Passion of the Weiss Muxtapes #5 and #6: The Best “Indie” Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (2008 Edition)
I won’t deny it. Things started spiraling rapidly downhill the moment I started compiling mixtapes of my favorite non-hip hop songs released this year. Vampire Weekend? Santogold? Hercules & The Love Affair? I kind of wanted to kick my own ass or at the very least give myself a wedgie. Of course, music is music and it’s stupid to let one’s natural “hater” inclinations stop them from enjoying something good, regardless of how stupid their haircuts and/or facial hair are (save for arguably Man Man). Still, there’s something deeply troubling in my nagging suspicion that these muxtapes were compiled by someone in a Fruity Loops hoodie, a pair of $2 neon green sunglasses and a mustache lustrous enough to be the toast of Echo Park.
So snipe away in the comments section if you will. You can even call me that increasingly meaningless* perjorative, “hipster.” All I can really say in my anti-hipster defense is that I still eat hamburgers at In-N-Out, can dunk a basketball and am hitting .368 with a .680 slugging percentage in my Saturday hardball Baseball league (Go Buzz). Now if you’ll excuse me it’s time to put on a headband and cut my hair in fashionable yet unflattering manner. Good day.
* The word “hipster,” of course, only being meaningless when used to potentially describe me.
Passion of the Weiss Muxtape #5: The Best “Indie” Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (Part 1)
Passion of the Weiss Muxtape #6: The Best Indie Songs To Get An Asymmetrical To (Part 2)
(Track listing After the Jump)
1. Hot Chip - Hold On
2. The Hold Steady - Sequestered In Memphis
3. Vampire Weekend - I Stand Corrected
4. Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
5. Cloudland Canyon - Krautwerk
6. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules Theme
7. Times New Viking - Drop-Out
8. Crystal Castles - Crimewave (Crystal Castles VS HEALTH)
9. Lykke Li - I’m Good, I’m Gone
10. Black Mountain - Wucan
11. Santogold - Say Aha
12. The Black Keys - So He Won’t Break
Passion of the Weiss Muxtape #6: The Best Indie Songs To Get An Asymmetrical To (Part 2)
1. Erykah Badu - The Healer
2. The Kills - Tape Song
3. Muslims - Extinction
4. Mezzanine Owls-Ghost Ship
5. No Age - Ripped Knees
6. The Raconteurs - Carolina Drama
7. The Mae Shi - Run To Your Grave
8. King Khan & the Shrines - Torture
9. The Raveonettes - Aly, Walk With Me
10. Islands - Creeper
11. Wolf Parade - Fine Young Cannibals
12. My Morning Jacket - Touch Me I’m Going To Scream Part 2
Stumble It!
May 30th, 2008 at 4:13 am
What does it say when Erykah fucking Badu is the only artist I’d willingly give a listen to here? Easily one of the best mix/muxtape titles I’ve seen yet. Kudos, Weiss.
May 30th, 2008 at 7:02 am
Jeff Weiss is the Danny Ainge (circa 1984) of the internet.
May 30th, 2008 at 7:56 am
floodwatch, I believe that says you are close minded?
May 30th, 2008 at 8:36 am
1. What’s everyone mad about the new MMJ record for? That song is pretty good. I suspect this is like Rilo Kiley all over again.
2. No Age sound better than I remembered. Then again, I did always think “Ripped Knees” was better than No Age.
3. I need to revisit that Fleet Foxes record.
4. How have I not noticed how good the Mae Shi is?
5. “The Healer” = great song.
6. Black Keys are good, but “Strange Times” is the real standout on that album.
Well done, Jeff. Like your rap muxes, this is some great listening.
May 30th, 2008 at 8:41 am
I think it means you’ve been listening to too much Rush.
Knowing your tastes you might like about half this stuff. The other half would have you begging for mercy. No Tony Yayo.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:15 am
alternate title: “stuff that white people and douglas martin like mix 2008.”
May 30th, 2008 at 11:24 am
p.s. craig finn has got to be one of the ten best lyricists in music right now. rap included.
p.p.s. we all know how i feel about the fleet foxes and no age records, but that times new viking record is nuts.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
JB, I have no idea why everyone is ripping on the MMJ album. It might not be their masterpiece but it’s at worst a noble failure, at best a compelling and interesting turn towards a new sound. People should be applauding that sort of thing, especially when we have Fleet Foxes around to re-record At Dawn.
May 30th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Mykonos is so good it hurts.
No question Finn is the man. “In barlight she looked alright, in daylight she looked desperate.” Are you fucking kidding me??? Awesome.
Check out the Lykke Li remix by Fred Falke. Makes a good song better.
May 30th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
“* The word “hipster,” of course, only being meaningless when used to potentially describe me.”
oh, if only the other 99% of people using “hipster” as an Internets pejorative were also in on the joke. alas, they (and I don’t exclude myself) continue to muddle on in the sad belief that if we call other other people hipster douchebags it will make us invulnerable. I, like Floodwatch, don’t care about any of the above acts* but I’m glad that you do, Mr. Weiss - music journalism would be a more better place if more people could discuss both indie rock & Ghostface (credibly, that is - No Breihan).
*though I like plenty of new music - it’s just mostly dubstep, grime or techno. oh, and tons of old jungle records circa 93-95 but those aren’t new
May 30th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
i know we’re going to be at odds over this, weiss, but fleet foxes > at dawn. EASILY. the only similarities i hear between the two bands are the voices of the frontmen [and, of course, the use of reverb].
May 31st, 2008 at 12:24 pm
It boggles my mind everytime I hear this MMJ Fleet Foxes comparison. I see it every time I read about the foxes, but nobody has ever explained it to me. Could someone fill me in, because I just don’t see it (aside from the vocal similarities of the two frontmen, like DM said)
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:12 am
.368! .680. That’s impressive!