date,artist,title,link,caption,plays,lovers,comments 2015-08-03,"Leontyne Price","Vissi D'arte (from Tosca)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksbxaN-rKCI,"Leontyne Price singing Puccini at her heart-rending best.",5,"peterseno, thefamilyghost, roseml, sabes, HaveACuppaTea, junglerock","junglerock: ""beautiful!""" 2015-04-21,"DJ Rashad & Gant-Man","Heaven Sent",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOkw3dULI2U,"Can't stop listening to this: acid house and IDM filtered through Chicago footwork. Chicago's a fantastic dance music town. (RIP DJ Rashad)",5,thefamilyghost, 2015-01-22,"Flying Lotus","Turkey Dog Coma",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBN5x6yYYwA,"Glitchy take on jazz-prog à la National Health or Hatfield & the North .",4,"simonides, rduarte", 2014-12-21,"This Heat",S.P.Q.R.,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0eVTeQi06c,"Grating, grinding, cacophonous yelp-along. Latin conjugation and declension sound sinister here.",5,"JBoxer, simonides, thefamilyghost, fatuous, music_xplosion, ifjuly","ifjuly: ""i beat thefamilyghost! :D""" 2014-12-19,"Ali Hassan Kuban",Habibi,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XzOhQTDpfg,"The drum break on this track is amazing, and makes me want to dance at my desk.",10,"thefamilyghost, dicebourbon, ifjuly", 2014-11-25,"Llwybr Llaethog","Ai Bod",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EObeJqwy5mY,"Today's a mess of suck in the world. Here, have some Welsh-language dub.",10,"dicebourbon, thefamilyghost","thefamilyghost: ""Never heard of these guys before and now I'm looking them up and holy shit!""" 2014-10-29,"Trevor Bastow","Disco Data",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDLKGb0pVLo,"Late 70s production library music is so my thing today.",3,, 2014-10-23,"La Compagnie Créole","C'est bon pour le moral",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZNeVJ3ggd4,"I haven't heard this song in about 25 years, in 5th-grade French class. Nostalgia rush.",6,junglerock, 2014-06-26,DAMA/LIBRA,"The Chant",http://soundcloud.com/northernspyrecs/04-the-chant-spectre-master-30,"Two of my favorite (but different) musicians: Joel RL Phelps, Stuart Dahlquist of SunnO))), with something breathtakingly dirgelike. One of the best songs I've heard this year.",3,"ifjuly, thefamilyghost", 2014-05-27,"Guided by Voices","Navvy (Pere Ubu cover)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFr8TBAecU,"Pere Ubu, covered by GbV with Kim Deal(!). Boy, that sounds swell indeed.",6,"dicebourbon, Matan, ifjuly, junglerock, thefamilyghost, aditurri", 2014-03-13,"Alan Hawkshaw",Technicolour,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Rbvt6ptok,"A classic piece of 80's library music, and I can't get it out of my head.",4,, 2014-02-01,"Sam Spence","West Side Rumble",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCGZ2XpIr7o,"A groovy, rhythmically weird NFL Films song, in time for the Superb Owl.",7,thefamilyghost, 2014-01-10,Ministry,Revenge,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L0q6FQY0Y4,"This is cheese-tastic, to be sure, and Al Jourgensen is apparently ashamed of it. But it's a great slice of 80s synthpop all the same.",9,kerdisf, 2013-12-30,"Joel RL Phelps and the Downer Trio","Nashville Sound",http://soundcloud.com/damnably/joel-r-l-phelps-the-downer,"One of my favorite songs of 2013. When Phelps switches from pensive song to lupine yelp, when he anxiously exhorts, ""Throw some shoulder in it, boys!"", I get a lump in my throat.",6,"junglerock, thefamilyghost", 2013-12-24,Burial,"Come Down to Us",http://soundcloud.com/ravefaced/come-down-to-us,"Cold and beautiful mid-tempo track, but with an undeniable warmth and humanity that makes it transcendent.",3,"junglerock, AlicejustMay","AlicejustMay: ""Eloquently put.""; junglerock: ""another year end surprise from Burial""" 2013-10-10,"James Blake",CMYK,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqScKIZaurE,"Aaliyah + Kelis + dreamy synths + the beat. One of my favorite electronic songs of the past few years.",4,"junglerock, thefamilyghost, mindacj", 2013-08-30,Annie,"Ralph Macchio",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA7Cw1dgm7I,"It's great hearing new music from Annie. Probably the best Macchio-related song since ""You're the Best Around"".",2,, 2013-06-26,"Young Marble Giants","Wurlitzer Jukebox",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc45z7uCWFM,"Joyously hypnotic song. A sign I need to listen