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The Weekly DiScussion: what's on your Summer '08 megamix?
September 1st signaled the end of the Summer. And what a Summer it has been, with the festival season seeming to start way back in April when the sun came up in the desert for Coachella. This was quickly followed by Camden Crawl and The Great Escape_ in Brighton offering many UK music fans a first glance of the bands tipped for big(ger) things in 2008.
It's a near impossible task to try to encapsulate a summer in one compilation (although those folks at Now That's What I Call... don't half try) but the following is DiS' returning Editor's attempt at a personal soundtrack to the Summer of 2008.
We'd like to know what songs you would use to finish this tape, and what would make it onto your Summer '08 road trip C90/CDR?
- Death Cab for Cutie 'I Will Possess Your Heart'
Words like throb and haunting don't even begin to do this justice. The track seems to have followed me on my travels this year and I was surprised to hear many of the American radio stations playing it in full.
- Late of the Pier 'Space and the Woods'
Sitting atop what sounds like the scuttling skitter of Les Savy Fav dragging Klaxon's into the pit is the Doobee-dooh-dooh oooh-ooh-dooh. And that riff (or something sorta like it) is the sound that's been heard hurtling around clubs and fields this summer. LOTP may not have pioneered a genre or a movement but they're clearly crossing over and spearheading a lot of fun.
- Friendly Fires 'Paris'
Probably the best debut single released last year and this slightly souped-up version on their self-titled debut album is fantastic. Their set at Reading t'other weekend was both joyful and uplifting.
- Crystal Castles 'Courtship Dating'
Few bands have been as divisive as this lot but their set at The Great Escape silenced a few of the doubters amongst our editorial team and their packed show at Reading seemed to convert a few of you too.
- Cobra Starship 'I Kissed a Boy'
Past summers have bought us parody 'hits' from the likes of The Shirehorses, Weird Al Yankovic and Mike Flowers Pops. Last week emo-opportunists Cobra Starship rocked up one of this summer's biggest hits. This track was included on the latest FallOutBoy compilation entitled Friends or Enemies available here.
DiScuss: How would you finish this tape? Have you been cranking out Santogold or Slipknot? Bon Iver or Bloc Party? Are tracks by The Field, El Guincho, Vampire Weekend and Gui Borratto still rocking your stereo? Has this Summer been all about glitches or dusty geetars?
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Anything off the Cats In Paris album
and most recent Maps & Atlases EP
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Basicly
the whole Cut Copy album
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These aren't current songs at all
but I've found myself returning to the following a lot:
Jens Lekman - Tram Nr 7 to Heaven (and many others) - we went to Gothenburg, and all the places he sings about came to life, and we rode the aforementioned tram with some homeless people and a guy who was huffing furiously. We also stayed on the line to Kortedala.Dirty Three - Sad Sexy - It's a lovely dark winter night all in one song, I don't like summer much.
El Guincho - Algeranza LP - this is probably the summeriest thing, really looking forward to seeing him at EOTR (as long as he's still playing).
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Wawa - I can't understand why this amazing woman isn't more revered.
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and neon neon
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I do a mixtape every three months of new stuff discovered in that period.
An incomplete July to September line up will be chosen from, amongst others
Duchess Says - Black Flag
Isoceles - Get Your Hands Off
S.C.U.M.- Wild In Blue
Royal Treatment Plant - Undercurrents
Shrag- Long Term Monster
The Bumblebees - Fluffy Clouds Of Joy
Tom Allalone - Crashland
The Velcros - Half A Biscuit
Mono Taxi - We Want To Have Some Real Fun
Little Jackie - The Stoop
White Pony - Shimmy Shimmy Ya
The Seedy Seeds - The Little Patton
V V Brown - Crying Blood -
in main...
MYSTERY JETS - TWO DOORS DOWN
Estelle - American Boy
The Hold Steady - Contructive Summer
MGMT - Time To PretendAll those would remind me of good times this summer i think.
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That new.....
....K.O.L track is rocking my world! Sounds like a good old slice of "the boss"
Apart from that this summer I have been pleasantly surprised by the new Raconteurs and the Kids in Glass Houses record!
Good times!
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oh and.....
...."bankrobber" by the clash!
Fantastic usage in the new Guy Ritchie film! Helped me rediscover the clash again!
