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I so hope those wise words from Gwar were in fact delivered at the kids stage – they still have that right, the kids stage? And Gwar definitely made an appearance there, yes? 
King Crimson! Digging deep, I like it.
Okay, I’ll admit it, I was never ‘not’ going to listen, and so I did, by clicking the obligatory small forward arrow button for PLAY – and I liked what I heard – A LOT – and then it seemed to just keep looping on forever and when I finally clicked that button again to pause, it did the whole ‘sound of the needle lifting up off the record’ thing and I instinctively dragged the cursor up to said vinyl record and…lo and behold, it’s interactive!!! Damn you Arcade Fire, you’ve done it again – always giving us these completely awesome little web 2.0 nuggets with your interactive videos and what not – this is completely cool – already working on my scratches and remixes to the 6 second version of The Suburbs – nice job! Oh, and looking forward to all the rest!
I’ve come to basically expect that anything Damon Albarn does musically is going to make me literally smile while listening – this guy is an absolute conduit for such simple and beautiful melody – the kinds you’ve never heard before, but, like rimbimhoot said above, so comfortingly familiar.
It’s like Blur’s clip for The Universal meets The Squid & The Whale meets that ping pong movie with Christopher Walken…but, you know, way more RZA – quite enjoyable!
Hoping The Strokes make it on this year’s list – they did say festival appearances this year and no Coachella, no Pitchfork (yet at least) so there’s hope!
Of course they are, dum dum! I wanted to say ‘silly’ but, well, you know
A great cover, and startlingly clear evidence of just how incredible Dylan was/is – not that we needed anymore, but still. I hadn’t listened to that song in a long while and hearing it through the Phoenix treatment immediately made me want to revisit the original.
I’m hoping the Berlin University can amend that lecture to point out Mr. Argos’ latest ‘G I R L F R E N’ nod to Avril would be much better suited to the man who coined that spelling a long time ago, Jonathan Richman – that’s something that I understand.
Eh, the straining didn’t last long, and it’s part and parcel of the Britt Daniel singing method anyhow – I liked it. The false stop thankfully didn’t make the entire audience start clapping before they started back up again and finished it off…in related Spoon news on the home front, I was at Target last night (that’s normal, right?) and much to my surprise, Transference was given a front and center shelf space and selling for a thrifty $7.98! It made me feel bad though having known I had already down…ahem…yeah.
‘even if it is Vampire WEEK’ is what I meant…oops!
This would make me happy any day of the week, but since it’s Friday and all, well..that’s just even better….and good on The Very Best for getting this out there, even if it is Vampire Weekend and there’s a coattail or two to grab hold of…they make great music in their own right, and if takes a little Ezra cameo to help spread that word more, I’m all for it.
Wilco (The Album)…….?
I’m politely upping the count to Top 101 and adding Elvis Perkins in Dearland’s “Shampoo” firmly in at 101. There, I feel better now.
That is a GLARING omission. The fact that in only 6, 30 minute episodes, a show could be that hilarious and strangely profound for how awkwardly it ended is reason enough it should be on this list. However, perhaps the very fact it was only 6, 30 minute episodes long, and ran way back in some earlier part of 09 is also why I think people plum forgot…for shame!
Now there’s a bittersweet symphony if I’ve ever seen one (for a handful on that list at least).
I’d venture to say that it was already iission mmpossible to pull this, or most any other song from the album for that matter, off faithfully in the live setting of The Tonight Show studio, which is already the WORST. Which, when I think about it, only makes this performance, and the fact that he decided at all to debut this here, that much more fun for throwing caution to the wind.
I’m having my own kind of premature evaluation in that I can’t stop replaying the first song, Out of the Blue, over and over and over – when I like something this much, I like it to never end, kind of like…oh well – extremely happy, and extremely happy for Julian Casablancas, on what’s shaping up to be a great album and great close to 09 year in music.
I suppose a grower? I quite liked the flourish near the end before the plug gets pulled and then you’re like hmmmm? was that what I expected to hear right out of the gate for the next Vampire Weekend album or was the release of this particular tune all a well crafted decision to kill us with kindness…mysteries indeed!
This is making, and let’s be honest, has already made my Friday
It’s a good thing Alex Turner beat everyone to the proverbial punch years ago, and in the first 10 seconds of fame no less!
“I mean, it’s a rock festival, so..I’ve been to a lot of them…you have to just sort of give people their space and let people invade yours.” Ain’t that the truth!!! Also, this is hilarious.
If Prince used the internet more often, I have a strong feeling he’d love your avatar!
I loved the sound in the trailer and love this – a nice departure and seems to suit him well – i’m hoping once this is released and people enjoy it for a time, a proper new strokes will then be upon us.
Chances of the Aziz crowdsurf making its way into the final cut?