This is from this great band's new album which just came out (first release in 10 years)
This is one of the first videos I ever watched on the internet. I remember watching it in the computer lab at Lewis & Clark college in like 98 or 99 and it really bent my mind that these dudes were from LA and this was in some LA backyard. It was such a vibe switch from what I associated with LA music (living there from 92-96 and the summers after that). Los Angeles, and the music world in general, was not interested in Gram Parsons or soft focus in 1998, everything was intense and brash and big and dissonant. These guys totally pre-dated everyone in the next decade plus who came to a sound like this, and these guys did it better than anyone since.
This band put out 2 great albums and 1 great EP between 99 and 02 and then broke up. They just put out their first new record since then and I listened to it for the first time while I was just on a camping/backpacking trip and then I listened to it every night.
Beautiful.
This band has so many great songs. When I realized a couple hours ago that I had never used a Beachwood Sparks song for SSOTD I started listening. I could use so many from this group. Could not recommend higher.
I had never SSOTD'd these guys! This one is slightly outside the normal LD box. It has classic LD elements. It starts off with the short acapella Luke and Sarah singing and then goes into a cacophonous and rhythmic section that as it continues reveals itself to be based on a house music piano line which totally foretells the indie house explosion of 2010 or whatever.
Pretty good but (pushes up glasses) Stars Forever paid for it--an OG DIY Kickstarter fundraiser album. All the songs on the record are "portraits" that Momus wrote on commission to pay for the court fees.
Edit: Before Le Grand Magistry publicly stated the purpose of the album, it was rumored to have been to pay for legal fees by Harvey Keitel suing Momus!
This guy has such a special touch with melody. He's from Burlington, Vermont. He's made a ton of albums of intricate pop with layers of amazing vocals.
I highly recommend both of the albums Is It Happening and I Don't Want To Die
Weird Who song! This song is from their last (kinda) album in 1982. Pete Townsend sings lead, Daltrey plays guitar! It totally shows Phil Glass and funk influences. I love it.
I've always known a couple Squeeze singles throughout the years but I just recently got into this album of theirs from 1979 and its really excellent. It's all over the place in a really cool way: punk, post punk, new wave, pub rock, pop, ska.
this classic song is also on the same album. kinda seems like a different band
This is from a brand new R&B album by this short man with a pompadour that people are really liking and it's pretty good. This track is heavy. Supposedly recording Miguel fucking off inbetween takes of another song (weather of not this is true is questionable, but what they are trying to replicate works really well if you ask me).
Just a somewhat distorted electric guitar being played slowly and a guy improving dirty lyrics. GOOD STUFF
While the 80s were the decade where clean, cold digital production became the norm in pop music. So much of the music is slightly alienating, yet Huey Lewis & the News somehow conveyed a warm. The News is packed with incredible musicians (some with jazz backgrounds) and I've heard them described as the last BAND that was could really shred anything. Huey's voice is incredible to me. I just read a review that referred to it as "unnuanced" and it made me SO MAD. I think Huey's voice is incredible. Nobody makes me feel better than when I put on some Huey. (This is starting to really sound like a Patrick Bateman American Psycho rant)
This song is about Vietnam?
Here's the band doing a cover of The Boys are Back In Town
The Stinky Puffs - Pizza Break/Menendez Killed Their Parents
This is from 1995 and this is a band that consisted of some young people: Simon Fair Timony (Jad Fair's stepson) and Cody Renaldo (Lee Renaldo's son) and then some other adult people (like Krist Novoselic). This is 2 of their songs and its only 1:30 seconds long and it made me do the mashed potato in my kitchen at 9am this morning.
This British 2 piece band who exist in current times make minimal music sorta reminiscent of Young Marble Giants (they get much more minimal than this song) and I always think there is more room for smart, well crafted music of this ilk. I like them.
This guy has one of the weirder more unique voices in hip hop these days. He really is a hook creator but will also rap. I don't really understand how it comes together (autotune to the extreme/weird cracking exasperated voice/sounds like he's not getting all the words out) but this song is great.
