e.g.l. stands for "ever growing list of things i want to listen to more carefully" and this is what I've accomplished so far in that regard.
Mind you I am no music critic.

- Beirut
I've listened to Nantes and loved it, it sounds old and a bit "klezmery" and of course I am big sucker for accordion. But so far other songs I've found by them aren't quite as good, on the exeption of maybe Jacques Brel's cover Le Moribond, but i am biased towards loving covers and even more if they are Jacques Brel's covers.
If you liked Nantes too you will love this.

- Keiji Hano
listened to "rolling on the time and tide spreading the colour of red" i didn't know the first things about him so i think i was expecting pop, but turned out to be jazz and it was a really good surprise. It is nothing particulary daring, but it is very interesting. You can listen to it here.

- Maurice Fulton
he is well known for his remixes of the like of Hot Chip... I used to get very excited every time I found a remix of a song I liked, but party music is getting tired, at least to me, so I am going to come back to this later, maybe on a friday evening.

- Strange Overtones
Maybe I am an idiot who can't appreciate the work of geniuses. I mean it is a a really really good track, the beginning of the song is quite promising, but then the chorus mmmm... I was expecting something mind blowing, a life changing song, like St. Elmo's Fire or Sugar on My Tongue. I a gonna give it another spin, maybe I'll realize I am a fool.

-En Ventura
There is a lot of talk about how every good band in Mexico is just copying from someone foreign, I haven't quite made my mind up on that as a general rule, but it might be true for En Ventura. Their songs are interesting to some extent, to me the highlight of their En Ventura EP is Los Granjeros del Amor for its folky quality, silly lyrics and the many instruments yo get to hear. Nice, but I won't be putting this on my ipod despite their [url="http://ponirepublic.com/2008/img/covers/enventura.jpg";]ep's cover being so dammed cute.

- Jean Dubuffet
You probably need to drop some acid to get into this, or maybe you need some highly evolved artistic sense of which I am, of course, lacking. I still think he is one of the driving forces behind contemporary aesthetics... blablabla... etc etc etc ... but musically not for me.

-Glass Candy
listened to it. didn't like it at all. there are too many screaming girls out there and I only like a few of them. don't let the last.fm gods fool you it is nothing like the Chromatics.

- Cut Copy
i liked cut copy, it is fun, it is enjoyable. but ever since interpol there have been way too many bands trying to sound just like new order. and don't get me wrong that is a highly commendable ambition, after all new order is one of the best things to ever come out of britain (but i am no authority i would put harry potter in that same list).
but did musicians in the past (like Pet Shop Boys, Karftwerk or New Order) really did set the standard so high that no one has ever top it, or at least dared to part away from it?

Boredom has set in...

25. The Birthday Party

I really don't like Nick Cave's later work and his voice verges on annoying a lot for me.

24. Yeah Yeah Yeahs

I despise "Fever to Tell", I only like one or two songs off of it. Plus I don't understand why so many people love "Maps" so much.

23. Spank Rock

There's nothing bad that can be said about Spank Rock... except if I wanted to be really critical I could that some of their lyrics make them out to be misogynist pigs.

22. The Faint

All of their songs are about sex but they don't seem like the kind of guys that get laid very often.

21. Xiu Xiu

I don't really listen to ol' Xiu Xiu that much anymore but I still love them. If only Jamie Stewart wasn't so whiny and clingy sounding.

20. Dalek I Love You

Again, don't listen to these guys as much as I used too but it really sucks that they never became big, since they're really good at what they do.

19. Bishi

Her voice can be very shrill and grating at times.

18. Straight Reads the Line

They are way better live then on recording.

17. Placebo

I find that I really miss old Placebo these days, they are no where as good as they were before "Meds".

16. The Jesus and Mary Chain

"Darklands" was sort of a disappointment for me, they just aren't as good without all the walls of sound. Hell, its sort of sad to say that an artist is better when you can't hear them properly.

15. Visage

I can only listen to them sometimes + "Fade to Grey" is garbage.

14. Ladytron

I love almost everything by this band minus a couple of songs, mainly "Paco".

13. The Organ

Well I would say that I was pissed when they broke up but I heard they're back together and making a new album which makes me REALLY happy. What I don't like about them is how short their album was! Just a bit over a half hour. Thats crazy!

