Music for Erin Media

2005-11-03T23:02:00.000-08:00

a mystery track!

2005-03-06T18:54:00.000-08:00

So you know what it's like, in a download frenzy from various sources you wind up with something with a lame id3 tag that you can in no way remember what it is or where it's from. I rather like this song but the only way to classify it is "girl with a charming though sometimes nasal singing voice + jangly guitar".

I transcribed some of the lyrics below (which I've tried googling with no success, so it must be an indie or maybe some odd B-side). If you have any guesses comment below!

I see the hatred inside you still
Don't go away too long
Just stay right here.

You know I want you, still
You know that I need you, still
You know that I love you, still
So tell me how's that make you feel?

Mystery Singer - Mystery Song

Hunter S. Thompson dies at age 6

2005-02-21T02:01:00.000-08:00

Hunter S. Thompson dies at age 65

Letter to William Burroughs and Ode to Jack

Another edition of.. SAME NAME, WILDLY DIFFERENT SONG!

2005-02-14T21:51:00.000-08:00

Viva la the age of indifference!

Keren Ann - Seventeen

More info: EMI Profile // CCC article // official site

Buy it: Not Going Anywhere

Ladytron - Seveteen

More info: Official site // iview with Daniel Hunt

Buy it: Light & Magic (with bonus tracks)

Sex Pistols - Seventeen

More info: the Definitive history

Buy it: the most beloved album in punk? Nevermind! // 24 Hour Party People dvd

Celebrate Valentines Day, with one of my favorite love songs!

2005-02-14T21:21:00.000-08:00

Shocking Blue - Pickin' Tomatoes

More info: Geocities Fan Site (rocking the MIDI, even!) // Mighty Discography

Buy it: Best of Shocking Blue (includes a few of Mariska Veres's solo songs which sound just like a Dutch ABBA)

Go, Eagles!

2005-02-06T17:10:00.000-08:00

Shelley Fabares - Football Season's Over

More info: Elvis' Women (classy)

Buy it: Best of Shelley Fabares // The Bad Seed dvd

A Thousand Hits!

2005-01-28T02:16:00.000-08:00

In honor of Erin Media Music reaching 1,000 hits!

Sonic Youth - Ineffable Me (from the album A Thousand Leaves, performed live 6/26/98 Roksilde, Denmark)

More info: Saucerlike fansite

Buy it: A Thousand Leaves // Essential Logic: Fanfare in the Garden (artwork by Kim Gordon)

Meme time! Press shuffle and go!

2005-01-24T03:56:00.000-08:00

Okay, even though I utterly detest entries in mp3 blogs lacking mp3's I think this is a choice opportunity for us to get to know each other better.

My next 10 songs are:
Neko Case - Bowling Green
Alizee - Le Mail A Des Ailes
Bobettes - I Shot Mr Lee
Connie Francis - All by Myself
Jam - That's Entertainment
Woody Guthrie - 1913 Massacre
Neil Young - Don't Let it Bring You Down
Modest Mouse - Teeth Like God's Shoeshine
Clash - Rock the Casbah
Marie LaForet - Mon Ami Mor Amour (thanks, Mordi)

These are a few of my favorite things...

2005-01-23T02:03:00.000-08:00

Songs with the same name that are totally different is love.

No Doubt - Sunday Morning

More info: No Doubt Web

Buy it: the Singles 1992 - 2003

Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning

More info: Covers Project

Buy it: Velvet Underground & Nico

Leaks!

2005-01-16T13:05:00.000-08:00

Tori Amos - Ireland from The Beekeeper

More info: Y es Said: The Beekeeper

Buy it: Pre Order the Beekeeper

Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine from Extraordinary Machine

More info: Fiona Apple Fans Petition Sony Music // Never is a Promise fansite

Buy it: TBD

That Darn Britney!

2005-01-15T15:41:00.000-08:00

Britney - Do Somethin' (video 16MB)

Note: wearing Mouse ears in her underwear!

