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Like everyone else, we've got some musical opinions and some songs just hook us and pull us in and we play them over and over again. For the past four years or so, Julie Lawrence and I have been the catalysts for this. Previously, others were in the mix.
In our old office, it took only the initial swooping bleeps of Placebo's "Peeping Tom" to get Pablo Doro and Mike Brenner saying, "turn it up," and Zach Karpinski sending an approval via AIM from the office next door.
Clem Snide's "Your Favorite Music" got a lot of play back then, too, but nothing like Placebo.
Later, in the new digs, I'd say, "we haven't heard this in a while" (in an ironic tone) before cueing up The Decemberists' "Picaresque," usually skipping over the first track, "The Infanta," although I'm not sure why. Death Cab's "Plans" also was in heavy, heavy rotation.
Next it was Phoenix's "It's Never Been Like That," which at just under 37 minutes cycled over and over again for days at a time.
Even shorter and therefore cycled even more frequently was The Sounds' "Dying to Say This To You."
But none of it could beat M.I.A.'s "Arular," which led me to attempt to do megamixes in iTunes, much to the amusement - and perhaps later, dismay, and then concern - of my co-workers. If one could wear out an mp3, we'd have done it with the 12 of them that form "Arular."
When it came to The Handsome Family, we rarely rocked the entire "Last Days of Wonder," preferring to focus on "After We Shot the Grizzly," with its "Lost"-like lyrics of survival.
We played Maximo Park's "Our Earthly Pleasures" quite a bit, too, but I fear that era was the start of ear buds starting to take over in the office and now, more than in the past, we often are lost in our own musical worlds many days.
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Posted by Molly Snyder Edler on May 5, 2009 at 3:11 p.m. (report)
Joanna Newsom always reminds me of working with Julie. Bobby, back when it was just you and I, I remember listening to Mitch Hedberg's comedy routines more than anything else.
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Posted by FunkyBrewster on May 5, 2009 at 1:07 p.m. (report)
Buenos Tardes Amigo! Cinco De Mayo IS on Tuesday! Buenos Tardes Amigo by Ween off the album Chocolate & Cheese Perfect song for today! Download it! Cause Cinco De Mayo IS on Tuesday! It goes like this Buenas tardes amigo Hola, my good friend Cinco de Mayo's on Tuesday And I hoped we'd see each other again You killed my brother last winter You shot him three times in the back In the night I still hear mama weeping Oh mama, still dresses in black I looked at every fiesta For you I wanted to greet Maybe I'd sell you a chicken With poison interlaced with the meat You... you look like my brother Mama loved him the best He was head honcho with the ladies Mama always said he was blessed The village all gathered around him They couldn't believe what they saw I said it was you that had killed him And that I'd find you and upstand the law The people of the village believed me Mama... she wanted revenge I told her I'd see that she was honored I'd find you and put you to death So now... now that I've found you On this such a joyous day I tell you it was me who killed him But the truth I'll nevver have to say Buenas tardes amigo Hola, my good friend Cinco de Mayo's on Tuesday And I hoped we'd see each other again
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Posted by Broner on May 5, 2009 at 12:11 p.m. (report)
Sprinkle in a little of Slayer's Dead Skin Mask and your toes will be tappin'
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Posted by FunkyBrewster on May 5, 2009 at 10:26 a.m. (report)
Is there anything out there beyond the Rolling Stone Pitchfork 1, 2 punch?
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