Best of the Blogs, vol 1

Yeah, I've got the bug. Music posts fulfill the need to share that drives me to making mix-CD's. So here's my personal pick from the best of the mlogs (music blogs? any better suggestions? tunelogs...trackogs...blusic).

The tracks come from the following awesome music blogs who actually get the songs:

• My Old Kentucky Blog
• The Late Greats
• The Music Slut

Download the 12 songs zipped up! Click and Save! (about 51 MB)

Highlights:

• Andrew Bird "Heretics" - My personal favorite song for the last few weeks. Excellent, excellent, excellent!
• The Electric Soft Parade "If That's the Case, Then I Don't Know" - fuzzy mixture of Elephant Six ideas, Grandaddy sophtware slump artificial twinkles, hipster garage rock, and chord work that would make the Killers proud.
• Loch Lomond "Bird and a Bear (I Am the Bird)" - weird song story, but the voice, instrumentation, and cadence of the song transfixes.
• Electreland "To The East" - there's something really endearing about this song.
• Birds of Wales "Cinderella (Has Nothing On You)" - cute belle and sebastien sound without the art school irony. The entire album is great for background, thinking about life and love, belly button gazing time.
• The Morning Benders "Damnit Anna" - say hello to the shins!
• Melissa McClelland "Factory" - say hello to a southern-ish, non-sexual Liz Phair before Liz Phair became a self-parody!