When We Were Young

Three Hundred Thirty-Nine

Artist - Wolf Parade
Album - Expo 86
Released - 2010
Label - Sub Pop
Genre - Indie Rock

Tracks:
Cloud Shadow on the Mountain
Palm Road
What Did My Lover Say? (It Always Had to Go This Way)
Little Golden Age
In The Direction of the Moon
Ghost Pressure
Pobody's Nerfect
Two Men in New Tuxedos
Oh You, Old Thing
Yulia
Cave-O-Sapien

Enjoy!

Art, Artistic and Artsy

Two Hundred Sixty-Seven

Artist - Wolfe Parade
Album - At Mount Zoomer
Released - 2008
Label - Sup Pop
Genre - Indie Rock

Tracks:
Soldier's Grin
Call It a Ritual
Language City
California Dreamer
They Grey Estates
Fine Young Cannibals
An Animal In Your Care
Kissing the Beehive

Enjoy!

The One

Two Hundred Fifty-Six

Artist - Nirvana
Album - Nevermind (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Released - 2011
Label - David GeffenRecords/Sub Pop
Genre - Alternative/Grunge

Tracks:
LP One
Original Album
Side A
Smells Like Teen Spirit
In Bloom
Come As You Are
Breed
Lithium
Polly
Side B
Territorial Pissings
Drain You
Lounge Act
Stay Away
On A Plain
Something In The Way

LP Two
B-Sides
Side C
Even In His Youth
Aneurysm
Curmudgeon
D-7 (live at the BBC)
Been A Son (live)
School (live)
B-Sides and the Smart Studio Sessions
Side D
Drain You (live)
Sliver (live)
Polly (live)
In Bloom
Immodium (Breed)
Lithium

LP Three
The Smart Studio Sessions
Side E
Polly
Pay to Play
Here She Comes Now
Dive
Sappy
The Boombox Rehearsals
Side F
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Verse Chorus Verse
Territorial Pissings
Lounge Act

LP Four
The Boombox Rehearsals
Side G
Come As You Are
Old Age
Something In The Way
On A Plain
Side H
Drain You
Something In The Way

With such an extensive playlist, there are no words for an album of this magnitude.

Enjoy!

Lately

Two Hundred Twenty-Eight

Artist - The Helio Sequence
Album - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Released - 2008
Label - Sub Pop
Genre - Indie Rock

Tracks:
Lately
Can't Say No
The Captive Mind
You Can Come to Me
Shed Your Love
Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Back to This
Hallelujah
Broken Afternoon
No Regrets

Keep Your Eyes Ahead is the fourth album by Portland Indie Rockers The Helio Sequence and I just read a fun little fact about a song on this record.  You Can Come To Me samples sound effects from Super Mario Bros. 3.  Ahhh yes, now I'm going to need to pay closer attention to that song the next time I listen to it.  For the most part, this album is great, but I think Lately is one of my favorites, even though it's mainly about a break up.  Another band that I got to see live at Fun Fun Fun Fest this past November, this duo can definitely put on a great show.  It amazes me how two people can put on such a great live performance without the help of a bass and any other instrument.  Much respect to two piece bands that can rock out live.  Anyway, here is a fascinating blurb from their record:

A future that was and is

so seemingly within each,

but out of hand still.

Potential always betrayed.

A self-made foreign self-spite.

That which I know and have known

and have no reason to unlearn,

no matter the wise words

of friends or philosophers.

From the suburbs, where I find

living without a center a possible reality,

but a banal tragedy,

to the city, where I find

no center by an octopus of too many worlds,

many possible realities,

and a banal tragedy still.

And at last, a hole in a sock so big

that daring means creating newness

in negative space, a transplant,

a lattice-worked piece of sustenance

on the heel where it is walked on the most.

Chrzin, CZ 1/1/05

Enjoy!

Enter the Calm

The calm before the storm.  Or maybe there is no storm.  Regardless of what is to become, here is my one hundred twenty-seventh pick.

