c+cs

 

Crime + the City Solution
Just South of Heaven (1985)

1. Rose Blue
2. The Coal Train
3. Stolen & Stealing
4. Five Stone Walls
5. Trouble Come This Morning
6. The Wailing Wall

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okkervil

 

Okkervil River
Stars Too Small to Use (1999)

1. Kathy Keller
2. The Velocity of Saul at the Time of His Conversion
3. Oh, Precious
4. For the Captain
5. Auntie Alice
6. Whole Wide World
7. He Passes Number Thirty-Three

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answering machine music

 

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Answering Machine Music (2002)

1. Theme From Answering Music Machine (David Hanna)
2. When the Bridge Toll Was a Dollar
3. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Joins the Foreign Legion
4. Cold Shoulder
5. Rice Dream Girl
6. Secrestest Crush
7. A Normal Suburban Lifestyle Is a Near Impossibility Once You've Fallen in Love With an International Spy
8. Baby It's You
9. You Never Call
10. Daina Flores You're the One
11. Beeline
12. I Should Have Kissed You When I Had the Chance
13. Hey Jelly
14. Hotel Huntington Sign
15. It's Winter and You Don't Love Me Anymore
16. Seattle Washington

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Casio Synthesisers 1982-1992

Casio, the Japanese consumer electronics company, was in the professional synthesizer business until 1992. All of their synthesizers were digital, and involved menu driven programming interfaces. The CZ line used what they called 'Phase Distortion Synthesis'. The VZ line used 'Interactive Phase Distortion' and the FZ line were 16 bit sampling units. The CZ line was among the first commercially available MIDI keyboards.

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i've got my band

 

The Radio Dept.
Pulling Our Weight (2003)

1. Pulling Our Weight
2. We Climb the Wired Fences
3. I Don't Need Love, I've Got My Band
4. Someone Else
5. The City Limit

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queen of the surface streets

 

Devotchka
Una Volta (2003)

1. C'est ce la
2. The Oblivion
3. Death by Blonde
4. Queen of the Surface Streets
5. One Last Vow
6. Vengo! Vengo!
7. Miette
8. Ocean of Lust
9. C'est ce la - part II
10. Commerce City Sister
11. La Llorrona

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flip it to the b-side

 

This Microwave World
Red States (2005)

1. December Was a Sham
2. You Are a Riot
3. The Party Line
4. The Year of Living Enviously
5. She's Insecure
6. Death of a Taxpayer
7. Cardinal Sin
8. A Model Life
9. Flip It to the B-Side
10. The Hours

Sean O'Neal - guitar/vocals
Evan Lawrence - organ
Brandon Loe - bass
Erin Mikulenka - synth/vocals
Kevin Bybee - drums



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heartless romantic

 

The Dears
End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story (2000)

1. C'Était pour la passion
2. Jazz Waltz No. 3 in B-Flat
3. This Is a Broadcast
4. Where the World Begins and Ends
5. Heartless Romantic
6. End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story
7. There Is No Such Thing as Love
8. Partir, par terre

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Good Copy Bad Copy

"Good Copy Bad Copy" is a documentary about copyright and culture, directed by Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen, and Henrik Moltke. It features interviews with Danger Mouse, Girl Talk, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Lawrence Lessig, and many others with various perspectives on copyright.


http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/



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distended

 

Slovenly
Thinking of Empire (1986)

1. Movement
2. Give Him a Sip Cause His Mind's Messed Up
3. Sand
4. Distended
5. Diminished Idol
6. This Is the Big Time
7. Cartwheels of Glory
8. At Sea
9. Inattention
10. Interruptions
11. On the Beach
12. Bleached

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the fall

 

The Fall
Live at the Witch Trials (1979)

1. Frightened
2. Crap Rap 2/Like To Blow
3. Rebellious Jukebox
4. No Xmas For John Quays
5. Mother-Sister!
6. Industrial Estate
7. Underground Medecin
8. Two Steps Back
9. Live at the Witch Trials
10. Futures and Pasts
11. Music Scene

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release the squid

 

Deathray Davies
The Kick and the Snare (2005)

1. The Fall Fashions
2. Release the Squid (Box 6)
3. Plan to Stay Awake
4. They Stuck Me in a Box in the Ground, Pt. 7
5. Stumble
6. Clock in Now
7. Chainsaw (Denn Die Toten Reiter Schnell)
8. In Circles
9. I'll Sing a Sweeter Song Tomorrow
10. A Calendar Crime
11. Alaska

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golly gee

 

Kathy McCarty
Dead Dog's Eyeball: Songs of Daniel Johnston (1994)


1. Intro
2. Walking the Cow
3. Rocket Ship
4. Living Life
5. I Had a Dream
6. I Am a Baby (In My Universe)
7. Hey Joe
8. Like a Monkey in a Zoo
9. Sorry Entertainer
10. Desperate man Blues
11. Oh No
12. Hate Song
13. Golly Gee
14. Going Down
15. Museum of Love
16. Wild West Virginia
17. Running Water
18. Grievances
19. The Creature

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you're still fucking square

Teenage Fanclub
A Catholic Education (1990)

1. Heavy Metal
2. Everything Flows
3. Catholic Education
4. Too Involved
5. Don't Need a Drum
6. Critical Mass
7. Heavy Metal II
8. Catholic Education 2
9. Eternal Light
10. Every Picture I Paint
11. Everybody's Fool

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mmm...danish

 

Mew
A Triumph For Man (1997)

1. Wheels Over Me
2. Beautiful Balloon
3. Wherever
4. Panda
5. Then I Run
6. Life Is Not Distant
7. No Shadow Kick
8. Snowflake
9. She Came Home for Christmas
10. Pink Monster
11. I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)
12. How Things Turn Out to Be
13. Web
14. Coffee Break

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just a groovy little motorbike

 

Yo La Tengo
Little Honda (1998)

1. Little Honda
2. Be Thankful for What You Got
3. No Return
4. Black Hole
5. How Much I've Lied
6. By the Time It Gets Dark
7. Little Honda
8. We Are the Champions

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