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TSURURADIO Presents… And She Was Born In A Bottle Rocket, 1929 Mixtape!!!

February 12, 2010

Photography “Born In A Bottle Rocket” by Tsuru, Model by Isabella Misery

Well it’s time for the weekend. Finally, right? Can I get a high-five?

Sweet.

What you doing this weekend? Looks like more snow here, so my riding will be relegated to The Tank. BUT, if that good lard’s a-willin’ and the creeks don’t rise, Tuck and I will be driving out the route for April 3rd Super Awesome NO-FRILLS Bike Ride for Breast Cancer!

Keep an eye out for an update for a start location and route if all goes well!

WOOT!

I’m so excited for the ride. No idea how many will show up. But even it’s just a handful of people, it’ll be great and, of course, SUPER AWESOME! Haha!

Okay… got a little Friday mixtape for you today. Kept it old school, just built a nice collection of songs in the order I’d like to hear them. No “mixing”, no necessity for gapless play (though, I recommend it anyway because, well, those 2 sec gap things are just stupid).

This one was inspired by so many things. Matt obsessing over Rural Alberta Advantage, gud giving us a Tom Waits New Orleans song down in the Society, catching Velvet Underground in a movie the other night, or like when Colin Meloy was having his mind blown by Besnard Lakes. Just little things like that, “Ghost”, of course, appears due to the photo at the top of this post, plus our discussion of The Greatest Song Trilogy Of All Time, & my desire to have the lyric tattooed on my arm ASAP.

So yeah, it’s the little things that seemed to hook onto me, latching to my brain. Feels good, feels right. And after all this #musicblogocide2k10 madness going, I wanted to end this week on a good note. So, I’ll shut up and let’s just get to it.

Have a wonderful weekend, bundle up, and keep riding! Oh, and by the way, got a “special valentine’s day” treat for you this weekend, well, maybe more of an anti-valentine’s day treat, by way of our good friend Neil. Keep an eye out, should be ready by Sunday!!! Okay, let’s do this as…

TSURURADIO Presents…

And She Was Born In A Bottle Rocket, 1929!!!

Full Zip – REMOVED. Sorry kiddos, Broken Bells has hired the Web Sheriff to make sure you don’t hear the album until they are good and ready.

SIDE A
01 The High Wire – The Midnight Bell
02 Miles Kurosky – Pink Lips, Black Lungs
03 The Beatles – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
04 Sophie Madeleine – You Are My Favourite
05 Lightspeed Champion – I Don’t Want To Wake Up Alone
06 Beach House – Silver Soul
07 Shabby Rogue – My Future With You
08 Midlake – Acts of Man
09 Sambassadeur – Stranded
10 Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – I Learned the Hard Way

SIDE B
11 The Rural Alberta Advantage – Frank AB
12 The Besnard Lakes – Chicago Train
13 Electric President – Mr. Gone
14 Clem Snide – Forgive Me, Love
15 Velvet Underground – Pale Blue Eyes
16 The Ruby Suns – Oh, Mojave
17 She & Him – In the Sun
18 Broken Bells – Citizen – REMOVED via Web Sheriff request. Please insert you own more-awesome track here & enhance this mixtape by 10%. Thanks!!
19 Neutral Milk Hotel – Ghost
20 Tom Waits – I Wish I Was In New Orleans

WOOT! Hear something you like? Go to your local record shop and buy it, dammit.

Cheers!

Tsuru

Bryan Adams in my head? Oh my… And then we Fight Softly with The Ruby Suns!

February 8, 2010

By Tsuru

Photography by xrawrxdeex

So I wake up this morning and this song is playing in my head:

Bryan Adams – Everything I Do (I Do It For You)

Yeah. I know.

But it got me thinking… Man, Bryan Adams ruled the world back then, didn’t he? Every damn ballad he could muster would be played every hour on the hour! And you can see it, every woman in the house, taking every scratchy voiced word sung to heart. I think there are two parts of the song though, that really GET ya… First that bridge

There’s no love – like your love
And no other – could give more love
There’s nowhere – unless you’re there
All the time – all the way

Really starts off from the gut, “there’s noooo loooove… like yoour loooove” and ends with that “alllll the waaaaa-Aaaaaaaay!” followed with that drippy guitar with a bit of lyric reiteration. Perfect heart tugging action.

But Bryan wasn’t done, any lesser song would’ve been satisfied, but no no, not our romantic troubadour, as he takes us to climatic emotional finale, laying it all out:

Oh – you can’t tell me it’s not worth tryin’ for
I can’t help it – there’s nothin’ I want more
I would fight for you – I’d lie for you
Walk the wire for you – ya I’d die for yoooooooooooooooooooou!!!

Then, ever so gently, “ya know it’s true… Everything I do… I do it for you.”

When Bryan Adams ruled the world, eh?

Fortunately, the world has moved on. Instead of Bryan Adams, we have Usher or Clay Aiken or something, I really don’t know, instead of “tell me have you ever really, really really ever loooooved a woman” we’ve now got “A girl like you needs somethin’ real, Wanna get you somethin’ from the heart, Somethin’ special girl, It’s my dick in a box.”

Times change, things change, yet it all stays the same.

Speaking of change, is it just me or has a new era of “weird pop” indie music been ushered in? I’ll put the blame on Animal Collective, but lard know who really brought the trend out of the woodwork. I’m certainly not complaining, as long as it’s real, it’s all good. But I was certainly surprised when I loaded up the new Ruby Suns Fight Softly, and was transported one funky odd trippy musical journey!

Maybe I’m just remembering them wrong? I remember “Oh Mojave”…

Hell, I think it even showed up in a Microsoft commercial or something for Vista. This one is a bit more E-lectronical than I remember and would fit right in with a Yeasayer, Dirty Projector, Animal Collective listening party!

For me, it works. Not sure why. This kinda “genre” can be touch and go for me, and sure there are times on the album when I ask “huh?”, but that’s okay. It’s good to challenge, branch out, not always live in the happy indie strum-strum world. Who better than The Ruby Suns to do that with?

Exactly.