To The Long Weekend

Songs I Recently Bought and Can’t Get Enough Of:

“212” by Azealia Banks (featuring Lazy Jay)

            I first heard this song in a clothing store in SoHo.  I wanted to track down what song it was by opening up the Shazam App and sticking my phone in the air but felt like I was in the company of too many young hipster girls that would totally judge me for not knowing what song it was.  I heard it later on the radio with someone who did not judge me for not knowing who it was and told me so I could download it later.  I initially had thought this song was 2 or 3 separate songs and later discovered it was just one song with lots of different crazy-awesome parts.

Sweeter by Gavin Degraw

            Great adult rock song that has a little soulful rock beat to it.  Best line: “You take that body to the other end/I really like you but I can’t be friends/not with these hands of mine.”

Shut Up and Swallow by Combichrist

            Perfection!  If you like Industrial techno metal about X-Rated bondage sex (and who doesn’t?).  Love this song because it is so outrageous and then the chorus is some automated-sounding woman repeating the instructions “shut up and swallow” in a pure and innocent tone.  I find myself often walking around the apartment or quietly at work reciting the lyrics nonchalantly . . . “shut up and swallow.”

You Know How I Know You’re [a Music Snob]—Because you like Coldplay

Music snobs are abundant.  I have noticed them ever since I bought my first Tool t-shirt and someone in a record store asked me if I liked their old stuff or new stuff which then dictated whether I was worthy of talking with or not. 

Music snobs are everywhere and you could be one of them.  Don’t let this happen to you.  Here are the 20 telltale signs you are a music snob.  We are all guilty of a few of these things, but if you are guilty of more than 6, tell your friends to run and save themselves!!!!

You Are a Music Snob If . . .

11.     You like the Black Keys

22.     You listen to college radio stations (of colleges you did not attend)

33.     You cannot like a band or artist unconditionally—you can only like particular albums, songs, or eras of the band

44.     You like Wilco

55.     You wear tour t-shirts of tours that happened before you were born

66.    You hate when bands “sell out” (and you conveniently think all bands have)

77.     You often need to make it clear that you liked [insert artist name here] before they became mainstream and/or popular

88.     When someone asks you “who is this,” you react either with a “You don’t know who this is?!?!” or a long essay-like explanation of who they are with lots of backstory

99.     You don’t pay for your music and you want everyone to know you do not pay for music and make fun of those who do

110.  You have never liked music that anyone else has suggested to you

111.   You are Trent Reznor

112. You are either pro-Glen Danzig or pro-Michael Graves (and you are willing to fight over it)

113. You hate U2

114. You own over-the-ear headphones

115. You hate Metallica’s St. Anger album

116. You hate Buckcherry, Daughtry, Hinder, Nickelback, Theory of a Deadman, Breaking Benjamin, Seether, Shinedown or Puddle of Mudd

117. You have anything to say about John Mayer—good or bad

118.   You liked The Shins before the Garden State soundtrack came out and you want everyone to know that

119. You have a tattoo that is in anyway related to a band from the 70s

220. You have a Weezer t-shirt

Mother Daughter Pitbull Lovers

On Friday morning, my mother alerted me to the fact that Pitbull had performed on the Today Show as the first concert in their summer concert series.

“Pitbull performed?” my mom said.  (The question mark references that she often says bands and artists in a questioning tone because she assumes she has probably pronounced their name wrong.

“Oh yah, Pitbull,” I replied.  “The new Men In Black movie probably came out today and he did a song for the soundtrack.  He is pretty good,” I explained.

“He was really good.  He was so energetic,” she said.

“Yah he puts on a good show I bet.”

“Yah, and the suit and the sunglasses . . . “

“Yah that is kind of his thing, he always dresses like that.”

“Not gonna lie, it works.”

“You like Pitbull, mom?”

“Yah, I think I do.”

Well this was a start to an interesting weekend.  Constantly tracking down radio stations that may play his songs, adding songs of his to a playlist so we could easily listen to him in the car.  This may perhaps the first mother-daughter duo to ever be looking for Pitbull tickets together.

P.S.--“Back in Time” is probably better than the movie it is on the soundtrack for.