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Gil Scot-Heron “Me and the Devil” off I’m New here

This song is beautiful, bluesy, and haunting. This album is amazing.

Throwback: Weezer, The Blue Album

Today I decided to subject my boyfriend to a quintessential album of my youth, Weezer’s Blue Album. Released in 1994, this album has carried me all the way from the  middle school bus to rooftop college makeshift karaoke. I will always remeber the first time I heard “buddy holly” in the car, with my dad in Irmo S.C., and the druken dance Casara and I created in her living room to “The World Has Turned and Left Me Here.” Which ironically enough brought tears to my eyes today as I realized how soon my best friend will be leaving an empty space in Atlanta…for a new space in New York.

The blue album speaks to my rebellious youth, my nose ring, my first keg party, my everlasting friendships and in general my terrible affinity for karaoke. This album is a must-have for anyone who remembers the 90s or even if you don’t. Weezer created geek-chic and aided in the re-birth of punk-rock’s bastard son, pop punk, for which my inner child will eternally be grateful. The Blue Album is chock full o’ heavy guitar riffs, beautiful geek boy harmonies and heartfelt lyrics. On top of all this, I’m not the only one who thinks this album is great, lots of people who’s opinions matter do too, Google it.

Thanks Weezer!

Reggae Saturday

Augustus Pablo, East of the River Nile

East of the River Nile was released in 1977. This hypnotic album is organic and and beautiful.   Young Augustus Pablo came on the scene playing a melodica and subsequently transformed the obscure instrument to a staple in the reggae sound. The amazing sound that bellows from Pablo’s manipulation of the melodica is a mix of dark, smooth and ethereal poetry that will allow your musical mind to travel  to a alternate state of mind. The sound is haunting and moving, meditational and funky. Recorded in Lee “Scratch” Perrys Black Ark Stuido, the album features contributions from the likes of Robbie Shakespeare, Aston “Family Man” Barrett and  Earl “China” Smith.

Listen to it will transport you to a mystical world where all the clouds are made of weed smoke.

My Morning Playlist

1. Outta My Mind,   The King Kahn & BBQ Show
2. Take a Little Bit ,   King Kahn & The Shrines
3. Mongoloid,   Devo
4. Saltwater,   Beachhouse
5. In a Jar,   Dinosaur Jr.
6. The wagon,   Dinosaur Jr.
7. No More Runnin,    Animal Collective
8. Kisses Over Babylon,   Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zeros
9. Dead,   Pixies
10. Dirty Boots,    Sonic Youth
11. Kooks,   David Bowie
12. Drops in the River,    Fleetfoxes
13. Summer Day,   Coconut Records
14. Lil Girl in the Woods,    The King Kahn & BBQ Show
15. No regrets,   King Kahn & The Shrines
16. Atlas, Battles
17. Teenage Riot,   Sonic Youth
18. Tonight I’ll be Stayin Here,   Bob Dylan
19. Jade,   Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zeros
20. Free,    Cat Power
21. Five Years,   David Bowie
22. Silver,   Pixies
23. Bluish,   Animal Collective
24. Parentheses,    The Blow
25. Kool Thing,   Sonic Youth