a B-Sides sunday

Growing up i used to get my older friends to drive me to a record store in the next suburb to mostly poor over covers and liner notes or occasionally spend birthday or christmas money on imported singles, (for the B-Sides!) (import since north america hasnt played the singles game for some time..) It was one of my favorite things about moving to england, suddenly singles were £1.99 instead of $13 to 20 dollars! (though i later worked in that record store and spent many quiet afternoons getting my fill of every import i had pondered and never purchased)
Still.. living in England.. great! i bought a load of singles and easily discovered some little heard tracks that became fast favorites. I think the internet has taken a bit of the glamour out of B-sides as it has done for many passtimes and passions that involve cross country roadtrips of anticipation or dusty church basement fleamarkes searches.. the ‘B-sides an rarities’ collections have done the same but i still love them..
Today i devoted to ‘A Lifetime of Temporary Relief’ the Low B-sides and rarities collection that i bought a while ago and havent had the time to really absorb (3 disks!) and also Jason (GDEB) sent me a ton of music recently and when he was here mixing his album we had spoken about Elbow. I must have mentioned that my favorite song of theirs is Loss which was a B-side from the cast of thousands album, on the single for fallen angel. So Jason just sent me tones of rare Elbow tracks.. i dont think they are on a collection and i havent asked him where he got them all but so far they are amazing.. i think it just paints a much larger picture of a band.. maybe a more personal one, where you hear silly covers that they do an they sing a bit out of tune and make mistakes and talk after songs and that kind of thing.. i love it..
stand out tracks (if you can find them)
Elbow – Stumble (so sweet and soft and like a reminiscing lullaby), Loss (longtime favorite, those piano chords give me shivers)
Low – Peanut Butter Toast and American Bandstand, Because you Stood Still, Sleep at the Bottom
but they are all good really..
Low’s myspace
elbow at myspace

Music to shop for egg cups by..

sunday afternoon, if you had to pick a time of the week, would be the perfect time to shop for egg cups. So trolling through ebay, looking for prize gems for my collection, marveling at the shoddy work ebay sellers do with a camera, and drinking mate tea the music i happened to be listening too magically formed the perfect soundtrack.. i love it when that happens, the perfect music happens to be playing through the most fitting times.. is it some magical match up? .. or.. is it that we are more open than we think and any number of things could have been the ‘perfect’ music and it only is now deemed perfect in hindsight simply because it was what was playing?
at any rate this particular sunday was definitely the former as this magical match up of TV Resistori and egg cups filled the afternoon.. i had followed a link from stylus magazine which jason (GDEB) was asking me about, for fonal records a label in finland.. a very quirky label covering a broadish spectrum of ambient experimental to semi-acoustic psychedelic folk (their words, semi-acoustic? i dont know..). Fonal’s artists are mostly Finish speaking and some of them were quite interesting but this was the band that caught my ears and made the afternoon shimmer.
TV Resistori myspace

(i am still bidding on these so please dont bid me up! haha.. that would be pretty funny…)

magic time with coloured construction paper..

this is such a sweet video for the band lullatone that i found while browsing the audio dregs record label site.. they fittingly call themselves pajama pop and are from Japan..
http://myspace.com/lullatone
it also plays right into my interest/burgeoning obsession for stop frame animation.. and makes me think of being 5 and under, the intense creativity i poured through blunt orange plastic scissors onto coloured construction paper.. the masterpieces i was sure i was making.. i do vividly remember the frustration i felt with those very limiting scissors at that time..

Roger’s (Sensory factory’s) current playlist (or whats getting most played right now)

The Disco Biscuits

The Frank and Joe Show

Cloud Cult

Moshi Moshi

My Morning Jacket

Galaxie 500

Ecce Listenings!

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ttfn.

Welcome to the 99X/10 music blog..

We are a group of musicians all on a label based in the UK but with artists from all over the place..
We each and all spend so much time listening to music i thought it might be a good idea to amass all the mountains of our opinions in one easy to read space!..
So welcome to the ongoing conversation about everything right and wrong in the world of music from our skewed and bias perspective!
xo Erin Lang
99X/10