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Very Close to, if not actually in, the CD player:

Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy

Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo - Echos Hypnotiques

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Whatever Brains - Trim-Jeans and/or Gross Urge Plus Ten CD-R

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Gene Watson - A Taste of the Truth

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Franco & le TPOK Jazz - Francophonic Volume 2

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Amerie - In Love & War

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Nirvana - Live at Reading

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Shakira - She Wolf

seen/heard   °  listen   ° preorder

Magneta Lane - Gambling with God

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Various Artists - Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

The xx - xx

seen/heard   °  listen °  preorder

Future of the Left - Travels With Myself And Another

seen/heard   °  listen°  buy

Rokia Traoré - Tchamantché

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Emmy the Great - First Love

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Shiina Ringo - Superficial Gossip

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy

Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy








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February April March

posted 02/22/2008

hhjjHow awesome has my week been?  I managed to slice my face open while brushing my teeth last night.  So:  AWESOME.

Here, this will help:  A playlist made up of some of the garagier efforts from noted retro-lovin' frog-pop chanteuse April March (née Pee-Wee's Playhouse and Ren & Stimpy animator Elinor Blake).  It spans her days with NYC girl-group The Pussywillows, LA-based punk-poppers The Shitbirds, her keen collaboration with the Sonics-inspired Makers; the solo tracks include un mandatory indulgence en Francais and her brassy, acidic redeaux de Serge Gainsbourg's "Laisse Tomber Les Filles" (featured in Tarantino's Death Proof (loved the first half, hated the second, I'm right, you're wrong, shut up)).

How awesome are these songs?  So awesome they could slice your face open with a toothbrush.  They're smart enough to leave well enough alone, not a one lasts longer than two-and-a-half.  All together, these seven songs will get me, and you, fifteen minutes closer to next week.  Which might be even worse than this one was!  Enjoy.

The Pussywillows - Come on Now (mp3) (from Spring Fever)

The Shitbirds - I Want You (mp3) (buy Famous Recording Artists)

The Shitbirds - Beef Bologna (mp3) (buy Famous Recording Artists)

April March and the Makers - Try to Cry (mp3) (buy Sings Along with The Makers)

April March and the Makers - Bust Out (mp3) (buy Sings Along with The Makers)

April March -  Tu Mens (mp3) (buy Chick Habit)

April March -  Chick Habit (mp3) (buy Chick Habit)

"You're gonna need a heap of glue/When they all catch up with you/And they cut you up in two..."

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1. christa left...
07/22/2008 7:18 am :: http://www.last.fm/viperetta

ooh please repost if you can, i'd love to hear these tracks; have you heard the France Gall original? i'm loving Made Out Of Babies too atm :) xx