Somewhat Manly Nerd » song of the week http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog infrequent blogging from some dude Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:36:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Your Randomly Heard In A Bar Song Of The Week http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2011/04/20/your-randomly-heard-in-a-bar-song-of-the-week/ http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2011/04/20/your-randomly-heard-in-a-bar-song-of-the-week/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:15:06 +0000 CajoleJuice http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=3210 Radiohead – Lotus Flower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOa1a8hYP8

I was on a posting hiatus when the new Radiohead album came out. Maybe if it was a life-changing piece of art like some fans regard each of their albums, I would have bothered to throw up some words on it. Don’t get me wrong, I love about half of their catalog, but Amnesiac is pretty garbage. But to come back around to talking about their newest output, The King of Limbs, it’s definitely a slow, minimalist album that most people think has more in common with Thom Yorke’s solo work than Radiohead’s past music. If I had listened to The Eraser more than once maybe I could relay my opinion. I like this song, though, and hearing it at the bar along with some other good tunes like “Bloodbuzz Ohio” from The National helped me forget that my friend actually asked me, “So did you see ‘Atlas’ this weekend?” I shouldn’t have to explain why that is at once both amusing and depressing.

]]> http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2011/04/20/your-randomly-heard-in-a-bar-song-of-the-week/feed/ 0 Your Song of the Week Returns – 4/12/11 http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2011/04/12/your-song-of-the-week-returns-41211/ http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2011/04/12/your-song-of-the-week-returns-41211/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:37:35 +0000 CajoleJuice http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=3193 Mogwai – George Square Thatcher Death Party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhzOE35057M

The newest Mogwai album is fantastic. It came out two months ago, but considering I haven’t posted any music on here since last year, this is as good a song as any to bring attention to. I thought about the song “Rano Pano”, which I actually posted on Roto Hardball months ago, but this track title is about twenty times more awesome. I imagine the American equivalent would be Portland Reagan Death Party? Some public square in the Pacific Northwest, anyway, or one in a poor black neighborhood. 80s conservative leaders aside, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will is an hour of great instrumental (mostly) music to listen to while writing blog posts.

]]> http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2011/04/12/your-song-of-the-week-returns-41211/feed/ 0 Your “FOX Sucks” Song Of The Week http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/10/28/your-fox-sucks-song-of-the-week/ http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/10/28/your-fox-sucks-song-of-the-week/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:58:49 +0000 CajoleJuice http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=3077 MLB on FOX Theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4b_-TMdRIY

Unless you’re a Cablevision customer or not a baseball fan, you’ve noticed that FOX has replaced this theme with their NFL on FOX theme (which I won’t even link here). It’s one thing to move on from a sports theme you’ve used for years; it’s another thing to replace it with a well-known theme associated with an entirely different sport. It’s not like this theme is amazingly iconic like the NBA on NBC or NHL on ESPN themes, but it’s total garbage to condition your audience to expect to see a football stadium and/or Terry Bradshaw making an ass of himself after hearing a certain minute of music, only to be greeted by the terrifying faces of Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. I can only imagine how confused a thick-headed football fan would be after such a traumatic experience.

Perhaps FOX figured this would be the best time to make their NFL theme their universal sports theme, seeing as the bigger issue at the moment is millions of New Yorkers not being able to watch the World Series. Although, Cablevision now says you can order the MLB.TV World Series package and they’ll refund your $10. Classy move. Unfortunately, while it seems like News Corp. is being the more unreasonable of the two companies, Cablevision is going to be the one to suffer in this dispute, as customers are just going to start switching to Verizon, DirecTV, etc. On the other hand, it’s not like I can feel sorry for any hardship endured by James Dolan. So yeah, everyone just switch. I can vouch for the greatness of FiOS, at the very least.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubcdb-oAIu8

How many times have I said I wished I could describe music more intelligently? I’m also at a loss for words when it comes to convincing someone to listen to a band. Usually I’ll just resort to saying they’re awesome. And that’s what I’m going to do here. I recognize the cover Black Mountain’s self-titled album from five years ago, but I never got around to listening to them until hearing how great their latest album, Wilderness Heart, is. After a half-dozen listens, it’s one of my favorite albums of the year. This is actually the hardest-rocking song out of the ten, but they’re pretty much all fantastic. Check it out.

]]> http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/10/12/your-new-school-old-school-metal-song-of-the-week/feed/ 0 Your Song Of The Week Is Back To Rock Your Face Off http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/09/03/your-song-of-the-week-is-back-to-rock-your-face-off/ http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/09/03/your-song-of-the-week-is-back-to-rock-your-face-off/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:31:26 +0000 CajoleJuice http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=2996 Russian Circles – Enter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s92DwkAjVqk

I have to give @310toJoba credit for posting a Russian Circles song on his sadly now-inactive blog. He posted “Geneva”, a song I was close to posting myself, but I forced myself to mix it up. I also have to give credit to @DrewGROF for making me go back to the band after only listening to their newest album a couple of times. Now I’ve been listening to all three of their instrumental albums. I think I made a nice selection. The song builds up wonderfully — like some charging, galloping force — then explodes in a ridiculous wall of sound, pulls back a bit, and then finally goes totally apeshit. It’s awesome.

