OKAY so badlydrawnjeff sent me a link to THIS POST about Slow Club and something about the first song posted there, "It Doesn't Have To Be Beautiful," reminded me of another song. THE PROBLEM: I can't figure out what that other song is and I can only think of one part of one line in it.

SO MY QUESTION IS, do any of you know of a song that includes the line "I've been sucking on a something something" that features jaunty man-lady harmonizing and is upbeat? Please help me before I go insane!

what do you guys think of this?
http://beatcrave.com/2009-02-09/the-most-unwanted-song-scientifically-composed/

personally, i would love 100% of the song if it were instrumental.
i found some of the vocal parts to be a bit abrasive for my taste.

Hey everybody, so I always wanted to be a part of the posting staff for rhapsodical way back when, and now this great opportunity comes along and what do you  know but I review cds for a college radio station! So I'm going to try to keep coming to you with new and interesting stuff. So, first up:

We Landed on the Moon!
Rilo Kiley is probably the best touch stone for this band - female lead singer with some swagger, rock/pop guitar lines with a good hook and a quick beat to the songs. That said, when you read their myspace page you get the impression that they are sick to death of being compared to any and every band with a female lead singer. And while that is understandable, I'm also sure that you're going to hear More Adventurous/The Execution of All Things era Jenny Lewis in the songs.

Washing for the Week from These Little Wars

Re: Send Your Letter from These Little Wars

Drew Danburry
Just a man with his guitar, Danburry's musical influences are pretty specific - you can hear a lot of Sufjan Stevens and some Scandinavian stuff (Suburban Kids with Biblical Names, for instance). But his voice can do radically different things from song to song. Here he sounds like Alex Kapranos on Memorial Day followed by Will Scheff from Okkervil River on Residents in Orange County.

Memorial Day from This Could Mean Trouble, You Don't Speak for the Club

Residents in Orange County from This Could Mean Trouble, You Don't Speak for the Club

WE'RE BACK

So here's the deal: ____rhapsodical is officially open for business again and everyone's allowed to post! It's moderated posting, so badlydrawnjeff and I will approve 2 posts per day if there are enough in the queue. I'm going to enforce some pretty strict posting rules, though, so please keep this post as a reference just in case you forget one.

• No more than two artists per post.
• No more than two songs per artist.
  
  • That means no more than four songs per post. Period.
• All images must be no more than 320 pixels wide. ImageShack has a handy uploader on its website and it can automatically resize your images to this.
• I erased all the old tags, so we're starting with a clean slate here. If you downloaded something in the past that you want to revisit, you're welcome to.
  
  • Obviously you should tag all your posts with the artists in them. Please check the existing tags before you do so we don't end up with a tag for "smiths" and a tag for "the smiths," etc.
• No full albums or link dumps. This isn't ysi_leftovers
• It's up to you to host your songs on whatever file sharing site you like. I'd prefer it be somewhere like sendspace or mediafire where there isn't a time limit between downloads, but it's completely up to you. Do not host them somewhere with download restrictions, though, if those kinds of places even exist anymore.

Just as before, we're open to any and every genre out there. There's an audience for everything, so don't hesitate to branch out and explore


I had to go through and manually give all the preexisting members posting access, so if I accidentally missed you, please let me know and I'll change it ASAP.

POP QUIZ

1. Who still has this on their friends list?

2. If I reopened this where ANYONE(!!!) can post, who would keep this on their friends list?

It would be moderated posting, I would only accept two or three entries per day, and they would have to be actual ~music blog~ entries (not just link dumps). I only ask because I have so much music I want the world to know about but I have no other outlet for it but here!

HAVE AN AWESOME THANKSGIVING

About 50-odd Of Montreal covers. Things are quiet here as we go to our silent death, but that doesn't mean we still can't share now and then.

Geez y'all! So sad to be saying this is my last post. Of course it's not necessarily my last, but you know, things have been heading that way for quite some time.

Obviously I will miss doing this very much. It's the only reason I log into LJ anymore!

