Forget Muzak, I love these 8 bit remixes.
I’m blogjacking Jen’s blog again to share these so I’ll at least stick to music she likes but you can check them out on YouTube.
Some of my favorite channels are 8bitmachine, 8bitsbrother & Florio003 which did a whole bunch of Muse songs:
Muse Plug In Baby
Muse Uprising
Muse Starlight
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Some wife’s, when their last child starts going to school, feel sad that their left home alone. Not Jen. There’s a trail 2 minutes from our door on her bike.
As you can see it’s a sweet single track trail that she has all to herself while the kids are in school.
She used to taunt me with pictures like this last fall when she was sneaking in a ride before the weather got too cold and I was at work.
Yeah she was taunting me. She initially asked me to write a post for her but she decided to write her own post. I’m still going to post this one anyway and I may not even tell her about it. In fact while she’s milking all the sympathy she can get out of this bike injury I may be posting here ocasionaly. (I’m a much bigger whiner than she is by the way)
I may decide to tell her about it or I may just surprise her. See there’s really nothing she could do to stop me because I do all the maintenance for her on this blog. Of course I suppose if she really wanted to she could find some way to stop me.
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If you are like many people over the age of 30, there are things you all have in common right now:
1 – You remember the 80′s very vividly
2 – You’re wondering who authorized the return of all the fashion faux pas we committed and are trying so hard to forget. (walked through a Urban Outfitters lately?)
Some of you may or may not be familiar with Davey Havok. Davey can probably be credited with almost single handedly popularizing the androgynous emo look that most teenagers are sporting these days. But don’t let that deter you from giving him a chance. He’s actually incredibly talented.
Blaqk Audio is actually the side project of AFI front man, Davey Havok and AFI keyboardest, Jade Puget. When I heard the first single from Blaqk Audio’s Cexcells
Having been a fan of the previous AFI albums Answer That and Stay Fashionable
While the album cover and name may leave some of you wondering if this is safe to listen to around the kids, I’ll tell you that it’s just as safe as Depeche Mode or Erasure (take that for whatever it’s worth).
After listening to the album I was blown away with how spot on, the 80′s euro discotheque sound was. This wasn’t just some emo band trying to sound like Depeche Mode this was possibly the best 80′s synth driven Electropop album I’ve ever heard (and he does it all without a fake English accent).
1 – Despite looking like a teenage girl Davey Havok is actually 32. So he lived the 80′s like the rest of us Gen Xers.
2- Dave Bascombe, who was Depeche Mode’s producer, produced Cexcells
My favorite (uber poppy get up and dance) songs are:
(Seriously, for those of you in Idaho or Utah, you will think you’re back at an SND)
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Ever since Mae’s latest album Singularity
Not that I dislike the genre of folk, because I don’t. I appreciate it and think most of the musicians are very talented, it just doesn’t quite do “it†for me. The music is mello, but I find myself getting ancy and frustrated when I listen to it.
Plus, I’m already half asleep at any given moment. I don’t need any more incentives to fall asleep while I’m reading to my kids, or getting slaughtered in Connect 4.
Like most bands, I am most drawn to Mae because of the singer’s voice. In this case his voice is so clean and solid sounding and streams easily into my head. It is a very refreshing and soothing tone. The lyrics are usually simple, sweet and romantic. The guitars, drums and keyboard are fantastic too, nothing folksy about those. Definitely of the modern rock influence.
Says singer/songwriter of the band Dave Elkins: “We’ve always loved bands like Pearl Jam, U2 and the Smashing Pumpkins and on this record we wanted to tap into that,†Marshall says. “We weren’t trying to recreate a ’90s record, per se, but we definitely wanted it to have that same energy.†Elkins says in closing. “We’re just a rock band, and we’re happy to be given the chance to get our music out there to all of these different people.
They like The Pumpkins and they even have a song called “Rocket†on this album, (not a cover), but they did put some fairly “heavy†drums and guitars in this song. It will most likely go in my “amore†playlist.
Some of my other favorite tracks so far are “Just Let Go,†“Sometimes I Can’t Make it Alone,†“Brink of Disaster,†“Release Me,†and “Last Transmission.†You can hear some of these songs on their myspace page and see concert info too- they are playing with The Honorary Title, another favorite of ours.
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