Perry Como - Seattle

I post this for three reasons:

1. Matt asked a few days ago about what he can expect in Seattle. Here is the answer in song -- sweet, velvety song.

2. I was at Bop Street Records this weekend, and these three boys, all between the ages of about 10-12, came in and rushed straight down to the basement, where there are literally tens of thousands of surplus records on shelves running wall-to-wall (imagine the last shot from Raiders of the Lost Ark, but for records -- it's amazing). Maybe 20 minutes later they were asking for prices on a stack of Perry Como records, and I mean, only Perry Como records. Maybe five or six of them. One of them was this record:



which I've always wanted to acquire for the purposes of wall art alone. (I did not come away with any Como, but I did pick up a copy of Bob Dylan's debut album, a Mississippi John Hurt double-album, Rust Never Sleeps, Juicy Fruit (Disco Freak), and "Heroes".)

Anyway, I just wanted to prepare you guys for a resurgence of Italian-American crooners, because when those kids of today become the hipsters of tomorrow, all that Como and Dean Martin and Tony Bennett lying around in discount bins is going to explode. Buy low.

3. Perry Como for the win, motherfuckers.

Cheap Trick - Surrender

Not very new, but sometimes the standards are just the thing.

Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise

More of nothing new under the sun... I've been in a perpetual time warp when it comes to music, discovering what I haven't yet known because I was one of those "mooch all your desired emotions off the most popular tracks" people regarding entire albums, missing what I should have caught the first time.

Then I made the mistake of finding out where Creed was born.



And to think I was debating being Billy Corgan for Halloween. (I probably still will.)

Os Mutantes- A Minha Menina

(continuing in the tradition of "not exactly reinventing the wheel")

Condo Fucks - With A Girl Like You

(Yo La Tengo's cover band alter ego.)

Kid Cudi-Make Her Say (feat. Kanye West, Common, and Lady Gaga)

I've been listening to this for the past two weeks. A few things about why I love it:

1. Best oral sex double entendres since (arguably) Madonna's "Like a Prayer."
2. Kanye's verse is probably my favorite Kanye rap since basically Late Registration
3. It is kind of a Year in Review of 2009's hip hop tropes
4. It's hilarious and great, you guys. And Kanye West and Lady Gaga are touring together, and I love that.
5. Sorry if it's not your thing
   

Parliament - Flashlight

I don't know, it just feels like a funky-ass Friday I guess.