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| Rise Against |
12 Years of Last.fm (Part 3)
***Featuring***
Alkaline Trio
Bad Religion
Dar Williams
Elliott Smith
Frightened Rabbit
Pearl Jam
Rise Against
Sublime
Sufjan Stevens
Thrice
Vampire Weekend
Showing posts with label Frightened Rabbit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frightened Rabbit. Show all posts
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Special Countdown: 12 Years of Last.Fm (Part 3) (#30-#21)
12 Years of Last.fm (Part 3)
***Featuring***
Alkaline Trio
Bad Religion
Dar Williams
Elliott Smith
Frightened Rabbit
Pearl Jam
Rise Against
Sublime
Sufjan Stevens
Thrice
Vampire Weekend
Friday, October 27, 2017
New Countdown: Take THAT, Twenty One Pilots
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| The Revivalists |
This episode came out VERY easily. I love when episodes come out easily. I hope you enjoy it!
Countdown #352
***Featuring***
Cage the Elephant
Foo Fighters
Frightened Rabbit
Imagine Dragons
Judah & the Lion
The Killers
Portugal. The Man
The Revivalists
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Vance Joy
Weezer
Monday, October 23, 2017
New Countdown: Ride the Earth
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| Judah & the Lion |
It was another great show as we work our way through the end of the September shows, hopefully on a path to catch up to present by the end of the year!
Enjoy!
Countdown #351
***Featuring***
Cage the Elephant
Frightened Rabbit
Imagine Dragons
Judah & the Lion
The Killers
Linkin Park
Portugal. The Man
The Revivalists
Sir Sly
Vance Joy
Weezer
Sunday, October 15, 2017
New Countdown: Play it Where it Lays
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| Frightened Rabbit |
Happy 350th episode! It's hard to believe that I've been doing this countdown for roughly 7.5 years!
Bit of a theme this week, but mostly just a lot of really great songs! So, enjoy!
Countdown #350
***Featuring***
The Dirty Heads featuring Rome Ramirez from Sublime With Rome
Frightened Rabbit
Imagine Dragons
Judah and the Lion
The Killers
Muse
Portugal. The Man
The Revivalists
Shinedown
Sir Sly
Vance Joy
Weezer
Thursday, October 5, 2017
New Countdown: Butterfly vs Man
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| Foo Fighters |
We have got some EXCELLENT tunes for you today and some interesting tidbits in the intros. Can you guess which songwriter cites a Chinese proverb as the guiding force behind their new album?
Enjoy!
Countdown #349
***Featuring***
Foo Fighters
Frightened Rabbit
Imagine Dragons
Judah and the Lion
The Killers
Muse
Portugal. The Man
The Revivalists
Sir Sly
Vance Joy
Weezer
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
New Countdown: Feels Like (the end of) Summer
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| Frightened Rabbit |
I'm playing a little bit of catch up, so this episode includes a run-down of how songs did on my Songs of the Summer chart, but that's ok because the weather still feels like the first week of September anyway!
Enjoy the tunes!!
Countdown #348
***Featuring***
Bleachers
Frightened Rabbit
Imagine Dragons
Judah and the Lion
The Killers
Muse
Portugal. The Man
The Revivalists
Sir Sly
Smashing Pumpkins
Weezer
Sunday, January 5, 2014
2013 Artists of the Year Countdown! Some new some old!
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| Barenaked Ladies, ca 1996 |
2013 Artists of the Year
***Featuring***
Barenaked Ladies
The Beatles
Dessa
Doomtree
Fall Out Boy
Frightened Rabbit
NOFX
P.O.S
Smashing Pumpkins
Vampire Weekend
Saturday, December 21, 2013
My Favorite 6 Albums of 2013 Told in 6 Videos.
I'm going to keep this very simple this year. Here is a video from a song each from my Top 6 albums of the Year. I couldn't quite come up with 10. Not that I didn't enjoy 10 albums this year. I just couldn't pick a 7-10. Make sense? Awesome.
6. Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse
5. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
4. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
3. Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll
2. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
1. Dessa - Parts of Speech
Sunday, February 24, 2013
New Countdown: Let's Hear It For Squandered Time!
So, I finished last week's countdown pretty much as early as I possibly could. I thought that that might mean I would also be able to finish THIS week's early and get myself into a situation where I was always way ahead of the recording schedule.
But here it is, 1:17 am on Sunday morning and I'm finally getting around to posting the countdown I just finished recording. Oh well. Things come up, you know? And I'm sure I used the extra time that recording early freed up in very productive and efficient ways....