This is one of the greatest compositions of the last 100 years. The arrangement is flawless. It proved that Dr. Dre was one of the greatest musicians of the modern era. The low menacing horns, the different voices (Snoop, Kurupt, Nate Dogg) being used perfectly as instruments, the marching staccato guitar line, the starting and stopping tape sounds.
Very Beach Boys circa Pet Sounds.
Incredible.
(The end of the video (last 30 seconds or so) are not on the actual song and aren't quite up to the perfection of the rest)
Today's song comes from a selection from UHX member Joey! Weirdly enough when Joey emailed me I had just been listening to the EP that this song comes from for the first time in my life.
The Minutemen are so powerful. They represent almost everything about music that is important to me and that touched me and changed my life.
Three weird dudes from PEDRO blazing their own trail. D. Boon bouncing around playing their trebliest guitar tone of all time wearing dress shoes. The punks not knowing what to think of these guys playing much more complicated music than they were used to.
George Hurley looking like a weird Greek god with this long blond locks and muscles and muscle shirts.
This song is from their last release Project: Mersh. They set out to make something "commercial" for the first time, and its not really a commercial sounding album and it sold way less than previous stuff of theirs but they just had a different approach in the studio.
Watch the documentary about them. Its called We Jam Econo. It's on Netflix and in fact the whole thing is on YouTube as well.
You might remember them from the Jackass theme song!
I always appreciated that they would (sometimes) pronounce their band name as MY-NOOT-MEN, like minuscule men, tiny men.
It is beautiful to understand that they D. and M. Watt invented their style of playing from scratch, the guitar high and the bass low so they wouldn't get in each other's way. When they started they knew nothing of chords, tuning .... stuff.
Hurley played in a high school jazz band.
You can really hear the (Captain) Beefheart in this one... POLITICS
Sorry. Emo old guy. Just some stuff that got mixed up with the way I've kept busy.
Cass McCombs is hard to get a grip on. He is notoriously aloof. His musical style isn't easy to pin down and has certainly changed over records. He writes incredible songs though.
Originally I thought I would post this earlier song of Cass' that sounds almost too much like a great Smiths/Morrissey song which is used in a cool Jerry Hsu skate vid
Here is Bob Weird (of the Grateful Dead) playing a Cass McCombs song with The National (and some other dudes) as his band which really made me like Weird (& the National) more and is becoming widely regarded as one of the best post Jerry dead events (starts at 4:30)
Back in the day I hosted a house show of C*** M******. I lived in a neighborhood of townhomes, all walls connected to the next house over. M****** played loud in the back yard, which also served as the elderly neighbor's bedroom wall. I apologized to them for the noise the next day (yeahhhh...) and they were like "Oh, we loved it."
I fuggin love Ass McBoobs and I also love Jerry Hsu. Great picks!
He also played a show at the DoS circa 2003 sometime and there were hardly any people at the show and we could only pay him $80 and I felt so bad but it was still a great show.
How To Destroy Angels - Keep It Together (Factory Floor remix)
This is Trent Reznor's new group where a lady sings. Mostly this is about this remix by Factory Floor though. They make great minimalist music of which this example is a pretty dope example of.
Half of White Fang has this other band called The Memories. They are more about the simple love songs about girls and weed than White Fang. I get the impression that most of these songs were written while hungover the day after White Fang shows. Good stuff!
Oh geez. It happened again. 30 more quality UrHo SSOTDs have been collected together and uploaded to the internet for you to download! It's UrHo Secret Song of the Day Volume 17 https://rapidshare.com/files/2565106920/SSOTD17.zip
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Whoa... Wild Flag? I did not know! Thx!!!
Beachwood Sparks - Forget the Song
Video:
This is from this great band's new album which just came out (first release in 10 years)
This is one of the first videos I ever watched on the internet. I remember watching it in the computer lab at Lewis & Clark college in like 98 or 99 and it really bent my mind that these dudes were from LA and this was in some LA backyard. It was such a vibe switch from what I associated with LA music (living there from 92-96 and the summers after that). Los Angeles, and the music world in general, was not interested in Gram Parsons or soft focus in 1998, everything was intense and brash and big and dissonant. These guys totally pre-dated everyone in the next decade plus who came to a sound like this, and these guys did it better than anyone since.
