SO MUCH MORE ELEGANT THAN A F*CKING FORK

SPOON

Spoon's Gimme Fiction looks like another near-miss for 2005's Top 10 list. "Monsieur Valentine" makes my Top 20 song list, however, and there is much else to admire and celebrate when it comes to these Austin originals.

[MP3] [right-click/"save as"] "The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine"

[MP3] [right-click/"save as"] "Sister Jack"

[MP3] [right-click/"save as"] "I Summon You"

[MP3] [right-click/"save as"] "Stay Don't Go" [from the LP Kill the Moonlight, 2002]

[MP3] [right-click/"save as"] "Everything Hits at Once" [from the LP Girls Can Tell, 2001]

BAH HUMBUG?

BELLE & SEBASTIAN X-MAS

At the risk of running this recent Belle and Sebastian fixation of mine right into the ground, I am offering today a collection of ten Christmas tunes the band played at a John Peel party in 2002.

For your convenience, I have lumped them together in a handy-dandy zip file, which can be left-clicked and dowloaded [here]. Enjoy.

Tracklist:
1) O Come, All Ye Faithful
2) Christmas Time is Here
3) Santa Claus
4) Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto
5) Silent Night
6) O Little Town of Bethlehem
7) Santa, Bring My Baby Back to Me
8) O Come, O Come Emmanuel
9) I Took Some Time for Christmas
10) The Twelve Days of Christmas

NEW DAY DAWNING...

Well, I finally decided to invest a couple bucks so that visitors don't have to jump through Rapidshare hoops to download some tunes. Starting with today's Gentle Waves/Isobel Campbell post, people can do the right-click/"save as" thing. And we'll see how this goes....

ISOBEL[LE] SANS SEBASTIAN

THE GENTLE WAVES/ISOBEL CAMPBELL

Following fairly naturally from yesterday's Belle and Sebastian post is today's Isobel Campbell entry. Isobel used to play cello and, every now and again, sing for B&S. She has also led the '60s-styled folk-pop outfit the Gentle Waves and released a solo album (Amorino).

Most recently, she has teamed with former Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age singer Mark Lanegan on the 2005 EP Ramblin' Man [to be released December 13th.] [Go (here) to sample the tracks.]

[MP3] [right-click/"save as"] "Falling from Grace" [from the LP Swansong for You, 2000]

[MP3] [right-click/"save-as"] "Partner in Crime" [from the LP Swansong for You, 2000]

[MP3] [right-click/"save as"] "Evensong" [from the LP The Green Fields of Foreverland..., 1999]

[MP3] [right-click/"save as"] "Amorino"/Isobel Campbell [from the LP Amorino, 2003]

[MP3] [right-click/"save as"] "Ramblin' Man"/Mark Lanegan w/Isobel Campbell [from the EP Ramblin' Man, 2005]