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Part 4: #1-25
#26 Teen Creeps by No Age (myspace/live)
I’m feeling regretful of not including Nouns in my list.
#27 Eraser by No Age (video/live)
Can be #26 (tied), both are equally good.
#28 Feel The Love by Cut Copy (myspace/live)
“All the girls I’ve known are crying” Conceited but catchy.
#29 Bare Feet On Wet Grip Tape by Chad VanGaalen (myspace)
Soft Airplane’s most accessible song.
#30 God? By The Dodos (myspace)
“Oh God, where’d you go?” Agnosticism at its finest?
#31 Ottoman by Vampire Weekend (myspace)
At least we got this song from a shitty movie.
#32 Beat (Health, Life and Fire) by Thao Nguyen With The Get Down Stay Down (myspace/live)
Upon listening to this track, I’ve become a big fan.
#33 Heart of Chambers by Beach House (myspace/video)
My favorite song off Devotion.
#34 Dying Is Fine by Ra Ra Riot (myspace/video-ep version)
Sounds emo without reference to this poem.
#35 Hitten by Those Dancing Days (myspace/video)
All girl indie pop bands ftw.
#36 Let’s All Sleep Together by Team Genius (myspace)
Orgies ftw. (All girl orgies ftw?)
#37 For Emma by Bon Iver (myspace/live)
This song is simple but captures the atmosphere of loneliness.
#38 The Modern Leper by Frightened Rabbit (myspace/live)
“You must be a masochist, to love a modern leper”
#39 Rabid Bits of Time by Chad Van Gaalen
Beautifully sung.
#40 Winter ’05 by Ra Ra Riot
This song makes Winter depressing. Sad in general.
#41 Agoraphobia by Deerhunter (myspace)
“Cover me, comfort me” is stuck in my head.
#42 Skeleton Man by The Evangelicals (myspace/live)
“When someone loves you very much, you’re fucked”
#43 Why Do You You Let Me Stay Here? By She and Him (myspace/video)
Fuck you Ben Gibbard!…oh I meant congrats.
#44 Move by Cansei De Ser Sexy (myspace/video)
Another catchy CSS track.
#45 Another World by Antony and The Johnsons (myspace/video)
Antony apparently doesn’t think much of us. Still beautiful though.
#46 Uncalibrated by Bridges and Powerlines (myspace/video)
This song puts the power into powerpop.
#47 Shut Up And Let Me Go by The Ting Tings (myspace/video)
The Ting Tings are a guilty pleasure.
#48 Poison Dart by The Bug ft. Warrior Queen (myspace/video)
My introduction to The Bug. I was amazed.
#49 My Year in Lists by Los Campesinos (myspace/video)
“Send me stationery to make me horny” Mail-sex ftw?
#50 I Hate Dell by Oldfolks Home (myspace)
Dell pissed off the wrong guy.

Summer Heights High debuts on HBO (US) and The Movie Channel in Canada around November 9th, though it’s 7 episodes were recommended by a fellow Spikedhumor user showing me a few episodes and making me laugh hysterically.

Chris Tilley plays 3 characters, Mr. G – an overeccentric and somewhat stereotypical drama teacher, Ja’ime a schoolgirl who’s a total bitch (for the lack of a better term) and Jonah a 13-year old illiterate problematic child. Jonah in my opinion is by far the funniest character with excessive foul language.

Here’s a clip (Jonah getting his dick touched):

Here’s a playlist dedicated to Jonah Takalua (it’ll make sense if you watch the season):
Boy From School by Maritime (Hot Chip cover)
Gun Mouth by Laurel Collective
Hate Me Now by Nas ft. Puff Daddy (Jonah loves rap and he is hated)
Angry by The Bug
Suspended in Gaffa by Ra Ra Riot
Dance Dance Dance by Lykke Li
Pictures in an Exhibition by Death Cab For Cutie
Stay Away by Nirvana
Here Should Be My Home by No Age
We Are All Accelerated Readers by Los Campesinos

Filling in for Joe who needs a break before school starts, I’m holding onto the albums I review for tomorrow so enjoy this playlist. Most of them are recycled MP3s from other posts and rather short songs but it’s better then nothing right?