I don't have a "last post ever" ready or anything but I do have a recycled track that I think conveys the sentiment.

Master P - Goodbye to my Homies



Thanks for the memories. It's been a pleasure.

Serk

*tears*
hello i am threv 


It looks like our fair group is reaching the end of our journey. I apologize for my personal dearth of posts over the past month - the holiday season was extremely busy, and my band The Secret Life had our CD Release Party (pix here). Work has ramped up; pixivixen is back in school AND has found a sweet new job, and life is overall great. It seems like a fantastic time to hit the reset button, so with this final post
I present 3 themes:
- bands i wanted to post about in rhapsodical but haven't yet
- bands that made me who i am today
- silly shit that i'm addicted to

1) BANDS I WANTED TO POST ABOUT IN RHAPSODICAL
okay there's really only one in particular but it's a doozy:



Painful Reminder
Painful Reminder is an anti-folk rock act formerly from Atlanta, GA. Based primarily around one Ben Philips, aka Pynk, the songwriting is deliciously morose and the spite is palpable. Pynk is a brother of mine in Psi Upsilon from Georgia Tech, and has performed in one respect or another for the past 8 years until he moved to Iowa w/his wife last year.

Pynk is a humongous inspiration and one of my closest friends. He's an incredible musician, a great guitarist, a fantastic songwriter, and if i didn't know him personally I would swear he's this close >< to killing himself. Always a fantastic show, and certainly THE SINGLE MOST underappreciated artist i know. Towards the end of his illustrious career as Painful Reminder, Pynk picked up a bassist in Rob "Poodleface" Solomon and a drummer in Phillip Simmons.

just great, great, great stuff and i hope & pray pynk will pick this back up some day.

SONGS:
I only wanted you for sex
Blow, blow thou winter wind
happy birthday


2) BANDS THAT MADE ME WHO I AM TODAY

pixivixen already covered Download/platEAU, but they are only one part of the greater subconscious collective founded by the masters of horror industrial, Skinny Puppy


If i had to pick just one band to say "they are my favorite", it would be skinny puppy. the mastery of intense percussion; sick sick synth basslines; the amazing songwriting; the classically trained drummer & keyboardist; the insane range of style they cover; their prolific nature...i'm fucking absolutely addicted to the pups. Started in Vancouver in 1982, the core group is cEvin Key, Nivek Ogre, and (until his tragic death in 1995) Dwayne Goettel. They released a ton of shit until their "breakup" in 1996 (after which Download came to the forefront) but reformed in 2000 at the Doomsday festival in germany, and have since released 2 records (that sadly don't quite match the ziing of their earlier works, but the stuff Omar Torres did w/them on The Greater Wrong of the Right is just sick sick sick shit). I've spent more time listening to Skinny Puppy than any other band. They are so deliciously dark, and i've never heard anything like them since. I can't get enough. That's a fact.

SONGS:
Rodent
Dogshit (extended mix)
Smothered Hope
Tormentor
Worlock
Inquisition
Ghostman


next, we have probably my 2nd 'favorite' band:
Cabaret Voltaire

i first heard cabaret voltaire (aka the cabbies, aka cabvolt) in high school right around the time i was getting into skinny puppy.  the 1st record i heard was 'microphonies' (a poster of which can be found on ferris bueller's wall) and i thought "wow this sounds like pretty hate machine".  lo & behold, it was produced by flood as well, only 5 years prior.  i've become a massive fan of all of their work.  they started out on the original industrial records label in the late 70s, manipulating tapes and making raw noise.  chris watson ended up leaving the band in the early 80s after several landmark releases (red mecca, 2x45, etc.) to form the hafler trio (aka h3o).  richard h. kirk ended up directing the musical output for the next 10 years, inventing ambient techno & 'poppy' industrial along the way.  always engaging, always entertaining.  mr. kirk has also released under many other monikers such as sweet exorcist and sandoz.

