Strangely Attracted to Mercurial Free Music

Yep, you read that right. Mercury Rev has new albumS out, and they're giving away one of em free on their website HERE. If you're a sucker for free stuff like I am, you should head over there now and sign up to download Strange Attractor, the instrumental companion album to 'regular' album Snowflake Midnight.

What, never heard of the Mercury Rev? Well, before this, me neither, not much anyway, but hey, now's a bettter time than ever to get to know them eh? Don't like their instrumental music? What you complaining about, it's free, ain't it. tsk tsk.

Today's Acquisition: Mercury Rev - In My Heart, A Strange Attractor

One Hell Of A Heavy Metal Riff, Boy

Remember the Hellboy II trailer a while back, with the rocking soundtrack? Well, the song for that trailer is actually by this bunch of German metal rockers Rammstein.

It's one of my favorite of their songs, really. Not that I've heard many of their songs in the first place. But I have no fucking idea what they are singing about. Heck, they could be singing about chicken soup, for all I know. But hey, that's a brilliant riff/hook, dudes.

Acquisition:

Rammstёin - Mein Herz Brennt (from Mutter)

Life In a Rabbit's Playground

If you're as nuts about Life as I am now, you'd have already watched the first (and second, and third and fourth) episodes of the new season, AND googled the lyrics of that song in the first episode that was playing when they were opening the chests.

Well, I'll save you the time looking for the song on Limewire or Torrent... here it s, Gram Rabbit's Devil's Playground!

Acquisitions:

Gram Rabbit - Devil's Playground (from Cultivation)


Yes, the blog is BACK! No direct downloads though, but click on the link and you'll go to the Savefile page where you can er... acquire the song. :D

CRAP.

AH CRAP.
Fileden suspended my account.
So I can't upload anything for now.
At least until I find another host for the files.
Anyone can suggest a good (free) file hosting service so I can resume the mp3 uploads?

Recycled Post of The Week: Jimmy, Stay on my World Tonight

Welcome to the Recycled Post of the Day! Here, I shall recycle some of the past music posts I posted on EoE before, this time complete with the mp3 files for download.

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Jimmy, Stay on my World Tonight
(Originally posted at Eye on Everything on 19 January 2006)


For today's Eyeris' Music Week post, I shall talk about one of my favorite bands - Jimmy Eat World.

You see, they have a new EP out, called Stay On My Side Tonight, and I only just got a listen a few weeks back when I was in Singapore.

Now, why do I like this band? Well, not only are they the pioneers of emo rock, I like their music because of all the reasons stated in my last post - nice tunes, good clean vocals, and meaningful lyrics. Plus it helps that their songs are good for singing in the car as well.

Anyway, The EP consists of five songs - Disintegration, Over, Closer, Half-Right and a so-called 'Styrofoam Remix' of Drugs And Me, which was originally on the Futures album. Of these songs my favorites are Disintegration and Half Right.

Disintegration is another of the band's trademark super-long, more-than-seven-minutes epics, in the vein of Goodbye Sky Harbour (which clocked in at almost 15 minutes long!) and 23 (which is one of my favorite Jimmy Eat World songs EVAR).

Anyway, Disintegration has got the usual mellow and emo verses, and a catchy hook and chorus that you can't stop singing over and over again. Everytime you hear that line 'Hanging on a cigarette', you just wanna sing a long as well. It's my favorite type of Jimmy Eat World song, and definitely my favorite on this EP.

Half Right is a cover of a song by Heatmiser, and is good enough that I thought it was their own song at first (this was before I heard the original... which sounds almost the same wtf). Sure, it tends to repeat itself over and over again (the tune I mean), but the way they sing it is just classic emo rock. And I have to say that I have never heard the word 'motherf**ker' sung so delicately and sensitively before. haha.

As for the other songs, well, Over is quite catchy, but Closer was a little to bland for my liking. HOWEVER, both songs did not really stand out for me. They can be categorised as part of another of Jimmy Eat World's typical songs - the rather unremarkable filler song that no one really remembers. The band always seems to have one or two of these fillers on their albums - songs that are just THERE, and don't really stand out or make you go WHOA I wanna hear that again! I just never expected it on an EP of only FIVE songs.

And as for the final song , the 'styrofoam remix' of Drugs and Me... lets just say I hope they don't remix any of their songs again, shall we? Unless it's an acoustic version, of course.

Anyway, if you've never heard their stuff before, I suggest you get either of these albums first - Clarity, Futures or Bleed American - and NOT this EP.

For fans like me, this EP was a welcome distraction, as it satisfies our hunger for more of their stuff while we wait for the next album.

Now, if only we could get them to come to South East Asia to perform...

Downloads:

Jimmy Eat World - Disintegration (from the Stay On My Side Tonight EP, 2006)
Jimmy Eat World - Half-Right (from the Stay On My Side Tonight EP, 2006)


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Moments of Musiclarity: Details in The Mraz Fabric

Moments of musiclarity is where I post songs with my so-called 'musiclarity' moments. For more on this made-up word, go HERE.




