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…so in a fit of random, manic creativity i decided this evening to make an attempt at recording a cover of one of my all time “top 5” favorite Flaming Lips songs…its nothing more than a rough demo, and there’s no way i could ever hold a candle to Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd…

…that said, here it is…

…race for the prize - angel with an amber halo - originally performed by the flaming lips…

27 June 2009 • race for the prize angel with an amber halo flaming lips music cover song demo

…I died yesterday and if my body catches up there’ll be hell to pay

— zombies - the tastydactyls - waking the giants

9 June 2009 • tastydactyls zombie waking giants hell died music quote

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…i am criminally bad at keeping promises and, conversly, criminally good at making excuses…so i wont make excuses for the fact that i havent been keeping up the whole “daily music post” thing…

…that being said, here’s the post

…lots more stairs - the octopus project - one ten hundred thousand million

…this song has been the soundtrack to my sad little world for the last couple of days now…i think i’d like to be buried with this song…and be buried to it as well…

5 June 2009 • the octopus project octopus project music one ten hundred thousand million lots more stairs lots more stairs

…closing tracks

…i’ve always held some sort of strange fascination with the last track on an album. i don’t really know why…there’s just something about that last track that tends to move me more than any other track on an album. for some reason (to me at least) they tend to be the tracks that evoke the most emotions. there’s a sense that the artist is emotionally spent, and that last track is that final outpouring of emotion; that feeling of closuer. it may also be because most closing tracks tend to be epic in some way. they may be grandiouse and almost cinematic in scope; or they may be sparse and lilting - as if the artist is so spent from the emotional outpouring of the rest of the record that all they can muster is a simple melody and maybe a few poingient lyrics. i like that feeling you get from those tracks, it’s the feeling of ghosts - that’s the best way i can describe it…

…so with that, here is a list of my (current) top five favorite closing tracks…

(in no particular order)

  • a lack of color - death cab for cutie - transatlanticism
  • lots more stairs - the octopus project - one ten hundred thousand million
  • the ghosts of saturday night (after hours at napoleone’s pizza house) - tom waites - the heart of saturday night
  • hurt - nine inch nails - the downward spiral
  • videotape - radiohead - in rainbows

4 June 2009 • music closing tracks emotion death cab for cutie the octopus project tom waites nine inch nails radiohead death cab cutie octopus project waites nin radio head closuer album cinematic ghosts

…monoliths & dimensions

monoliths and dimensions cover art

…currently listening to the new sunn O))) album - “monoliths & dimensions.” seriously dark, heavy, brooding doom metal from the dark masters of the genre. what better way to pass a hot summer day than by listening to the soundtrack that dante must have heard as he decended into hell

29 May 2009 • sunn O))) sunn O))) metal music doom dark dante hell summer