Yo La Tengo playing for some children in a park in Paris, includes a great cover of The Trogg's "With A Girl Like You."

Yo La tengo - A Take Away Show - Part 1 from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

my answer: roy orbison

i'd say the video is only a little bit annoying but the song is rather pretty

Devendra Banhart at Rainbow House from Oliver Peoples on Vimeo.

my beach house obsession has been going on for about six months now, i don't think i've ever mentioned them here though. i saw them play last week at the music box, crouching between the legs of people standing against the railing of a balcony, their set was a spacey triangular cone shaped stellar explosion, their stage presence that of true musicians, and you could feel the communal awe of an entire audience being moved by music. now all i do is look at live footage and studio performances. here are my favorite songs from the night I saw them:

...Cocorosie...


Oceans wept
Moutains slept
Sidewalks crumbled to ash
Your name remains
In children's lullabies
And your eyes forever in the sky


Pull me close
Dear i'm tremblin'
Hold me tight
I'm afraid to the night
Blackness fills the room
Your love burns bright


Oh summer winds
Remind me of your kiss
Soft and warm
I never want to leave this


I never wanted to say goodbye
I'd throw myself to the sea
If god promised you're inside
We'd float to island paradise
And i'd become your bride


The countryside looks bare
Without you lying in her grass
The stream is dry
And the crickets silent
There's no music in the night
I'd become smoke
And hide in your cigarette pack


To be a star
Tossing light
To sparkle in your eyes
I'd become an angel
And kiss this earth goodbye


Destiny
Used to be
Just a word to me
But heaven sure was right
When they said jesus left somethin' behind


Every inch of this body
I'd plate in gold for you
Even though i ain't got no money
I'd do it just to keep you


Your eyes appear
In every one of my dreams
They glitter and they gleam
Like the first time we meet


The chickens crowed
And i knowed you're home
My spirit ran to greet you
Before my feet left the porch

Hello its been a while with the mixes..
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This mix contains every genre tag on this blog so it should be interesting, it marks the end of one era and the beginning of another, as mixes sometimes do. And i didn't make it for anyone once again but it definitely has people in mind, those that inspire, and those that cause pain.. and then the ones that do both.

one time someone taught me this on the banjo.. pretty song

One of my favorite movies of all time... stunning music and cinematography.


You can watch the whole thing on youtube:
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

..out of disposable photos. Music by django reinhardt and stephane grappelly.

romanian psych folk/pop/rock love.




this song is really metal and hilarious

I was walking in New York City and I brushed up against the man in front of
me. I felt a cardboard placard on his back. And when we passed a streetlight,
I could read it, it said "Please don't pass me by - I am blind, but you can
see - I've been blinded totally - Please don't pass me by." I was walking
along 7th Avenue, when I came to 14th Street I saw on the corner curious
mutilations of the human form; it was a school for handicapped people. And
there were cripples, and people in wheelchairs and crutches and it was snowing, and I got this sense that the whole city was singing this:

Oh please don't pass me by,
oh please don't pass me by,
for I am blind, but you can see,
yes, I've been blinded totally,
oh please don't pass me by.

And you know as I was walking I thought it was them who were singing it, I
thought it was they who were singing it, I thought it was the other who was
singing it, I thought it was someone else. But as I moved along I knew it was
me, and that I was singing it to myself. It went:

Please don't pass me by,
oh please don't pass me by,
for I am blind, but you can see,
well, I've been blinded totally,
oh please don't pass me by.

Oh please don't pass me by.

Now I know that you're sitting there deep in your velvet seats and you're
thinking "Uh, he's up there saying something that he thinks about, but I'll
never have to sing that song." But I promise you friends, that you're going
to be singing this song: it may not be tonight, it may not be tomorrow, but
one day you'll be on your knees and I want you to know the words when the
time comes. Because you're going to have to sing it to yourself, or to another,
or to your brother. You're going to have to learn to sing this song, it goes:

Please don't pass me by,
ah you don't have to sing this .. not for you.
Please don't pass me by,
for I am blind, but you can see,
yes, I've been blinded totally,
oh please don't pass me by.

Well I sing this for the Jews and the Gypsies and the smoke that they made.
And I sing this for the children of England, their faces so grave. And I sing
this for a saviour with no one to save. Hey, won't you be naked for me? Hey,
won't you be naked for me? It goes:

Please don't pass me by,
oh please don't pass me by,
for I am blind, but you can see,
yes, I've been blinded totally,
oh now, please don't pass me by.