12. Joy Division

I know I might get some flack for this but I find them at times to be really boring. Sure JD is a great band and has some truly great songs but songs like "Passover" tarnish an almost perfect discography. Plus I find it sort of tacky that they named themselves after a groups of women in concentration camps that were pimped out to Nazis. Just saying...

11. Daisy Chainsaw

My only criticism of Daisy Chainsaw is how they broke up and became Queen Adreena. I like Queen Adreena but to me they are no where as good as Daisy Chainsaw.

10. Chromatics

I'm not big on this new disco sound they have now but they still are a really great band.

9. Between the Buried and Me

I love BTBAM but only in small amounts. I'm not used to 14 minute songs like the majority of songs on "Colors" but I'm trying to deal.

8. The Holly Springs Disaster

This band is pretty much perfection, I don't know what to say about them.

7. Patrick Wolf

I have to take points off for dying your hair orange, making proclamations about being bisexual, being eccentric and campy and being very skinny and pale. Sound familiar? It would be really easy to write him off as a Bowie copy cat.

6. Final Fantasy (Owen Pallet)

I can't really think of anything negative to say about him. He's too awesome.

5. Bauhaus

I tend to like their straightforward songs a lot more then their weird, arty songs. As for their new album I'm not really sure if I like it that much yet, I haven't really given it a chance but so far so good I guess.

4. Crystal Castles

No matter what anyone says about their recent controversies, people seem to forget that there has been far more artists then them that have illegally sampled other people's music not to mention artists who have stolen other people's art for promotion. That being said, I will admit that they do come off as really pretentious in interviews which might bite them in the ass if they don't cut the shit but they defiantly have a lot of potential.

3. David Bowie

Why did you contribute vocals to that horrible Scarlett Johansson album? I miss YOUR work, you haven't released an album in five years.

2. The Blood Brothers

I hate to say this but I don't really like Cody's and Johnny's new band Jaguar Love... even though I'm hopefully seeing them in a couple of weeks with The Faint and Genghis Tron. Other then that I really wish you didn't break up...

1. Siouxsie & The Banshees

I have to say, before I really wasn't digging Siouxsie's solo album but its grown on me a lot. With that said, I don't understand why a lot of SATB fans love Kiss in the Dreamhouse so much. Its one of my least favorite albums by them.

Siouxsie and the BansheesThe Birthday PartyYeah Yeah YeahsThe FaintSpank RockXiu XiuDalek I Love YoubishiStraight Reads The LinePlaceboThe Jesus and Mary ChainVisageLadytronThe OrganJoy DivisionDaisy ChainsawChromaticsBetween the Buried and MeThe Holly Springs DisasterPatrick WolfFinal FantasyBauhausCrystal CastlesDavid BowieThe Blood Brothers

The weekly High Rotation playlist, consisting of 5 tunes that will be played frequently over the next 7 days:

1. Robert Francis - One By One
   This wonderful duet with Juliette Commagere, Robert Francis' sister, is my favorite track of this singer/songwriter's album "One by One" (One of the disadvantages of buying mp3-albums online is, that you don't get a booklet and it's hard to find out, who did corporate recording a track.).
   
2. Chromatics - I'm on Fire (Bruce Springsteen Cover)
   This Springsteen cover was on an earlier Hypelist of oslofish and was on the bubble since then.
   
3. The Who - Baba O'Riley
   This song was featured in the soundtrack of a House episode that I lately watched. Turn up the volume!
   
4. Ryan Adams - Desire
   Another impressing song from the House soundtrack.
   
5. L.P. - Good With U (w/ Billy Steinberg)
   The new single of a wonderful singer/songwriter, ripped from her MySpace. Thank you, wezarscrew for recommending her to me.The ultimate discovery!!! I bought her album "Suburban, Sprawl and Alcohol", it's a-m-a-z-i-n-g.

This week's Hypelist:

1. Rubies - I feel Electric
   The Swedes are putting out some really nice electronic sounds these days, especially on labels like Songs I Wish I Had Written and Sincerely Yours. This particular track is out on my favorite Norwegian label Tellé Records (first home of Annie and Röyksopp) and features vocals by Feist. Check out the really cool, neon-filled video, too!
   
   
2. The Honeydrips - It Was A Sunny Summer Day
   Fitting for the season!
   
   
3. MaxxFemm - Storm
   Mellow, beautiful new wave. A gem off the self-titled debut E.P. Looking forward to hear what else this artist comes out with. New single expected to be released late summer.
   
