Japanese Cigarette Case?

For some reason, the meaning of the lyrics seemed to click today- it’s about cocaine, right?

bring me my japanese cigarette case, put the mirror to my face, let all my memories be gone….

Just checked on the web- I guess it was pretty obvious to everyone.

It’s on gagagagaaggaggga, by Spoon.

Top Albums, 2001-2003 (more lists from the past)

Here is another list I carried around on my Treo/Windows Mobile/Blackberry for the past few years.  My Top albums for 2001, 2002, 2003!

2001:
1 radiohead – amnesiac
2 spoon – girls can tell
3 dave matthews band – lillywhite sessions
4 john mayer – room for squares
5 dismemberment plan – change
6 white stripes – white blood cells
7 unwound – leaves turn inside you
8 black rebel motorcycle club – BRMC
9 prefuse 73 – vocal studies
10 jeff buckley – live a L’olympia
avalanches
prefuse 73
red house painters
bjork vespertine
strokes
shins oh inverted
sigur ros
royksopp

2002:
sonic youth murray street
wilco yankee hotel foxtrot
sigur ros ()
RJD2, Dead Ringer
Interpol, Turn on the Bright Lights
French Kicks, One Time Bells (1st half of album)
Radio 4, Gotham (1st half of album)
Neko Case, Blacklisted
Notwist, Neon Golden (Thanks to Ang & Mike for buying this at my request in Amsterdam last year)
Plus Minus, Self Titled Long Playing Debut
Roots, Phrenology
Secret Machines, September 000
Spoon, Kill the Moonlight
The Books, Thought for Food
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Source Tags & Codes
Enon, High Society
counting crows hard candy
ini center of attention
qtip kamaal

2003:
sufjan stevens, michigan
decemberists, castaways
dave matthews, some devil
cat power you are free
postal service give up
tv on the radio ep
outkast
jay-z black album
strokes?
broken social scene
m83
shins chutes
prefuse 73 one word & extinguished
manitoba
radiohead hail to the thief
books lemon of pink
stars heart
super furry animals
madlib

Essential Reggae, a work in progress

reggae essential (not including the obvious Marley collections)

jimmy cliff- harder they come
trojan box sets
gregory isaacs- s/t
johnny clarke- rockers time now
toots & maytals- funky kingston
junior murvin- police & thieves
upsetters- super ape
steel pulse- babylon the bandit
rockers meets king tubby in a fire house
glen brown & king tubby- termination dub
horace andy- in the light
children of jah
keith hudson- pick a dub
augustus pablo- east of the river nile
burning spear- marcus garvey
ethiopians- all the hits and more
upsetters- eastwood rides again

Sleepy Albums (yet MORE lists I carried around)

sleepy albums
seefeel – succour
Slowdive – Pygmalion
Her Space Holiday – Manic Expressive
Avey Tare and Panda Bear – Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished
guthrie – imperial
m83 – dead cities
tangerine dream-phaedra
klimek- milk and honey

Driving Albums (more lists I carried around)

I have a few lists that I’ve made on my Treo, and it was my aim to go back and add a comment in Itunes so that I could make smartlists to cull these out.  One problem I came up with was that I couldn’t define that a search variable would return the entire album (in order), which is a feature that a pre-Itunes window program had (what was the name of the nullriver program that worked with the Ipod before Apple launched Itunes for Windows?)
That is a feature that Itunes still lacks- you should be able to have a smartlist that looks for a variable, and then have the option to return a few complete albums (instead of songs) for that variable.  Define the results with the usual parameters- at random, last played or imported, etc.

Anyway, here’s the list- don’t read too much into it, as it was probably something I did in ten seconds one day.

driving albums
jayhawks tomorrow the green grass
tortoise tnt
new pornographers mass romantic
postal service give up
shins oh inverted world
big star radio city
spoon girls can tell
streets original pirate material
jay-z blueprint
james brown 20 all time greats
new order substance
clash london calling
notwist neon golden

200407, 200408- the Mix to restart the monthly mix (lists I carried around)

In July and August of 2004, I briefly thought about restarting my monthly mixes, mainly just as a way to listen to new favorite songs.  At the time, I also had visions of sharing these mixes with my friends- long before sites like muxtape came along, you either had to have your own website, use soulseek, or just send zip files through instant messenger.

