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For all you science buffs out there, check out how this guy uses fire to create a music visualizer. I thought it was really cool how you could see the sine waves when he output the specific frequencies.
Read MoreShamelessly stolen from Lifehacker:
It’s for Mac’s only (haven’t found a suitable Windows solution yet either…), but this line of terminal code will do the trick:
Read Moredefaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE
Here are a few albums from 2008 that I particularly enjoyed. I have a hard time talking about music, so my descriptions will be for the most part, useless. To one-up Rob, I threw in some listenable tracks. Booyah!
(Formatting this post was a bitch. Please excuse its slovenly appearance.)
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes : I really can’t say enough good things about this album. That’s all I have to say about this one. Seriously though, this is quickly becoming one of my favorite albums ever. No joke.
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Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago : This album is so goddamn sad. It’s also a really great Winter album. It should be, seeing as their name is literally “good winter”.
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The Magnetic Fields – Distortion : I have a soft spot for these guys. I’m not really sure I can articulate why. They write very simple songs. I think that appeals to me.
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The Mountain Goats – Heretic Pride : It’s The Mountain Goats! The same band you know and love back for another installment. I haven’t listened to this album as closely as some of their others, but I’m convinced of its quality.
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Why? – Alopecia : This and Fleet Foxes tie for my favorite album this year. Why? is all about the lyrics, which are inventive, illustrative, and sometimes offensive. This album requires some attention to appreciate fully.
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Read MoreSo I figured it’d be a cool idea to have a list of some albums that we’ve all listened to this year. Not necessarily a Top 10 list or anything of the like, just a list of some of the music that my fellow Juicers have been gettin’ their swerve on to.
Try to follow the format…or expand if you’d like.
I (Rob) listened to:
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend : I got made fun of this during the Mayercraft Carrier (Adam I’m looking at you 
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Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes: I have a funny feeling this might be on a lot of our lists. This album is absolutely fantastic. ”White Winter Hymnal” in particular has been (as I just told Eric) my “Winter Jam”. I’m digging this renaissance of folk-type music, partly because one, the songs actually tell good stories (Silver Jew’s new album almost falls into the category for this reason, but I wouldn’t really consider them Folky), and two, they’re folk songs that I can actually listen to repeatedly.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! : I won’t lie, I just started listening to this about a month ago, and as I’ve Juiced about before, I’ve been digging Nick Cave as of late. His music comes off as a weird mix of Johnny Cash and Tom Waits (more of the latter than the former really), and is just as good as either of them.
David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today : I poked fun at Adam before, but I have to thank him for being the one to introduce me to the music of David Byrne (his solo stuff, not necessarily the Talking Heads). I haven’t listened to much of Brian Eno’s stuff (although I’ve listened to some of the album’s he’s been part of producing), but I really really like this album. I just like David Byrne’s voice in general, it has a really nice eerie quality to it. Combined with Eno’s “beats” if you will, they make a perfect audio combination.
Q-Tip – The Renaissance : Not so well known of a fact; I LOVE A Tribe Called Quest. I would love nothing more than if they got back together and just starting churning out albums again. Until THAT happens though, I am A-OK with albums from Q-Tip if they are of this quality. This album seriously sounds like what a modern Tribe album would sound like. It’s an awesome mix of jazz, hip hop, R&B, and soul.
So that’s five albums from me (in no particular order, mind you), that I really liked this year. I will say that I’m not claiming myself as some sort of accomplished music-reviewer, I’m just listing what I really liked to listen to this year.
So Juice the Blog, what’d you listen to this year?
(Either edit this post to follow up, or create new posts…or hit up the comments)
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Eric and I saw Iron & Wine last night. I don’t know if any of you guys listen to that shit, but it is literally, and figuratively unreal. I managed to find a live recording of them and its a rather accurate depiction of what we experienced last night. Watch it here. If you guys don’t have time to watch it, I highly suggest letting it play in the background of all your other firefox and/or safari windows as you listen to its beautiful eloquence.
And for those of you who have never even listened to Iron & Wine at all, I would say to you this :
Buy the album Sheperd’s Dog. It’s one of the best album’s I’ve heard in I want to say 5 years. I kid you not. Also, here’s a link to buy it ! Everyone have a great day and enjoy the music.
Read MoreThis is a really awesome Why? song about dying. It’s called Light Leaves. Sorry I couldn’t find a better version.
Read along with the lyrics, if you will:
WOOOO! (not actually part of song)
Each of these old light leaves is dirt
Barely held together by tiny bone hands that used to be alive,
Holding hands, loose gripped
at the deja vu dream scene end
of a lifelong relationship.
These light leaves is my hair on the bathroom floor.
My smaller selves down the sewer somewhere
under Berkeley, Cincinnati, or on tour
(Airplane rear and hotel lobby ladies’ rooms beware)
Is these leave leaves bagged up in plastic,
never to decompose or fertilize.
When my balls are finally big enough to do it
I don’t want no casket
no saddle
no see-through plastic mask.
And when I finally do it,
I want to do the dirt like the dead leaves do.
And if you do leave the Earth
when the Earth leaves you
cold and hard as a marble table top
with nothing on top
there’s no hip hip hop hurray
heaping heaven golden bone gateway,
no bright confetti high-step march tickertape parade.
There’s no mound of clouds to lounge on.
Hey guys, just curious what everyone has been listening to recently. I feel my music library is starting to stagnate a bit and I would love to hear what you guys have been grooving out to. Leave it as a comment.
Thanks dudes, perhaps we can all spice up our tunes with everyone’s recommendations.
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