With the cold wind blowing and snow scuttling down, we settled down to some gravlox and music.
Reent's went first with Southern Days, from the musical Scottsboro Boys, a modern day minstrel show. Though his song is unavailable, this song is a good sample of the style of song.
Hassey was up next and played Armada Latina, by Cypress Hill featuring Marc Antony and Pitbull, featuring the hook from Crosby Stills and Nash's Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.
Steven introduced his track saying that it was a tough year to find music to be proud of. He was not sure that this year's release by Sun Kil Moon was superior to prior releases, but he was impressed with the increased virtuosity of Mark Kozelek's playing, as demonstrated on Ålesund. Of note, you can't appreciate it on this file, but the vocals on the left and right tracks are different takes.
Erik opened by calling attention to the BBC article that noted that 2010 was the worst year for rock since 1960 (in terms of number of rock songs on the top 100 singles of the year--only 3 made it, and the highest ranked 25, and that was the Glee cover of Don't Stop Believing).
He then played The Apples in Stereo-heavily ELO influenced-Hey Elevator.
Frank played a track off Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. The Metric provided the music for Clash at Demonhead's Black Sheep. Most Excellent.
Steven played Tornado off the debut solo album from jónsi,the lead singer from sigur rós.
Hassey played Kasabian from the Processed Beats. Not a new song. He claimed he discovered this only just before he arrived. A likely story.
Erik played Picking up the Pieces by Fitz and the Tantrums (a band introduced to him by Todd from Beware of the Blog and Forces of Geek)
Reent's offered up OK GO's needing/getting.
There were some, um, irregularities that followed this and then Frank played I Am So Sad, So Very Very Sad by Crash and The Boys, also from Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.
Pete showed up and played Local Jones by The City Champs. He and Erik saw them play a dive bar in Memphis. AMG describes them as Booker T and the MG's re-imagined. (Local Jones is unavailable, but this gives a good flavor of their music.
Frank followed with Vampire Weekend's Giving up the Gun.
Erik played Midlake's haunting, 70's influenced Rulers, Ruling all Things
And with that, Steven closed the night with ceo's Illuminata.
