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Home!

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Note: Click here if you would like to donate to help me with my fundraising minimum for the Run to Home Base. Below is more on it.

Okay, so this will be an unconventional post by me. On Saturday night, I signed up for a short 9K road race. Why 9K? Well, baseball season is upon us. Anyone that knows me knows what a baseball nerd I am. I mean, I will get the most random trivia questions right with regard to baseball. For example, I could tell you the home run leaders by decade going back to the 1920’s. Sad, but true.

Well, being that I’m in Boston, it’s now time for the Red Sox season to start, and one of the best parts of the Red Sox organization is their fundraising effort – the Red Sox Foundation. They help many organizations, including the Jimmy Fund, which helps kids – and adults – in their fight against cancer. Last year, I took part in an awesome event – the Red Sox Foundation’s Fantasy Day, and look forward to doing so again this year.

However, this time around, I signed up to take part in their 9K “Run To Home Base” to help their Home Base Program. The program helps returning soldiers with their battles with traumatic brain injuries and PTSD. Many know that I am staunchly anti-war. However, I feel that if we’re going to send these kids – and many are kids when they go to fight – to war, that we should also take care of them when they return, which simply isn’t happening. This is a great cause that I think any of us can support, regardless of how you feel about war and our role in it. So since it’s the “Home Base Program”, why not choose a song entitled “Home”, eh?

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Click to Play LCD Soundsystem – Home

The Brits are playing at my house….fer realz.

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So last week, I bashed the crap out of what is essentially a rip-off of an old Boney M tune. Gotta be honest that I won’t back off that review. I have a ton of DJ buddies and producers here in Boston that I talked to about that track, and they were all in agreement. Not good. Well, I got a polite but contentious e-mail forwarded to me about the somewhat negative review about the “remix” of the tune. I won’t go into detail, but this week’s track is sort of a way to show how to be genuine about how you portray a song.

A remix? Is a unique interpretation of a song that you have. It’s not using the majority of the original – with minor tweaks that anyone with access to Logic, Ableton, etc. has – and slapping an acapella over it. I was just listening to a Derrick Carter set where he played a remix of an old Bjork tune, and thought to myself, “Now this is what a remix is.” I’m not bashing those tunes. There is a talent in making them. But what separates a proper remix from a bootleg or mash-up is pretty cut and dry, in my opinion.

The track today sort of exemplifies this. It doesn’t take itself seriously, and it’s presented as a mash-up. Now, I have to be clear that not all mash-ups are good. This one, however, is one I liked. A lot. The fact that there is a video accompaniment? Makes it that much more clear how seriously the kid took this project. So fans of The Beatles, The Kinks, and/or LCD Soundsystem? You should check this one out. It was done a couple of years back by a guy that goes by the name FAROFF. And hey, if you’re in the San Fran area? Go check him out Saturday, October 23rd. I bet you’d hear lots of goodies like this one.


Download FAROFF – The Brits Are Playing At My House

And you really need to check the video. It’s damned cool. A video mashup, of sorts.

More LCD Soundsystem

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So I have to be honest in that I have been a bit lazy with trying to find new music. I’ve been listening to the new LCD Soundsystem as of late to see how I feel about it. Well, “Drunk Girls” and “Pow Pow” did little to really make me want this new one, but I did take a pretty good, long listen, and have to be honest in that those two tracks were probably the weakest off of This Is Happening. That should say something, to be quite honest.

Here is what I consider to be the strongest track off of the album. Well, there are a couple other stellar ones. “One Touch” and “Home” are well up there, too. The former really smacks of their last album Sound of Silver in a lot of ways. Pretty DJ friendly track, to boot. This one sounds more like a sad country song if you listen to the lyrics. “All I Want” is, to me, the best of the lot on this new album. Think of a serious dosage of Joy Division invading the skull of James Murphy and you’ve got a pretty good idea of the sound, here.

Take a listen and decide for yourself. I’ve also included a live video that someone was good enough to take.


Download LCD Soundsystem – All I Want

Is summer here? Really?

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So here in Boston, the weather just won’t stay the same. I spent all of last week sick as a dog, and eventually even lost my voice. Imagine trying to work tending bar without much of a voice. It didn’t really bother me much, to be honest. But this weather? Needs to get a bit stable. Seriously. Anyhow, this post has a bit of summer in it. The rest? Is a newer track that’s been getting a bit of play as of late.

So for those that don’t know about Broken Social Scene yet, you’re missing out. They’re a strange group in that they never keep a steady set of band members. When I saw them live a few years back, I think they had about 15 people on stage at any one time. It’s crazy but awesome at the same time. I believe I’ve said it before, but they do remind me of a jam band, but in much better a way. These guys have this strange cohesiveness to their music. Which made me a bit surprised when I heard this song. It’s off of their latest album, Forgiveness Rock Record. The track is “All To All” and is a departure of sorts from their typical indie-rock sound, as they steer more towards a light electronic route. It’s a refreshing change, and smacks of what you would hear during summer. Enjoy!


Download Broken Social Scene – All To All

Next is the latest release from LCD Soundsystem. Now, “Drunk Girls” I found rather unimpressive, and so far, this new track “Pow Pow” – off of their just released album This is Happening – doesn’t really hit me as all too wonderful. Although, some of the lyrics are subtly hinting at people just shutting the fuck up (I’m looking at you, Obama-haters), which I enjoy. This is the typical LCD Soundsystem sound we’ve grown accustomed to, however, so I am sure this is one that will grow on me.


Download LCD Soundsystem – Pow Pow

As usual, go buy some stuff. You don’t wanna be “that guy”, now do you?

No Love Lost

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So is anyone else out there a big LCD Soundsystem fan? I am guessing a lot of heads are nodding. Good. This post is about a track I somehow seemed to pass over. Now, are any of you all that nodded in agreement a fan of Joy Division, also? I am guessing there will be a fair amount of heads nodding to both, correct?

Well, when LCD Soundsystem released the EP for their track “All My Friends” (which was covered by Franz Ferdinand, albeit not on this EP), they also made their own stamp on an old Joy Division track called “No Love Lost”. Usually, most artists fail miserably when attempting to cover an older artist or band. Especially when that artist or band has a pretty big cult following. This is where I think many fail – they work to “re-create” a track everyone knows. So why not go the route of LCD Soundsystem and try to cover a lesser known track?

Now, I can hear some people yelling, “We all know this Joy Division track! It’s not lesser known! I hope your genitals fall off!” Well, first of all, my genitals are crazy-glued on. So neener neener. Secondly, not everyone knows the entire Joy Division collection or how much blow they did on some night in 1977. If you do? That’s creepy. Very, very creepy.

Anyhow, LCD Soundsystem did a pretty good job on this cut, and I am leaving both the original and the cover here for your listening pleasure. Now, I need to go eat something. Until next week!

Download Joy Division – No Love Lost

Download LCD Soundsystem – No Love Lost

And buy this stuff. If not, you’re getting nil for Christmas. True story.