Music For Listeners 01/24/2009

1) The Beastie Boys-"Country Mike's Theme"  From the CD 'Anthology'.
2) Bill Ryder Jones-"By Morning I"  Unreleased demo sent to us from the artist himself.
3) The A-Sides-"If My Album Sold A Million"  From the vinyl only mini-LP 'The A-Sides'.
4) Franz Ferdinand-"Lucid Dreams"  From the forthcoming CD 'Tonight! Franz Ferdinand'.
5) And the Moneynotes-"Bolinda"  From the CD 'New Cornucopia!'.
6) The Molotavs-"Flowers"  From the vinyl 7" single for "Flowers".
7) Morrissey-"One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell"  From the forthcoming CD 'Years of Refusal'.
8) The Decemberists-"The Rakes Song"  From the forthcoming CD 'The Hazards of Love'.
9) M. Ward-"Never Had Nobody Like You"  From the forthcoming CD 'Hold Time'.
10) Neko Case-"People Got A Lotta Nerve"  From the forthcoming CD 'Middle Cyclone'.
11) Bon Iver-"Blood Bank"  From the brand new CD E.P. 'Blood Bank'.
12) The View (featuring Paolo Nutini)-"Covers"  From the forthcoming CD 'Which Bitch?'.
13) Idlewild-"Let Me Sleep Next To The Mirror"  From the CD '100 Broken Windows'.
14) The Fireman-"Highway"  From the CD 'Electric Arguments'.
15) Three Trapped Tigers-"Track 05"  From the CD E.P. 'Three Trapped Tigers'.
16) Mr. Fingers-"Can You Feel It? (Martin Luther King Mix)"  From the vinyl 12" single for "Can You Feel It?".
17) Primal Scream-"Come Together (Andy Weatherall Mix-Extended)"  From the UK CD 'Screamadelica'. CRELP 076
18) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart-"Young Adult Friction"  From the CD 'The Pains of Being Pure at Heart'.
19) Moscow Olympics-"Second Trace"  From the CD 'Cut the World'.
20) Hello Saferide-"Travelling With HS"  From the brand new CD 'More Modern Short Stories from Hello Saferide'.
21) Box Elders-"Hole in My Head"  From the vinyl 7" single for "Hole in My Head".
22) The Walkmen-"In the New Year"  From the CD 'You & Me'.
23) The Grates-"Earthquake"  From the CD 'Teeth Lost, Hearts Won'.
24) James Yuill-"Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box"  From the vinyl 7" single for "No Pins Allowed".
25) Heartless Bastards-"The Mountain"  From the forthcoming CD 'The Mountain'.
26) Beirut-"La Llorona"  From the forthcoming CD E.P. 'March of the Zapotec'.
27) Drug Rug-"The Sooner The Better"  From the brand new CD E.P. 'The Kitchen Tapes'.
28) Peter Broderick-"Games Again (Alternate Version)"  From the double A-side vinyl 7" single for "Roscoe"/"Games Again".
29) The Flaming Lips-"Space Bible With Volume Lumps"  From the CD soundtrack to the film "Christmas on Mars" entitled 'Once Beyond Hopelessness'.
30) Noah and the Whale-"Second Lover"  From the CD 'Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down'.
31) "The Mid-Morning Recording"                 Biosphere-'Patashnik'
I can almost guarantee that you've heard the music of Geir Jensen played somewhere in your life, you just didn't know it, and being an ambient music master, he would almost prefer it that way. Most of his music is so incredibly spacey and atmospheric; it would be easy to pass up if you weren't really listening. However, somewhere, some TV show, some movie trailer, some digital or satellite radio station, you have heard the music of Geir Jensen. He's made many records under the name Biosphere, but this is most certainly my favorite album by him under this guise. That said, I would have to put The Fires of Ork albums as the best music he's ever been a part of though. Like those albums, tonight's "Mid-Morning Recording" is up there as one of my favorite albums to drift off to sleepy land. It makes me feel like an astronaut. "Can you imagine an extra-terrestrial disc-jockey? Like listening to radio waves from space…It was unbelievable!"
Michael - MFL
32) James-"Sayonara"  From the CD 'Wah-Wah'.