SONGS:
Do Right
Just Fascination (1992 remix)
I Want You
We've Got Heart


now it's time for kinds of ultra heavy beat & crap rock (?) i dunno it's totally dancy 'industrial' kinda but i fucking love most of it (well, anything before the symbols album)
KMFDM

SONGS:
Power
Ultra
i wish i could find Money cuz that song's great, so is Help Us, Save Us, Take Us Away.
go find those songs.

closely related to KMFDM is
Pig

OK time for the Wreckers of Civilisation (quote british parliament in the late 70s):
Throbbing Gristle


mental floss.

right now, right now, right now it's time to...KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHERFUCKERS
The KLF

finally we come to what's still the single most awesome example of drum & bass ever,
Panacea




BONUS: SILLY TRACKS THAT I'M FUCKING ADDICTED TO:
MONTGOMERY FLEA MARKET (spooky mix)



Sonic in Moscow -
did you know that michael jackson's production team wrote the music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3?
little known fact. look it up on google :) anyhow, i mashed up the end song of Sonic 3 w/MJ's "Stranger in Moscow" along with a stranger in moscow cover by Transformer di Roboto (who uses the mac startup sound as the bassline) totally silly but fun :)

The Frogs - I'm Evil, Jack
just listen.

Kalma - Power ov Love
Yes, this is an electronic death metal cover of huey lewis. Kalma is fucking amazing. Great pals, amazing musicians, run SMT Studios in Manhattan. Brian Herman of Kalma is also involved with Not Breathing.


OK THAT DOES IT
I LOVE YOU ALL
FOR FURTHER FUN CHECK
threv 
FOR HAPPY TIMES
also more links!

Nophi Recordings (i am co-chair of this record label)
WREK 91.1FM The Mobius (my weekly electronic radio show - we archive!)
The Secret Life Web Liner Notes (electronic liner notes for my recently released CD)
The Secret Life Blog (we update this hooray)
Harmaline Myspace (one of my 2 new acts)

I really will miss this, and i hope to keep in contact w/those who appreciated what I posted.
Take it sleazy, everyone

-
threv 

Dear friends,

For the past two and a half years, this community has been a labor of love for me. (Sometimes it was like my mom used to say in that I loved it, but I sure didn't have to like it, but the love never died.)

We've been through a lot together, you [guys] and I. We've endured some pretty rough theme weeks, my transformation from indie slut to whatever I am now, Jeff's marriage, a few love connections (Jamie & Tim for you old-timers), a revolving door of great posters, pixivixen & threv's engagement, and I'm sure a few emotional crises on all of our parts. Best of all, I know a lot of us have made some very dear friends through here, and for that it is worth everything we've put into it.

That's why it pains me to point out the obvious: this community is in a serious state of disrepair and I don't know of anyone willing to put forth the effort to bring it back to its glory days of 2005 and 2006. I know I'm sort of springing this on everyone, but you had to see it coming. My post on Tuesday was the first one since Christmas Eve and, while the non-posters can't see this, our downloads are less than 1/5 of what they used to be on average. It seems to me that it won't matter if I seek out new posters, bring back theme week, or any sort of upheaval of how things currently are - we've all moved on.

So I guess what I'm saying is that this party's finally come to an end. I'll leave all the current links in our box.net account until it expires (in July?), so help yourself to everything that's been posted for the past few months. And if all the posters want to do one last hurrah, that's cool too.

Anyway, I adore you all and wish everyone the best. Thanks for everything.

Alicia

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Easter and all that.

My x-mas was pretty amazing. I went home to Alabama and shot guns, drove SUV's, shopped at Walmart, and went to the dentist. You know, America stuff.

Apparently this band is Canadian, but I listened to them a lot while I was home and I think of them fondly as a Southern sort of folky goodness. Don't get me wrong though, this isn't folk music. The name might be the folkiest thing about it. However, there are banjos. Lots of banjos.

I strongly recommend the album, Love is Simple.

Hope y'all had good ones.

Akron/Family - Ed Is A Portal

Akron/Family - Don't Be Afraid, You're Already Dead

Me, shootin:



Bang.