to more of their music.",7,"turnerjamese, Matan, thefamilyghost, oded, pabloldias, ifjuly","ifjuly: ""lovelovelove them.""; Matan: ""Beautiful to just watch them, never saw this before, thank you.""" 2013-04-19,"Game Theory",Chardonnay,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c0MpvT770E,"RIP Scott Miller, one of the great power pop musicians.",2,"whalemusic, noyoucmon, bob_ham", 2013-04-01,"Georg Philipp Telemann","Telemann: Violin Sonata in A",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOnA2w0XEZA,"Didn't listen to much baroque outside of Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi until recently. Making up for lost time.",4,"thefamilyghost, shitsterbauer", 2013-02-24,"Boris Tihomirov","Elektronnyi Budilnik (Electronic Alarm-Clock), 1985",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=732Fg-uS2qE,"Awesome and hard-to find techno from the USSR, from a soundtrack for gymnastics.",7,"thefamilyghost, Chichibio", 2013-02-12,"Peter Laughner","Sylvia Plath",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T0sPOClzJQ,"I keep forgetting how sharp and direct Peter Laughner could be.",4,"junglerock, onelovepictures, thefamilyghost", 2012-12-21,"Le Tigre","Fake French",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGxT6aI-Sg,"Fun to sing along to. ""I've got...dialectical sprechstimme!"" ""I've got...post-binary gender chores!""",3,, 2012-12-17,Dillinja,"That Amen Track",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWLv-LLNs54,"Just what it says on the tin: a classic amen break workout.",2,"Musicanima, thefamilyghost","Musicanima: ""tuuuuuuune""" 2012-12-11,"Daryl Hall","Something In 4/4 Time",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6waFLfDD5do,"Killer pop hooks and Robert Fripp's distinctive guitar. In an alternate world this would've been a #1 hit.",9,, 2012-11-29,"Dinosaur L","In The Cornbelt (Larry Levan Mix)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQi_1xWK9TA,"Minimal, danceable, and kinda weird, as expected from Arthur Russell.",5,thefamilyghost, 2012-11-21,"Drive-By Truckers","The Thanksgiving Filter",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APSQWPf0XLg,"With the in-laws this holiday.",4,, 2012-11-14,"Barbara Morgenstern","The Operator",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr5cn-O9AHc,"Lovely German glitch-pop.",2,, 2012-11-07,"The B-52's",6060-842,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKlQhHveEHM,"I started singing this today, for no reason I can discern. (A shame I can't link to a studio version.)",5,"auriea, hsmagnet, thefamilyghost, junglerock, eyessayyes","hsmagnet: ""i'll give it a like because i love the song, but, this is pretty bad quality ;)""; robjefferson: ""Like I noted, I couldn't find a better version on youtube that I could also embed. :)""" 2012-11-01,"Brian Eno and Robert Fripp","Baby's on Fire",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMt1Oy5uQ0w,,3,ifjuly, 2012-10-29,"Nova Mob","Old Empire",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7KeX7vdGpE,"Found myself singing this song this morning, though I haven't heard it in years.",1,, 2012-10-13,"Bloodclaat Gangsta Youth","Kill or Be Killed",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf-JHjY32M4,"A simply ridiculous breakcore track. Samples from ""Belly"", noisy beats, and it's over almost before it starts.",4,thefamilyghost, 2012-09-16,Change,Searching,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GlgKW3qigk,"Saw this album in a record store/cafe this morning. One of my favorite Luther Vandross songs.",2,, 2012-09-13,"Doc Scott","The Unofficial Ghost",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7vZn1EE2o8,"One of my favorite songs to dance not unlike a tornado to.",3,plinythemidlkid, 2012-09-08,"The Comsat Angels","Lost Continent (Demo)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RURIHsvMxQ,"I love the released version, but this demo version is also a delight.",3,, 2012-08-17,"Mr. Fingers","Can You Feel It",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeiH9Mm0E5Y,"Pretty low-fi version, but one of my favorite songs ever.",9,"junglesuperlord, plinythemidlkid, junglerock, thesethings", 2012-08-11,"Game Theory","We Love You, Carol and Alison",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uinKeHUe9g,"A perfect and lovely power pop song.",2,missBlue, 2012-08-06,"Culcha Candela",Hamma,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=700mwcBMMJE,"It's a pretty good dancehall song. In