Decided to make this an occasional rather than a weekly thing to give some breathing room between mixes.
To recap the idea:
The point is to listen to what music came before your submission, in order to appreciate others' tastes and to build a musical conversation. It's best if you listen to the whole playlist before you add your submission, but at least listen to the song directly preceding your choice. Expand your horizons! Ground rules: 1. One submission per user.
2. In order to avoid doubling up on responses to previous songs, potential submitters "call" their spot and then give some time for others to see that the next spot has been taken. So, call it, wait a while (which should give you time to chew on your response anyhow), then submit.
3. Put your numerical order before your submission. This ensures that future submitters listen to the playlist in sequence regardless of whether or not shares shift the order that submissions are viewed in.
4. Explain your choice.
5. If you were first to submit last time, please allow somebody else to take first spot for the current playlist.
bfv started the last one. Anybody new want to take first crack at this one?
1. The Tallest Man on Earth - Where Do My Bluebirds Fly It's a beautiful song, I think it's appropriate for this time of year too - kind of an autumnal feel. I love the rough feel of his guitar and voice.
3. Father John Misty - Now I'm Learning to Love the War Decided to build off of the lyrical side of the Shakey Graves number rather than the stylistic elements, as that ground has already been covered in the first two songs to good effect. If I add any more to that aesthetic, we risk just spinning down a gritty guitar/voice rabbit hole. Which would be great, but. Saw some similarities between the anti-modernist, technophobic lyrics of "Roll the Bones" and Misty's fatalistic view about the creative process and the decadent waste therein. Both songs display a tension between the stereotypical bohemian disdain for consumerism and reliance on the same for purposes of artistic self-actualization. A lot of crosstalk between Graves' call to ...sell your belongings/all your clever drawings try to make a dollar/from your grave... And MIsty's assertion: let's just call this what it is/the jealous side of mankind's death wish/when it's time to go/gonna leave behind things that won't decompose. Anyhow, this might open up the pathway for further development. galen, fallingleaves, great submissions. Great weather for them, too.
I'll take number 2. E: 2. Shakey Graves - Roll the Bones The picking style and some of the vocal inflections on Where Do My Bluebirds Fly reminded me of this track. It also seems vaguely autumnal, and of course I just enjoy it.