A New Sound

May 24, 2013 meisajDaily Life

On several occasions in my life I have randomly held onto a cd that I really had no interest in listening to. I think the best case for this was from my youth, when randomly the BMG CD Club sent me Pablo Honey by Radiohead. When someone visiting the house said they were I put it in the cd player and never looked back.

So yesterday driving home I was tired and looking for something to keep me awake. I grabbed the cd’s in the door of my car and came upon Oh My Me. I had picked up the cd with Wussy and Sundresses from a Kickstarter campaign last year. I love Wussy (they are amazing, check them out) and the Sundresses impressed the hell out of me as well. But Oh My Me, I had no clue who they were, and their cd was in a plastic sleeve looking a little underwhelming.

But wanting something new to keep me up I threw the cd in the car. The first song was blew me away. Sounding both old jazz/bluesy and yet something altogether different at the same time. I was awake and involved in the music for the next 20 minutes til I arrived at home. A quick search and purchase later and I had a live album to along with the cd I already had.

Life is good. I’ve got new music to listen to. And that’s always a good thing.

Hank and the Cupcakes

September 20, 2011September 20, 2011 meisajDaily Life

The singer from Hank and the Cupcakes has shiny pants. I just got back from their concert at the Beachland Tavern and their music grew on me. She was pretty energetic, it was hard not to like them with their 80’s Euro-ish techno-ish something or another music. She danced on the drum set for crying out loud (weird phrase that is, crying out loud). Check them out.

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November 3, 2010 meisajDaily Life

-The Cure – Three Imaginary Boys
– Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
– Shelia Divine – New Parade
– Pulp – Hardcore
– The Clash – Sandinista
– Radiohead – Amnesiac
– Regina Spektor – Soviet Kitsch
– Wussy – Left for Dead
– The Get Up Kids – On A Wire
– the Pixies – Doolittle
– The Real Tuesday Weld – I, Lucifer
– Spiritualized – Royal Albert Hall October 10, 1997
– Beck – The Information
-Hyperbola – Long Dub Mini Goove
– Sky Larkin – Kaliede

Lyrically Tired

September 30, 2010September 30, 2010 meisajDaily Life

I find it amazing when I am exhausted that a song can pop into my head and get stuck there. Yesterday was a long day. From the moment I got up to the moment I went to sleep it felt like one thing after another. About half way through the day I just wanted to lay down, and as I started item number 6,000 on my to do list, the song Andy You’re A Star popped into my head. Now I haven’t listened to the Killers in three or four months. I did hear a little bit of Brandon Flowers solo album when Reg played a song last weekend, but that’s the closest I’ve come to listening to the Killers. Just having something taking up a small sliver of my brain to distract and relax me helps with long days.

Anyways, you can listen to the song here.

Musical Kick in the Pants

August 21, 2010 meisajDaily Life

So I had what I refer to as a musical kick in the pants today. Its when an old band that you used to love comes flying back in your life for now reason. Or for a specific reason.

Today Sarah and I were sitting around and doing our thing (she editting photos, me nerding on the computer – nerding is now a recongnized verb in our apartment) and she asks me to put on some Pixies because she wasn’t familiar with them. So I throw on Death to the Pixies and proceed to find myself singing and humming along with every song. It is ridiculouls how I know the lyrics to so many songs. Nice useless information. I love it.

So yeah, I describe as a musical kick to the pants. Bringing me back to my musical roots. God I love the Pixies, where have you been in the last year.