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YouTube – The Smiths – This Night Has Opened My Eyes.

Even after all these years, this song still gets a lot of air time with me.  It has one of the nicest guitar melodies I’ve ever heard, and the lyrics seem to go perfectly [...]

YouTube – UB40 & 808 State – One In Ten.

Another favorite from [...]

YouTube – New Order – Procession.

An oldie, but a definite favorite New Order song for me (although this appears to be a home-made video, which irks me).  I think my theme for songs this week will be in this vein of old favorites.

I obtained the Fever CD I needed yesterday and should be able to upload [...]

YouTube – The Cure – A Strange Day.

In honor of Robert Smith’s 50th birthday last week. (I updated this video on 4/27 since the first one didn’t allow embedding). I couldn’t watch The Cure in Orange enough when I bought it in [...]

YouTube – Animal Collective – My Girls.

I had to add this song tonight because I have been listening to it constantly. To me, it’s a cross between 808 State circa “Gorgeous” and emotive vocals and lyrics. The reference to adobe hits close to home, and the general message of the song is something I [...]

YouTube – cheb khaled rai old.

Have a [...]

YouTube – Santogold – Shove It.

I’m still working on the Fever page as I have misplaced a CD I am trying to locate.  A few more photos may be uploaded tonight as well.

These types of songs that are thrown up on YouTube seem to disappear quickly, but I’m going to link to them for a while [...]

YouTube – Crystal Castles – [...]

Fever played our last show together as a 5-piece two nights ago at the Nightlight in Chapel Hill.  There was a nice write-up about us in the Independent to promote the show (linked here, including the disparaging comments), but sadly it was not a well-attended show at all, even though the wonderful music of solo artists [...]