Constructive Summer by The Hold Steady – We’ve had a constructive summer for this blog didn’t we?
Stuck For The Summer by Two Hours Traffic – I was stuck at home for a good 5 weeks
It’s That Time Again by The Dodos
Brain Burner by No Age
Learnt My Lesson Well by Kaiser Chiefs
We’ll Never Sleep (God Knows We’ll Try) by Rilo Kiley
Insane Ft. Warrior Queen by The Bug
This Is Not A Test by She & Him
It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career by Belle and Sebastian -They’ll be saying that about me when I spend more time on this blog then on actual school
Holiday by Chaingang – hopefully you enjoyed your labor day!

Anyway No Age is a noise/experiment/punk rock band out of Los Angeles, California that got absolutely amazing reviews for their album Nouns not just from Pitchfork but from Tiny Mix Tapes known for being harsher (or snobbier).

I’d go straight into a review of the album but I’ll first have to talk about noise rock arguably one of my least favorite genres. Noise rock to me is personified with off-key notes, tons of distortion but intentional either to deliberately annoy or to make something beautiful with something that in all sense of music…pretty ugly. The problem for me is that when the goal is to annoy…I usually end up annoyed and having sift through the “noise” makes the music harder to listen to and my brain tends to feel exhausted after a few listens. At least my dislike for Noise is at least explainable.

Even though I do hate Noise, I don’t really hate this album. It is noise but with punk elements and good enough vocals that I can just take it all in at once and not have to worry about missing smaller details or forcing myself to ignore the noise.

I think you can tell if something is great in this fashion…I should in all sense of purposes hate No Age and their album Nouns but the way everything is layered and with all it’s randomness and weirdness it’s a pretty good experience just sitting back and listening to it. Maybe noise is the wrong word here? I’d have to say it feels hard like grunge, metal and post-punk but I guess they’ve really mastered the use of putting in dissonance all over their record without me caring that it’s there.

I still don’t think this is the perfect album…it’s a strange odyssey that I do wish to go back to and revisit all the elements over again but there are a few misses for me. The song “Things I Did While I Was Dead” feels so empty…and it actually had my head aching because there were very little elements or creativity compared to all the other tracks. It does have that annoying thriller type sound that I imagine would be for Poe’s tell-tale heart but otherwise it doesn’t have anything to offer. I would have to say the same about “Keechie” a good ambient track that I wouldn’t mind finding on a post-rock album but it just feels out of place here.

Overall: 4.3 out of 5.

Eraser by No Age

Cappo by No Age

Here Should Be My Home By No Age

Buy this album at: Insound, CD Universe and Amazon

This show was actually really funny and most of all meaningful as a teen grows up in high school. The sad thing is that it wasn’t promoted and many viewers from outside of the US were forced to download the show via torrents. They also switched their lineup days and lost half their viewership. The Canadian channel fucked me over by not playing it and I looked forward to downloading this show weekly.

I guess the problem is that a sitcom with rather real situations when a Muslim exchange student is living in the US but it’s a shame that the stuff on TV is that popular do you people buy into that crap? This television show had SOUL and was just hilarious.. it didn’t glamorize the rich and fashion and the idiotic. It was believable and sometimes I just don’t understand why things are popular.. Like Undeclared, this show is only going to last one season. It’s officially canceled with one more episode to go. I think that I just hate people and “pop culture” in general or else shows like these would stay alive and that bitch Tila Tequila would be off the air. Like Undeclared this show is ahead of its time I guess. Judd Apatow sure has been successful since Fox are a bunch of retards. Stupid CW.

If you’re in the US you can watch episodes here. Otherwise just download the first and ONLY season on The Pirate Bay.

Watch the pilot here it still makes me laugh and I’ve seen this episode 50 times:

Right now I’m still pretty sad about the cancellation but here’s a playlist.

1. Futuristic Kids by Siberian
2. Subterranean Homesick Alien by Radiohead
3. Alone in The World by Everybody Else
4. Teen Creeps by No Age
5. Little Sister by Queens of The Stone Age
6. Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin
7. Island of an Honest Man by Hot Hot Heat
8. F–K Up Kid by Kevin Drew
9. We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives by Los Campesinos!
10. Big Kid Table by Thao Nguyen & The Get Down Stay Down