A song so good it deserves it's own post.

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

"This is the first song on the LP, it’s lyrically fairly meaningless I guess but it’s not really meant to mean something. As an introduction to the record, we thought it would be nice to start it with a simple jam that’s focussed on singing – on the record it starts with a tongue-in-cheek harmony thing that we hoped would make people laugh or something but I think it just confuses them. This is my favorite song to play live, though singing it live is sometimes difficult because the lyrics are so vague. Weird how that works! " - daytrotter.com



I was following the pack
all swallowed in their coats
with scarves of red tied ’round their throats
to keep their little heads
from fallin’ in the snow
And I turned ’round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
and turn the white snow red as strawberries
in the summertime

K.C. Accidental

Like the Broken Social Scene song K.C. Accidental?, Meet K.C. Accidental, the band. Formed by two eventual BSS founding members Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin, releasing two albums of mostly instrumental music. The first CD, Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub, being the first six songs and the second CD, Anthems for the Could've Bin Pills, picks up at tracks 7-12, creating one whole hypothetical CD. Although in reality the albums were released 4 years apart.Captured Anthems was sold in a limited number of copies at one location in Canada in 1998. Thanks to the magic and folly of the internet, I've heard track one of twelve, and am not sure how much more I'll get to hear. The one track alone was great, but I would love eleven more.



love the album art of captured anthems.

Coconut Records

Cause you've been Nighttiming baby, and it's starting to show.

Vampire Weekend

Wasted days you've come to pass.

Wilco

With a Sky Blue Sky,This rotten time, Wouldn't seem so bad to me now

I steal all of my style from Mark Hoppus.

Until today I haven't heard anything from the new +44 set, but this short video is quite enticing. Click the pic for link. Viva la 44.

Knights - POS remix

This is an amazing remix of an awesome song. POS took an awesome rock song and thugged it out. Do your ears a favor.

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

This is a new thing I've decided to start. (Kaitis') Clickless Classics, meaning they're CD's so good, not a track has to, needs to, or even should be skipped. These are albums that are timeless, breathtaking, meaningful and they must be heard by anyone willing to listen.


      
In 2002, Canadian band and Indie rock supergroup Broken Social Scene, released their second album You Forgot it in People. This album has been described as the band's, "commercial and artistic breakthrough." It won the Alternative Album of the Year Juno Award in 2003, and has subsequently been featured on many top album lists. This is Clickless Classics.

1. Capture the Flag - An ambient, wordless song, perfectly captures the vibe of this whole CD, a relaxed feel, done by musical geniuses


2. KC Accidental - Booming, echoed, passionate drumming, and psychedelic guitar, leads into calming, orchestral-string backed vocals, for one verse. Leads back into epic drumming, and transitions perfect into the next song.


3. Stars and Sons - A song featuring the best clapping part since Boston's first CD. The rhythm guitar in the song is the same the whole time, yet manages never to get old. Some crazy sounding lead electric brings us into the next song.


4. Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix) - An uptempo rock song, with duel vocals, by both sexes. The background electronic noises are fucking awesome in this song, a phaser set to kill is the only way to describe them. The fact it's a remix just makes it that much better.


5. Looks Just Like the Sun- A stripped down acoustic piece with such a relaxed vibe. On this track musical direction is given to another member of the band, Kevin Drew. Something strange and unique in a studio recording. It makes this song seem more real somehow, It may be my favorite on the album.


6. Pacific Theme - The first instrumental on the album. The lead guitar has something I would call a wild west feel. Halfway through the song picks up, and gains a horns. Two great songs for the price of one.


7. Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old-Girl - If you didn't know better you could easily miss the transition into this song, it's flawless. The computerized female vocals over electronic drums quickly fades into a mid tempo Indie-folk masterpiece that you won't soon forget.


8. Cause = Time - I fucking love this song. The vocal melodies and bass combine so perfectly, and create something so catchy. The chorus will be in your head for days. Solid lead guitar makes this another fantastic song.


9. Late Night Bedroom Rock for the Missionaries - The second instrumental track, a spacey, slow, reverberated song with an electronic backed beat. Not so much rock as the title would have you believe.


10. Shampoo Suicide - Another song with a well achieved transition. Almost an instrumental, there is mixed in vocals, but quite quiet, and they probably weren't intended for this song, but work extremely well.


11. Lover's Spit - A slow song, with what i'd personally call charming vocals. Very piano heavy, A six minute epic, that's basically about the art of oral sex. Another song that I really like because of the vibe it has, it's a big song, but very calming.


12. I'm Still Your Fag - aka The ballad of Keith and David. This is another song that is very stripped down. Quiet, calm, vocals are mixed with light drumming and individually picked guitar notes.


13. Pitter Patter Goes my Heart - Starting out with a string section, and building up with drums until the last thirty seconds of ambient noises fades out, makes you think listening to this amazing album again isn't a bad idea.

STP Unplugged

One of the best days in my personal music history was the day i woke the fuck up and realized i loved the shit out of the Stone Temple Pilots. It happened quite late for me, mainly due to the face that for awhile i had heard these songs quite often on my then local DC 101 or 98 Rock. But as time went on, i heard them less and less and subsequently enjoyed them more and more. After hearing a good song of theres on the radio, I had to find out who they were. Plush, Sex Type Thing, Creep, Wicked Garden! I hadn't even known the titles of these songs, much less the artist.I realized these songs were ones I loved hearing on the radio as I grew up.

Fast forward to the present day, and I'm currently watching a video by MTV called Stone Temple Pilots Unplugged. This video is so stunning it straight up inspired me to write something about it. I heard an acoustic version of Plush yesterday on my current local version of 98Rock, and it was just not nearly as good as the Unplugged version.In this video, STP delivers some of the best renditions of there songs, probably the best possible. The only actual problem with it, is that it's too damn short, with a runtime of about 24 minutes with a total of like 5 or 6 songs. Now if record companies were smart they would of cut the audio and turned it into an EP. I would of totally bought it.