so i’ve just finished the third revision of my top 100 albums list — which to avoid confusion/arguments is a personal selection, not an attempt at a best of all time list — and to build some interest/excitement in the list beyond myself and the 1-2 other people that have traditionally cared about this i’ve [...]

i’ve slowly begun working on the third revision of my personal top 100 albums list. as planned, this year i am making the transition to a one album per artist limit… which has automatically disqualified twenty excellent albums from last year’s list (see below). this has been a hard step for me to take, but [...]

mp3: christopher perdue – emilymp3: joanna newsom – emily (live)
yesterday, the 1989 turbografx16-cd title ys book i & ii — check pr below for more details– was finally released on the wii shop channel! i’ve been wanting to get my hands on ys (the game) for a long time now and was thinking doing a [...]

mp3: fiona apple – angelmp3: joanna newsom – angel
being that these are probably my 2 favorite female artists of all time, you might expect me to prattle on about the magnificence of their respective covers… but honestly, i prefer hendrix’s original. fiona’s is a close second though.
and rod’s not bad either.
video: rod stewart – angel

i’m not sure whether it would normally be correct to call these songs “covers” as they are of traditional origin and artist’s performances of traditional music are more usually referred to as interpretations or arrangements. but being that karen dalton’s takes on in my own time are so widely considered the definitive versions of these [...]

said the gramophone announced the winners of their wonderful video contest yesterday, which finally gave me the motivation i needed to check out all the runners up they’ve posted the past few weeks. just like the name suggests, the videos are wonderful. every single one of them. i don’t agree completely with stg’s ordering [...]

mp3: final fantasy – peach, plum, pear [link expired]
joanna newsom mp3s below….
i mentioned this cover of joanna newsom’s “peach, plum, pear” a while back when talking about another cover final fantasy frequently performs, destroyer’s “an actors revenge”. yea.. this guy covers a lot of awesome songs and he plays them all pretty well. this [...]

mp3: randy newman- short people [link expired] [buy]
i was playing buzzword earlier today– it’s a pretty sweet word game if you’ve never played it. the buzzword is “short” and up comes [...]

mp3: joanna newsom- bridges and balloons (pocket mix) [link expired]

this is a couple years old now, but its still as awesome as the first time i heard it. i’m not really a fan of remixes, but i’m a fan of this one. easily my #1 remix of all time– although i doubt i could [...]