SOBER POST: Pia Fraus

Ignore the fact i haven't posted since June. If you're a shoegaze fan, get this album. It'll remind you of some old school chill Slowdive. I'm going to go ahead and say Pia Fraus is the best band to come out of Estonia. Ever. Sure this is only the Estonian band i've heard, but it doesn't change how i feel. After Summer is the album. It just came out in May.

People link to bands' MySpaces these days, right? Well, here is theirs.

Also, check out this swelling tide of funness of a blog.

LISTEN TO IT. TRUST ME.

So you drank too much tonight? Me too.

You and your roommate danced until the place closed? Me too.

You're a bit sweaty, but very satisfied partially because you had drunk pizza while watching the Man U season highlights show? Me too.

Good news! We both can enjoy a great nights sleep, by both drinking a lot a water and listening to Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92. Not only will you fall asleep dreaming of happy thoughts, but curiously enough the very same Richard James you've come to fear from videos such as Windowlicker and Come to Daddy will aid you. (Look at me, i can do links while intoxicated...)

Seriously, though, I've fallen asleep to this album so much it might blow your mind how many times i've both consciously and subconsciously listened to it.

YOU'RE MIND MAY HAVE JUST BEEN BLOWN. LISTEN TO APHEX TWIN. DRUKQS MIGHT BE THE GREATEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME.

FYI, "Ageispolis" is the jam.

Infinity's not as fast as me.

Look. Just get it. It's good. Think rawer Bloc Party and not lame. That's what These New Puritans sounds like.

You know it sucks when they have a new album come out because everyone's going to be like, "Have you heard the new These New Puritans album?" and you're going to be like, "What the fuck are you talking about?" and they'll be like, "The new These New Puritans! It's good!" and then your friend punches you in the face, and you've got a bloody nose, and you're pissed at me when i warned you what the deal was.

DON'T ASK STUPID QUESTIONS.

THESE NEW PURITANS. ALBUM IS CALLED Beat Pyramid. Buy it, then thank me later for telling you about such a kick ass album.

::Edit:: What's your favorite number? What does it mean? Every number has a meaning.

VH1 Classics = BEST CABLE CHANNEL EVER

(Post brought to you by an undetermined amount of Stella.)

Classic Albums show = THE STUFF OF LEGEND

Seriously, i've watched shows about albums i've never even heard all the way through before. Deep Purple? I know 30 seconds of one Deep Purple song. THAT'S IT. Yet i still watched an hour long deal on whatever album "Smoke on the Water" appeared on. Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast. AWESOME. Gavin's DVR thing is official set to record all of those shows.

Totally 80's = FUCKING AWESOME CHEESY 80'S MUSIC VIDEOS

There's something about how bad 80's music videos are that makes them so much more endearing. I could watch them all day.

There's more shows i can't remember.... but SERIOUSLY. CLASSIC ALBUMS = THE SHIT. Maybe the best show on TV.

Close call

So about a month ago, a crackhead tried to steal my radio. He failed. Panda Bear was stuck blasting playing on repeat with the inability to eject or skip tracks.

Fast forward a week or two and my car is getting fixed, but somehow through the battery being changed the station gets stuck on a pop country station. No Panda Bear. Just pop country.

I HAD TO LISTEN TO ALMOST 5 POP COUNTRY SONGS. IT WAS A HARROWING EXPERIENCE.

I survived, however, and my fear of liking pop country proved to be stupid as pop country is a horrible.

P.S. - My CD player works now, and currently Nico is in it.

SOBER POST: .....i've now listened to it approx. 8 times

and i have to say...... it's everything i wanted it to be, even though i didn't know what it was exactly that i wanted. This album has fulfilled the expectations i didn't even realize i had.

SOBER POST: Pop Song Charts

I can't stop laughing.... this puts my Venn diagram in my banner to shame.

Check out this post at Stereogum.

More here.

FAVORITE.