Thursday, June 16th, 2005

Music Dork Meme

This is like a chain-letter in blog form. Thanks Nate for getting me to waste precious time I should be using to write semi-important speeches!

Total volume of music files on my computer: iTunes says 116 GB and 22,000 songs. I compress at a higher rate. (Yes, that’s my new personal motto.) My iPod is the generation whose battery sucks and I only have 20GB so I wipe it every two or three months or so and reload it. Like Sizzla, I like the element of surprise.

Last CD I bought was… Au Pairs’ “Sense and Sensibility” on iTunes, and a UGK Chopped and Screwed set I got on the road in Madison or somewhere. Probably a lot of other stuff too, but it’s all joined the mess that is my office. Mainly in the last few months, I’ve been downloading O.P.P. (Other People’s Post-Punk or Other People’s Pre-Hip-Hop Funk or Other Pan-African Party Music)…

Song playing right now: Blackalicious’ “Powers”! And it’s playing all the time, even when I don’t have the stereophonic equipment on, because I can’t get it out of my damn head. Did I say the album was better than “Be” already?

Five songs I listen to a lot these days: Kaiser Chiefs “I Predict A Riot” (don’t blame me, blame my involuntary neck spasms), Eddy Grant “Hello Africa (Live At Notting Hill)”, Rufus & Chaka Khan “Papillion (Hot Butterflies)” (shout out to Dave Tompkins–keep your head up), Wgandakenya “Bridges”, and Sonora Carruseles “Micaela” (thank you Lizz!)…Sonora Carruseles is sick.

OK, your turn:

+ andrea duncan-mao
+ carlito rodriguez
+ dan charnas
+ danyel smith
+ joe schloss
+ kandia crazy horse
+ miranda jane
+ wayne marshall
+ yancey strickler

I think it was just supposed to be 5. But I can’t…well, you know already.

posted by Jeff Chang @ 1:56 pm | 3 Comments

3 Responses to “Music Dork Meme”

Brother OMi says:

June 19, 2005 at 5:31 am

ha ha beat you to it…
MJ says:

June 21, 2005 at 5:43 pm

I got U fam

http://pyramids2projects.blogspot.com/2005/06/music-geeks-unite.html

and let me fucken find out CARLITO the original gangsta EIC got a blog?? WHAT WHAT!!??
Andrea Duncan-Mao a/k/a Dunny says:

July 2, 2005 at 7:07 pm

Oh man, I’m so deliquent on this…

But I’m revisiting my adolescence at the moment…(and loving it by the way.)

1. New Order “True Faith”
2. Wham! “Bad Boys”
3. Yaz “Situation”
4. Go Go’s “Vacation”
5. Depeche Mode “Just Can’t Get Enough”

Feed Me!

Revolutions

DJ Nu-Mark :: Take Me With You
DJ Nu-Mark remixes the diaspora…party ensues!
El General + Various Artists :: Mish B3eed : Khalas Mixtape V. 1
The crew at Enough Gaddafi bring the most important mixtape of 2011–the street songs that launched the Tunisian & Egyptian Revolutions…
J. Period + Black Thought + John Legend :: Wake Up! Radio mixtape
Remixing the classic LP w/towering contributions from Rakim, Q-Tip + Mayda Del Valle
Lyrics Born :: As U Were
Bright production + winning rhymes in LB’s most accessible set ever
Model Minority :: The Model Minority Report
The SoCal Asian American rap scene that produced FM keeps surprising…
Mogwai :: Hardcore Won't Die But You Will
Dare we call it majestic?
Taura Love Presents :: Picki People Volume One
From LA via Paris with T-Love, the global post-Dilla generation goes for theirs…

Word

Cormac McCarthy :: Blood Meridian
Read this now before Hollywood f*#ks it up.
Dave Tompkins :: How To Wreck A Nice Beach
Book of the decade, nuff said.
Joe Flood :: The Fires
The definitive account of why the Bronx burned
Mark Fischer :: Capitalist Realism
K-Punk’s philosophical manifesto reads like his blog, snappy and compelling. Just replace pop music with post-post-Marxism. Pair with Josh Clover’s 1989 for the full hundred.
Nell Irvin Painter :: The History of White People
Well worth a Glenn Beck rant…and everyone’s scholarly attention
Robin D.G. Kelley :: Thelonious Monk : The Life And Times Of An American Original
Monk as he was meant to be written
Tim Wise :: Colorblind
Wise’s call for a color-conscious agenda in an era of “post-racial” politics is timely
Victor Lavalle :: Big Machine
Victor Lavalle does it again!