More info: The Pop Tart in Winter

Buy it: Greatest Hits CD/DVD

the Brad and Jen issue

2005-01-12T03:10:00.000-08:00

Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart

More info: Hyper fansite // Official site

Buy it: Greatest Hits CD/DVD

Roy Orbison - Crying

More info: Roy Orbison In Clingfilm

Buy it: Black & White Night // Covers

2005-01-08T02:13:00.000-08:00

The Capricorns are an excellent band on an excellent west coast tour. So check them out!

The Capricorns - Pretty Girls

More info: Official site // MySpace profile

Jan 11 SAN FRANCISCO @ 12 Galaxies w/ Casiotone for the Painfully Alone + Secret Synthi www.12galaxies.com

Jan 13 OAKLAND TBA

Jan 14 LOS ANGELES KXLU radio show

Jan 15 LOS ANGELES @ The Echo w/ Anavan, Totally Radd!, 14 Year old girls www.attheecho.com 6pm-10pm

Jan 16 LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ @ Havasu Underground w/ The Skumbags www.havasuunderground.com 7pm

from across the pond

2005-01-05T13:48:00.000-08:00

Helen Love - Bubblegum

More info: Official Site // Damaged Goods records

Annie - Chewing Gum

More info: Official site

Buy it: Amazon UK

Happy New Year, downloaders!

2005-01-04T01:59:00.000-08:00

In honor of the NYE celebration that I sprained my ankle and spent the next day in bed downloading mash-up's and telling Alison I didn't need to ice my sprain because the room was so damn cold. MASH-UP's!

Kylie vs New Order - Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head

Christina Aguilera vs. the Strokes - A Stroke of Genius

Destiny's Child vs. Nirvana - Smells Like Bootylicious

2004-12-31T01:12:00.000-08:00

My Favorite Girl Group compilations, represent!

Cake - Baby, That's Me (from Girls in the Garage Vol. 3)

More info: Spectropop

Buy it: good luck

The Puppets - Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart (from Girls in the Garage Vol. 1)

Does anyone remeber that great training montage in the film Bufffy the Vampire Slayer set to this song performed by the Divinyls? Hee!

More info: 70's Invasion

Buy it: ditto

Nita Rossi - Untrue, Unfaithful (from You Can Be Wrong About Boys)

More info: Girl Groups.com

Buy it: You Can Be Wrong About Boys (starting at $1.95!)

Dana Gillespie - You Just Gotta Know My Mind (from Girls' Scene)

More info: Decca Records // Dana Gillespie fansite

Buy it: I don't know, try ebay or something.

The Ladybugs - It's the Last Time (from Gee Baby Gee)

More info: Faking it, Songs and Sources // Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting

Buy it: Del-Fi Girl Groups: Gee Baby Gee

2004-12-30T03:18:00.000-08:00

What a crappy week

Susan Sontag - Feminism and the Changing Status of Women

More info: BBC4 Interviews with Susan Sontag // Wikipedia

Buy it: all things Susan Sontag

Jerry Orbach - Lullaby of Broadway (from 42nd Street)

More info: Who is this Briscoe?

Buy it: Dirty Dancing dvd // Law & Order S14 dvd's // Broadway's Lost Treasures

2004-12-21T02:47:00.000-08:00

Happy Holidays, PUNKS! I'm going to Spokane for a week, land of dial up. So in the meantime...

Gang of Four - At Home He's a Tourist

2004-12-19T13:37:00.000-08:00

Rock Opera edition!

Transfused - Child of Destiny

Written by Nomy Lamm and the Need. The Transfused, a critique of unchecked consumerism and the impossibility of collective productivity, is truly one of my favorite things.

More info: Official site

Buy it: Soundtrack

Greendale - Leave the Driving

Still, Young is a compelling enough activist/artist that Greendale, in all its unadorned frankness, should be held as something like an answer to the dangerously slick snuff of The Passion of the Christ. An exercise in cross-media orchestrated by a man of genius and conviction, neither perfect nor gloriously imperfect while walking its uneasy middle ground to the left, Greendale is at the least alive and in favour of liberty. The rareness of that, and many of our contemptuous reactions to it, should give us pause. -Walter Chaw

More info: Official site and FFC review

Buy it: Soundtrack w/ bonus live dvd // Greendale dvd

Tommy - Pinball Wizard

The first rock opera, and possibly the most acid-trippiest.

