Tales of Interest, Tuesday Edition... its business, its business time

• As always I like to pass on links that I think are particularly hilarious... this one is: Hot Chicks with Douchebags. Its exactly what it sounds like, with commentary.

• As you may, or may not be able to tell, I've been watching Flight of the Conchords lately. A couple of friends recommended it a while ago and I never got really into it. After Kyle threatened to use FotC quotes for all his posts I gave it a second chance, and, its pretty funny. I think its more funny since Liz has been singing "We like to rock the party" and "Its business time" around the house... I'd be lying if I said I hadn't been too... There's a self-titled FotCs album out on Subpop later this year...
  

[mp3] Flight of the Conchords - Business Time
[mp3] Flight of the Conchords - The Most Beautiful Girl In The Room

• I always love a good mash-up, and I've been a big fan the Hood Internet... for a while. It was pretty awesome when I found out the other day that they have a couple of mixtapes (in dot zip form) on their website. My favs:
  

[mp3] The Hood Internet - Im a Flirt/Shoreline (R. Kelly vs. BSS)
[mp3] The Hood Internet - Rock Yo Sea Legs (Crime Mob vs. the Shins)

• via Ohbijou's myspace there was a really nice Globe and Mail article written on the band's residency in the Banff (Alta) Centre's Indie Band Residency. The article explains that the band's first album - Swift Feet for Troubling Time (my number 8 of 2007, it easily could've been higher) - was haphazardly produced, I'm anxious to see what they can do given that they have some studio time. So, they're saying a fall release for a new album... very exciting. And, they are, in my humble opinion, the most under appreciated band in Canadian music right now.
  

[mp3] Ohbijou - Raccoons
[mp3] Ohbijou - The Woods

Songs that Remind me of 2007, or, My Best of 2007

When I remember 2007, in music, these are the songs (I think) that I'll remember. I still don't have hosting for mp3s, but perhaps this is a project for the new year. If you feel compelled to download any of my recommendations, my suggestion is to search for them using "The HypeMachine". They'll point you to a blog where you can right-click, save-as, and download; that is, if you still use a PC.

I tried to keep this as brief as possible, so if you're interested in hearing more of my 'Best of '07' I have at least 3 mixtapes more of stuff (labeled slow, medium, and fast). So, rather than clogging up space here, you can email me, facebook me (via the London, On: Burgeoning Metropolis Facebook Group), or yell for me in the street, and I'll get the music to you somehow.

In no particular order my favs of '07:
1. “Good Morning” Kayne West from Graduation
A great intro, to a great album. A song that demonstrates how great a producer Kanye is, and why he should let other people rap for him.

2. “Your Rocky Spine” Great Lake Swimmers from Oniagara
A more upbeat start to what is now my favourite GLS's album.

3. “Desire” Pharohe Monch from Desire
Best rap song '07 on a good, if very uneven, album.

4. “Pedigree” Brother Ali from The Undisputed Truth
From my favourite albino rapper.

5. “Comfy in Nautica” Panda Bear from Person Pitch
My favourite chorus: "Coolness is having courage/The courage to do what's right/Try to remember always/Just to have a good time".

6. “Apartment Story” The National from Boxer

7. “Kid Gloves” Voxtrot from Voxtrot

8. “Ice Cream” Muscles from Guns, Babes, and Lemonade
This was my song of the summer, after I came across 'Muscles' myspace page. The album, however, was an absolute disaster.

9. “Past In Present” Feist from The Reminder
The hand-clapping, oh, the hand-clapping.

10. “Kanse Ar Jag Kar I Dig" Jens Lekman from Night Falls Over Kortedala
Doo-wop meets quirky Swedish singer/songwriter with excellent results. Bizarre, bizarre, lyrics, but that's what makes Jens so entertaining.

11. “The Woods” Ohbijou from Swift Feet for Troubling Times



12. “Scenic World” Beirut from Lon Gisland EP

13. “Valerie” Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse from Versions
Ronson has produced much of Lily Allen's stuff, and, I found out this morning his music can also be heard on a show about high class ... escorts.

14. “I’m A Flirt (Shoreline)” R. Kelly vs. Broken Social Scene from The Hood Internet.com

Wednesday Bullets: (Final) Fantasy Videos ... No, its not porno.

• Owen Pallet (aka Final Fantasy) covers Mariah Carey.
  

• Dan Bejar (New Pornographers, Destroyer) preforms 'An Actor's Revenge' from Destroyer's Your Blues [2004] with Owen Pallet and Cadence Weapon. This video makes me remember why the Bejar songs are always my favourites on New Pornos albums.

• I can't believe I haven't mentioned this before, but if you like yourself a good mash-up you should visit the hood internet. My personal favourite is still R. Kelly vs. Broken Social Scene "I'm A Flirt (shoreline)" from the archives April 2007.

• Wow, were the Raptors disappointing again tonight.