Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.
- Lester Bangs
Another band I am dying to get a look at in person is MGMT. Ever since hearing 'Time To Pretend' earlier this year, I have been hooked on their 'Occular Spectacular' record. I hope they play the small tent, and I hope I have had several beers before they hit the stage.
Boredom manifests its self in all sorts of ways. Today it took the shape of a 'office space' inspired video for the killer MGMT track 'Time To Pretend'...I just thought the sentiment of the song worked well with the hell that is the cubicled office...and this is coming from someone who spent too many years as a drone in cubicle purgatory...keep fighting the good fight, once you break free its like a brave new world.
I have been immersing myself in all of these bands that I wasn't very familiar with in preparation for my annual pilgrimage to Indio for Coachella this year. When I got to MGMT i stopped and lingered for awhile...soaking the sounds in.
I think the fact that these guys can pull off a lyric like "You shock me like an electric eel" says all you need to know. 'Electric Feel' is a killer track on a killer album...definitely check out Oracular Spectacular. It's a party on compact disc.
...or my email is anyway! Hey, it's me Blair...the Certain Songs staff of one. I just do this for the love of the music and am in no way trying to rip anybody off, so if you are an artist or a record label and you are not happy that I am promoting your music, or you want me to take a song down, just shoot me an email and I will most definitely oblige.
And please support the artists I post here in whatever way you can if you do download a song...go to a show, buy some merch, buy an album...these songs are the soundtrack to my life and I just love to share them. But I can only do that if the insanely talented artist responsible for said songs are able to eat.
I also love hearing new stuff...so any submissions can also be sent to my email, I will try my bestest to listen to everything and get back to you all...peace,love,rock n' roll.
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I guess you're old enough to know. Kids out on the east coast. Roughly twenty years old. Got coaxed out by a certain perfect ratio. Of warm beer to the summer smoke. And the meat loaf to the billy joel. Certain songs they get so scratched into our souls.
She goes low on the seats when she gets high in her car. She looks shallow but shes neck deep in the steamy dreams of the guys along the harbor bars. She's pulling out her shirttails and jacking up her socks. Stern and stoned and confident, coming up towards the jukebox. Born into the only songs that everybody finally sings along. B-1 is for the good girls. It's only the good die young. C-9 is for the making eyes. It's paradise by the dashboard light. D4 is for the lovers. B12 is for the speeders. And the hard drugs are for the bartenders and the kitchen workers and the bartender's friends. And they're playing it again. Ellen Foley gives us hope. Certain songs they get scratched into our souls.
I guess you're old enough to know. Kids out on the west coast are taking off their clothes. Screwing in the surf and going out to shows. They get high and ride around in gtos. I guess you're old enough to know. CERTAIN SONGS THEY GET SCRATCHED INTO OUR SOULS. - The Hold Steady
