Summer Music!

So my laptop is getting fixed right now, and it has been in repair for a while now. It was really strange because it gets really hot, so I can't really use it on my lap anymore. It hurts. Anyway, I think I might write an entry about the Olympics later... (Yeah it was ridiculous. I was dumb enough to watch it for 4 hours when I could have turned on the TV this morning and seen a 5 minute recap of it! What! Oh, and did anybody notice that the kid walking next to Yao Ming had an upside down flag of China?)

This summer has had a lot of really cool albums out:
1. Girl Talk: No Pause -- Girl Talk came out with "Feed the Animals" in June? Yes I'm pretty sure it was in June. Gregg Gillis did the same thing as Radiohead -- you can pay for the album on your own price and if you pay over $10 you get a physical copy in Sept. Do you want one? YES, YOU DO!

Anyway, I've been pretty obsessed with it. And it's really fun to pick out which songs he sampled. For example, 'No Pause' has Missy Elliott 's 'Work It' (duh!), Eminem, Run D.M.C., Spank Rock, that song from the MacAir commercial (Yael Naim), Public Enemy, Jimi Hendrix, etc... Girl Talk does have a talent in picking out the best parts of the songs and putting them together. It may not be the most original way to make music, but you can't really say it isn't creative! Greg Gillis pays a lot of attention to the small, almost unnoticeable details in pop songs.

2. Liz Phair: Fuck and Run -- Liz Phair 'Exile in Guyville' 15th anniversary Reissue! This is an old song from an old album when Liz Phair was fairly unknown and still considered indie/lo-fi, and before she did that god-awful "Why Can't I?" for that chick-flick movie (I don't remember, which one but I definitely do remember hearing that song and being incredibly shocked). Anyway, I should give credit to Sam for this song. He asked me to get it over a break a long long time ago, and it was pretty much my favorite song at the time. I finally got 'Exile in Guyville' at a Grimey's record sale for $5! I think this is probably still my favorite song from the album.

Exile from Guyville talks a lot about sex... and Liz Phair in an interview said,

I was pretty good in bed at that point from the point of view of what the guys wanted, but pretty bad in terms of my own enjoyment. And yes, that made me angry. But it was my own fault in some sense."

Yeah, it's a pretty raw album.

3. of Montreal: Id Engager -- Woohoo! of Montreal is coming out with a new album in October! It's called Skeletal Lamping. Anyway, I can't speak for the album because I just have this one track, but I'll let Kevin Barnes tell you about it:

i spend most of my time in a state of mild confusion and pensiveness. i imagine most people do too. this record is my attempt to bring all of my puzzling, contradicting, disturbing, humorous... fantasies, ruminations and observations to the surface, so that i can better dissect and understand their reason for being in my head. hence the title, Skeletal Lamping. Lamping is the name of a rather dreadful hunting technique where, hunters go into the forest at night, flood an area in light, then shoot, or capture, the animals as they panic and run from their hiding places. this album is my attempt at doing this to my proverbial skeletons. i haven't yet decided if i should shoot or just capture them though."

I'm not really that crazy about the track, but I'm sure the rest of the album will be too awesome for words.