hello.shuffle 2 (day 2 of 5)

Day 2 of 5 …

Mike’s Songs

1) ‘De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da’ by The Police (Zenyatta Mondatta)

Must be a pop-inspired shuffle experience. Sometimes I think the iTunes shuffle feature isn’t quite as ‘random’ as we think as I think it can sort similar types of music (and often artists) together. Then perhaps my music on my iPod is curated by my own tastes, that while diverse, are more familiar in connection than I let on. You can’t top the crisp flanged\chorus of Summer’s guitar and the firmly pounded drum beat of Copeland. Oh yeah, and Sting’s groove, voice and songwriting is great on this song. As one of their more radio friendly songs from mid-career Police, the chorus is incredibly catchy — with such inspired refrains as “de do do do, de da da da, is all I want to say to you” — how can you not at some point start to sing along?

Greg’s Songs

1) ‘Faberge Falls for Shuggie’ by Of Montreal (Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)

I’ve never really gotten into Of Montreal, but this is pretty good. Some nice Rhodes/electric keyboard stuff in the beginning. The high pitch vocals are kind of annoying. The drum loop is interesting, but blah after the first few rounds. Right at three minutes, there’s an “ooh” line that reminds me of a counting song from sesame street. Not too memorable on the whole…

Aryn’s Songs

1) ‘Such Great Heights’ by The Postal Service (Give Up)

Speaking of college, this used to be a mainstay in the late night architecture dance parties. I havent listened to this one in probably a few years, and I think its still pretty great. This album really catapulted Gibbard and company into the mainstream and for good reason. Great beats, great melodies, great harmonization, great overall album. Oh and the video for this one is great too.

Stay tuned…day three tomorrow. Feel free to email us at helloshuffle2@hellocomein.com or leave comments here if you like. Send in your own shuffle playlist, we’ll post the best one.

2 thoughts on “hello.shuffle 2 (day 2 of 5)”

  1. I’ve never loved Of Montreal too much… well put together music, but sounds to me like something is missing… But the song “Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games” is a great song.. At least it was until I heard it re-written as a commercial for Outback Steakhouse. To me its one thing to allow your song in a commercial, like we’ve seen recently with Feist, New Pornographers, Postal Service and so on. But to allow a rewrite to promote a shitty chain restaurant seems more sell-outy than just being in a boner pill commercial.

    The other day I was listening to the Ben Gibbard show that NPR did from the 930 Club. At the end, he plays this song but closer to the Iron and Wine cover. I found it pretty interesting he was playing a cover of a cover of a song he wrote. Certainly Postal Service helped relaunch Death Cab into a higher level, but I wonder how much Sam Beam helped the cause on the Garden State soundtrack. Or at least I wonder how much Natalie Portman’s presence helped.

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