Anyways, here's the countdown! It has 3 bonus songs and is only slightly longer than last week's! Craziness!
***Featuring***
Atlas Genius
The Black Keys
Frightened Rabbit
fun.
Green Day
Imagine Dragons
The Lumineers
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Of Monsters and Men
Silversun Pickups
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Festive Fifty 2010 Top Ten
Each day this week, in anticipation of the deadline for voting on the Festive Fifty 2012 Shortlist, I'll be listening to the Contrast Podcast Festive Fifties of yore (2012's will be the 6th!) and trying to track down the videos of the Top 5!
This was a big year for me. It was the first year that I assumed my role as "Statman". I was so stoked to do this one and it came out pretty well. It's absolutely a coincidence that both of the years that I've done the stats, the winner has been a mainstream pop hit... :-D Seriously, though. It's a coincidence.
Oh! Also, definitely listen to the intro for #1. It's, in my mind, a CP classic.
You can listen to the 2010 Festive Fifty here: (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)
10. Caribou - Odessa
9. Broken Bells - The High Road
8. LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean
7. Kings of Leon - Radioactive
6. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home
5. Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
4. Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
3. Arcade Fire - Ready to Start
2. The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
1. Cee-Lo Green - Fuck You
This was a big year for me. It was the first year that I assumed my role as "Statman". I was so stoked to do this one and it came out pretty well. It's absolutely a coincidence that both of the years that I've done the stats, the winner has been a mainstream pop hit... :-D Seriously, though. It's a coincidence.
Oh! Also, definitely listen to the intro for #1. It's, in my mind, a CP classic.
You can listen to the 2010 Festive Fifty here: (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)
10. Caribou - Odessa
9. Broken Bells - The High Road
8. LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean
7. Kings of Leon - Radioactive
6. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home
5. Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
4. Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
3. Arcade Fire - Ready to Start
2. The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
1. Cee-Lo Green - Fuck You
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
2010 Artists of the Year
Here is the podcast where I countdown the top 10 Artists that Last.fm said I listened to most over the 12 month period ending when I looked at the chart on 12/31/10. I wish Last.fm could keep a record of these things by year, too. Maybe they do...hmm...I'll have to check that out.
I'm going to start putting an alphabetical "Featuring" list in these posts. And also making use of the label function, so if you want to see every post (starting with this one) that I talk about Doomtree, for example, you can click Doomtree in the label list at the bottom of the page and it'll sort it all out for you!
2010 Artists of the Year
***Featuring***
Barenaked Ladies
Dessa
Doomtree
Friday Mile
Frightened Rabbit
NOFX
P.O.S.
Radiohead
Smashing Pumpkins
Vampire Weekend
I'm going to start putting an alphabetical "Featuring" list in these posts. And also making use of the label function, so if you want to see every post (starting with this one) that I talk about Doomtree, for example, you can click Doomtree in the label list at the bottom of the page and it'll sort it all out for you!
2010 Artists of the Year
***Featuring***
Barenaked Ladies
Dessa
Doomtree
Friday Mile
Frightened Rabbit
NOFX
P.O.S.
Radiohead
Smashing Pumpkins
Vampire Weekend
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Frightened Rabbit show!
So several months ago, I decided to go to see Frightened Rabbit when they came through DC. Tickets were cheap enough and you know, why not? Also, Tart said that if I (and anyone else who reads her blog and had the opportunity to go) didn't go, I was stupid, and I certainly don't want to be viewed as stupid :) And Matthew (from Song By Toad) was talking on a podcast that I was listening to when I heard about this show about his experiences going to shows alone and how he always had a great time. This was in line with the experience I had going to Warped Tour alone in 2003, so I decided that, on April 27th, I would be seeing Frightened Rabbit.
So I worked all day and then came home for a quick meal with K, and then drove off to DC with my overnight bag (my Mother-in-Law lives in Alexandria [15 minutes or so from the venue] and I was killing two birds with one stone because she also lives near our dentist [who is way farther away from where we live, but he's a really good dentist and it's only twice a year] so I scheduled my checkup for the morning after the concert!). I admittedly left later than I intended, but the GPS said I'd get there with like 5 minutes to spare before 8 (which is when my tickets said the doors opened [which I somehow interpreted as the start of the show]). And I did, but then I couldn't find parking. So I drove around looking for somewhere to parallel park (which I suck suck suck at) and I was passing the venue again when I saw a sign that said "Park Here." Since I always do what signs tell me to do, I pulled immediately off the road and on to this side street, rolling down my window to ask the attendant how much it was to park. It was TWENTY FREAKING DOLLARS. Fully half of the money I had taken out of the ATM for the show. But, it was literally across thee street from the place, so I shelled it out and ran in at roughly 8:05, hoping that I hadn't missed the first song (wanted a complete set list for the blog post, you know.).
