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Nine Inch Nails - Vessel (Creep Mix)
from remix.nin.com: Highest Rated Overall
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Apartment - No. 5
from The Girl Is Not Right (2002)
“When critics write that a band “defies categorization,” it usually just means that the string of hyphens would be too ugly. The Chicago sextet apartment fleshes out lyricist Caila Lipovsky’s literary scatological and sexual texts and keyboardist Christine Heinisch’s new-wave cabaret ditties with guitar, cello, drums, and a tuba for a fractured, theatrical, and sometimes sinister (but not goth) stew of strident witty art punk.” - Monica Kendrick, Chicago Reader
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from YoYoYoYoYoYo
“Sweet Talk” is two tunes in one, both of them utterly, unbelievably fly, which combine together into something sublime. First up is hardest, punkiest, most pummelling funk jam you’ve heard, all floor-shaking bass and jagged guitar licks, with Naeem Juwan spitting lyrics with all the geek-grandeur of a true contender: “Fuck you up like a Percocet/ Make you feel good.” With his backing singers, the Typical Girls hollering and a-wailing Mr Juwan testifies. Then, just when you think it can get no better, the bass and guitar drops out, a vibraphone riffs in and the Typical Girls sing the sweetest, most euphoric coda you could possibly hope for, a true goofy-grin moment, as anyone who has seen Spank Rock live can testify.
Ani DiFranco - Kazoointoit
from Reveling / Reckoning (2001)
An atypical collection of kazoos, voicemail samples, loops and effects-laiden vocals combined with a typically astute analysis of life in the United States.
I love us both but I don’t feel good
So I keep pulling over
And looking under the hood
I love us both but I’m at wit’s end
Where does your compromise begin and mine end?
I love us both but what
World’s it gonna be?
The one according to you
Or the one according to me?
I don’t feel good so …
Now do my problems include talks with doctors
Who don’t even understand about food?
I think in ancient china they kinda figured out how the body works
But our culture is just a roughneck
Teenage jerk
With a bottle of pills
And a bottle of booze
And a full round of ammunition
And nothing to lose
And is it really the best we can do
To arm wrestle over whose world it’s gonna be?
(the one according to you
Or the one according to me)
I love us both and I’ll see ya
If you’ll see me
So … who are we?
Beastie Boys - Finger Lickin Good
from Check Your Head
As great as Paul’s Boutique was, both for the band and for hip hop, I think Check Your Head was the first record that painted an accurate picture of the Beasties. It showed us what they were capable of. Their DIY/punk aesthetic came through for the first time. And it was just all over the place. It’s the record that solidified their status as an anomaly, and for reasons that go far beyond the color of their skin. As was also true of Public Enemy, the entirety of their influences and their output was just so different from everything else that it couldn’t help but influence the next 20 years of music.
For more about Check Your Head, consult your local library. Or just grab the band’s full-album audio commentary here.
The Juliana Hatfield Three - President Garfield
from Become What You Are
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Illy B (Medesky, Martin and Wood), Jennifer Charles (Elysian Fields), Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto), Chris Wood (Medesky, Martin and Wood), Phaedra - Double Game
The pedigree will make you click play. The groove will make you click play again.
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Pigface - Midi Junkies… Don’t Smoke Carl Crack
from 8 Bit Head: Complete Remix of Easy Listening + Other Stuff
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Solex - Cayenne
from Low Kick And Hard Bop
I could listen to Elisabeth Esselink all day long. And I sometimes do. She creates cohesive, organic sounding sample-based music that’s somehow accessible while remaining thoroughly off the wall.
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Barry White - Midnight And You
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The B-52’s - Wig
What’s that on your head? A wig!
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A.O.S - History Repeats Itself
from Natural Born Killers soundtrack
According to last.fm:
“sung by Fay Lovsky, with the composition credited to Buhlert/K/Lovsky/Wilbrandt
this is a piece of stock music that Trent Reznor apparently licensed for use on the Natural Born Killers soundtrack. It has never been made available commercially, other than on this soundtrack. This track is very uncharacteristic of the rest of Faye Lovsky’s material.”
I always wondered why this song seemed to live in a vacuum. Props to Reznor for surfacing it on the brilliant and eclectic NBK soundtrack.