Here are my notes, it was to be a 2 cd length set:

0407, looking back
-ac newman
-animal collective
-ambulance ltd
-arthur russell
-lost boys
-zero 7 aol sessions
-sufjan
-outkast roses?
-end w/ tv on the radio accapella
-wilco
-murs bad man
-opus
-babbletron
-m83 run into flowers
-streets you’re fit and you know it
-walkmen rat
-french kicks?
-bees
-junior boys

-0408, looking forward
menomena
roots
fiery furnaces
50 foot wave
radio 4
delays- nearer than heaven

don’t forget these:
crescent fountains
john martyn solid air
nick drake tow the line
norah sleepless nights (jenjoe?)
vast air rjd2 remix
broken social scene market fresh

Frrriday

A few weeks ago- having a tough week at work- needed something extra to carry me through that Friday. Cut and paste a bunch of songs from my 4+ rated Smart list, and you have- Frrriday:

John Lennon Nobody Told Me
Howard Jones No One Is To Blame
Martin Sexton Angeline
Tommy Guerrero organism
Modest Mouse Dashboard
Rocco Deluca & the Burden Dope
Daniel Lanois Shine
Jimi Hendrix Angel
Arthur Russell You and Me Both
Wilco War on war
Bruce Springsteen Born To Run
K-OS Man I Used To Be
Ween “Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony?”
Josh Rouse Come Back
Madonna What It Feels Like For A Girl
Jay-Z Show Me What You Got
Cake The Guitar Man
Blur Girls & Boys
Squeeze Black Coffee In Bed
Smashing Pumpkins Cherub Rock
Elvis Costello Veronica
U2 Running To Stand Still
Talking Heads Heaven
Spoon Chicago At Night
Ted Leo “First to Finish, Last to Start”
Faith No More Easy
Ray LaMontagne Trouble
Dub Pistols Cyclone
Lily Allen Friend Of Mine
Guru “Sights in the City (ft. Courtney Pine, Carleen Anderson & Simon Law)”
The Clash Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Edan Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme
Screaming Trees Nearly Lost You
Beck Go It Alone
Fatboy Slim The Satisfaction Skank
Beastie Boys Sabotage
The Replacements Kiss Me on the Bus
Led Zeppelin Travelling Riverside Blues
Slick Rick “Why, Why, Why”
Bob Marley Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) (live)
The Black Crowes Jealous Again
Justin Timberlake Sexyback
Led Zeppelin D’yer Mak’er
The Fixx Red Skies
Ben Harper With My Two Hands
The Smithereens A Girl Like You
Gnarls Barkley Gone Daddy Gone
The Rolling Stones 19th Nervous Breakdown
Massive Attack Exchange
Belle & Sebastian The Stars Of Track And Field
Feist One Evening
Nick Lowe Cruel To Be Kind
Mos Def Ms. Fat Booty
Cornershop Brimful Of Asha
Jane’s Addiction Summertime Rolls
U2 Gloria
Kevin Shields City Girl
Jurassic 5 Concrete Schoolyard
Jackson Browne Doctor My Eyes
Police Synchronicity II
Sloan Worried Now
Emitt Rhodes With My Face On the Floor
LCD Soundsystem North American Scum
Pharoahe Monch Welcome to the Terrordome
Magnolia Electric Co Werewolves of London
Spoon I Turn My Camera On
The Shins Australia
Jane’s Addiction Thank You Boys
Interpol The Heinrich Maneuver
Jamie Lidell You Got Me Up
Kings Of Leon Mollys Chambers
Elliott Smith In The Lost And Found (Instrumental)
Al Green I Want to Hold Your Hand
Broken Social Scene K.C. Accidental
Gorillaz Re-Hash
Matthew Sweet I Wanted to Tell You
Bjork I’ve Seen It All
Jens Lekman I Don’t Know If She’s Worth 900 kronor
Alan Braxe and Fred Falke Love Lost
Johnny Cash I Walk The Line
Re_Jazz feat. Ultra Nate Twisted
Leela James Good Time
Alan Braxe and Fred Falke Rubicon
Sloan Coax Me
Arcade Fire No Cars Go
Billie Holiday Say It Ain’t So
Elliott Smith Waltz #2 (XO)
Stevie Ray Vaughan Pride And Joy
Ambulance Ltd Arbuckles Swan Song
The Smiths Panic
Clipse Nightmares (Feat. Bilal & Pharrell Williams)
Power Station Some Like It Hot
jazz passengers doncha go away mad
Spoon You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
Small Sins Threw It All Away
The National Fake Empire
King Britt Brown Street
Def Leppard Too Late for Love
George Harrison Isn’t It A Pity (Version One)

Recommending CDs to Dave (Part II)

This is the second half of my CD Recommendations to Dave- the first half is here- Dave eventually relented, as he couldn’t procure & listen to these fast enough.