German. And I heard it on a Polish radio station this morning.",3,britasticuk, 2012-07-28,Silkworm,"Couldn't You Wait?",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPII1RdByGE,"The acoustic version. I love this song so hard.",4,"roberdjp, onelovepictures, ifjuly, junglerock, dicebourbon, thefamilyghost", 2012-07-18,"The D.O.C.","It's Funky Enough",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiPbeIXZpD4,"One of my favorite old-school trunk-rattlers.",3,"thefamilyghost, junglerock", 2012-07-07,"Peter Gabriel","Schnappschuß (ein Familienfoto)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WwnmEQrabU,"When I was 12, I wanted his third and fourth albums auf Deutsch. But they were $35 imports, so nothing doing.",1,, 2012-07-05,Karp,"Connect 5",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgybUyKLTfE,,3,, 2012-06-26,Shannon,"Let The Music Play",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ5jTAISutM,"One of my favorite dance songs. Great for a sunny-ish day like today.",6,labracoon, 2012-06-19,Malaria!,"Kaltes Klares Wasser",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eqvJVw-NUs,"Great morning prep music to sing along to.",4,"junglerock, thefamilyghost", 2012-06-05,"Camper Van Beethoven","Ambiguity Song",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWHA-bNHp7A,"Haven't heard it in a while, but can't get it out of my head.",6,junglerock, 2012-05-29,"Bill Withers","Grandma's Hands",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5pagal-ls,,10,junglerock, 2012-05-23,"Jud Jud","X The Demos X 7""",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpiHjKyJrZc,"Everyone's favorite a capella hardcore band.",5,junglerock,"junglerock: ""Brilliant!""" 2012-05-16,"The Ex",Huriyet,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcGul14r7Yk,"Dutch anarcho-punks performing an Eritrean protest song.",9,junglerock, 2012-05-09,Sleater-Kinney,"One Beat",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpLhrLzSaFQ,"I shamelessly sing/yelp/exclaim along to this.",6,"thesethings, thefamilyghost, ifjuly, junglerock","ifjuly: ""I've never been as crazy about their later work, but the one big shining light in it is the ample room they gave for Janet Weiss to show off her awesome drumming.""" 2012-05-04,"Max Tundra","Which Song",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boIOY5HjbFM,"Dizzying/disorienting and fun, and the sushi audio controller is cute.",7,junglerock, 2012-04-27,"Bounty Killer","They Don't Know/Corrupt High Resolution",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk37PcZ6TPQ,"A twofer of dancehall about the corrupt political system. (Ignore the misspelled ""acquired"" in the video.)",5,junglerock, 2012-04-23,"Art of Noise","Beat Box (Diversion One)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCyGdk23KNU,"Another one of those songs that I heard as a kid that I wanted to breakdance to.",6,"onelovepictures, thefamilyghost", 2012-04-16,"Family Fodder","Savoir Faire",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9cfLkxtKmI,"In an alternate universe, this would've been a smash hit.",3,thefamilyghost, 2012-04-13,"The O'Jays","Ship Ahoy",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-LuNJXFGTU,"The best song about the Middle Passage you'll probably hear today.",1,, 2012-04-10,"Earth, Wind & Fire","Can't Hide Love",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plP4Z2hHXvE,"Every time I hear this song now, I think of Mary Gaitskill's ""Veronica"". Not a bad association at all.",3,auriea, 2012-04-03,"Le Tigre","What's Yr Take On Cassavetes",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI87_X52wmk,"I love this song to death. Best line: ""Hey, where's Gena?""",7,"junglerock, sproutrobot, dicebourbon, ifjuly, thefamilyghost","ifjuly: ""genius, alcoholic, messiah...""; junglerock: ""Yay!!""" 2012-03-29,"George Kranz","Din Daa Daa",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCA8cFCL9_w,"When I was 6, I wanted to breakdance to this like whoa.",11,"ifjuly, junglerock","junglerock: ""Song of the day. A little Art of Noise, a whole lot of awesome""" 2012-03-23,"Naked Raygun","Home of the Brave",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W8uLR4ue1A,"Another song I used to love way back when. Bonus points for a reference to the Huguenots.",8,, 2012-03-21,"Squirrel Bait","Kid Dynamite",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VbWCvFTTUc,"One of those songs I loved in high school, but forgot about until recently.",3,junglerock,