31/13 - The Future Is Certain (Give Us Time To Work It Out)

Yeah so this list should have been up Monday, but I had an exhibition on, and I actually hung the last piece like 5 minutes before the opening. So here it is now, in the calm after the storm.

Animal Collective - Amanita 

As many others I find Centipede Hz more than a little dense to take in as a whole, but picked apart there are some nuggets. This chimes especially well with the work I put in my show.

I'm gonna bring back some stories

Junip - The Ghost of Tom Joad 

One of the best songs ever, based on one of the best novels ever. And of course the original is in its way unsurpassable. Likewise RATM's version is an absolute showstopper. But this week it was Junip's slow crescendo of a cover that blew me away for the hundredth time. I can think of few other songs that would be as perfect for this band to cover.
And just by the way, this is not the only song inspired by The Grapes of Wrath; Woody Guthrie's take is a 6 and a half minute retelling of the entire plot, meant as a way to spread the socialist essence of the book to the masses who didn't/couldn't read it.

Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.

Savages - She Will

I'm gonna go buy more black clothes. I'm gonna be righteously angry. I'm gonna be like Savages in every way I can, because they're the coolest and best there is.

Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere

An artist anthem. What genius to put it to marching drums.

TV on the Radio - Killer Crane

As their new album is soon to drop I revisit their latest one and fall in love with another of their ballads. The break into the chorus is so bloody gorgeous.