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.
—
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)
—
Noisecast #3 – The Covers (Summer 2010 Edition)
you can download a zip of the individual files here , or the single file here
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
the heat from the closeness of me tilting towards the sun
was storing up to ignite the night and light up
the coldness of the cave the billowy flames lit up my face
the thinning smoke hung in the branches waiting for wind
my front was warm, the cold backs of my arms
never felt the dawn, the night was long
when the real dawn came i saw it crawl over the hill
and i felt clean and shook my hair out in the light
i looked up and hurt my eyes on the painful powerful sky
i looked down and felt motion under me
i looked out across the freeway at the people flying by
and turned my head, i closed my eyes, i felt my size
i recalled my fire, and my lack of dawn
my one sided warmth, i just wanted more
but i’m small, i’m not a planet at all
i’m small, i’m small, we are all
116-the_microphones-i_felt_my_size
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
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.
—
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)
The Mountain Goats – Island Garden Song
Tom Waits – I Want You
Bright Eyes – Waste Of Paint
Noisecast #1 – Voice//Guitar
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
My favorite tracks off the 2008 K records reissue bonus disc.
Phil Elvrum on the bonus disc:
“There were about six actual songs from the Glow era that hadn’t been released. So there are those, and then I just made these things I called “destroyed versions.” They aren’t really remixes, because remixes tend to imply you add a house beat. I didn’t add anything, I just took stuff away. So it ended up being a studio collage where I spliced tape together and added weird stuff, backwards tracks, part of one song on top of part of another song. It was a weird, chaotic mash-up of the album. They’re all excerpts from the album versions themselves.”
The_Microphones – I_Felt_My_Size_(Acoustic)
The_Microphones – The_Moon_(Version)
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