This band put out 2 great albums and 1 great EP between 99 and 02 and then broke up. They just put out their first new record since then and I listened to it for the first time while I was just on a camping/backpacking trip and then I listened to it every night.
Beautiful.
This band has so many great songs. When I realized a couple hours ago that I had never used a Beachwood Sparks song for SSOTD I started listening. I could use so many from this group. Could not recommend higher.
Lucky Dragons - I Keep Waiting for Earthquakes
I had never SSOTD'd these guys!
This one is slightly outside the normal LD box. It has classic LD elements. It starts off with the short acapella Luke and Sarah singing and then goes into a cacophonous and rhythmic section that as it continues reveals itself to be based on a house music piano line which totally foretells the indie house explosion of 2010 or whatever.
Wendy Carlos - Rocky Mountains
The great and humorless (see the lawsuit section) Wendy Carlos from The Shining soundtrack.
Edit: Before Le Grand Magistry publicly stated the purpose of the album, it was rumored to have been to pay for legal fees by Harvey Keitel suing Momus!
Grovesnor - Nitemoves
Rob Smoughton is into smooth. This song is from 2009.
Ryan Power - I Don't Care
This guy has such a special touch with melody. He's from Burlington, Vermont. He's made a ton of albums of intricate pop with layers of amazing vocals.
I highly recommend both of the albums Is It Happening and I Don't Want To Die
The Who - Eminence Front
Weird Who song! This song is from their last (kinda) album in 1982. Pete Townsend sings lead, Daltrey plays guitar! It totally shows Phil Glass and funk influences. I love it.
They used to show this video on MTV all the time
Squeeze - Cool for Cats
I've always known a couple Squeeze singles throughout the years but I just recently got into this album of theirs from 1979 and its really excellent. It's all over the place in a really cool way: punk, post punk, new wave, pub rock, pop, ska.
this classic song is also on the same album. kinda seems like a different band
Steely Dan - Hey Nineteen
This is the least punk music ever recorded. Session musicians singing about how cocaine makes it "tonight a wonderful thing."
So smooth. It feels so god and bad.
It's about how tequila and coke can smooth over an awkward lack of conversation between older hipsters and nineteen year-old dates.
Actually, maybe dark enough to come out punk....
I stand by 'funkyass mod'.
Miguel - Pussy Is Mine
This is from a brand new R&B album by this short man with a pompadour that people are really liking and it's pretty good.
This track is heavy. Supposedly recording Miguel fucking off inbetween takes of another song (weather of not this is true is questionable, but what they are trying to replicate works really well if you ask me).
Just a somewhat distorted electric guitar being played slowly and a guy improving dirty lyrics. GOOD STUFF
Huey Lewis & The News - Walking on a Thin Line
While the 80s were the decade where clean, cold digital production became the norm in pop music. So much of the music is slightly alienating, yet Huey Lewis & the News somehow conveyed a warm. The News is packed with incredible musicians (some with jazz backgrounds) and I've heard them described as the last BAND that was could really shred anything. Huey's voice is incredible to me. I just read a review that referred to it as "unnuanced" and it made me SO MAD. I think Huey's voice is incredible. Nobody makes me feel better than when I put on some Huey. (This is starting to really sound like a Patrick Bateman American Psycho rant)
This song is about Vietnam?
Here's the band doing a cover of The Boys are Back In Town
The Stinky Puffs - Pizza Break/Menendez Killed Their Parents
This is from 1995 and this is a band that consisted of some young people: Simon Fair Timony (Jad Fair's stepson) and Cody Renaldo (Lee Renaldo's son) and then some other adult people (like Krist Novoselic). This is 2 of their songs and its only 1:30 seconds long and it made me do the mashed potato in my kitchen at 9am this morning.
Sorry no YouTubes! Click here to listen to it:
http://ssotd.tumblr.com/#34242854600
Prinzhorn Dance School - I Want You
This British 2 piece band who exist in current times make minimal music sorta reminiscent of Young Marble Giants (they get much more minimal than this song) and I always think there is more room for smart, well crafted music of this ilk. I like them.