Artist - Fleet Foxes
Album - Fleet Foxes
Released - 2008
Label - Sub Pop
Genre - Indie Folk, Folk Rock

Tracks:
Sun It Rises
White Winter Hymnal
Ragged Wood
Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
Quiet Houses
He Doesn't Know Why
Heard Them Stirring
Your Protector
Medowlarks
Blue Ridge Mountains
Oliver James

So I learned a new word today and this word probably should've been something I already knew, but whatever.  So when I usually pick an album, I wiki the album just to get the specs of the year and what they classify the genre as compared to what I classify them as.  When I pulled up this album, this is what it said: 

Fleet Foxes is the eponymous debut studio album by the Seattle, Washington-based band Fleet Foxes.

Eponymous means (of a person) being the person after whom a literary work, film, etc., is named.  You learn something new everyday.  To continue with this album, which is a surprisingly mind blowing, I enjoy listening to Fleet Foxes.  One of my favorite songs on this record is Ragged Wood.  Such great lyrics and so beautiful.  I consider myself to be more of a lover when it comes to music so when I hear an album that pleases me and they lyrics are just as good, I fall in love.  It's easy for me to fall in love with an album, if it's that good and this album is one of those that I have fallen in love with.

Enjoy!

Break Ups Are Never Easy

Almost closing the gap to my first 100, so here you are, my ninety-eighth pick.

Artist - Handsome Furs
Album - Sound Kapital
Released - 2011
Label - Sub Pop
Genre - Indie/Electro Pop


Tracks
Side One
When I Get Back
Damage
Bury Me Standing
Memories of the Future
Serve The People
Side Two
What About Us?
Repatriated
Cheap Music
No Feelings

The third album by Handsome Furs, this duo delivers a great sound for what would be their last album together.  Since announcing their break up a few months ago (we all hope it's not a break-up of their marriage since Alexei and Dan are husband and wife in real life), Dan has gone to form a super group with Brit Daniels of Spoon.  Nevertheless, Sound Kapital will hopefully not be the end of a legacy for Handsome Furs, seeing as it is as fantastic sounding as their live performance.

Enjoy!

You are a Runner

So here goes indie, my seventy-eighth pick

Artist - Wolf Parade
Album - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Released - 2005
Label - Sub Pop
Genre - Indie Rock


Tracks:
Side One
You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son
Modern World
Grounds for Divorce
We Built Another World
Fancy Claps
Same Ghost Every Night
Shine A Light
Side Two
Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts
I'll Believe in Anything
It's a Curse
Dinner Bells
This Hearts on Fire

The first full length album by Wolfe Parade, this is a favorite of mine.  One band I never had the pleasure of seeing live, I can only live through it listening to this record.  Besides every song being great, my favorite on this album is I'll Believe in Anything.  The way it sounds, it almost sounds like an anthem.  I don't know why I say that, but I guess when I hear it, I always think of a bunch of people in a group roaming down the street singing it from the top of their lungs, each word of that song as loud as they can.  Because nobody knows you and nobody gives a damn anyway.  With that said, give it a listen.

Enjoy!

On the West Coast

Not only does my twenty-eight pick have a lot to do with my vacationing to Seattle, but they are also located on the West coast.

Artist - No Age
Album - Nouns
Released - 2008
Label - Sub Pop
Genre - Noise Pop


Tracks:
Miner
Eraser
Teen Creeps
Things I Did When I Was Dead
Cappo
Keechie
Sleeper Hold
Errand Boy
Here Should Be My Home
Impossible Bouquet
Ripped Knees
Brain Burner

Yet another great record from the Los Angeles based band No Age and let's not forget to mention that this is also another short record, spanning just seconds over thirty minutes.  When you listen to this album, I think it will make you want to mosh to most of the songs, with the short style, guitar bleeding sounds.  This duo, containing only a guitar and drummer (at the time of this record), put on one heck of a live performance, but breaking it down to the earlier stuff, Noun is the band's first LP.

No Age experiments with not only just the drums and guitar, but they also incorporate other experimental sounds that helped influence and display each track with it's own sound.  One of my favorite tracks on this record is Here Should Be My Home and next would be Things I Did When I Was Dead.  I recommend this album, if first listening to No Age to enjoy the way they have developed into the band that they are today.

Enjoy!