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swap themes
- june-songs for wallowing
- no may
- april-"little april" full album or band swap. an album you want to share or a disc of songs from one band or genre.
- march- "hit the road"-let's get the fuck outta here!
- february-jsbx live swaps
- december-holiday break (down) c u n 09!
- 3 disc november-1 - comfort record; 2 - shame/guilty pleasure record; 3 - listen from start to finish record.
- october-"high skool crush" songs of first loves, first obsessions, first kisses, and first heartbreaks
- september-"fuck that band!" (bands/records we originally dismissed for some preconceived idea or another, and now have reversed that feeling)
- august-sender's choice
- july-"several girls and a boy" (songs named after (or about) women and one man)
- june-"covers" (no cat power)
- may-"gambette!" aka "heart in the belt" (inspiration in a time of need)
- april-sender's choice
- possible theme ideas-"cold nights, warm songs/warm days, cold thoughts""records we should own but don't" "history" "destroy me" "stand by your band" "one record wonders/ghost band"
about cd swap
the international music swap is a club of music enthusists from around the globe who share their love for music. each month we send copies of our CD choice to the club members. it can be a whole album, a compilation, really anything you want... (many times we have themes or swap ideas) and return you get a bunch of music each month that you might never have heard before. also it's a chance to meet like minded people, and maybe even pen pals!
we try to send cds out before the last 10 days of the month (since we are sending around the world, we want to get them there in the month we are swaping). basicly just make copies of your monthly cd for everyone who has signed up for that month and send them out, it's that easy! we hope you'll be into it!
13 comments:
YAY!
yay indeed! i am finally feeling not so uncomfortable about the GS song being out there. i am very uncomfortable about that kinda thing. some guy did send an email that said "i'm psyched! moonage is sooooo rockin!" that felt good. i was thinking there would be more feed back/reviews but it was just a preview, honestly i suppose people wouldn't want to create an opinion from that. (but i'd be interested in what you guys think) there was some response online, and all good. oh, and i forgot to ask, guess who the very first person was to pre-order it?
i got leo's cd today and i'm loving it! there is quite a bit on hear i have never heard of. also i need to say that reading your notes sounds almost exactly like me! since i started buying records i for some reason rejected any music that was popular, i'm still struggling with that. that's why i never listened to yo la tango(louisville is the same way as your home), this song here is the first song of theirs i listened all the way through, and i like it! (very Julee Cruise influenced). is this a cover?
i was the same way about dylan. didn't like him, then in skool i had a political science teacher played 'master's of war' i was an instant convert.
you can't grow up around here without loving hank. there's an old guy 3 houses down from me that sits outside with his cd player all day. his daughter bought him a hank box set, and it's the only cds he owns. he plays it over and over. it's great.
i grew up hearing abba too, my mom loved them, but it's good music for the kids to dance to. i think i enjoy their story more than anything. couples truly in love.
sadly i am strong in my distaste for the beatles. kinda for the same reason for didn't like abba at first. my position is they are forced on you weather you like it or not. i read that at any moment their songs are always broadcasted somewhere in the world. there's never a time that a beatles song is not being played in mass form. if you don't like a band, you simply don't listen to them, but you can't do that with this band.
with anthony i'm gonna agree that 'i am a bird now' is amazing. i was the opposite with him, i loved him at first, now i find it a little annoying in quantity. this song is great. how did he get so many stars to play on his first record? jeffery might know that answer.
akron/family, patrick watson, and silly wizard i've never heard of before, and like them all, especially akron/family, sounds almost like Capoeira music (which i totally love) with folk underlines. i'd like to know/hear more of them. same with silly wizard and patrick.
all in all, i'm really digging your mix leo! for your first after long holiday you hit gold!
p.s. if your a fan, the bowie at the beeb box set is totally worth getting. i heard the 33 1/3 of ziggy stardust is great, i need to find it.
was it bowie? or one of us? not me yet!!
we must be on the same wavelength john and leo. almost all points i was going to write myself, especially about yo la tengo.
i still haven't been able to bring myself to buy anything of theirs, but my sister bought me some rip-off discs from cambodia thinking i would like them. still haven't even listened to them! that's how much i'm avoiding them.
i continue to resist bob dylan even though my folks were fans. i don't discount his contribution to music and society to some extent, but if i'm honest his voice has always grated me. that's probably why i like The Band more without him.
and i do have to claim the reverse about the beatles, sorry john! i agree they are all-pervasive but they made some fantastic songs. i just love the film help and you can get a lot of their humour from that. i guess i was positively influenced by mum in this regard - she gave them one of probably thousands of toy koalas when they visited adelaide in 1964. i do hate paul mccartney though, and feel sick that michael jackson co-owns the rights to most of their songs. another musician i will forever avoid.
gladly i can say that none of my family were abba fans. australia has what could be a called a sick fascination with abba, not entirely sure why. i still cringe whenever i hear a song, sorry guys.
see the bottom of the blog for the old image that helped me make a lot of decisions NOT to buy certain music. it's very out of date now but shows exactly why the music industry can be so insidious. sure i may have missed out on some great music. i'm also conflicted now because a lot of good music comes to australia through Spunk Records which until a couple of years ago was independent. it sold to EMI. what am i to do?
