Music for Listeners 2007/10/27

1) The Beastie Boys-"Country Mike's Theme"  From the CD 'Anthology'.
2) Leroy Carr-"Carried Water for the Elephant"  From the CD 'Leroy Carr Vol.3 (1930-1932)'.
3) Ash-"Halloween"  From the brand new UK CD single for "Life Less Ordinary".
4) Noah and the Whale-"5 Years Time"  From the brand new 7" single for "5 Years Time".
5) Babyshambles-"Carry On Up The Morning"  From the brand new CD 'Shotters Nation'.
6) Pants Yell!-"Magenta and Green"  From the forthcoming CD 'Allison Statton'.
7) The Charlatans-"You Cross My Path"  Brand new single available for download on XFM.
8) Ra Ra Riot-"Dying Is Fine"  From the brand new CD 'Ra Ra Riot'.
9) Buen Chico-"Lurch"  From the brand new CD 'The Right to Re-Arrange'.
10) Math and Physics Club-"Baby I'm Yours"  From the brand new CD E.P. 'Baby I'm Yours'.
11) Irene-"Seaside"  From the brand new Swedish CD 'Long Gone Since Last Summer'.
12) Jens Lekman-"A Postcard To Nina"  From the brand new CD 'Night Falls Over Kortedala'.
13) Fear of Flying-"Forget-Me-Nots"  From the 7" single for "Three's A Crowd".
14) The Sigma-"Maybe Baby"  From the 7" single for "Maybe Baby".
15) Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong-"Lucio Starts Fires"  From the limited 7" single for "Lucio Starts Fires".
16) Eddie Haliday-"City On Fire"  From the brand new CD 'Run for the Woods'.
17) Those Dancing Days-"Hitten"  From the UK CD E.P. 'Those Dancing Days'.
18) White Rabbits-"Kid On My Shoulder"  From the CD 'Fort Nightly'.
19) Oasis-"Lord Don't Slow Me Down"  Download from the bands website - www.oasisnet.com
20) Winterkids-"Wonderland"  From the brand new CD single for "Wonderland".
21) The Octopus Project-"Black Blizzard/Red Umbrella"  From the CD 'Hello, Avalanche'.
22) Poster Children-"Space Gun"  From the CD 'Daisy Chain Reaction'.
23) Brothers and Sisters-"New Life"  From the CD 'Brothers and Sisters'.
24) Mothfight-"Hopscotch"  From the 7" single for "Hopscotch".
25) Listen Listen-"The Winter of Two-Thousand Five"  From the CD E.P. 'Listen Listen'.
26) Dr. Dog-"Find the River"  From the CD compilation 'Drive XV: A Tribute To Automatic for the People'.
27) Dawn of the Replicants-"The Boy King"  WORLD PREMIERE - Send to us straight from the band. Too freakin' cool!
28) Tillmans-"New Place" From the CD 'A Careless Lifestyle'.
29) The Orb-"The Dream (The Future Academy of Noise, Rhythm and Gardening Mix)"  From the brand new Japanese release of 'The Dream'.
30) Radiohead-"Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"  From the brand new CD 'In Rainbows'.
31) "The Mid-Morning Recording"             The Fountain Motion Picture Soundtrack - The music of Clint Mansell - Performed by The Kronos Quartet and Mogwai
It must be nice to make some phone calls and get The Kronos Quartet and Mogwai to perform music for your next motion picture. I can't believe how amazing this soundtrack is, and I can't believe how overlooked this film was. I finally saw "The Fountain" on DVD this week, after seeing Aronofsky's first two movies in the theater. When this one came out in the cinema, all I heard was around film circles was, "Oh, 'The Fountain', that movie was boring". So I didn't see it at the time, but I knew at some point, being a fan of the director's work, I would. For some reason, no one seemed to like or "get" this latest movie from the great American film director, Darren Aronofsky. Maybe most people don't have an attention span for a wonderfully atmospheric movie. I guess everyone was expecting something as shocking as "Requiem for A Dream", but what they got instead, was a psychedelic science-fiction love story about eternal life. It is certainly something different from the director, but in my opinion, this motion picture was equally shocking as his previous two films, and just as good, if not better. I can honestly say that I saw this movie at the best possible time in my life; a life that someday will obviously have an end. Who wants to live forever anyways? I guess a piece of all of us will live forever. We lived as stardust for billions of years before now; why couldn't we can return to living as stardust for another billion or so?
Michael - MFL
32) James-"Sayonara"  From the CD 'Wah-Wah'.