In keeping with the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World theme, here’s a great song by Phantom Planet, a.k.a. the band that Jason Schwartzman played drums in for ten years.
I don’t know where the hell I was when Citizen Cope came out with his latest album, The Rainwater, in Feb 2010. His voice is by far one of the best I’ve ever heard. Although this reminds me a looot of Left For Dead, it’s still sooo good and soulful and worth posting if you were like me and had no idea about this album until now.
-nahomes
Sounds like: Regina Spektor + some alternative rock for the background. Nice, chill sound.
-nahomes
Here’s Wild Beasts’ “All the King’s Men”, a great//interesting song off of their extremely well taken to 2009 album, Two Dancers.
-nahomes
Ok so I have to say it, Metric is not exactly the easiest band to get into, and I’m pretty sure it’s because Emily Haines’ voice isn’t necessarily the sweetest. However, they definitely rock (pun intended). And the raw lyrics are sure to get to you.
-nahomes
I think I’m late on getting into this 80s sounding post-punk revival song, but I’m digging it after I saw 500 Days of Summer for the first time last night where it was featured. His voice is amazing.
-nahomes
PS the youtube is a little quiet, put your speakers on full volume to listen.
I started listening to Mutations, an album in the Beck catalog I haven’t really given a fair shot for some reason. Despite the fact the album won a Grammy, on the whole I don’t think it’s as good as his more bombastic works. This track is one of the stand-outs though; definitely sounds like a soul-crushing warm-up for what would eventually become Sea Change.
-jakeyp
I’m really unsure the motives behind my continued fascination with Third Eye Blind, and I don’t think its fueled out of pure nostalgia. For all of the droning, backassward drugged out white boy music I listen too, a straightforward song like Wounded is probably one of my favorite songs of all time right up there with Fireworks, Kid A and Pompeii AM Gotterdammerung.
-jakeyp
I’ve had Embryonic in my hands for a few months now and I’m almost kind of surprised what a turnaround I did on it. Maybe that’s the mark of a great album; something you don’t entirely understand at first, but something that you repeatedly come back to because something completely inexplicable compels you too. This is especially surprising for a band that’s recently made it’s career out of bombastic first-impressions; first impressions that manage to have supernatural staying power over most popular music. This album is the exact opposite, one that has you asking “what the f—” until that crowning moment where it all just seems to make sense.
This song is concentrated empowerment, and empowerment is always a dish better served with a bunch of stranger hippies, strobe lights and gratuitous smoke. The W.A.N.D, which according to some liner notes rather adorably stands for “The Will Always Negates Defeat!”, is the surest way outside of recreational methamphetamine to get your self completely amped to just do something and succeed.
When Wayne invariably falls into a firepit after fighting a balrog only to return as Wayne Coyne the White, this is the song he’ll use to rally oppressed youth from across the world to create some kind of Stonertopia; toppling nations and triggering spontaneous orgies.
-jakeyp