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radiohead- the bends
fishbone- reality of my surroundings
phoenix- it’s never been like that
white stripes- white blood cells
MIA- Arular
x============================
radiohead- amnesiac
blur-blur
u2-joshua tree
toad the wet sprocket- dulcinea
quasi- featuring “birds”
x===========================
massive attack- mezzanine
neil young-harvest
tortoise- tnt
shins- oh inverted world
james brown- 20 all time greats
x===========================
prefuse 73- vocal studies
decemberists- castaways & cutouts
dave matthews band- under the table
rjd2- dead ringer
neko case- blacklisted
x=============================
plus minus- long playing debut
spoon- kill the moonlight
ini- center of attention
q tip-kamaal the abstract
dismemberment plan- emergency & i
x=============================
black rebel motorcycle club- brmc
tribe- midnight marauders
miles davis- kind of blue
john coltrane- love supreme
dj shadow-entroducing
x=============================
john coltrane- giant steps
weezer-weezer
beck-odelay
beastie boys- check your head
elliott smith- xo
x=============================
shudder to think- pony express record
house of pain- same as it ever was
public enemy- fear of a black planet
soul coughing- ruby vroom
sonic youth-dirty
x==============================
REM-automatic for the people
john coltrane- a love supreme
rain parade- emergency third rail
hold steady- boys and girls in america
trentemoller- last resort
x===============================
alan braxe and friends-the upper cuts
arthur russell-calling out of context
lindstrom- it’s a feedelity affair
peter bjorn & john- writer’s block
ella fitzgerald & louis armstrong- the best of ella and louie
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Hot Chip- The Warning
Midlake- Van Occupanther

And that was where we ended.

Recommending CDs to Dave (Part I)

Some months ago, a friend asked me for CD recommendations, and somehow, it escalated into a challenge for me to recommend 5 CDs each day for a month.  Here is the first half of that month’s recommendations:

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walkmen-bows & arrows
broken social scene- you forgot it in people
la’s-la’s
jeff buckley- grace
stone roses- stone roses
x======================
bjork- post
fila brazlia- brazilification
roots- game theory
arcade fire- funeral
smiths- singles
x=======================
tribe- low end theory
beach boys- pet sounds
liz phair-exile in guyville
my bloody valentine- loveless
portishead- dummy
x=======================
dj andy smith- the document
van halen- van halen
mos def- black on both sides
massive attack- blue lines
bach- goldberg variations
bonus- girl talk- night ripper
x========================
matthew sweet- girlfriend
chem bros- dig your own hole
hold steady- separation sunday
smashing pumpkins- gish
dusty springfield- dusty in memphis
x========================
singles soundtrack
24 hour party people soundtrack
lost in translation soundtrack
high fidelity soundtrack
selmasongs: dancer in the dark soundtrack
x=========================
black crowes- amorica
public enemy- it takes a nation
pearl jam- ten
jayhawks- hollywood town hall
cake- fashion nugget
x==========================
jayhawks- tomorrow the green grass
big star- #1 record/radio city
jimmy cliff- the harder they come soundtrack
byrds- sweetheart of the rodeo
led zeppelin- complete discrography
x==========================
pink floyd- animals
radiohead- ok computer
avalanches- since i left you
basement jaxx- kish kash
wilco- yankee hotel foxtrot
x==========================
basement jaxx- rooty
interpol- turn on the bright lights
pixies- best of
junior boys- last exit
wu tang- 36 chambers
x==========================
grievous angel tribute to gram parsons
notwist- neon golden
sigur ros- agaetis byrjun
juana molina- segundo
justin timberlake- justified
x===========================
primal scream-screamadelica
cat power-moon pix
slint-spiderland
richard x- x factor
beta band- 3 EPs
x===========================
royksopp- melody AM
madvillain- madvillainy
jay z- blueprint
sonic youth- goo
sufjan stevens- greetings from michigan
x===========================
portishead-portishead
spoon- girls can tell
pavement-slanted & enchanted
radiohead- kid a
goldfrapp- felt mountain

What 3wk meant to me….

There was a time I listened to 3wk religiously at work, and as I first got broadband, a bit at home. Here are some of the artists and songs it turned me on to:

• Mark Robinson
• Champale
• Havergal
• Jr. Corduroy
• Pedro the Lion
• Dismemberment Plan
• Kathryn Williams
• Sarah Dougher
• Self
• Juno
• Karate
• Unwound

….as well as many others. Looking over this list, it’s interesting- they played so many bands that you couldn’t hear anywhere else, and now, it seems many bands that no longer exist.

I haven’t listened in years, but I would probably still encourage people to check it out.