I got my hand stamped at two different locations and made my way upstairs. This was at a venue I'd never been to before (the Black Cat), so I really just followed the people ahead of me. I walked into a room that was obviously the right place and there were MAYBE 20 people there. For future reference, "Doors at 8" means the first band goes on at like 830ish. That was another thing I hadn't accounted for. Opening bands. The ticket just said "Frightened Rabbit" on it, so the fact that they probably wouldn't be playing alone had escaped me. So I stood around patiently listening to the 60's girl group music they were piping in over the sound system until that cut off and Bad Veins came out.
It was two guys. A drummer and a guitar/keyboards/vocalist. The drummer reached over and turned on the reel-to-reel tape player for their horn section and away they went. It has been a long time since I've been introduced to a band I've never heard of as I'm seeing them live. It's such a fantastic experience. They had so much energy, but played with such precision. I was pretty sure before they ended the first song of their set ("Found") that I would be purchasing their album. But then they sealed it by saying "Everything we're playing tonight is on our album." It made me stop worrying if the songs that I was especially enjoying ("Afraid", "Crosseyed") were on an album that wouldn't be available for purchase. Or, worse, that they would be available for purchase, but I wouldn't have enough money to get them.
Bad Veins - Go Home from Bad Veins (This is the song that their VERY pleasant and gracious Press representative, Jill, suggested I post. They didn't happen to play this song, but you can go here and listen to other songs from their album that they DID play!)
Then Maps and Atlases came on. I'm going to give you the comparison I gave a couple of friends when I was talking about the show the next day. They sounded like Claudio from Coheed and Cambria leading a Dillinger Escape Plan cover band composed of members of Carbon Leaf and Vampire Weekend (Think high-pitched male falsetto in front of a very technically talented band with roots in equal parts metal, Celtic, and Afropop.) I think in another setting it would have been a lot better received but the crowd seemed rather confused about how to respond. I would actually like the opportunity to see them again to get another opinion.
And then there was the main event. Frightened Rabbit came out and just absolutely rocked the house. There were hands in the air, beer glasses raised in the air, audience clapping to the beat. Just everything I had hoped that it would be. I diligently took down the setlist and it was relatively painless, only I can't for the life of me recognize "Footshooter". It's the weirdest thing. All the other songs are so recognizable. "The Wrestle" can be tough, but it was that line in it about "Bare those teeth to me/Maneater" which I like to think is addressing a girl, but which is almost certainly addressing a shark.
Skip the Youth
The Modern Leper
Old Old Fashioned
The Loneliness and the Scream
The Wrestle
The Twist
Swim Until You Can't See Land
Footshooter
My Backwards Walk
Nothing Like You
Head Rolls Off
Good Arms vs. Bad Arms
Encore:
Poke
Living in Colour
Keep Yourself Warm
I had a fantastic time at this show and a fairly decent time writing this novel. I hope you've enjoyed reading it and if you get a chance to see this tour when it comes through your town, you should!!!
So I worked all day and then came home for a quick meal with K, and then drove off to DC with my overnight bag (my Mother-in-Law lives in Alexandria [15 minutes or so from the venue] and I was killing two birds with one stone because she also lives near our dentist [who is way farther away from where we live, but he's a really good dentist and it's only twice a year] so I scheduled my checkup for the morning after the concert!). I admittedly left later than I intended, but the GPS said I'd get there with like 5 minutes to spare before 8 (which is when my tickets said the doors opened [which I somehow interpreted as the start of the show]). And I did, but then I couldn't find parking. So I drove around looking for somewhere to parallel park (which I suck suck suck at) and I was passing the venue again when I saw a sign that said "Park Here." Since I always do what signs tell me to do, I pulled immediately off the road and on to this side street, rolling down my window to ask the attendant how much it was to park. It was TWENTY FREAKING DOLLARS. Fully half of the money I had taken out of the ATM for the show. But, it was literally across thee street from the place, so I shelled it out and ran in at roughly 8:05, hoping that I hadn't missed the first song (wanted a complete set list for the blog post, you know.).
I got my hand stamped at two different locations and made my way upstairs. This was at a venue I'd never been to before (the Black Cat), so I really just followed the people ahead of me. I walked into a room that was obviously the right place and there were MAYBE 20 people there. For future reference, "Doors at 8" means the first band goes on at like 830ish. That was another thing I hadn't accounted for. Opening bands. The ticket just said "Frightened Rabbit" on it, so the fact that they probably wouldn't be playing alone had escaped me. So I stood around patiently listening to the 60's girl group music they were piping in over the sound system until that cut off and Bad Veins came out.