ps. i wonder why so many people look at the blog but don't post a question or anything?
i wonder about that too. but it's always boggled my mind that louisvilleisforlovers.com gets an average of 2,500-3,500 visits a month, and only 3 people ever signed the guest book (including me asking cydde to sign it to hopefully promote others to do the same), and only get about one order a month (except release months). 100 people a day check it out and only .05% respond. it's weird.
i respect dylan but don't listen to him. and don't mind if abba is played, but can't stand hearing the beatles, but oddly, i'm a big fan of john lenon's solo work. wing's had some good stuff too.
and yes micheal jaskson is a freak, but he has made some great music, both in the jackson 5 and on his own. thriller, and off the wall are ground breaking work. it's kinda like gary glitter, hate the man, love the music.
has no one received my portastatic cds yet? that scares me because i stamped them my self, guessing the postage amount.
i've made a Deamien Jurado best of mix of sorts, if anyone is interested let me know and i'll send it out. if your not familiar, he's a master of the broken heart, releasing records for about a decade out of the great northwest.
so, yes it looks like the david bowie camp ordered the first copy. i don't know if it's for his lawyer or for his collection, we'll see.
Hey guys, I received John and Jeffrey's CD's in good condition here and played the a lot last few days. I'm so glad with them, I think I wouldn't have discovered the bands any other way. The National sometimes make me think of the Willard Grant Conspiracy; it's that voice I guess. And Portastatic, when I heard the name I thought it must be some kind of triphop, but it's not. Its soo good, and I love your comment John. To recognize so much in the lyrics must be a sort of relief! I recognised a few covers on there as well. So he recognized the same thing in others music, nice circle!
Glad you liked my CD, I was a bit insecure about it to be honest, but it's nice to see you both understand and fell the same way, cool!
i should explain to all that i only just sent my september disc along with october. so you'll get this one late and next month early, i hope it doesn't pre-empt others too much. leo you seem to get ones from here much sooner than the us.
john i wouldn't worry too much about yours. i have a feeling that the usps is a lot more fascist than our respective postal services and it gets caught going through endless scanners in airports. that's a small clue to my september contribution.
as for that, i was telling john i had a few supplements that were too obvious. two i can attribute to knowing john, being the exposure to other louisville music and his own band, and the other being jason molina's work after having had the go ahead from here. for gallery singers it was more that i never knew they existed so i didn't go through a period of resistance. but as we discussed on another post, i did avoid songs:ohia and magnolia eletric co and thank john for opening my mind on that.
probably my most obvious 'resistance' was originally to palace music. it didn't last long, but my mum bred a violent hatred of country music in us kids and by listening to palace i almost feared her judgement (because really i did feel her music taste was a lot to live up to). she still doesn't believe me when i tell her its not really country, because all she needs to hear is a slide guitar and a remotely southern american accent to turn red.
so that's a big admission for me, that i wasn't instantly a palace fan, but it came to mean more to me than almost anything else (music-wise or otherwise).
i'll give it a bit more time before i start writing about october's compilation!
mum hates country music. that's hilarious. i don't like new country, but i was raised with stories of the love of johnny and june, and unbelievable (yet true) stories of hank and jerry lee. mum, certainly wouldn't like my music. my mom didn't like palace music at first, but after she met him fell in love. (he can be really charming). i immediately loved palace, but had to warm up to bpb (the music not the person).
iv'e reworked the logo a bit. it is the un flag. kinda like the nation of Ulysses logo is the capital records logo with 'nation of ulysses' on it. i'm a big fan of the u.n. when i lived in france i spent the last of my cash to visit the u.n. in Geneva, it's as close to a spiritual event as i've ever had. it was my pilgrimage. that was before the iraq child prostitution scandal. i still think maybe that might have been a smear campaign lead by the u.s. government, but the evidence is pretty strong. i still love the u.n. but it isn't why i picked it for this. it just struck me, i'll come up with some others sometime. and if you guys want to do some too.
as for cydde's september offering i'm gonna take a wild stab and guess, is it Archer's of loaf's 'all the nation airports'? i loved that LP. it was the only lp i loaned out, and never saw it again. as for malonia, i resisted like hell for a long time, and as for the gallery singers, i haven't stopped resisting (but very honored).
the portastatic cd does have some good covers, a galaxy 500 tune, and magnetic fields too (and dylan!). i'm excited about cyddes secret cds package. i anticipate the surprises!
i'm not saying a damn thing...
hee!
you're uncanny john.
i actually made mum watch walk the line with me and she enjoyed it, so i think has compromised on her partly irrational hatred. i think she got it from her father actually, so it was from a much earlier time. i agree, the music i think of as 'country' is all the commercial crap that i just don't listen to. there are plenty of rural radio stations that play it all so sometimes there's nothing else on when you're driving across the country.
if it is archers, i'm excited, i haven't heard it since i loaned it out in 2002. i like your mom's hatred. it's great, (it's like my blanket hatred for a certain english bubblegum boy band). i have a hate for new country. so i understand. but the legends and the outlaws have a special place for me.
i bet you package comes this week. i can't wait to finally see what i've been guessing at!
which boy band? do you have voodoo dolls of them?
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