]]> http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/09/03/your-song-of-the-week-is-back-to-rock-your-face-off/feed/ 0 Your Inception Song(s) Of The Week http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/07/21/your-inception-songs-of-the-week/ http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/07/21/your-inception-songs-of-the-week/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:59:16 +0000 CajoleJuice http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=2907 You may have noticed I didn’t mention the music at all in my big Inception review post. By the end of it, I realized I had mentioned and applauded every aspect of the movie except one. But instead of saying how great Hans Zimmer’s score was, I figured I’d just let you listen and leave the YouTube embedding for another post — this one.

Dream Is Collapsing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_QEBeTa37M

Click if you want to listen to a couple of more tracks.

Mombasa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr1gJ2B90GE

Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xeHiTmx5AU

]]> http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/07/21/your-inception-songs-of-the-week/feed/ 7 Your Summer Theme Song of the Week http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/06/30/your-summer-theme-song-of-the-week/ http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/06/30/your-summer-theme-song-of-the-week/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:56:17 +0000 CajoleJuice http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=2851 Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLRnmQ-4Yp0

Usually I’d pick something like “Tell ‘Em” or “Crown on the Ground” from this Sleigh Bells album, Treats, but I’m trying to lighten it up a bit with my first song posting in a long while. Also, I didn’t want to steal straight from 3:10 to Joba‘s sixth-to-last post on his now-retired blog. I loved “Tell ‘Em” when I clicked on it there, but it took me until yesterday to check out the entire album. And now I’ve listened to it about half a dozen times. Yeah, this song is awesome solely due to its sampling of Funkadelic’s “Can You Get to That” but it utilizes it well, so whatever. I can only imagine kids growing up now listening to this and not being aware of its source. Kinda like me and Puff Daddy’s “Come with Me”. I mean, really, who the fuck was Jimmy Page? God, what a pathetic kid I was.

]]> http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/06/30/your-summer-theme-song-of-the-week/feed/ 0 Your Second Attempt At This Song Of The Week http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/05/16/your-second-attempt-at-this-song-of-the-week/ http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/05/16/your-second-attempt-at-this-song-of-the-week/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 04:00:24 +0000 CajoleJuice http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=2778 The National – Sorrow

*sigh*

So The National’s latest album, High Violet, is actually out, so I hope posting this mp3 is cool now. And just because maybe some people already listened to this song the first time I posted it, I’m going to add this performance of “Afraid of Everyone” on Letterman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CRPz3kvou0

Edit: Just listen to “Bloodbuzz Ohio”, which is embedded in the comment below.

]]> http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/05/16/your-second-attempt-at-this-song-of-the-week/feed/ 1 Your Funky Song of the Week http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/05/09/your-funky-song-of-the-week/ http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/05/09/your-funky-song-of-the-week/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 02:47:45 +0000 CajoleJuice http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=2740 The Black Keys – Tighten Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNXwicxlsvI

This album isn’t out yet, but considering this was uploaded to YouTube by the band themselves, I think I’m cool in posting this. Brothers is immensely fun to listen to, just like every other Black Keys album. I’d say it’s cleaner than their previous albums, but it arguably only makes them more entertaining to listen to. Sure, a raw sound is sometimes great to listen to, but I think Danger Mouse has really helped focus their sound in this second collaboration with them. The result is an awesome album to listen to while driving with the windows down. Trust me, I tested it out a couple of days ago.

Edit: Man, I really should have gone with “Funkasaurus Rex Song of the Week” for the title.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN90uEDk3bQ

I was tempted to go with a Black Keys song off their latest album slated to be released in May, but I figured after how the last music post with a leaked song turned out, I’d go with a track that’s already been officially released.

Hopefully this song sufficiently blows your mind. Maybe you don’t like a multi-layered sound with brass and electronic noises and flute all coming at you at once accompanied by abrupt time-signature changes, but you should. And if you do, check out the full album (also by the name One-Armed Bandit), as it’s fantastic.

I find that the only albums I find myself listening to over and over front to back beginning to end are ones where there’s arguably too  much going on.

Note: For whatever reason, the flash code for embedding mp3s wasn’t freaking working, so I unfortunately have to post a low quality YouTube video. Garbage.

Note 2: I should acknowledge @deathbyvolcano‘s superior music knowledge, as he was the one who told me to check out this album.

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