Big Sound
- By Brandon W. Fletcher
- Published 03/7/2010
I was driving to a friends house earlier tonight when I threw a random playlist from my iPod on. I don't know if you have the same experiences shuffling music as I do but sometimes the songs aren't that great and don't seem to flow, and sometimes it's like my iPod can read my mind. The music was consecutively good and, as I drove, I thought about the last time I even wrote a listed music post (who's even counting?).It got me to thinking maybe I'd post the first 10 random songs my iPod plays, I'm kinda hoping you might post some back. A top-10-you-sorta-hafta-live-with-whether-you-want-to-or-not deal, maybe we can share some music and make some big sound.
- Fear of Tigers - Friday Night at Geek Club
- This was a good start, I only just got this album the other day though someone recommended it to me a while back. Best part, Fear of Tigers themselves put the whole album up for a free download off megaupload.
- Kris Menace & Fred Falke - Enamoured
- Sort of works with the first track, a bit housey but both make me long for summer months. I have a weird association with the Kris Menace triple CD release from last year. A bunch of us were camping out by Merritt, BC right before the West Kelowna fires started last year and long story short, trapped, it took me 7½ hours to get home as tracks from this album kept coming on. Solid release if you're into this genre.
- TOBACCO - Little Pink Riding Hood
- The album "Fucked Up Friends" was recommended to me by iTunes and an impulse buy. Luckily I've fallen in love with this album. I hear this is a solo project by someone in Black Moth Super Rainbow which is another band I guess have to check out.
- Tiga - Beep Beep Beep
- Tiga is classy, sultry and a little bit decadent for electronic music... this was a happy surprise.
- The Raveonettes - Twilight
- I love The Raveonettes and I have most of the old Twilight Zone episodes from the 1950's/60's, so while this may not be my favourite song of theirs, it's definitely not their worst.
- Wave Machines - Over and Over
- Don't know what to say about Wave Machines other than I love this whole album.
- Penguin Prison - Animal Animal
- Okay, this one was kind of a lie and I'm already breaking my own rules about sticking to the 10... this was actually the Penguin Prison remix of 'I Am Not a Robot' by Marina & The Diamonds. Marina—who by the way is fantastic—originals are great and in some cases the remixes take away from the song. I even meant to delete this particular one and thought I had… anyway, a Penguin Prison original like 'Animal Animal' would also have been an acceptable answer in this spot.
- Bombay Bicycle Club - Dust On the Ground
- Refer to Wave Machines write up.
- We Have Band - Time After Time
- Brought to my attention thanks to the hard work from everyone at Kitsuné Maison.
- Neon Indian - Terminally Chill
- Neon Indian. If you haven't already heard of them, you really should have already heard of them.
Brandon W. Fletcher
Brandon is the Creative Director at Habitat. This basically means makes a lot of the pretty pictures, videos, marketing or promotional materials you see in real life or on the internets. You can find him on Facebook, Twitter and Faked Potatoes where he lives vicariously through himself and the internets.
