The rebellion of the household appliances

I thought I'd try something a little different. I've always admired the mp3 blogs and I thought it would be nice to do something that like. I have neither the taste nor the webspace to do it properly but I think I could do this on an irregular basis.

So here's how it works. I've cleared out one of my gmail accounts "artichokes@..." opened up a message, attached a number of songs to it and saved a draft of the message. If anyone's interested, email me and I'll send you the password to the account. Simply sign in, open up the saved draft, and download. Feel free to upload some songs of your own.

The first set:
Still Life-Russian Futurists: New tune from the Ontario keyboardist

I will never see the sun-Great Lake Swimmers: There are only so many songs about the TTC, and in honour of the averted strike, here is one of the best.

Lie in the sound-Tresspassers William: Why are women singers so sexy? This one's got kind of a mazzy star sound to it. I'm such a sucker.

Goodnight moon-Shivaree: See above, except with more of a cabaret feel. She played in Toronto recently and supposedly was excellent.

No one takes your freedom-DJ earworm: Epic mash-up that's not just a gimmick but good on it's own terms.

Dusche-Farin Urlaub: In prague, my hotel didn't have a proper alarm clock and you were expected to use the alarm in the television set. So every morning, I'd wake up to the soothing sounds of MTV Germany and every morning it would be one of two songs. Either the new Toten Hosen song or this one. It's catchy and very germanic and makes no sense. I looked up the translation of the lyrics and it's about how his household appliances are trying to kill him, so he sleeps in the shower because the shower is his only friend. I hope it's symbolic.

Faking the Books-Lali Puna: I got this one from the Global Pop Conspiracy back in the day when I was listening to them. I listen to this one on repeat and try to figure out what the prominent sample in this song is saying.