Now there's nothing that I tell you that will help you connect the blood
tortured night with the day that comes next. But I want it to hurt you, I
want it to end. Oh, won't you be naked for me? Oh now:

Please don't pass me by,
oh please don't pass me by,
for I am blind, but you can see,
but I've been blinded totally,
oh, please don't pass me by.

Well I sing this song for you Blonde Beasts, I sing this song for you Venuses
upon your shells on the foam of the sea. And I sing this for the freaks and
the cripples, and the hunchback, and the burned, and the burning, and the
maimed, and the broken, and the torn, and all of those that you talk about at
the coffee tables, at the meetings, and the demonstrations, on the streets,
in your music, in my songs. I mean the real ones that are burning, I mean the
real ones that are burning

I say, please don't pass me by,
oh now, please don't pass me by,
for I am blind, yeah but you can see,
ah now, I've been blinded totally,
oh no, please don't pass me by.

I know that you still think that its me. I know that you think that there's
somebody else. I know that these words aren't yours. But I tell you friends
that one day

You're going to get down on your knees,
you're going to get down on your knees,
you're going to get down on your knees,
you're going to get down on your knees,
you're going to get down on your knees,
you're going to get down on your knees,
you're going to get down on your knees,
you're going to get down on your knees,
you're going to get down ..

Oh, please don't pass me by,
oh, please don't pass me by,
for I am blind, yeah but you can see,
yes, I've been blinded totally,
oh, please don't pass me by.

Well you know I have my songs and I have my poems. I have my book and I have
the army, and sometimes I have your applause. I make some money, but you know
what my friends, I'm still out there on the corner. I'm with the freaks, I'm
with the hunted, I'm with the maimed, yes I'm with the torn, I'm with the down,
I'm with the poor. Come on now ...

Ah, please don't pass me by,
well I've got to go now friends,
but, please don't pass me by,
for I am blind, yeah but you can see,
oh, I've been blinded, I've been blinded totally,
oh now, please don't pass me by.

Now I want to take away my dignity, yes take my dignity. My friends, take my
dignity, take my form, take my style, take my honour, take my courage, take
my time, take my time, .. time .. 'Cause you know I'm with you singing this
song. And I wish you would, I wish you would, I wish you would go home with
someone else. Wish you'd go home with someone else. I wish you'd go home with
someone else. Don't be the person that you came with. Oh, don't be the person
that you came with, Oh don't be the person that you came with. Ah, I'm not
going to be. I can't stand him. I can't stand who I am. That's why I've got to
get down on my knees. Because I can't make it by myself. I'm not by myself
anymore because the man I was before he was a tyrant, he was a slave, he was
in chains, he was broken and then he sang:

Oh, please don't pass me by,
oh, please don't pass me by,
for I am blind, yes I am blind, Oh but you can see,
yes, I've been blinded totally,
oh, please don't pass me by.

Well I hope I see you out there on the corner. Yeah I hope as I go by that I
hear you whisper with the breeze. Because I'm going to leave you now, I'm
going to find me someone new. Find someone new.

And please don't pass me by.

- L Cohen

Baby Dino is a one (wo)man band straight out of San Francisco. Her heartwarming lo-fi sounds will enter your brain and hopefully never leave as you press play again and again. The beauty of her music is expressed through her haunting lyrics and the honesty with which they resonate in her singing. You can download her entire album for free below and also be sure to check her out on myspace as well.

a few of my favorite songs of the year from various genres
there are four parts to this mix: ethnic, electronic, hip hop, and indie...
it's quite a journey. hope you enjoy: download here

1) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion



2) NOMO - Invisible Cities



3) Staff Benda Bilili - Tres Tres Fort



4) Atlas Sound - Logos



5) Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue



6) Clutchy Hopkins Meets Lord Kenjamin - Music Is My Medicine



7) Nosaj Thing - Drift



8) Group Bombino - Guitars From Agadez, Vol 2



9) Prefuse 73 - Meditation Upon Meditations



10) Paolo Fresu & Uri Caine - Think



11) Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information



12) Kurt Vile - God is Saying This to You...



13) Blakroc - Blakroc



14) Chip Tha Ripper - The Cleveland Show



15) Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland



16) XX - XX



17) Leonard Cohen - Live in London



18) Mos Def - The Ecstatic



19) Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up




20) Odd Nosdam - TIME soundtrack


Runner Ups (3.5/5)

The Horrors - Primary Colours

Underground Kingz - UGK 4 Life

Lil Wayne - No Ceilings

Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Sufjan Stevens - The BQE

Neon indian - Psychic Chasms

Cotton Jones - Paranoid Cocoon

City Center - City Center

Girls - Girls

Javelin - Jamz n Jemz

Whitetree - Cloudland

In The Country - Whiteout

jj - jj no 2