Digital Download Blowout
Posted on | October 3, 2008 at 7:32 am | 4 Comments
My friend Miles (who has a great new blog), recently reactivated his eMusic subscription and was asking me the other day for download suggestions. Rather than reply to him, I’d thought I’d make a blog entry out of it. Here’s stuff I downloaded from eMusic in 2008 that I enjoyed. Some of it was actually released in 2007 or thereabouts, but so what. And actually, a few of these I own on CD instead of digital-only, but I mention them because they’re available on eMusic. There was also a lot of stuff I downloaded that I didn’t like so much, but I don’t mention those. And there’s still a lot of it that I downloaded but haven’t listened to yet (like the new Sparks, which I’m sure I’ll love). So here’s the list, complete with links. (Note that the links make this post more substantial. Or at least more time consuming to compose.)
Bell X1: Flock
British Sea Power: Do You Like Rock Music?
The Buddyrevelles: Don’t Quit
The Bye Bye Blackbirds: Houses & Homes
California Oranges: Imperial Hearts
Dengue Fever: Venus on Earth
Destroyer: Trouble In Dreams
Don Dixon: The Nu-Look
Liam Finn: I’ll Be Lightning
Firewater: The Golden Hour
The Green Pajamas: Box of Secrets: Northern Gothic 2
Head Of Femur: Great Plains
Hello Dragon: The Quantum Explorers
I Was Totally Destroying It: I Was Totally Destroying It
Ladytron: Velocifero
The Long Blondes: Couples
Los Campesinos!: Hold On Now, Youngster
Mystery Jets: Zootime
Nerf Herder: IV
Piñataland: Songs For The Forgotten Future Vol. 2
Graham Parker: Don’t Tell Columbus
Ray: Death In Fiction
Scissors For Lefty: Underhanded Romance
Sloan: Parallel Play
Statuesque: The Grape & The Grain
Statuesque: Calling Nature’s Bluff
The Whitsundays: The Whitsundays
Happy Downloading!
Latre.
Jogged Today: Yes (@ 57°F)
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Jogging:
- “Into The Fire” (Stranglers)
- “Under the Milky Way (acoustic)” (The Church)
- “Genius Is Static” (Statuesque)
- “Daddy’s Girl” (The Dream Syndicate)
- “You’re Not Supposed to” (Field Music)
- “So Begins Our Alabee” (Of Montreal)
- “Wheel Of Femmes” (The Celebrity Pilots)
Cool, Soothing Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “safeway hemorrhoidal ointment”.
Comments
4 Responses to “Digital Download Blowout”
October 3rd, 2008 @ 9:06 am
I like that I Was Totally Destroying It album.
October 3rd, 2008 @ 12:58 pm
Thanks for the blog shout-out as well as the recommendations, Rog! If my finances will allow, I may have to up my eMusic quota, ’cause thanks to you, Paula, and other friends, I now have about 3 month’s worth of solid leads in my “Save for Later” queue.
October 5th, 2008 @ 12:59 am
thanks for “picking up” houses & homes — hope you dig it!
October 5th, 2008 @ 10:21 am
I do dig it, and I’m glad I bought the “hard copy” CD instead of digitally downloading it. Though I am glad to see it’s available on eMusic. I like it a lot! My biggest problem with it it that it’s too short and I want more. At least I also have the Apology Accepted EP. Nice going, Bradley & gang! Hey everyone, pick up this disc – it’s aces. It burrows into your head like a pleasant buzz.