I tried really hard to make this one longer than 25 minutes, I really did, but I couldn’t find another song that fit well into this mix for the life of me. I think its pretty good, though a bit short. Have a listen.
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The Microphones – Sand (Eric’s Trip)
Modest Mouse – Sleepwalkin’ (Santo & Johnny)
St. Vincent & The National – Sleep All Summer (Crooked Fingers)
Bright Eyes – I Woke Up With This Song In My Head (The Bruces)
Iron & Wine – Waitin’ For A Superman (The Flaming Lips)
Eliott Smith – Trouble (Cat Stevens)
Sparklehorse & The Flaming Lips – Go (Daniel Johnston)
you can download a zip of the individual files here , or the single file here
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I started this noisecast by trying to make a pop punk mix and failing miserably (the only track remaining is “Glendora”). I know that not all of these songs are “folk-punk” in the strictest sense, and you die hard folk-punkers will probably scoff at a bunch of my choices, but I selected these songs under the criteria that they all had something punk about them, and that they were acoustic, not because they were traditional anarcho-folk-punk jams (though you still get “Punx win!”).
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(Written by Conor Oberst, Performed by Jake Bellows)
Amy’s got a baby in her stomach
She took my hand, I felt it kick
So she’s crying and glowing
She’s 3 months and showing
Seeing her now makes me want to live
But her man’s got an angry mouth
He once told me to rot in hell
He’s poisonous, reasonless
Demons and Jesus
If he died it’d be just as well
So I’m having it out with the rain
It argues so long and so loud
It keeps tapping and talking
We’re walking forever on First Avenue headed south
And all the traffic lights blur
Into a bright bouquet
My heart is in mothballs
It’s been packed away
And I can’t get to it no way
Until the birds return for spring cleaning
All the traffic lights blur into a bright bouquet
I wish I could just turn and walk away
But I can’t do it no way
Until the birds return for spring cleaning
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Park Ave. was an indie pop group from Omaha, Nebraska. The line up included: Clark Baechle (The Faint) and Jamie Williams (Tilly & the wall) on guitars, Conor Oberst (bright eyes) on drums, Neely Jenkins (Tilly & the wall) on bass guitar, and Jenn Bernard on keyboards.
I accidentally stumbled upon park ave when looking around for early bright eyes demos. Their 1st and only record, When Jamie Went to London We broke up, isn’t perfect, but its pretty astounding considering how old these kids were when they recorded this stuff (in high school). I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that most of the lyrics were written by Conor, I’m not sure if its true but they certainly seem like early BE style lyrics.
anyway, great song. Its worth checking out the album if you can find it.
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For the past few weeks I’ve been working on developing an acoustic set for my solo live performances. Ive been paying a lot of attention to what makes a song feel complete when its stripped down to nothing but vocals and acoustic guitar. No overdubs, piano, doubled vocals, strings, effects, etc. I started looking through my music library for songs by some of my favorite artists that I could reference/steal from for inspiration, and (kind-of) to my surprise, a much larger number of tracks than I would have imagined featured extra accompaniment of some kind. I actually found it pretty difficult to make this playlist flow well with the limited amount of music that fit the requirements(no live tracks/bootlegs solo performances allowed). I’m pretty happy with the result though, and I think its a pretty good showcase of just how many different things you can actually do with only one voice and one guitar.
enjoy.
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The Tallest Man On Earth – The Gardner
Nick Drake – Road
The Microphones – I Felt Your Shape
Neutral Milk Hotel – Two Headed Boy
Elliott Smith – Pitseleh ( I cheated it has a piano part! it’s one of the few Elliott songs with no guitar overdubs though)
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also, listen to this live version of I know you, I think its much better than the LP version anyway, its got more teeth.
and everyone should buy the reissue, because its got some of the best BE/Neva material ever recorded on it.
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Conor oberst played a special solo show @ The Waiting Room with simon joyner in his hometown of omaha the other night. He performed mostly old bright eyes songs (I bet as practice for that un-announced “final” BE tour coming up!) and he also threw in a new song for kicks.
setlist:
1. north of the city
2. Cape Canaveral
3. I won’t ever be happy again
4. Something vague
5. train under water
6. bowl of oranges
7. 10 women
8. a scale a mirror and those indifferent clocks
9. I know you (new song)
10. poison oak
11. Moab
12. milk thistle
encore:
13. new year (w/joyner)
14. we are freemen
15. roll on
16. I don’t want to die in a hospital
you can download a bootleg of the new track here. track and photo courtesy of hazyskyline6
After a grueling 8 or so hours here it is, in all its glory. As you can see I fucking love anthems.
20 best songs
20. the glow pt 2. – the microphones
19. the modern leper – Frightened rabbit
18. thrash unreal – against me!
17. come pick me up – ryan adams
16. against pollution – the mountain goats
15. lndiana – cymbals eat guitars
14. lua – bright eyes
13. chicago – sufjan stevens
12. Little shadow – yeah yeah yeahs
11. do you realize?? – the flaming lips
10. skinny love – bon iver
9. cold cold water – mirah
8. 3rd planet – modest mouse
7. kings crossing – elliott smith
6. I feel it all – feist
5. casimir pulaski day – sufjan stevens
4. all my friends – lcd soundsystem
3. wake up – arcade fire
2. fake empire – the national
1. Road to joy – bright eyes
best 10 albums
10. sound of silver – lcd soundsystem
9. why there are mountains – cymbals eat guitars
8. alligator – the national
7. the glow pt 2. – the microphones
6. good news for people who love bad news – modest mouse
5. funeral – arcade fire (neighborhood #1 (tunnels)
4. illinoise – sufjan stevens (chicago)
3. The reminder – Feist (the park)
2. Boxer – The national (slow show)
1. I’m wide awake its morning – Bright eyes (road to joy)
