Off the Charts #7: Birthday 2013!

No Age

Well, I didn't think I was going to actually get this done. And, in fact, I thought that meant the end of this feature, but inspiration struck for some reason and so here we are. These are all the blogs that I subscribed to on my birthday last year that posted on my birthday (July 16). Multiple posts were pared down to one, because some blogs post a LOT! It's a long one, but I think it's enjoyable. And VERY eclectic!

Off the Charts #7: Birthday 2013

***Featuring***
Against Me!
The Bluetones
Cursive
The Dandy Warhols
Electric Soft Parade
Frank Ocean
The Hood Internet
Jack Handey
Kurt Vile
Michael Alvarado featuring Carissa Rae
Miles Davis featuring John Coltrane
Naked
No Age
Of Montreal
PHOX
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sara Bareilles
SCB
Smashing Pumpkins
The Vaccines
The Wild Swans

***And Featuring the Following Blogs***
What If? (Post From My Birthday)
The Vinyl Villain (After my birthday, JC moved blogs. He moved HERE)
Across the Kitchen Table (Post From My Birthday)
Culture Pop (Post From My Birthday)
Song, By Toad (Post From My Birthday)
I Sing In the Kitchen (Post From My Birthday)
Daytrotter (Post From My Birthday Featured in this Podcast)
Elements (Post From My Birthday)
I Am Fuel, You Are Friends (Post From My Birthday)
Page-Turner (Post From My Birthday)
Pigeons & Planes (Post From My Birthday)
Crestfallen (Post From My Birthday) (Oh, I have in my notes that I picked the song I picked for this post because a version (from the rerelease that I talk about) of it was released on my birthday, as well)
Panda Head (Post From My Birthday)
The Hood Internet (Post From My Birthday)
Sandpaper Suit (Post From My Birthday)
Sirens of Decay (Post From My Birthday)
Linear Tracking Lives (Post From My Birthday)
Snopes (Post From My Birthday)
We Listen For You (Post From My Birthday)
Listen Before You Buy (Now over at Unrecorded) (Post From My Birthday)

One Year, 100 Albums: #100 Cursive - Domestica

Cursive Domestica, 2000

Starting things off with a loud crash. Like the sound of a dinner plate hitting the wall.

Domestica wasn't the first album I heard by Cursive. It's just the album that I can't stop once I've started. It's raw (probably because it was written right around the time of Tim Kasher's divorce) and loud and sweet and quiet and angry and sad. Oh and it's a concept album with an ambiguous ending!

It's styled as "Cursive's Domestica" on the album cover and on Amazon and all that, but I'm not going to fret about that.

These first two songs start the album and they ended this concert in January 2001:

So I mean yeah. It's chunky and weird and amazing. Definitely check out the whole album if you've never heard it.

I could have picked any song and it would have given you a good idea of what this album is like. I almost picked "A Red So Deep" because I like the drums so much, but then I was listening to the album and this came on and it's a pretty good encapsulation of what's on this album.

Cursive - The Radiator Hums

You can buy the album at Amazon, Amazon MP3, iTunes, or the Saddle Creek webstore