Song of the Week - March 9

By: Charbarred | in: Music |

Blades of Steel

Every week each of our writers shares the song that made his week just a little bit brighter…

D Thompson
“Smoke & Mirrors” by RJD2
At the start of RJD2’s interesting 2002 hip hop album Deadringer are two decidedly non hip hop songs. Though I’ve been listening to both, I’ve chosen to share the second, “Smoke and Mirrors” with you.
- A descending tune with an uplifting message, “Who knows what tomorrow will bring?”
- A soulfull, indigo jam on love and hope.
- A darkened fogbank of tone and feeling where echoes of movie soundtracks, blues and soul swirl and mix and unite.
Who knows what tomorrow may bring indeed.

Charbarred
“Options” by Pedro the Lion
It’s amazing how a busy and stressful week can numb your senses. It seems that music has been entering my ears and not hitting any vital organs. I guess it takes some really weird lyrics to make you raise your head from the computer and say “what is this guy on about?”. David Bazan’s cruelly candid lyrics did just that for me this week with an amazing song that I couldn’t stop listening to. Taken from their 2002 album Control - See what you can make of this:

I can never divorce you
Without a good reason
And though I may never have to
It’s good to have options

But for now I need you…

Kendall
“What Light” by Wilco
Wilco has entrenched themselves into popular culture. When they released Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, they blew the doors off of the alt-country world, and the documentary that accompanied it was just as amazing. The new album is due out in May and the band has released one song for our listening pleasure. “What light” is a pretty strong showing. It still sounds very alt-country, but the song is reminiscent of The Band with jangly guitars accented by the occasional steel accompaniment. The harmonies are simple but pleasing, and it makes for quite an elegant 70’s style rock country tune.

RustyCat
“Dorothy at Forty” by Cursive
Cursive’s Happy Hollow is one of the best albums of 2006. I’ve been compulsively listening to it in the past month and every week I have a new favorite song from this amazing album. Dorothy at Forty is one of those songs that makes you wanna kick down the acceleration on your car, drive fast and scream. It’s a fun energetic rock/pop tune. I’m choosing this song because it took me the longest to get used to it, it’s a bit wild at times and takes two minutes to build up, but it’s definitely a classic in my book.
As usual, I’ll leave you with a few words that catch the essence of the song:

“Paid vacation
Entertainment
Compensation
Gratuitous gratification
Dorothy, wake up, Dorothy, wake up
Dorothy, wake up, it’s time for work”

Alibastard
“Blades of Steel” by Matt Hopkins and Ed Schwerin
So I know these guys. And this song has been going through my mind all week. Based on a nostalgic rememberance of the NES hockey game ‘Blades of Steel’ and recorded like it was some bar-touring, grizzley-voiced singer circa 1989 who morphs from Brian Adams to Axl Rose halfway through, I had no other choice but to post it as this week’s Song of the Week. This is for anyone who used to play this game for real. Come for the drum hits, stay for the guitar solo. And then watch the
video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czxeXQ-s6hc

So what’s your song of the week?

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Posted on March 9, 2007

Comments

10 Responses to “Song of the Week - March 9”

Ryan on March 9th, 2007 4:21 am

I dig all your songs. I have Eskimohunter’s Surfing at Freezing stuck in my mind because it’s so damn cold in Boston.

Here it is:

Surfing at Freezing - Eskimohunter

Charbarred on March 9th, 2007 5:02 am

And for those of you wondering what Blades of Steel is, you can play it online:
http://www.spelletjes.breumelhof.nl/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=158

remixboy on March 9th, 2007 5:17 am

well well…I must mention “Dorothy at Forty” by Cursive - boy is that one crazy track! but my track of the week from your selection is “Smoke & Mirros” by RJD2

My personal fav track this week though comes from Neon Bible - the new album by The Arcade Fire - No Cars Go is a stomping track!

Joe on March 9th, 2007 5:26 am

Arcade Fire - Antichrist Television Blues (any song ripping Joe Simpson is ok in my book)

Giovanna on March 9th, 2007 5:41 am

Great songs this week…as usual!
My favourite one is “Smoke and mirrors”: evocative title, so sensual…and a feeling of metropolitan melancholy behind its notes. A must-hear song, halfway between Moby’s “Natural Blues” (that deep lo-fi voice and that relentlessly repeating echo of a few icastic words) and the over-listened to - but not for this reason deserving to be underevaluated - Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy (that insisting riff, a few notes weaving an intense melody, soo black).
Simple, thus awesome.

Emon on March 9th, 2007 10:25 am

Smoke & Mirrors. Love it!

DThompson on March 9th, 2007 11:52 am

Giovanna: “a feeling of metropolitan melancholy”
I wish I’d said that.

XperimentalTravel on March 9th, 2007 2:43 pm

like Pedro the Lion! very cool band. other songs are good too.

Celainn on March 10th, 2007 8:23 am

Annie Lennox “I Saved the World Today”.
I dunno why, I just love this song….

HMTKSteve on March 10th, 2007 8:38 am

I recently dug out a song I first received for free via iTunes. Funny thing was that I liked the song but iTunes did not have more of her songs in their system. Why the heck would you promote an artist with a free song of the week and not have their stuff for sale???

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