Do You Feel Loved?
These are MP3s of the songs I'm enjoying at the moment. If you like anything you hear, then please, please, please consider purchasing the CD (or firing up the iTunes music store); I'm pro-file-sharing, but only as a method of discovering unheard music, not as a replacement for commercially compensating artists. The more time I spend exploring the music industry professionally, the more I realize that it really is in danger, and it's naive, cruel, and flat-out wrong to assume that the collapse of all record labels is a good thing. (Some people in the music industry might deserve everything they get, but not all of them do.) So: if you like it, buy it. I try to only post things here that I think are worth your time and money.

These MP3s aren't necessarily the most buzzed-about songs on the 'net, indeed you may find me a bit slow on the uptake regarding what's hot on SLSK or ILX0r or whatever your cleverly-abbreviated musical hotspot of choice may be. They're just songs that I think are good at one moment in time or another. I try to update frequently, so check in every so often, and if you have any questions or comments, then you know where to find me.

Lord Kitchener - "London Is The Place For Me" (MP3)
(2:45) 160 kbps, 3.2 MB. Added 04.06.2004. From the compilation LONDON IS THE PLACE FOR ME

In the two and a half months since my last update of this page, I originally intended to base an entire update around songs from a course CD I got in one of my classes, Contemporary British Fiction & Popular Culture, taught by Patrick Deer, which I've been enjoying quite a lot (the CD and the class). The first volume was composed of skiffle, early Beatles material, and calypso music, reflecting the musical obsessions of England in the '50s and early '60s; the second volume, which we just got last week, is all debut singles by UK punk bands. This is one of my favorite songs from the first volume's calpyso set; the fun part is trying to figure out the tone -- how much is sincerity and how much is bitter satire? You'd think that's the kind of question that's easy to answer, but it turned out not to be, at least for us in the class...

Pet Shop Boys - "I Didn't Get Where I Am Today" (MP3)
(3:39) 160 kbps, 4.3 MB. Added 04.06.2004. From the UK single FLAMBOYANT (PT. 1)

I'm well aware that I post way too many Pet Shop Boys tracks here, so I'll try to make this the last one for a while -- but I seriously dare everyone who downloads this not to like it, if even just a little bit. It's an uncharacteristically rock-y track for a band that once titled a b-side "How I Learned To Hate Rock & Roll;" it's left over from the RELEASE sessions and that's Johnny Marr on guitar. If you're in the UK, you really ought to pick up the FLAMBOYANT single; not only is it a great song, but the extended version of the single has a remix by the Scissor Sisters and you know you want in on that shit. I can't stop listening to this song, and I'm curious to see if it's a localized phenomenon, or if they might've gotten a hit out of this one.

Twilight Singers - "Verti-Marte" (MP3)
(5:09) 160 kbps, 6 MB. Added 04.06.2004. From the album TWILIGHT AS PLAYED BY...

I just saw the Twilight Singers at Warsaw out in Brooklyn this weekend, and I enjoyed the show quite a bit, though they were playing up the rock side of their recordings. Which, I suppose, is fitting, since their new album, BLACKBERRY BELLE, is much more like an Afghan Whigs album than their debut, TWILIGHT AS PLAYED BY THE TWILIGHT SINGERS. This is the first track I ever heard from that album (I snagged it off of WinMX my freshman year), so I'm throwing it at you to see if it had the same effect it had on me -- "I want to hear more!" The album itself is much more song-oriented, this is basically just an atmosphere piece in the middle of the disc, but I remember wanting to hear more of any band working in this atmosphere. But then again, I was completely nocturnal my freshman year, and lived in this bizarre parallel universe where my life took place at 4AM with headphones on, staring into my computer screen, so maybe my love for this track was just a product of that time in my life... This album is available on iTunes (link for ITMS customers only).

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