Below is August’s list. You can listen to the mix here.
10] Data Select Party – “You Should Know Bedda”
9] The Rumble Strips – “Girls And Boys In Love”
8] My Luminaries – “Petrol Station Union Jack”
7] The Cinematics – “Alright”
6] Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong – “Where Do You Go”
5] The Maple State – “Temperate Lives”
4] Pinback – “Good To Sea”
3] I Was A Cub Scout – “Pink Squares”
2] Black Kids – “Look At Me (When I Rock Wichoo)”
1] GoodBooks – “Beautiful To Watch”
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I just created an account at Muxtape. Right now I have a few songs posted to show my friend what I was listening to lately. Most likely you will have never heard of any of those bands. I have a few of the songs up from my previous post, 10 Songs I Am Crazy About (List 1).
If you haven’t heard of Muxtape, it is a simple site where users can upload 12 songs (24MB max size per mp3). The site is very easy to use and works great. No more do you have to look up a link for a friend to listen to a new song you’ve found.
An added bonus is that DownloadHelper, an addon for Firefox, can download the mp3’s to your computer. Be careful though, make sure it is saving it as a mp3 and not a mpeg. Not that I am surprised at this, DownloadHelper works on so many great sites: iLike, Last.fm, MySpace, etc.
I will be adding my Muxtape profile to my About Me section after I finish writing this.
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Originally I was planning on posting 10 songs each month that I am crazy about, but I figured that wasn’t enough. I am going to try to post a list as frequently as I can. Here is list #1. You can listen to the songs by visiting their MySpaces which I linked to in their names. Enjoy! EDIT: You can listen to this mix here.
9] Cage The Elephant – “In One Ear”
8] Mystery Jets – “Young Love”
7] The Young Knives – “Terra Firma”
6] Los Campesinos! – “You! Me! Dancing!”
5] Badly Drawn Boy – “Once Around The Block”
4] Great Eskimo Hoax – “He’s Doing His Ritual Dance”
2] Youthmovies – “If You’d Seen A Battlefield”
1] This Town Needs Guns – “If I Sit Still Maybe I Will Get Out Of Here”
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Artist: The Whitest Boy Alive
Album: Dreams
Release Date: 11/26/07
Label: Bubbles
Rating: 10/10
For my first album review, I chose my favorite album of all time. For those of you unfamiliar with The Whitest Boy Alive, which I suppose is most of you, WBA is a minimalist alternative/pop band from Berlin. The band consists of singer/guitarist Erlend Øye , bassist Marcin Öz, drummer Sebastian Maschat, and Daniel Nentwig on Rhodes piano and Crumar. Some of you may know Erlend Øye from the Norweigen indie folk/pop band Kings of Convenience or from the song ‘Remind Me‘ by Röyksopp which was featured in the airport caveman commercial by Geico. 
I will start with my favorite song on the album, ‘Inflation‘. Not only do I think it is the best song on the album, but it may be my favorite song, period. It starts out with a simple guitar phrase after which is joined by a borderline disco bass line and a crisp drum beat. After the intro commences, Erlend Øye comes in on vocals with some of the shortest and to-the-point lyrics I’ve heard. There is a mysterious element to this song that grabs onto me. No matter how many times I listen to it (which by now is probably somewhere in the 300+ range), I enjoy it just as much as the first.
The next best song on the album (and probably WBA’s most popular song) is ‘Burning‘. More upbeat than the other songs on Dreams, ‘Burning‘ starts out with a snare drum crescendo into a homogeneous combination of guitar and bass. Unlike ‘Inflation‘, this song uses longer lyrical phrases during which the guitar cuts out except for a few key backup sections. In between each phrase the guitar enters for a quick solo, exhibiting scale ascending/descending strums.
Another song worth noting is ‘Golden Cage‘. It begins with a pumping bassline after which the characteristic minimalist guitar provides for excitement. While the guitar part may be lacking in number of notes, the melodic strums throughout the piece carry the song. With lyrics such as “So of course I miss you and miss you bad… But I also felt this way when I was still with you…“, the song captures and sparks emotion within the listener.
I highly suggest this album. The Whitest Boy Alive bring a new style to the table with ‘Dreams‘, a style unheard of before. Please check them out:
The Whitest Boy Alive Official Site
The Whitest Boy Alive Myspace
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