Killer Buds' Pick of the Week

Old Year Mix

senordustin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:24:43 +0000

Here’s a mix I made. Sounds like a good one to do drugs to, though I don’t touch ‘em. Works for video games. Mainly I recommend headphones. That’s why I call it the ’07 Headphones Mix. Oh, all of the songs are either new releases last year or from albums reissued last year. (Lee Perry, Bruce Haack, Der Plan, and Lubomyr Melnyk are the reissued songs.) Try this to download:

http://rapidshare.com/files/80610553/VA__07_Headphones_Mix.rar.html

senordustin — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:01:13 +0000

I’m sure there is lots about this out there. You can find it as easily as I can. 1962. Recorded very near the recording of Duke’s “Money Jungle”. Very classy, but not boring. The two play off of one another really well. The first track may be favorite. If you’ve not heard Coltrane, this is a good first. I’ve not heard much Ellington, but I’d like to. Any fans out there want to recommend some records?

Also, everyone feel free to make a pick whenever you feel inspired. I like this, and I hope people will jump in. If not, I’ll keep picking. Only one rule: Try to give each album one week from the posted date.

satan’s joystick – halloween parade: 2nd grade

brian — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:31:07 +0000

i thought there would be like 100 halloween albums, but it turns out there are only a few. frank zappa has a live album called halloween. fight claims that oingo boingo made a halloween record, but i can’t find any evidence online. sonic youth had a halloween single featuring the song halloween. liars made a record about witches, but it never specifically mentions halloween. and dave matthews, the dead kennedys, the misfits and the young werewolves all recorded songs called halloween. actually my search was too narrow. but i don’t want to list halloween songs (except to mention this song by the shaggs called it’s halloween, the best halloween song there is), i want to introduce the freshest, coolest halloween record hitting the airwaves this year: satan’s joystick’s halloween parade: 2nd grade.

i was going to have the cover of the record be the next thing on this blog, but i can’t load the picture. you can check it out here.

not much is known about brian and gavin spy. supposedly their house is haunted by their old landlord. here’s a message the ghost left on their computer while they were recording this record:

They eat your flesh
But do they tatse the meat
It is only blood
Or is….
Zombie eat
Zombies eat
Zombies eat your meat

creepy.

Daniel Johnston – Yip/Jump Music: Summer 1983

fightingskulls — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:05:39 +0000

this is the 5th self-released music cassette album by Daniel Johnston. the best way to learn about Daniel Johnston is by listening to his songs. Or you can get a good idea about the guy from watching the documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. but since this is Album of the week and not Movie of the week you should listen to Yip/Jump Music: Summer 1983. i really like the art work too. website has some info and more art.

Ray Charles – Modern Sounds in Country and Western

clif — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:19:03 +0000

I’m going to be too lazy to go very in-depth with this one. Here’s what I know: Once he made a name for himself, he signed a contract with ABC Paramount that included a full artistic freedom clause. He used that freedom to produce this album, despite the fears of label executives that a genre cross-over would fail. From what I’m hearing while I write this, those fears were unwarranted. This is less a blending of two genres than it is a straight R & B record using songs that had previously been recorded as country. The lyrics and song structures for the songs chosen (and probably most country songs at the time [and now, probably]) seem pretty easily transferrable from one style to another. Here’s what this guy has to say about it.

Laurie Anderson – Big Science

senordustin — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:48:12 +0000

I don’t know a lot about this album, except that I remember hearing O Superman years ago. Lately, it’s become one of those recurring references. Even before I heard that it was being rereleased, it seems like I kept hearing and reading her name and especially O Superman. The song seems to have been given new significance since the September 11 attacks. (It’s Sept 11 as I write this and that had nothing to do with my choosing Big Science. But interesting anyway.) Laurie Anderson herself seems like quite a piece of work.

“One of her most-cited performances, Duets on Ice, which she conducted in New York and other cities around the world, involved her playing violin along with a recording while wearing ice skates with the blades frozen into a block of ice; the performance ended only when the ice had melted away.”

Not bad. I guess before Big Science she was known mainly for her performance art. According to wiki, Big Science is musical segments from an 8-hour performance piece called United States Live. Hmm…, I think I’ll stick to the 60 minute album.

I searched for her on you tube, but didn’t find anything I wanted to post here. O Superman might be the best song you’ve ever heard. I hope the rest of this is just as good.

Nina Nastasia – The Blackened Air

Whitney — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:59:16 +0000

So I haven’t listened to this album at all yet. I haven’t really listened to any of her stuff all that much. But I like her voice. I guess that’s all there is to say, really. Oh yeah, she’s cool looking, I think:

Anyway, pretty basic contemporary indie-folk pick (which is a kind of music I’ve really liked this past little while). I hope it works out.

ooooooh baby

senordustin — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:35:51 +0000

My girlfriend’s sister asked me to dj her wedding. It sounds like fun, but I’m looking at my list, and getting a little worried. Even at its most upbeat, the music I like tends be to be pretty melancholy. I need everyone to help me with this. Try to come up with a few songs that would be good for a wedding. I especially want some happy, danceable suggestions. I know you were thinking Livin Thing, but you’re too late. I already picked that one.

Thanks buds.

jim o’rourke eureka

fightingskulls — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:13:25 +0000

if you haven’t heard of Jim O’Rourke then you haven’t been paying attention. Apparently he won a Grammy for producing Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. He also joined Sonic Youth on a few albums and eps. Oh yeah and he scored the movie Love Liza. i like that movie. Eureka, released by Drag City in 1999 was named after the 1984 Nicolas Roeg film of the same name. he named 3 more of his albums after Roeg films. you can read pitchforkmedia’s stupid review here. but don’t base your opinion on that idiots review. listen for yourself. i like this album a lot, but it is kind of all over the place. it’s both beautiful and strange.

david bowie – station to station

brian — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:35:21 +0000

how many records did david bowie make in the seventies? eleven. and how many of them are totally awesome? i would say all of them except pin ups which is just a record of covers. many of us have the disadvantage of not being alive in the seventies, so we’ll never know the feeling of hitching a ride downtown on the trolley, stopping by the local record store, picking up the new david bowie record and then riding all the way back home before listening to it on our hi-fi systems. but i prefer now. since we now have instant access to almost all music ever recorded, we don’t have to wait for the next mind-blowing david bowie record, the record finds us when we’re ready for it.

station to station falls right after young americans but just before the berlin trilogy (low, “heroes” and lodger). due to a diet of red peppers, milk and cocaine, bowie doesn’t remember anything about recording this record. supposedly bowie had spent the year in a drug-terror sharing his home with egyptian artifacts, having his semen stolen by witches and receiving secret and possibly satanic messages from the rolling stones.