Showing posts with label Honeycut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Honeycut. Show all posts

Friday, August 17, 2007

Dance Party - 8.17.07

Thank goodness it's Friday! This week was the first week since May that I worked (almost) full time, and besides that I've been rather busy. I had forgotten how tiring working full time and maintaining a social life can be. So now to kick off the weekend with some dance tunes. These are mostly kind of laid back dance tunes because that's what kind of mood I'm in, but hopefully that's ok.

Hot Girls in Good Moods [mp3] - Butch Walker - "The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Lets-Go-Out-Tonites" (iTunes). As I've said before, I seem to be on a rock kick lately. This is another song that makes me want to hop on a motorcycle and go play pool at some seedy dive bar. It's also probably the closest to country music I usually get. You could line dance to this one.

Starz In Their Eyes [mp3] - Just Jack - "Starz In Their Eyes - Single" (iTunes). I'd like to dedicate this song to one Ms. Lindsay Lohan and one Ms. Britney Spears. 'nuff said.

Shadows [mp3] - Honeycut - "The Day I Turned to Glass" (iTunes). I wrote about Honeycut in my entry about funk. I didn't include this song though because it has more of a disco sound to it. Definitely still funky too, but it didn't quite fit with the other songs I had posted. This song makes me want to don bell-bottoms and disco. It's also a great song to listen to if you're walking somewhere.

Bones [mp3] - Editors - "An End Has a Start" (iTunes). This is a great upbeat rock song, but it still maintain a kind of "pretty" quality, which some rock songs lack. It has a bit of an 80s quality to it too. It's not the ideal dance song necessarily, but I think it's dance-able so I threw it in.

Ok, tata dahlings.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Running with Scissors

At the 2006 Siren Music Festival, I was blessed to get to see Stars, whom I love and adore. However, playing at the same exact time on the other stage was another band I would've loved to see: the Scissors Sisters. While I don't regret my choice (life is to short to spend time regretting things), I really hope that I have another chance to see them live (for free would be nice since it would've been free at Siren...), as I'm sure they were tons of fun and put on a great performance.

Hopefully, most of you have heard of the Scissors Sisters. I realize that they haven't released an album this year/recently or anything, but I still feel like writing about them because they've been coming up via shuffle on my iPod with unusual frequency lately and it is making me quite happy. So I thought I would share a little bit of that happiness with you guys.

One thing I love about the Scissors Sisters is their disco influence. When I was little, I was convinced that I was a disco queen in my last life because of my unusual love of this genre for someone my age. Scissors Sisters are really the closest thing I can think of to disco that exists right now. Artists like Mika, Jamiroquai, or (occasionally) Honeycut might show a little disco influence, but Scissors Sisters embody the genre more. At the same time, Scissors Sisters definitely have a more modern tone that makes them stand apart from disco tunes from the 1970s. Then there's songs like Intermission, which reminds me 1920s silent movies. Along that line is also I Can't Decide, which also has a little country banjo twang and electronica (plus it's just an awesomely morbid song). Or Transistor, which is very electronica. Or the kind of grunge rock/blues/disco/electronica Music is the Victim. As you may know, I'm all about eclecticism and my favorite artists are those who utilize a cornucopia of different sounds. So here you are kids - some songs for your enjoyment:

Filthy Gorgeous (mp3) - Scissors Sisters ("Scissors Sisters") - iTunes
Music is the Victim (mp3) - Scissors Sisters ("Scissors Sisters") - iTunes
I Can't Decide (mp3) - Scissors Sisters ("Ta-Dah") - iTunes
Paul McCartney (mp3) - Scissors Sisters ("Ta-Dah") - iTunes

And some music videos because I'm feeling extra generous today:

I Don't Feel Like Dancing


Kiss You Off


Tata dahlings.

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Sunday, July 29, 2007

In a funk

I have a confession to make. I... I love...

I love funk music.

There, I said it. Is that weird? Generally I tend to go for rock/alternative/pop, but then again my tastes have always been very eclectic, so I guess I shouldn't really be surprised. It's just strange to me because I never think of funk when I'm telling people what kind of music I like. And I probably should have realized it sooner because I love non-funk songs with funky beats. But I definitely tend to like funk songs that are a little more closely related to rock than, say, to R & B or something.

I first came to this realization last night when I was listening to Honeycut. Honeycut is part of the Quannum Projects (also including Apsci, Blackalicious, Latyrx and the Blacktop Projects, among others). My favorite song of theirs is The Day I Turned to Glass, which I first heard on The Current.

Another funk band I really like is Julius C. I first heard of Julius C about a year and a half ago when a kid in one of my production classes at Tisch did a mini-documentary on them (some of them went/go to NYU). It was just two of the members (one of whom I think is no longer with the band, but I'm not sure) jamming casually, but I really liked the song they did. I kind of wish I could have a recording of that song, but I have no idea what song it was. But I do love the songs of theirs that I have and that are on their website (go there, you can download some for free). I think I like No Way the best besides the two I've listed below.

The Day I Turned to Glass (mp3) - Honeycut ("The Day I Turned to Glass") - iTunes
Guilty as Charged (mp3) - Julius C - iTunes Unavailable
Velveteen Rabbit (mp3) - Julius C - iTunes Unavalable

And now I'm off to Connecticut (in the rain... ick) to go shoot a few videos for a video contest. I have to stop and buy new (cheap) headphones on the way. My headphones are shot, and I have no idea why. I guess I'm kind of hard on them. I bring my iPod everywhere. Again, my apologies if I'm flaky about updating over the next few days. I will be shooting/editing for this video contest probably the next 48-72 hours straight. Tata dahlings.

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