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This:
a) summer doesn't end until the September equinox, i.e. on the 22nd
b) this year the English summer has been shit, and my festival season, with the notable exception of Primavera, has not been much better
c) summer '08 megamix:
1. The Cuties - Sea And Sun
2. Radar Bros. - Warm Rising Sun
3. D_Rradio - Bag Of Lovely
4. Fuck Buttons - Bright Tomorrow
5. The Boggs - Holiday
6. Throw Me The Statue - The Happiest Man On This Plane
7. The Shortwave Set - Sun Machine
8. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - The Beach Song
9. Atlas Sound - Ready, Set, Glow
10. Windsor For The Derby - Good Things -
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And all of the Torche album.
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something like this
Highways of Gold – Jaguar Love
Lost in the Woods – Feral Children
Freaked Flight (Alternate Version) - High Places
Its All Gone Quiet – The Week That Was
Flamethrowers – Cats in Paris
Book of Numbers – The Mae Shi
The Echo of Something Lovely (James Plotkin) – Pyramids
Lion and Lamb – The Mae Shi
Strange Fruit – Zomby -
For the new
Mystery Jets - 2 Doors Down
Weezer - Greatest man who ever lived
and 5 Years Time by Noah and Whale becuase that track has been virtually inescapable!For the old:
Jellyfish - The Ghost At Number 1
The Rubinoos - Hurts Too Much
Brendan Benson - Sittin' Pretty -
Alegranza...
just play all of it, all the time.
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Yes
Good Shout
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Spinto Band - Summer Grof
By in large the best summer song this year
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chinese whispers
brett anderson - only heard it on sunday but it just summed it all up.
Fuck summer - roll on autumn! yahah!
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Electric Feel - MGMT
Mystery Jets - Two Doors Down
Johnny Foreigner - The End And Everything After
Bon Iver - Blindsided
Santogold - Creator
Delays - Girl's On Fire
I agree with Death Cab also
And since the gig at Glasgow Green was one of the best things ever, I think Radiohead - The National Anthem -
was so hard to stop at just 12
cut copy - hearts on fire
mgmt - future reflections
foals - the french open
the whip - sister siam
mystery jets - two doors down
the hold steady - stay positive
johnny foreigner - yr all just jealous
sam sparro - black & gold
we are scientists - after hours
crystal castles - vanished
conor oberst - get well cards
vampire weekend - m79this list has been compiled based upon:
experiences ive had
bands ive seen live
thoughts about situations ive been in -
3 out of my 5 are there
i.e. DCFC, FF, LOTP
add kim and jessie and Throwin' Shapes to that list
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SLEEPYHEAD
by Passion Pit
Also...
MGMT - Kids
Why? - Fatalist Palmistry
Friendly Fires - Jump in the Pool
Van She - Kelly
White Lies - Death
Magistrates - Colour Co-Ordination& anything off...
Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
The Death Set - Worldwide -
Oh and Abba
NOT through personal preference of choice - from working in a cinema, I've seen Mamma Mia at least once per week since it came out at the start of July, and hence have had their repertoire circling the inside of my head ever since...I really fucking hate Abba.
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My songs of summer...
Mystery Jets- 2 Doors down
MGMT- Kids
Crystal Castles- Alice Practice (and basically the rest of their album!)
Noah and the Whale- 5 Years Time
Esser- Headlock
We are Scientists- Chick Lit
Tilly and the Wall- Beat Control
Slow Club- Me and you
Justice vs Simian- We are your friends (purely for Reading based memories) -
M79 - Vampire Weekend
makes me think of hanging around (meaning smoking a massive joint) with my best mate at home when i had fuck all to do and no money
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Bizarre
I did exactly that last year - going to Gothenburg and hunting out some of the Jens Lekman places. Although we stayed near that ridiculous theme park Liseberg. Amazing place, I kind of want to go back..
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nothing that out of the ordinary...
.Pachuca Sunrise/Drilling - Minus The Bear
.Preparing For Guests - Blakfish
.I Am Azerrad - Tubelord
.Baboon - This Town Needs Guns
.Helicon 1 - 'gwai
.West Side Boring - By The End Of Tonight
.In A Semi Dream State... - Sawhorse
.Kandahar Road - The Winchell Riots
.A With Living/Goodbye Enemy Airship - Do Make Say Think
.Awaiting The Flood - Devil Sold His Soul -
favourite songs currently
Mystery Jets - Young Love
Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! (can't wait for the new album)
" - This Is How You Spell, "HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics" (thankyou copy and paste)
Johnny Foreigner - Salt, Peppa and Spinderella
" - Sometimes, in the Bullring
Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked
Laura Marling - My Manic and I
Little Boots - Stuck On Repeat
Blood Red Shoes - I Wish I Was Someone Better
One - Metallica
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