IdioBeat

10 October 2008 | Music | admin

Link:
October Mixtape

I put together a Favtape of some of the songs I’ve been listening to this week.  I’m mostly an album junkie, so it’s safe to assume that I’ve been listening to the albums that contain these songs.  If you’ve never used Favtape, it’s an mp3 crawler version of Opentape.

Kaiser Chiefs - Addicted to Drugs
This song is so much better than Weezer’s take on the same subject. Kaiser Chiefs are great, and the new album is definitely worth checking out when it comes out on October 28th.

Kings of Leon - Crawl
Brad Barrish had this on a mixtape he sent me last month, and if I hadn’t heard this track I probably wouldn’t have checked out the new album. The rhythm section sounds so good, and despite the mediocre-to-poor reviews around the web, Only by the Night is one of my favorite albums of the year.

Oasis - The Turning
Dig Out Your Soul kills. I was never a big Oasis fan, but after listening to this album I’m going back for another listen to the catalog.

Blind Melon - Wishing Well
I’ve been a Blind Melon fan since the very beginning, and Soup is one of my all-time favorite albums. I hated Unified Theory. Needless to say, I was very skeptical of the new album when it came out in April. When I finally listened to it, I was pleasantly surprised, and I realized that I didn’t need to compare anyone to Shannon Hoon anymore.

The Streets - Heaven for the Weather
This song is cheesy as hell, but I enjoyed Everything is Borrowed so much that I put two songs from the record on one playlist. Deal with it.

One Block Radius - Black Mercedes
This is an example of a Favtape substitution. I wanted to put ‘Dead Man on the Radio’ from their self-titled debut album, but alas, no such luck. This is mom-friendly hip-hop and album struck me as slightly lame when I first heard it, but it grew on me.

Murs - The Science
Murs for President didn’t get very good reviews, but like the Kings of Leon record I talked about above, I really dig it. I’ve been a bit disappointed with past Murs albums (yes, even Murs 3:16), but this time I feel like presented a cohesive group of ideas. This song is the most pointed and poignant, and I think it encapsulates the spirit of a great hip-hop album.

T.I. - Swagga Like Us
Ganster as hell. Paper Trails is very solid for coming at us just over a year after T.I. vs T.I.P., in fact, I think it’s a better album. Have fun on vacation Clifford.

The Streets - The Escapist
The perfect contradiction to the track I posted above. Mike Skinner’s passive, incongruous talk-rapping vocals are perfectly juxtaposed against this amazing production. Epic.

-Ryan