Ah, Jason Mraz. I remember when I went to the Mosaic Music Festival two or three years ago, and I saw this dude at the hotel lobby looking a little lost. I wanted to go over to him and say "Yo Jason, waiting for your rocket to land?", but I figured that having wished Erlend Øye good luck on his show in the elavator; and asked Eirik Glambek Bøe what was wrong with his guitar at the taxi stand, I'd already used up my quota for talking to famous musicians.

But anyway, Mr A-Z has a new album, and I kinda like this song in it that features (a definition that could mean anything from the 'featured dude' singing backup vocals, rapping, or mere playing the xylaphone on the record) James Morrison.

It's not just the tune, it's the lyrics that got me most. I like cool lyrics that roll of the tongue nicely, and in this one, its this particular line that is my personal moment of musiclarity...

If you’re shocked it's just the fault of faulty manufacturing

Ah, pure poetry, that.


Downloads:

Jason Mraz (feat. James Morrison) - Details in The Fabric (from We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things, 2008)


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Weekend Junkbox #3: Because Swiss Army Knives Rock

Because I just found my long-lost Swiss army knife.
It reminded me of the coolest theme song ever.
And THAT mullet.
On this guy whose name is Angus.
But you probably know him better as MacGyver.


Downloads:

Theme from MacGyver



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It's Official. The Death Cab is a Cutie for Singapore

It's Official.

Death Cab For Cutie will be in Singapore on 12 August.



(thanks Reta for the heads up!)


Death Cab for Cutie: Live in Singapore
Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: Esplanade Concert Hall

I'm half-tempted to boycott the damn thing just to show 'em who's boss. I don't even like their new album all that much anyway. However, the reality is that Singaporean (and Malaysian) fans of The O.C. will flock to it anyway, so my noble gesture would ultimately be a supremely futile one. Plus I really want to hear Marching Bands of Manhattan live.

So yes, I'll probably be one of those suckers who will be joining Reta for the show. And to paraphrase her, who else wants to join our Malaysian contingent eh?

But if they really do retain the bloody 4-minute intro for I Will Possess Your Heart during the show, I think I'll start booing. Talk about a bloody waste of precious concert time, man...


Downloads:

Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart (from Narrow Stairs, 2008)
Death Cab For Cutie - Marching Bands of Manhattan (from Plans, 2006)


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Recycled Post of The Day: Goldfrapp Breathes the Most Gorgeous Pop Song Of the Year

Yes, it's Goldfrapp again. If you also read my other blog, Eye on Everything, you'll have read this following post before, and know that I've written about them before too.

So... welcome to the Recycled Post of the Day!

Here, I shall recycle some of the past music posts I posted on EoE before, this time complete with the mp3 files for download.

The idea for this so-called coloumn is because:

1. I used to think that some of my past music posts on EoE throughly deserved to have the songs for download as well.
2. I can't be arsed to think of new things to post here ALL THE TIME.

So, without further ado, here's that old post on THE MOST favorite song of mine this year.. Goldfrapp's A&E!

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Goldfrapp Breathes the Most Gorgeous Pop Song Of the Year

(Originally posted at Eye on Everything on 22 February 2008)



My latest obsession: Goldfrapp.

Didn't used to like them before, but one day, an odd thing happened. I actually listened to ONE SONG non-stop, on loop, for almsot an entire day.

I repeated Goldfrapp's A&E for god knows how long - that same song over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

And I'm still listening to it even right now as I type this.



I'd never really gotten into Golfrapp before, because I'm not THAT fond of electronica, and their last album - Supernature - was mostly dance-oriented. But A&E is such a perfect pop song for me that I went out and bought their Seventh Tree album just based on that one song.

For me, it's the best song I've heard so far this year. The tendering intro, the soaring instrumentals, the uplifting refrain and chorus, and of course, that gorgeous, gorgeous voice of Alison Goldfrapp just BREATHING through the song... it's the sexiest vocals I've heard in a song since like... FOREVER.

Go download it. You won't regret it.

Downloads:

Goldfrapp - A&E (from Seventh Tree, 2008)


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Reviewing Sigur Rós' New Album in Eyerislandic

Eyerislandic toink toink bleh.
Sigur Ros toink toink kabuhayaki laf laf pet-pet.
Toink laf laf laf pet pet laf laf laf.
Haiyaryar bleh bleh kabuhayaki toink "Iceland"
"Hopelandic"/"Icelandic" huh, toink toink ?????
Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust huh huh huh?
Masimasi dagahaiyar mahayo toink.
Takk, (), Ágætis byrjun, Von.
Toink!
Toink "Goobledigook" kabuhayaki "()" aisehfaluma.
Aishefaluma mai "()" "Hopelandic"
"Last.fm" gratis strim-strim laf laf toink.
Toink kala toink!
Bleh bleh Toink!
Sigur Ros Toink!

Downloads:

Sigur Rós - Goobledigook (from Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, 2008)


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