Nudeviking & The External Hard Drive of Downloaded MP3s
Mar 14, 2024 7:02:49 GMT -5
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 14, 2024 7:02:49 GMT -5
Week 26
I can't believe that I've been at this for half a year. I kind of assumed I'd have run out of steam already but I'm still here plugging along and writing random nonsense about indie rock songs no one remembers from 2004. So let's see what we've got this week.
Silent Drive - "4/16" (2004)
Mid-2000s mall-ass emo. There's a guy that does whispery singing and then a guy that screams. Maybe it's one dude but probably not…and here's the spoken word part. There are 90 grabillion bands that sound exactly like this. If you like any of those 90 grabillion bands you probably won't hate this but you also won't remember it at all.
BT - "Never Gonna Come Back Down" (2000)
A random "techno" song that got radio play on the alt-rock radio stations when I was in college because the dude from Soul Coughing sang on it. This got played all the time at shitty college parties circa 2001. I'm going to assume that's why I have this mp3 because as I've mentioned here before I wasn't a huge Soul Coughing guy and I never owned a pacifer or glowing bracelets so I wasn't fucking around with electronica on the regular either.
Gary Young's Hospital - "Fred Named Friend" (2004)
The drummer from Pavement's shit-ass solo band. This is not off the same album as that "Plantman" song Beavis & Butthead mocked back in the 90s but it is just as terrible as that terrible-ass song. This is legitimately one of the most annoying songs that I've had show up in one of these things. I was going to delete it but I cannot find any version of this song to post. There's no YouTube upload. It's not on Spotify. It's not on his Bandcamp page. I'd feel shitty if this stupid song is "lost media" that I somehow have the sole copy of but then deleted it because it's an annoying song and I don't want to have it show up on shuffle. You survive for now "Fred Named Friend..."
C Average - "Buckler" (1999)
I think I downloaded this off the Kill Rock Stars website a billion years ago. It's instrumental heavy metal which was NOT Kill Rock Stars' vibe at all around the turn of the century but I kind of thing this fucking rules. The riffs are terrific and as someone that occassional is of the mind that singing is the worst part of songs I will definitely listen to this again when I get into one of my "Lyrics are cringe!" moods.
Jay Reatard - "Oh It's Such a Shame" (2006)
I think this dude was in the Lost Sounds and that's who fuckin' ruled and that's why I downloaded this. Like Wavves the song's pretty great but the actual recording sucks which is kind of a bummer. Like I grew up in the 90s so I dealt with "lo-fi" shit because that's what smaller bands had access to but this shit came out in 2006. By that point everyone could do way better recordings than this just with like a lap top and a $50 mic in their bedroom and it kind of bums me out that decent bands didn't bother or just intentionally made shitty recordings for some unknown reason.
Horse Shoes - "Hey Come Back!" (2009)
Glockenspiels and preset keyboard mambo beats. Some dork is whisper singing. Unlike Silent Drive no one comes in with some bellowed vocals. This is some of the weakest shit I've ever heard. I have no idea what the fuck is happening here but am 100% certain that this is no one's favorite song.
Headphones - "Pink and Brown" (2005)
This is either Pedro or The Lion from Pedro the Lion's other band. Synth heavy indie rock. I don't hate this but wish I had a better quality mp3 because for the first time in a long time we've got ourselves a 64kbps mp3 folks! I'm honestly kind of surprised I've not run into more of them but I guess by the 2000s 128kpbs seemed to be the free mp3 on a record label webpage standard.
Floorpunch - "Holding On" (1998)
So the first time I saw someone in a Floorpunch hoodie I assumed a joke, like the 90s hardcore version that "College" sweatshirt that John Belushi wears in Animal House. They were actually a real band but musically they might as well be that "College" sweatshirt since they're the most generic-ass 90s hardcore. Fast-ass drumming. Pick slides. Gang vocals. A chugga chugga part. A part where it's just the bassist and drummer. Barked vocals about unity and shit.
Cibo Matto - "Sci-Fi Wasabi" (1999)
CIBO MATTO NINETEEN NINTY-NINE! They rap about food and Obi-Wan Kenobi here as is their wont. As a random one off song I guess it's fine but I kind of remember this album being very samey when I listened to it in someone's dorm room or car back in 1999 or 2000.
Say Hi - "Northwestern Girls" (2008)
I love a song that starts off pretty lowkey and gradually adds more and more bullshit so that buy the end of the song you've got all kinds of nonsense in the mix. That happens here. They also got that good-ass boy/girl dual vocals going on. This song rules and has earned the prestigous Greatest Song of All the Times of the Week.
