Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

OK I am happy with my choices for now.

it's funny to see the spreadsheet update while looking at it,

jmc I accidentally erased one of yr entries for Yuck but I think I fixed it correctly

Oh yeah, it looks fine.

other stuff i was thinking about: liturgy, action bronson. destroyer "kaputt" is probably my album of the year. worried i'm forgetting stuff because we lost some albums when our old hard drive died. sarah's going to contribute too btw.

don't think i've heard "the laziest river" though!

u guys srsly that youth lagoon album... it's one of those that makes me embarrassed to like it as much as I do

I think my top albums are Destroyer, Toro y Moi, and Bon Iver.

Which are all plundering '80s soft rock in various ways.

i am not listening to bon iver ever again if i can help it

i don't know if i've ever heard any of his stuff; i think i just assumed i wouldn't like it but maybe i was wrong

i made extra columns for listener comments and complaining

the only bon iver song I know is "skinny love" and they once played it while I was browsing in a bookstore and I will admit to being moved by it.

i look forward to listening to these while i am at the office today

ha ha our VP just walked through the library while i was listening to the laziest river and she probably thought i was jamming out to smooth jazz

Ha. I was pretty indifferent to the first Bon Iver album, but I kind of love the new one. And I also take some glee in the fact that a lot of dudes who were down with Vernon's lo-fi strummy heartsick cabin songs can't wrap their heads around the adult-contemporary signifiers.

Is there a setting I need to change on my end? Its only letting me view, not add anything.

i don't know - i've definitely got you enabled to edit

Works fine now, maybe I just needed to close and reopen it.

I'll think of a third song later. But for now I'm listening and enjoying!

i don't think my comments column is going to work because you will have to identify yourself after each comment, which could be a PITA
well anyway, this came together nicely
good job everyone

Updated my Falloch, realized I linked to the wrong track.

Amanda, have you heard much Lindstrom?

Nope. Should I?

Okay, I uploaded my three tracks. Was originally going to put up one of the Hebden/Reid/Gustafsson live tracks, but couldn't narrow it down to which one.

damn that album is SO GOOD
i was gonna put one on there too -- lyman place (?) is the only one that's < 10 min

xxp I think you might like some of his stuff, maybe? Norwegian "space-disco." Cosmic pulses. Etc. Where You Go I Go Too is the one that people usually enthuse over -- it's probably his most focused work -- but I actually prefer his most recent collab with Prins Thomas, titled II.

Here is a track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DpAW4RWI18

(Fun fact: I sampled the bass line for my cover of Usher's "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love.")

That's a great album, I really love Lindstrom, particularly both albums with Prins Thomas.

my connection at work is slow (wonder if people are watching jersey shore in the library again? hm?) so i have had trouble listening to these songs very efficiently

argh

ok i have now officially jammed many of these jams. thanks for submitting!

also i would like to encourage anyone to participate even if you think your choices are not partic exciting or obscure or whatever you think they should be but aren't. if nothing else it's a funny little archive.

which means it needs some pitbull

I feel confident that I can find something a little more interesting than Pitbull. I just need to check out the playcounts on iTunes. A year is a long time to remember something.

john have you heard this song? i only heard it this morning but i feel like it's in your wheelhouse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jv3pMACSbI

Yes! Of the songs on the Pitchfork singles list that I hadn't heard before, that's definitely one of the ones that I liked best.

oh duh same place i heard it. i downloaded the album but have only listened to the first three songs, of which that one is clearly the best. i also downloaded the unknown mortal orchestra album based on their song on the pfork list ("ffunny ffrends"), the album's a little same-y but the tom vek fans on this thread might like it, same kinda lo-fi funk drum loops with indie songs on top of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-36lCKovBg

The second half of the Sandro Perri reminds me of Arthur Russell a bit.

And yeah, I liked that song, too. And the Thundercat.

so the marriott hotel downstairs has a little illy coffee bar in their lobby, which also has a fireplace, and every day i think maybe i should go down there at lunch and get a coffee and sit by their fireplace, and today might be the day i actually do it. unless they kick me out for not being a hotel guest.

That sounds cool: did you do it?

this coffee bar is ILLY

still waiting on whether or not i'll be invited to chicago for a final interview this month or not, but i got some good news just now. i had been despondent because i did the interview a week or two back and still haven't heard back, but it turns out that they interviewed 24 other people and just finished the process late last week. and just now, they called one of my references and apparently seemed impressed (fools!!). *crosses fingers*

hmm well it was more just like paying $4 + tip to drink a cup of coffee in a hotel lobby, and the chairs next to the fireplace were reserved, so it was mostly just overpriced and weird. i think the illy coffee bar is just in the morning, at lunch it turns into more of a bar.

good luck z_s

suerte to you, ZS -- and zip it with the "fools" business!!

what what

thank god
so bored 2day
i cheated and added a fourth song to the spreadsheet

greg kott named the serengeti album his no. 1 best album by a chicago artist in 2011
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/turnitup/chi-20111214-best-chicago-music-pictures,0,6109778.photogallery

I'm so grumpy today. grump grump grump

sarah is too, you should be in a grumpy club.

i'm doing pretty well. things are quiet at work because of holidays and one of our members sent a letter (actual snail mail) to our president highlighting some research i did for him so that was pretty cool.

my present shopping is DONE

this may be the earliest I have ever completed this bs

I am happy

sorry for happiness in the face of grumpitude, you can have some if you like

I am not grumpy in a way that begrudges others happiness. I'm just tired and kind of cold and having trouble concentrating so I feel like I'm working uphill against the wind and a few people in my life (none of you wonderful people) are irritating the crap out of me.

I have one more gift to buy for my mother, and I have no idea what to get her. It doesn't need to be anything fancy - just a small secondary gift to even everybody out. I'm drawing a blank. I'm also slightly hampered by not wanting to pack/ship anything too complicated.

I always like buying little kitchen and food goodies for my mom -- flavored vinegar/oil, or spices, candies, just generally ingredients she can't get out in the boonies where they live. this year she's getting a couple of pounds of israeli couscous to supplement her main present (a book)