My Favorite Sunbeam’s Gone Away is a happy and bouncy song with morose lyrics, which Karlos the Jackal always does so well.
Time To Get Up by Corduroy
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on 2013-08-16
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Time To Get Up is a beautiful and epic sort of acoustic indie pop song, with a great build, both sorta downbeat yet determined to keep going, with some cool harmonizing.
shallow song/airport fiction by multivalent
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on 2013-08-15
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shallow song/airport fiction is really two songs – first folk, then folk rock, both with ukeleles and a guitar. I really like airport fiction, and I’m not sure if it’s because, or despite, the fact that it’s really lofi.
It’s multivalent’s first posted song!
Where Is My Mind by cortex
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on 2013-08-14
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Where Is My Mind is a cool little garage rock cover of the Pixies tune, with a theremin wailing away and rockstar guitars.
Golden Mushroom by CarrotAdventure
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on 2013-08-13
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Golden Mushroom is a mellow dance song, punctuated by samples from Mario Kart. It’s-a pretty good!
Broken, soundtrack for the future. by blinks
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on 2013-08-12
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Broken, soundtrack for the future. is an instrumental electronica track, all tinkly piano. It builds with loops – some soothing strings, and a slow groove bassline, and the piano, and it’s soothing and hypnotic.
never coming back by dunkadunc
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on 2013-08-09
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never coming back is a rocking electronic song. It would work well as a soundtrack to a racing game.
Energy by azarbayejani
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on 2013-08-08
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Energy is a dreamy and minimal piece of electronica. It’s spacy and ambient. It has atmosphere and layers that drift out of sync with each other. It’s lovely!
Quantum Shift by Babblesort
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on 2013-08-07
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Quantum Shift is a mellow and spacy bit of semi-ambient instrumental electronica.
Mr Brightside by andysouthrop
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on 2013-08-06
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Mr Brightside is an acoustic-ish relatively twee indie pop cover of the indie rock song by The Killers.
This is andysouthrop’s only posted song, and his only comments are on the thread for the song.
Hamburgers by keithburgun
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on 2013-08-05
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Hamburgers is a college rock lovesong about food.
Hero by uncleozzy
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on 2013-08-02
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Hero is a drunken stream-of-consciousness shambles of a cover of the Enrique Iglesias song. I find this much more amusing than I should.
A Number Another Summer by The World Famous
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on 2013-08-01
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A Number Another Summer has guitars with lots of reverb, and layers of synths, both throbbing and gently washing. The description calls out The Cure, Disintegration-era, but it stands well by itself.
Passing You By by p3t3
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on 2013-07-31
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Passing You By is a mellow instrumental electronica song, with layers of skittering percussion, whistling synths, and mellow synths. It’s pretty and soothing.
Movie Credits instrumental by Greynaab
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on 2013-07-30
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Movie Credits instrumental is atmospheric slow spacy spooky instrumental piece. With strings. Sibilance.
Craftwork by cloeburner
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on 2013-07-29
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Craftwork is “Kraftwerk-esque dubstep.” It’s got the tinny overdriven bass of dub, the wobbly bass of dubstep, and the metronomic and lovely parts of Kraftwerk.
Road To Nowhere by waraw
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on 2013-07-26
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Road To Nowhere is an a cappella cover of the classic New Wave song by Talking Heads. All of the layers, instruments included, are based on waraw’s vocals.
Les Mondes Englotuis by gmm
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on 2013-07-25
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Les Mondes Englotuis is a cover of the theme to an 80’s cartoon, known in the States as “Spartakus And The Sun Beneath The Sea.” The cover is bouncy synthpop, with cheesy squeaky synths, arpeggios, and robots singing in French. It’s also largely chiptune-ish.
The intro’s on Youtube, in its original French (warning: it’s very French and very 80’s) and the English version.
I Think You’re Alright (demo) by frenetic
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on 2013-07-24
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I Think You’re Alright (demo) is a pretty great rock song. (Not a lovesong.) I like the groove of the bass guitar especially, and the touches of synth throughout.
Winter Wonderland by raisindebt
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on 2013-07-23
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This one goes out to all the listeners in the Southern Hemisphere! Winter Wonderland is a sparse, downbeat, and pensive version of the holiday classic.
It was released in December 2009, but I like picturing it done recently, by someone in the midst of a heatwave, lacking the energy to do much more.
Let Me Know by clcapps
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on 2013-07-22
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Let Me Know is a sweet little synthpop lovesong.
