]---=============[12/31/1999]=[ apocorific
The grinding of ones and zeros in alternating patterns, passing over the landscape with huge shadows of reverberating rhythm. It's my soundtrack to Y2K! This should tide you over until Monday, or until the end of the world. Whichever comes first.
Rock
Built to Spill - Kicked It In the Sun
"It was all that you could do, how could you refuse?"
Punk rock
Millencolin - Lights Out
"All those days are gone / and I can't find the path that I should follow."
Post rock
Paul Newman - And White
Somehow the mellow ringing and counter-tracking echo the end of something that
shouldn't matter.
Classical
Antonín Dvorák - Symphony No. 9 in E minor
I
II
III
IV
Couldn't decide. Movement I or movement III? Here's the whole thing if you
don't have it.
Slint gets their own category
Slint - Nosferatu Man
"I can be settled down, be doing just fine - until I hear that old train, pulling down the line."
Post irony
Trans Am - City In Flames
Techno blast-o-matic riffs slimmed with incomprehensible voices.
Grind rock
Tar - Carpal Tunnel Season
"I've been decieved, and I've been between. Well, I don't know what it means, I
don't care what it means. (to be)"
Wimp rock
Low - Soon
"Soon, it will be over."
Rock
Arcwelder - And Then Again
"This is a dream, this is a lie. For what it seems, why did we try? If you
were here, would you get by? If you didn't see then I didn't cry."
Post Slint:
Aerial M - Lay
"Play something, something. Somehow something plays."
Note: If you just browsed the entire playlist but did not download anything due to time or bandwidth constraints, do your ears a favor and nab that last minimal
Lay. It is 2.6 megabytes but 5:20 long thanks to the march of technology. Far and away the best track I discovered all year, it sums up one's swirling doubts and dreams into a simple hum.
]---=============[12/30/1999]=[ musical rock
Sneaking up on the disc pile are
nasty noise-sludge sound canvassers
Craw.
Picture if David Yow did spoken word for Iceburn and started writing vague,
analogy-ridden lyrics dealing with everything from religious elitism to the
problems raised by genetic science. Yes, rock can make you think.
You can't picture it because I can't describe it accurately.
The rather self-reflexive
Rip and Read can be heard in RealAudio
for a taste...
...PR designed to add shot and thermal noise to the clean signal / through the
envelope detector / wait I think I've got it all / quantizing the noise / utilizing
the threshold effect / here it is / the source is in obviously a deep-cover
contact / canned by Carter relocated off-shore / fed a false positive to the media
darling / perfect parroting the proper diversion
...
what we need is more man-made noise
this marks the new era
bury the signal underneath the noise
Whew. Feel enlightened about the state of mass media communication?
]---=============[12/30/1999]=[ chicken whittle
Gary North: Y2K Madman
[beaulijuice or something, pigdog]
Be sure to stop by
the archives,
where Gary warns of the exodus of us programmer folk in 1999.
Yes, we should have all run for the hills. If you are reading this web
page right now, that means you are too close to a PC. Flee,
flee! Flee while you still have legs that know the correct date.
]---=============[12/27/1999]=[ music?
Super US Maple article in Copper Press
pointed out thanks to
TWIN's
gigantic indie article log.
If you think you are at all adventurous in the musical circuit, you your
brain and ears a favor: pick up Talker.
]---====================[end]=[
Continue wasting your time in the archives, or head out to the last 50 updated pitas for fresh stuffing.
I'll get a real blog off the ground soon. Until then, thanks to the wonder-full folk of Pitas.com for hosting my old-fashioned link-list!
'---=========================='