Coachella 2008

Today, you are in for a treat, unless you don't like it. Instead of blogging about an album, today I am going to blog about a playlist, specifically about a playlist of artists that I got from another blog. The list is full of artists who played at Coachella this year, and then it also has some other songs in it that I acquired independently. Because the list is going to be longer, it will have shorter opinions on each song. I guess I might rate each song, according to a scale which I will devise here.

The scale goes all the way up to 'kitties'. Starting at the bottom:
corn - nobody likes corn. Bleh.
mud gum. pretty awful but maybe funny if it doesn't happen to you.
cut grass. Kind of pleasant in its own way but not really worth writing home about.
clouds - even though they don't really do anything but rain on you, they still look pretty neat.
Squirt soda - pretty tasty and apparently truckers like to mix tequila with it.
Quarters - they're pretty shiny and useful for lots of things.
that metal hand sign with the horns - heck yes! now we're talking.
kitties - adorable and a little dangerous.

Now for the songs:
Aphex Twin - "Avril 14th" - kind of a lame title but a decent song - Squirt soda.
Black Kids - "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance (Remix)" - fun but kind of obnoxious and snotty. Maybe even pretentious for what it is. - cut grass.
Breeders - "Bang On" - remind me to put "Cannonball" in here instead - mud gum
Brett Dennen - "Ain't No Reason" - not bad, but I can't see giving it a strong rating - clouds.
Carbon / Silicon - "Total Fucking Madness" - a little monotonous but still kind of fun. - Squirt Soda.
Tokyo Police Club - "Tessellate (Remix)" - a whole album of this would be too much but pretty good - Quarters.
Cafe Tacuba - "Volver a Comenzar" - kind of long but pretty fun, good energy - Quarters.
Cold War Kids - "Red Wine, Success!" - not my favorite CWK song but still good - metal hand.
Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip - "Thou Shalt Always Kill" - nice rhythm but I hate name-dropping in songs - cut grass.
Parts & Labor - "Fractured Skies" - pretty wicked stuff here, with horns! - kitties.
Devotchka - "Transliterator" - yeah, I'm biased. This song is delightful. - kitties.
Goldfrapp - "A&E" - nice but kind of unaffecting. -clouds.
Islands - "Creeper" - fun but ultimately kind of shallow - clouds
Hot Chip - "Shake It Over and Over" - you go right ahead and shake it. -mud gum
Holy F**k - "Lovely Allen" - okay, i guess, but people get excited about this? - cut grass
Heavy Stereo - "Bangers and Mash" - obnoxious in a good way, but i have my limits. - Squirt soda.
Iron & Wine - "Boy With a Coin" - yeah, I could get into this. -metal hand.
Justice - "D.A.N.C.E. (remix)" - not so much. I'd rather S.I.T. on my A.S.S. - mud gum
St. Etienne - "Goodnight" - cheesy but it appeals to me for some reason - Squirt soda.
Low - "Murderer" - oh, i like this song. i don't love it, but i like it. -quarters.
Longwave - "Sirens in the Deep Sea" - my guilty pleasure on this list. -metal hand
Stars - "My Radio (remix)" - sounds like Stars, which isn't bad. - Squirt soda.
Les Savy Fav - "The Sweat Descends" - driving and ominous, pretty good stuff. - metal hand
Murs - "Better Than The Rest" - not so bad, but sampling is generally not so clever. - clouds
Rogue Wave - "Lake Michigan" - okay, I guess, but I have a hard time putting it in the upper tiers of my scale. - Squirt soda
Sia - "Sunday" - I can't remember what this sounds like, so I'll go with - cut grass.
My Morning Jacket - "The Way That He Sings" - now we're talking. - metal hand
The National - "Boxer" - I wanted to end with something I liked. And I like this song lots. - kitties

Well that's enough for one day. Feel free to disagree with me, or don't.

In other news:
Time to get some more music.

The weekend was nice but I need more sleep, as usual.