I can't believe that I've been at this for half a year. I kind of assumed I'd have run out of steam already but I'm still here plugging along and writing random nonsense about indie rock songs no one remembers from 2004. So let's see what we've got this week.
Silent Drive - "4/16" (2004)
Mid-2000s mall-ass emo. There's a guy that does whispery singing and then a guy that screams. Maybe it's one dude but probably not…and here's the spoken word part. There are 90 grabillion bands that sound exactly like this. If you like any of those 90 grabillion bands you probably won't hate this but you also won't remember it at all.
BT - "Never Gonna Come Back Down" (2000)
A random "techno" song that got radio play on the alt-rock radio stations when I was in college because the dude from Soul Coughing sang on it. This got played all the time at shitty college parties circa 2001. I'm going to assume that's why I have this mp3 because as I've mentioned here before I wasn't a huge Soul Coughing guy and I never owned a pacifer or glowing bracelets so I wasn't fucking around with electronica on the regular either.
Gary Young's Hospital - "Fred Named Friend" (2004)
The drummer from Pavement's shit-ass solo band. This is not off the same album as that "Plantman" song Beavis & Butthead mocked back in the 90s but it is just as terrible as that terrible-ass song. This is legitimately one of the most annoying songs that I've had show up in one of these things. I was going to delete it but I cannot find any version of this song to post. There's no YouTube upload. It's not on Spotify. It's not on his Bandcamp page. I'd feel shitty if this stupid song is "lost media" that I somehow have the sole copy of but then deleted it because it's an annoying song and I don't want to have it show up on shuffle. You survive for now "Fred Named Friend..."
C Average - "Buckler" (1999)
I think I downloaded this off the Kill Rock Stars website a billion years ago. It's instrumental heavy metal which was NOT Kill Rock Stars' vibe at all around the turn of the century but I kind of thing this fucking rules. The riffs are terrific and as someone that occassional is of the mind that singing is the worst part of songs I will definitely listen to this again when I get into one of my "Lyrics are cringe!" moods.
Jay Reatard - "Oh It's Such a Shame" (2006)
I think this dude was in the Lost Sounds and that's who fuckin' ruled and that's why I downloaded this. Like Wavves the song's pretty great but the actual recording sucks which is kind of a bummer. Like I grew up in the 90s so I dealt with "lo-fi" shit because that's what smaller bands had access to but this shit came out in 2006. By that point everyone could do way better recordings than this just with like a lap top and a $50 mic in their bedroom and it kind of bums me out that decent bands didn't bother or just intentionally made shitty recordings for some unknown reason.
Horse Shoes - "Hey Come Back!" (2009)
Glockenspiels and preset keyboard mambo beats. Some dork is whisper singing. Unlike Silent Drive no one comes in with some bellowed vocals. This is some of the weakest shit I've ever heard. I have no idea what the fuck is happening here but am 100% certain that this is no one's favorite song.
Headphones - "Pink and Brown" (2005)
This is either Pedro or The Lion from Pedro the Lion's other band. Synth heavy indie rock. I don't hate this but wish I had a better quality mp3 because for the first time in a long time we've got ourselves a 64kbps mp3 folks! I'm honestly kind of surprised I've not run into more of them but I guess by the 2000s 128kpbs seemed to be the free mp3 on a record label webpage standard.
Floorpunch - "Holding On" (1998)
So the first time I saw someone in a Floorpunch hoodie I assumed a joke, like the 90s hardcore version that "College" sweatshirt that John Belushi wears in Animal House. They were actually a real band but musically they might as well be that "College" sweatshirt since they're the most generic-ass 90s hardcore. Fast-ass drumming. Pick slides. Gang vocals. A chugga chugga part. A part where it's just the bassist and drummer. Barked vocals about unity and shit.
Cibo Matto - "Sci-Fi Wasabi" (1999)
CIBO MATTO NINETEEN NINTY-NINE! They rap about food and Obi-Wan Kenobi here as is their wont. As a random one off song I guess it's fine but I kind of remember this album being very samey when I listened to it in someone's dorm room or car back in 1999 or 2000.
Say Hi - "Northwestern Girls" (2008)
I love a song that starts off pretty lowkey and gradually adds more and more bullshit so that buy the end of the song you've got all kinds of nonsense in the mix. That happens here. They also got that good-ass boy/girl dual vocals going on. This song rules and has earned the prestigous Greatest Song of All the Times of the Week.