It was two guys. A drummer and a guitar/keyboards/vocalist. The drummer reached over and turned on the reel-to-reel tape player for their horn section and away they went. It has been a long time since I've been introduced to a band I've never heard of as I'm seeing them live. It's such a fantastic experience. They had so much energy, but played with such precision. I was pretty sure before they ended the first song of their set ("Found") that I would be purchasing their album. But then they sealed it by saying "Everything we're playing tonight is on our album." It made me stop worrying if the songs that I was especially enjoying ("Afraid", "Crosseyed") were on an album that wouldn't be available for purchase. Or, worse, that they would be available for purchase, but I wouldn't have enough money to get them.
Bad Veins - Go Home from Bad Veins (This is the song that their VERY pleasant and gracious Press representative, Jill, suggested I post. They didn't happen to play this song, but you can go here and listen to other songs from their album that they DID play!)
Then Maps and Atlases came on. I'm going to give you the comparison I gave a couple of friends when I was talking about the show the next day. They sounded like Claudio from Coheed and Cambria leading a Dillinger Escape Plan cover band composed of members of Carbon Leaf and Vampire Weekend (Think high-pitched male falsetto in front of a very technically talented band with roots in equal parts metal, Celtic, and Afropop.) I think in another setting it would have been a lot better received but the crowd seemed rather confused about how to respond. I would actually like the opportunity to see them again to get another opinion.
And then there was the main event. Frightened Rabbit came out and just absolutely rocked the house. There were hands in the air, beer glasses raised in the air, audience clapping to the beat. Just everything I had hoped that it would be. I diligently took down the setlist and it was relatively painless, only I can't for the life of me recognize "Footshooter". It's the weirdest thing. All the other songs are so recognizable. "The Wrestle" can be tough, but it was that line in it about "Bare those teeth to me/Maneater" which I like to think is addressing a girl, but which is almost certainly addressing a shark.
Skip the Youth
The Modern Leper
Old Old Fashioned
The Loneliness and the Scream
The Wrestle
The Twist
Swim Until You Can't See Land
Footshooter
My Backwards Walk
Nothing Like You
Head Rolls Off
Good Arms vs. Bad Arms
Encore:
Poke
Living in Colour
Keep Yourself Warm
I had a fantastic time at this show and a fairly decent time writing this novel. I hope you've enjoyed reading it and if you get a chance to see this tour when it comes through your town, you should!!!
Monday, February 1, 2010
Tuesday night?
So, I have something to complain about. And it's COMPLETELY irrational.
Why do all the bands I want to see have to play during the week?
Frightened Rabbit is about to start touring to support their new album, The Winter of Mixed Drinks. And they'll be coming through DC and playing the Black Cat on April 27th. But it's going to be on a Tuesday. Now, I know that this is going to come off as very old-mannish, but that's kind of late to be out on a weeknight!
This isn't even an actual complaint because, if the price is right, I'll probably go anyway. But it still feels like "Ugh, and then I'll have to get up in the morning!"
UPDATE (2/2/10): Found out today that tickets are $15 and they go on sale on Friday, February 5th.
Anyone else planning on going?
Here's something from their last album. It's so good. You should go over to their myspace page and listen to "Swim Until You Can't See the Land" and "Nothing Like You" to see what the new stuff sounds like. And then listen to the rest!
Frightened Rabbit - Good Arms vs. Bad Arms from The Midnight Organ Fight
Why do all the bands I want to see have to play during the week?
Frightened Rabbit is about to start touring to support their new album, The Winter of Mixed Drinks. And they'll be coming through DC and playing the Black Cat on April 27th. But it's going to be on a Tuesday. Now, I know that this is going to come off as very old-mannish, but that's kind of late to be out on a weeknight!
This isn't even an actual complaint because, if the price is right, I'll probably go anyway. But it still feels like "Ugh, and then I'll have to get up in the morning!"
UPDATE (2/2/10): Found out today that tickets are $15 and they go on sale on Friday, February 5th.
Anyone else planning on going?
Here's something from their last album. It's so good. You should go over to their myspace page and listen to "Swim Until You Can't See the Land" and "Nothing Like You" to see what the new stuff sounds like. And then listen to the rest!
Frightened Rabbit - Good Arms vs. Bad Arms from The Midnight Organ Fight
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