A Cover...

Not sure the world needs it, but I'm slowly composing/rearranging/covering Lay Lady Lay, just me and the guitar for now (since I have nothing to record with and no legitimate percussion; drums turned into side tables don't count). It's going to be very Bedhead/Codeine-like.

In my head, no. 1

Woke up kind of groggy to noise from the neighbors (very common occurence any given day between 615 and about 9). Started playing guitar while watching Lost Season 5, just messing around with a riff in my head, that, eventually, as the coffee cleared my mind, I realized was a Sebadoh riff.

Sebadoh - Mind Reader

Not even in my top 10 Sebadoh songs, and not even a band I love, but I really dig the way this song starts.

Nirvana

Find it remarkable how certain Nirvana songs (tonight, "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter") are shockingly still relevant, and should be influencing a lot more bands than my other favorites from 1994.

P.S. Going to post more, seriously, need to make room in my brain for a lot of other thoughts.

The Top Records of 2009 (in my world)

I'm just listing everything I abused the play button with this year. Another way to put it would be they were all 8.0s or better in my own little bubble of the world. This list is going to grow, because some records I've just acquired and yet to give enough listens to for making this list. Everyone should do something similar so I can then make a list in March of all the stuff I missed and discovered through friends. In no particular order...
* = Chicago-based band, I'm biased...

1.The Antlers – Hospice
2.The Poison Arrows – First Class, and Forever *
3.Japandroids – Post-Nothing
4.Crystal Antlers – Tentacles
5.Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
6.The Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
7.Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
8.Dan Deacon – Bromst
9.Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains
10.Obits – I Blame You
11.From Monument to Masses – On Little Known Frequencies
12.Tortoise – Beacons of Ancestorship *
13.Clues – s/t
14.Yppah – They Know What Ghost Know
15.Califone – All My Friends are Funeral Singers *
16.Baroness – Blue Record
17.Wooden Shjips – Dos
18.Cave – Psychic Psummer *
19.Russian Circles – Geneva *
20.Disappears – Live over the Rainbo *
21.Isis – Wavering Radiant
22.Sleepy Sun – Embrace
23.The Mercury Program – chez viking
24.Slaraffenland – We're On Your Side