More info: Wikipedia

Buy it: Tommy performed by the London Symphony

Drive By Truckers - The Three Great Alabama Icons

A look at modern-day southern mythology, the rise and fall of Arena Rock, growing up in the seventies, and the "duality of the Southern Thing". Much of the album deals with the folk-lore surrounding the band Lynyrd Skynyrd and a man coming to terms with his own legacy.

More info: Southern Rock Opera Writeup

Buy it: Southern Rock Opera

2004-12-16T17:09:00.000-08:00

Singing Starlets

Marlene Dietrich - Falling in Love Again (German)

More info: Dietrich By Daughter in negotiations with Gwyneth Paltrow

Juliette (Lewis) & the Licks - Got Love to Kill (thanks, Sue!)

She was nominated for an Oscar at age 19 and has started a band with Patty Schemel from Hole. This rocks!

More info: Official site

Marilyn Monroe - Heat Wave

What am I going to say about Marilyn Monroe that you don't know already know? She's gorgeous and this was one of my favorite songs when I was little. You knew that!

More info: Wikipedia

Buy it: Diamond collection

Lindsey Lohan - Ultimate

Remember falling in love with baby Lindsey when she played her own twin in the Parent Trap re-make? Or marvelling at her perfectly, stripe-y hair in Freaky Friday? Listen to this track and try to think of a kinder, gentler time before marijuana and silicone sunk their teeth into her.

More info: Lindsey's official blog

Buy it: Mean Girls dvd and Speak

2004-12-14T02:46:00.000-08:00

In the spirit of crass commercialism... Cola!

Sally Yip - Coca-Cola Theme (Chinese RMX)

Petula Clark - Things Go Better With Coke (partial)

More info: Wikipedia

Buy it: Things Go Better With Coke

Nancy Sinatra - Things Go Better With Coke

More info: A Century of Coke vs. Pepsi and Sheila's iview with Nancy

Buy it: Nancy Sintra S/T

Britney Spears - Joy of Pepsi

More info: The Pop Tart in Winter

Patrick Bateman's Morning Routine

More info: Film Freak Central's review

Buy it: Unrated dvd Bookosaurus American Psycho 2

2004-12-13T01:58:00.001-08:00

Connie is Cool!

If you check out this blog faithfully you will hear loads of Connie Francis. Lucky you! She is a definite favorite of everyone here at Erin Media.

Connie Francis - Roundabout (Japanese version)

More info: Batnet and Swingin Chicks

Buy it: Where the Boys Are: 24 Greatest Hits and Singin' in Japanese

2004-12-12T13:16:00.000-08:00

A few gift ideas for Kwanza ...

Golden Girls - Miami Miami

from the episode where Rose and Dorothy enter a contest to write a jingle for the Miami tourism board. Classic!

More info: Golden Girls fan-fiction

Buy it: the Golden Girls S1 dvd box set

Genya Ravan - Ain't Gonna Happen

It's crazy non-sense that its taken this long for Genya Raven to write a book. As a child she and her family escaped a prison camp in their native Poland during the Nazi occupation, after coming to America she fronted the first all-female band (Goldie & the Gingerbreads) to be signed to a major record label, guested on Lou Reed and Blue Oyster Cult records, produced the Dead Boys first album, and (heard here) fronted the jazz/R&B combo10 Wheel Drive.

More info: Genya Ravan

Buy it: Lollipop Lounge Memoirs of A Rock And Roll Refugee

2004-12-12T01:33:00.000-08:00

It's only fitting that the inaugural post of the new Erin Media music blog would be from an album that came from my very loins.

Lora Logic - Do You Believe in Christmas?

After leaving the original line up of the X-Ray Spex and starring in a film directed by seminal feminist film critic Laura Mulvey in the mid-70's Lora (loosely collaborating under the moniker "Essential Logic") also created some of the greatest art punk you would want dance to. Her influences can still be heard in bands like The Need, Erase Errata, et al. This particular song she described as "my attempt at a Christmas carol".

More about Lora from Rina and Greil Marcus.

Buy it.