20 Albums That Changed* My Life

Tito — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:51:22 +0000

I’m pretty sure I don’t accept the premise that there are 20 albums that changed my life. But I am a sucker for these facebook lists, so I’ll put down 20 (or so) that I think are capital “I” important to me. Some are old standbys; some are newer additions; the reasons they are included are unique, but for some reason or another, these are all Big Deals To Me.

BMK Bonus: I’ve included a song that appeared on each record

Alphabetically:

American Water – Silver Jews (Send In The Clouds) [MP3]
Beelzebubba – Dead Milkmen (Life Is Shit) [MP3]
Ben Folds Five – Ben Folds Five (Best Imitation of Myself) [MP3]
Black Sheep Boy – Okkervil River (For Real) [MP3]
Blacklisted – Neko Case (I Wish I Was The Moon) [MP3]
Dirty South – Drive-By Truckers (Carl Perkins’ Cadillac) [MP3]
Domestica – Cursive (The Lament of Pretty Baby) [MP3]
Fear of A Black Planet – Public Enemy (Who Stole The Soul?) [MP3]
Hearts of Oak – Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?) [MP3]
A Love Supreme – John Coltrane (Acknowledgment) [MP3]
The Low End Theory – A Tribe Called Quest (Excursions) [MP3]
Lunapark – Luna (Slash Your Tires) [MP3]
The Magic of Abba – Abba (SOS) [MP3]
Nebraska – Bruce Springsteen (Highway Patrolman) [MP3]
Paul’s Boutique – Beastie Boys (The Sounds of Science) [MP3]
Pearl – Janis Joplin (Mercedes Benz) [MP3]
Pinkerton – Weezer (The Good Life) [MP3]
Rites of Passage – Indigo Girls (Romeo & Juliet) [MP3]
Separation Sunday – The Hold Steady (Stevie Nix) [MP3] – NOTE: This may be my favorite song OF ALL TIME®
Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes (Kiss Off) [MP3]

(Previously, on Black Market Kidneys: How It Was For Me – more of a narrative style, with some sure record overlaps. Never completed)

it’s better my sweet, that we hover like bees

Tito — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:45:32 +0000

As with all things, Facebook is the Prime Mover. You know how it is. By fiat, I’ll put all my chain-notes on this blog & link back from there, so that all y’all aren’t required to go to FB for scoops on me if you don’t want to/can’t. I’m talking to you China and Ticha (or other people that work at corporations who firewall the FB juggernaut). Plus You get the extra-special bonus of me including MP3′s of each song for your fair use/pirating needs & a few possibly NSFW youtube links!

Go!

The Soundtrack of Your Life as Determined By Your Ipod.

This is totally random and ridiculous, but kind of fun.
HOW TO DO IT…
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For the first question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button TWICE
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool…just type it in man!

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

Tito’s Soundtrack

Opening Credits
So Far Away – Carole King [MP3]
I would have played this later in the movie, but who am I to argue with iPod?

Waking Up
Los Angeles, I’m Yours – The Decemberists [MP3]
Works for me. The harmonica in gives me fond memories of those Gary Coleman videos we rented from Applause on Dodge during my youth (ca. 1984). You know, where he lived in a lockers at a train depot and had some mystical ability to pick horse winners. Oh, where were we?

On The Right Track (1981)

First Day at School
Name Names – The Mendoza Line [MP3]
Good. The opening guitar riff that settles into a barracuda-ish stutter sets the mood nicely. Besides, who can forget first day of school roll calls where the teachers got to stumble over all the foreign names & I had to explain my name was really Tito.

Falling in Love
Lighten Up – Beastie Boys [MP3]
Another one of the Beastie Boys instrumental noodlings I could do without. Come on iPod!! You know this is the band that gave us Girls, don’t you. Sheeeeeeeet.

Fight Song
The Fool – Neutral Milk Hotel [MP3]
Does not bode well for the “fight”. Do the engineers at Apple know something I don’t? Don’t Answer!

Breaking Up
Steady Rollin’ – Two Gallants [MP3]

but I shot my wife today
dropped her body in the Frisco bay

Look out, Monica!

High School Prom
The List of Dorms – Pavement [MP3]
Would have been nice to go to a high school where this was the dance music.

The one that got away
Prince – Gett Off [MP3]
And Stay Off!

Life
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite – R.E.M. [MP3]
The best thing I can say about this is: if Get A Life can use REM for a theme song, that’s good enough for me. Speaking of which:

Best.
News.
Of.
The.
Day.

This series is available on DVD!! Totally coming to my house on the wings of the US Mail golden chariot in the sky.

Mental Breakdown
Dark Leaves Form a Thread – Destroyer [MP3]
Dan Bejar serenading my psychological collapse seems right. He Just Gets Me.

Driving
I’ll Be Your Friend – Bright Eyes & Neva Dinova [MP3]
I don’t drive much, but this would be a nice song for a shot of me wistfully looking out a MUNI window, Midnight Cowboy steez

Flashback
The Farewell Party – Cursive [MP3]
Tim Kasher laying the lyrics for retrospection & memory? Not toooo much of a stretch.

Getting Back Together
Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie [MP3]
Where WERE the spiders?

Wedding
Bitchin’ Camaro – The Dead Milkmen [MP3]
YES!

Birth of Child
Ain’t No Cure For Love – Leonard Cohen [MP3]
Awww yeah, baby being born to some sweet hot sax lix.

Final Battle
Crazy Feelin’ – Roy Hamilton [MP3]
I was pulling for some Flaming Lips at this point. But again, I bow before iPod.

Death Scene
Disappear – Beyoncé [MP3]
Here Lies…Tito Fierce.

Funeral Song
The Air Near My Fingers – The White Stripes [MP3]

life is so boring
it’s really got be snoring

’nuff said

End Credits
Outro With Bees (Reprise) – Neko Case [MP3]
Outro!
And I’m Swayze!

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20 Albums That Changed* My Life

it’s better my sweet, that we hover like bees