like it’s nonobtrusively looping in the background of a quiet jazz lounge.

Chase Scene by flapjax at midnite

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-02-08 No comments

Chase Scene has some utterly ridiculous and hilarious beatboxing and vocals for engine noises.

hypotech by dobie

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-02-07 No comments

hypotech is a loping rock song, in the old school “roots” mode.

Summer Jam by raisindebt

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-02-06 No comments

Summer Jam is a chill, minimal indie song about summer jams.

When You’re Out of My Mind by Saellys

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-02-05 No comments

When You’re Out of My Mind is an acoustic lovesong, with some lovely harmonizing.

Settlers by jdnason

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-02-04 No comments

Settlers is a synthpop song that’s just dense and noodly with synths.

Breathing On Another Planet by Saellys

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-02-01 No comments

Breathing On Another Planet is a lovely and mellow rock song about a breakup that made someone flee the planet.

Teenage Wasteland by raisindebt

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-01-31 No comments

Teenage Wasteland is entertaining indie rock trash talk. It’s not a cover. It’s got an Ezra Pound quote and sample.

Burning December by Corduroy

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-01-30 No comments

Burning December is a spare song, a guy and his banjolele. It’s got a vibe of “it’s cold, but don’t worry, I’ll tend to the fire.”

Hallelukulelejah by jhighmore

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-01-29 1 comment

Hallelukulelejah is a cover of “Hallelujah,” originally by Leonard Cohen and popularized by Jeff Buckley. It’s a great song, covered many, many times. In fact, covering this became the next Music Challenge after this posting – you’ll hear some of the results here in a month or so.

Faithfully by uncleozzy

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-01-28 No comments

Faithfully is a gleefully upbeat polka version of a classic rock ballad by Journey.

Seven Nation Army by grubi

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-01-25 No comments

Seven Nation Army is a power-pop cover of the White Stripes song, which I love. This cover was inspired by a post about various covers of the song, including a great one by the Flaming Lips.

Second Anniversary!

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-01-24 No comments

Two years ago today, I started posting a song a day. Song #500 was posted earlier this month. That’s a lot of music!

I’ve taken the opportunity to clean up a bit here, largely about tags. I tweaked the appearance to show tags near every song. I adjusted old entries, so my email address shouldn’t show up on your mp3 player any more.

There are new tags! I added the errata tag for when I fixed the song after the next one came out, which also has its own podcast feed.^[1] I made the one-off tag, for when musicians only ever posted one song, which then made it to this podcast – this might be good for getting a variety of music.

Also, I retroactively added favorites to songs that made the podcast, and made a Metatalk post about the the 2012 installment of the Metafilter Music torrents and also this podcast!

Woot! And now: onwards!

[1] It makes sense to me. My target audience is partially, a lazy alternate version of me who hasn’t listened to all of this yet, but wants all the good stuff, and he’d probably appreciate the heads up.

U by raisindebt

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-01-24 No comments

U is an indie rock lovesong for the letter “U.”

Today’s the second anniversary of the podcast! I’ll make a blogpost about it.

Looking at Witches by Jawbones

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-01-23 No comments

Looking at Witches really paints a picture of a desolate winter. It’s a folk rock tune – slow and haunting.

Lorem Ipsum by jake

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-01-22 No comments

Lorem Ipsum is a great j-pop song – an entirely digital performance except for the guitar and bass. The rest – the choir, the vocals, the other instruments – are made by computer. The lyrics are from some wellknown placeholder text – it’s not grammatical Latin, it’s just meant as visual filler text until the real text arrives.

One More Time by Admira

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-01-21 No comments

One More Time is a classical guitar cover of Britney Spears’ “Hit Me Baby One More Time,” from 1998.

Friday by azarbayejani

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-01-18 No comments

Friday is a very chill, often ambient, tune from frequent guest azarbayejani. It feels like something winding down.

Model Home by frenetic

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-01-17 No comments

Model Home is a fun big dumb techno song from frenetic. It’s dancy synthpop.

Joy In The Morning (Cast Your Stone) by dagosto

Posted by Pronoiac on 2013-01-16 No comments

Joy In The Morning (Cast Your Stone) is some folk rock that veers toward soul and more of a vocal range than expected. This is dagosto’s first time on the podcast!