The Temptations - Everything Is Going To Be Alright (Live)
Live in London in 1970
(kinda crummy youtube quality)
Jerry Garcia - Love Scene From Zabriskie Point Improvisation 2
Future - Turn On The Lights
This guy has one of the weirder more unique voices in hip hop these days. He really is a hook creator but will also rap. I don't really understand how it comes together (autotune to the extreme/weird cracking exasperated voice/sounds like he's not getting all the words out) but this song is great.
Total kitchen dance jam.
Dr. Dre - The Next Episode
This is one of the greatest compositions of the last 100 years. The arrangement is flawless. It proved that Dr. Dre was one of the greatest musicians of the modern era. The low menacing horns, the different voices (Snoop, Kurupt, Nate Dogg) being used perfectly as instruments, the marching staccato guitar line, the starting and stopping tape sounds.
Very Beach Boys circa Pet Sounds.
Incredible.
(The end of the video (last 30 seconds or so) are not on the actual song and aren't quite up to the perfection of the rest)
Minutemen - Take Our Test
Today's song comes from a selection from UHX member Joey! Weirdly enough when Joey emailed me I had just been listening to the EP that this song comes from for the first time in my life.
The Minutemen are so powerful. They represent almost everything about music that is important to me and that touched me and changed my life.
Three weird dudes from PEDRO blazing their own trail. D. Boon bouncing around playing their trebliest guitar tone of all time wearing dress shoes. The punks not knowing what to think of these guys playing much more complicated music than they were used to.
George Hurley looking like a weird Greek god with this long blond locks and muscles and muscle shirts.
This song is from their last release Project: Mersh. They set out to make something "commercial" for the first time, and its not really a commercial sounding album and it sold way less than previous stuff of theirs but they just had a different approach in the studio.
Watch the documentary about them. Its called We Jam Econo. It's on Netflix and in fact the whole thing is on YouTube as well.
You might remember them from the Jackass theme song!
"We were fucking corndogs"
So uncool.
Tears again.
Stupid white vans. Stupid highways.
It is beautiful to understand that they D. and M. Watt invented their style of playing from scratch, the guitar high and the bass low so they wouldn't get in each other's way. When they started they knew nothing of chords, tuning .... stuff.
Hurley played in a high school jazz band.
You can really hear the (Captain) Beefheart in this one... POLITICS
Sorry. Emo old guy. Just some stuff that got mixed up with the way I've kept busy.
Losers.
Marvin Gaye - Distant Lover
Beautiful sadness.
great live version
Cass McCombs - County Line
Cass McCombs is hard to get a grip on. He is notoriously aloof. His musical style isn't easy to pin down and has certainly changed over records. He writes incredible songs though.
Originally I thought I would post this earlier song of Cass' that sounds almost too much like a great Smiths/Morrissey song
which is used in a cool Jerry Hsu skate vid
Here is Bob Weird (of the Grateful Dead) playing a Cass McCombs song with The National (and some other dudes) as his band which really made me like Weird (& the National) more and is becoming widely regarded as one of the best post Jerry dead events (starts at 4:30)
He also played a show at the DoS circa 2003 sometime and there were hardly any people at the show and we could only pay him $80 and I felt so bad but it was still a great show.
Amerie - 1 Thing
Remember this song?
2005
Just SLAMMING!
So perfect.
Never forget.
Produced by Rich Harrison (who also did songs for Beyonce like "Crazy in Love" and "Freakum Dress").
How To Destroy Angels - Keep It Together (Factory Floor remix)
This is Trent Reznor's new group where a lady sings. Mostly this is about this remix by Factory Floor though. They make great minimalist music of which this example is a pretty dope example of.
http://soundcloud.com/howtodestroyangels/keep-it-together-factory-floor
The Memories - I Remember You
Half of White Fang has this other band called The Memories. They are more about the simple love songs about girls and weed than White Fang. I get the impression that most of these songs were written while hungover the day after White Fang shows. Good stuff!
It happened again.
30 more quality UrHo SSOTDs have been collected together and uploaded to the internet for you to download!
It's UrHo Secret Song of the Day Volume 17
https://rapidshare.com/files/2565106920/SSOTD17.zip
Boom! Get it!