In 2002 Conor Oberst got together with a load of friends and recored an album simply entitled A Christmas Album. The album is only available for purchase from Saddle Creek and all profits of the album sale go to benefit the Nebraska AIDS Project. If you would like to buy the album you can go here to order a copy or you can go straight to the Nebraska AIDS Project website for more information on their organization. Below are three tracks from this album which is a nice modern Bright Eyes style take on a lot of traditional Christmas fare.
mp3 : Bright Eyes - God Rest Ye Merry Gentelmen
mp3 : Bright Eyes - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
mp3 : Bright Eyes - The Night Before Christmas
The last track, The Night Before Christmas, is a dramatic reading of the classic Christmas poem set to a plinking piano track. It’s a wonderful way to hear The Night Before Christmas. Guests on the album include Jake Bellows, Gretta Cohn, Armand Costanzo, Denver Dalley, Stephanie Drootin, Orenda Fink, Neely Jenkins, Jiha Lee, Andy Lemaster, Mike Mogis, Matt Oberst, Stephen Pedersen, Blake Sennett, Macey Taylor, and Nick White.
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Published by billy at November 1, 2007
in feist, best of the month, bishop allen, bright eyes, nada surf, jeff tweedy, botm, cover, remix, sufjan stevens, radiohead, mix, arcade fire and mp3.
I did this style of mix a couple of times in the past but now they’ll hopefully become a regular part of the lineup here on The World Forgot. So welcome to the first of many Best of the Month compilations. Basically I do a lot of random reading, listening, searching, finding, digesting, etc. of all the music that I can possibly get my hands on. And let’s be honest, I probably have a bit more free time than you do. Judging from the fact that I’m writing this extensive explanation and you’re simply skimming through it looking for the mp3 links I would say that’s a fair assessment of our relative free time to work time ratios. But in this case when I win, with more free time than you suckas, you end up winning with more good music.
Here listed below are tunes I randomly sampled and loved from across the interwebs this past great month of October. By no means is it a conclusive list of who’s who and what’s what, but it is a small smattering of great music that you might have missed as you carried on with your fascinatingly involved thing some people call a “real life.” Seeing as how I haven’t had one of those since I graduated from college and failed to find a “real job” I guess it’s only fair.
As with all future BOTM volumes I recommend each and every track listed here below. They’re all worth a moment of your time. Cheers, and enjoy the first volume of BOTM.
mp3 : Arcade Fire - Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son (Serge Gainsbourg Cover)
mp3 : Bishop Allen - You Ain’t No Picaso
mp3 : Bright Eyes - Southern State
mp3 : Feist - Mushaboom (Postal Service Remix)
mp3 : Jeff Tweedy - Simple Twist of Fate
mp3 : Nada Surf - See These Bones
mp3 : Radiohead - Faithless the Wonder Boy
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Ring My Bells
Is it just me or does Jeff Tweedy sound like a young Bob Dylan on this track. And I might be reaching here but this Radiohead track I swear would fit in perfect as a b-side for Weezer’s Pinkerton. Maybe I’m crazy, you be the judge. And for once can Nada Surf make an entire album that lives up to their full potential for a full length? Please.
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