NOISECAST #3 – THE COVERS (SUMMER 2010)

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)

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Noisecast #3 – The Covers (Summer 2010 Edition)

you can download a zip of the individual files here , or the single file here

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SOTW : THE MICROPHONES : I FELT MY SIZE

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

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Noisecast #1 – Voice//Guitar

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)

The Mountain Goats – Island Garden Song

Tom Waits – I Want You

Bright Eyes – Waste Of Paint

Noisecast #1 – Voice//Guitar

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Deluxe Edition #2 – The Microphones – I Felt My Size (Acoustic) // The Moon (Version)

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.”

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FUCK NOISE ROCK’S BEST OF THE 00′s

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)