Jeff Buckley’s Ozark Melody by joetrip
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on 2013-07-19
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Jeff Buckley’s Ozark Melody is a goofy bluegrass song about aliens, which is a lot more fun than I expected, really. I’m happily surprised that a mefite worked with Jeff Buckley.
The Undiscovered Country Song by saulgoodman
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on 2013-07-18
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The Undiscovered Country Song is an acoustic laid-back alt-country song, about closeness and separation.
I have a soft spot for the piano, and I also love the cello here, and the layered chaos that wraps it up.
Our Town by Greynaab
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on 2013-07-17
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Our Town is sort of laid-back video game music – I think it’s pretty, and minimalistic, and the metronomic pace to be entrancing and hypnotic.
This is Greynaab’s first track here!
arrested development by raisindebt
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on 2013-07-16
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arrested development is an electronic rock song, the story of a man only able to communicate via the means of the titles of pop culture artifacts.
Robot Army by gmm
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on 2013-07-15
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Robot Army is an upbeat electronica song, like a soundtrack to a video of a cute robot marching with determination. It’s bleeps and bloops and glitchy.
I think I’ve loved all of gmm’s music. Seriously.
Aether by googly
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on 2013-07-12
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Aether is a lovely quiet shoegazer tune, with atmospheric guitars, and a somewhat hypnotic bassline.
Home (a sketch) by punkbitch
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on 2013-07-11
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Home (a sketch) is a folk rock song. Lots of acoustic guitar strumming, and reaching for high notes.
This is punkbitch’s first appearance here!
Oh Balloon Boy by cortex
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on 2013-07-10
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Oh Balloon Boy is a raucous lofi pop rock song. The lyrics are from mikepop (first song here!), and the rest from cortex. The song’s based on the balloon boy hoax of October 2009. I feel like I should have some useful tag for music drawn from real-life events. News? Non-fiction, perhaps? “Reality” sounds ridiculous here.
Edit: If you’re wondering where he went, Falcon “Balloon Boy” Heene surfaced earlier this year in a very young metal band.
The Life of Perfect Creatures by chimaera
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on 2013-07-08
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The Life of Perfect Creatures is a rock song, with a wall of guitars, about Laika, the dog cosmonaut.
Space Gait by cloeburner
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on 2013-07-05
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Space Gait is a spacy and minimal electronic tune, layered with different rhythms, drifting into and out of sync.
Goodbye Horses by frenetic
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on 2013-07-04
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Goodbye Horses is an electronic rock cover of the Q Lazzarus song, popularized by “Silence of the Lambs.”
Happy 4th of July!
gravity by kimyo
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on 2013-07-03
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gravity is some laidback woman-fronted trip-hop. It’s from frequent guests kimyo and his band Hot Bitch Arsenal, who last showed up here a year ago.
Last Saturday was Metafilter Music’s seventh birthday! Yay! *blows a party horn, throws confetti in the air*
Benny Ain’t a Thang by orville sash
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on 2013-07-02
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Benny Ain’t a Thang is a hip-hop and pop-jazz mashup – “Money Ain’t a Thang” by Jay-Z and “Yakety Sax” by Boots Randolph, well-known as “The Benny Hill Song.” It’s NSFW and bouncy and happy and oh yes an earworm.
Sleep in the temple by american caesar
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on 2013-07-01
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Sleep in the temple is a sorta honkytonk cover of Prince’s “Thieves in the Temple.” I like the harmonica work here. This is american caesar’s first appearance on the podcast.
Lithium Spanish Flea by onehalfjunco
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on 2013-06-28
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Lithium Spanish Flea is a mashup of Lithium by Nirvana Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert (you know, from The Dating Game. It’s angry grunge vocals over a trumpet and Latin beat. What’s not to love?
Yup, there’s a mashup trend here.
Single Ladies Want Candy by davejay
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on 2013-06-27
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Single Ladies Want Candy is a fun mashup of a couple of pop songs – “Single Ladies” by Beyoncé (2008) and new wave classic “I Want Candy” by Bow Wow Wow (1982), which I just found out is a cover of The Strangeloves (1965). It’s bouncy and fun!
modified block format by ropeladder
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on 2013-06-26
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modified block format is a head-nodding sort of electronica song; it’s instrumental, with an eerie synth, piano, and glitch as percussion. It has a nice build.
Stain by chococat
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on 2013-06-25
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Stain is a nifty rock song, with a man singing in falsetto, and nice layers.