#musicmonday
December 7, 2009 - By Bobby Solomon - Category: #musicmonday
I think winter finally struck Los Angeles as it’s a soaking wet mess outside and it’s pretty dang cold. But what better weather to listen to Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas? It’s my absolute favorite X-Mas album and has been forever now. There’s just something so timeless about it.
Following up after that is Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new one IRM, which is definitely Beck feeling in every sense. After that is the newest from The Cave Singers, which is shaping up to being one of my favorites of the year. The new Toro y Moi keeps me dancing, Holiday Shores are an absolute treat as are Princeton. I listen to Sufjan’s BQE a lot, it’s all instrumental and reminds me vaguely of the Charlie Brown X-Mas album. Finishing everything off was a bit of Jens Lekman who’s always good for a rainy day.
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Bobby
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If you've got something to say, keep it positive.Yep. I’ve got Charlie Brown Xmas on repeat these days.
My top artists from the last 7 days … yaye :)
Tom Waits
Phoenix
The Phoenix Foundation
Iron & Wine
Massive Attack
Lawrence Arabia
Deerhunter
Herman Hitson
Lykke Li
Beck Feat. Feist & Wilco
Blakroc (The Black Key’s rap side project)
Santogold (Diplo’s Top Ranking Mix)
Belle & Sebastian
Grayskul
Queens of the Stone Age
T.Rex
Them Crooked Vultures
Telefon Tel Aviv
Tame One
DJ Shadow
Paper Route Gangstaz
Donald Byrd
Gil-Scott Heron
Tubelord
Moby
30 Seconds to Mars
Tycho
Radiohead
Ulrich Schnauss
Nirvana
Bibio
BLK JKS
Sigur Ros
I’m really hung up on Tubelord these days.
I like listening to Walkmen records by this time of the year. The expression of their guitars and drums are perfect for the spirit, IMO. Following a melancholic mood i listen to a lot of ambient albums: Tim Hecker, William Basinski, etc…
I’ve noticed when the bad weather came, i started listening to older records of Belle and Sebastian, Yo la tengo and Bright Eyes’ “Lifted or the story…”.
I think these precede and build up my Christmas mood. Only then, around the christmas day, i go to Charlie Brown’s Xmas. Also i like to weird things up, listening to some Tiki, Exotica, Les Baxter. Usually Les Baxter comes after Christmas for some reason. Let’s see how it goes this year.