4. Chromatics - I'm on Fire
   Bruce Springsteen cover simplified and synthesized. Works really well with female vocals. The original is one of my favorite songs of all time, and absolutely no harm has been done with this remake.
   
   
5. Róisín Murphy - Movie Star
   For the longest time I was pronouncing her name raisin with an o. Then I learned it's pronounced Ro-Sheen. Movie Star is the latest single from the amazing Overpowered-album. The song is glam-pop at it's very best.

I work at a Parisian boutique now. They play club music there, the kind with sensual undertones reminiscent of a certain summer in California with European DJ's and American ones with fake British accents. I've been listening to the fine House of Colette/ Ed Banger tracks at the more conversative work setting as well. It's simply that infectious.

Post-rock has not been abandonned forever though! There will always be a special place in my heart for Yasushi Yoshida/ Midori Hirano/ other products of postmodernism post-rock musicians.

On a side note, theologists and social think tanks label Japan as a country afflicted by "non-modernism" derived from its history and intellectual setting (aka. information overdrive). That would partly explain for the out pour of abstract electronica.

Playlist
01. Crystal Castles - Courtship Date
02. Busy P - Rainbow Man
03. Digitalism - Pogo
04. Etienne de Crécy - Minos Pour Main Basse (Sur La Ville)/ Le Patron Est Devenu Fou!
05. Uffie & Mr. Oizo - Transexual
06. The Teenagers - Fuck Nicole
07. MGMT - Electric Feel (Justic Remix)
08. Chromatics - Dark Day
09. Glassy Candy - Candy Castle
10. Shinichi Osawa - Star Gtar (feat. Au Revoir Simone)
11. The Chemical Brothers - The Salmon Dance (feat. Fatlip)
12. Tiga - You Gonna Want Me (Remix)

For anyone who lives in Seattle, we need clubs that more quality IDM! House is grand and the UK dance tracks are often spun, but I'm thinking more along the lines of Autechre, proven to be very successful dance music at Nuemos not too long ago. Ondole!

I made mixes for those special sunday moods you certainly know and experienced. You’ll find fresh tracks aswell as some classic songs and personal favourites in these sets. Furthermore you’ll notice that i tried to mix many different genres.

Download All Parts here

Hello Sundays! (Part 1)

01 The Cinematic Orchestra - Into You
02 Louis Vega feat. Julie McKnight - Diamond Life (Deep Dish’s Numb Life Remix) //
03 Ada - Each And Everyone
04 Junior Boys - Double Shadow
05 Psapp - Cosy In The Rocket
06 Apparat - Arcadia
07 Ricardo Villalobos - Fizheuer Zieheuer (Part 2)
08 Air - Mer Du Japon
09 Chromatics - In The City (12″ Mix)
10 Phonique - Casualities (Album mix)
11 Matthew Adams - No More Anymore (Michael Feihstel Remix)
12 Guy Gerber - Unfulfilled (Album Mix)
13 Mari Boine - Filer Til Voui (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
14 Gabriel Ananda - Lamakova
15 The Cinematic Orchestra - Music Box

Hello Sundays! (Part 2)

01 Apparat - Over And Over
02 Thom Yorke - Black Swan
03 Lindström - Music (In My Mind)
04 Solomun And Stimming - Eiszauber
05 Alexkid - Nightshade (Rodriguez Junior Remix)
06 Death Disco - The Treatment (Metronomy Remix)
07 Feist - Sea Lion Woman (Chromeo Remix)
08 Brazilian Girls - Last Call
09 Télépopmusik - Don’t Look Back (John Tejada Remix)
10 Michael Feihstel - Sundays In Prague (Mondays At Home Mix)
11 Telefon Tel Aviv - Bubble And Spike
12 Grand National - Drinking To Move On
13 Joe Claussell - Je Ka Jo
14 Hot Toddy - Mindtrip
15 Aril Brikha - Berghain
vs
16 The Detroit Escalator Co. - Abstract Forward Motion
17 Grand National - Talk Amongst Yourselves (Sasha Remix)
18 Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Wheels Of Love (Ratcliffe Remix)
19 M83 - Beauties Can Die

Hello Sundays! (Part 3)

01 The World On Higher Downs - Alpine Low
02 People Press Play - Hanging On
03 Future Loop Foundation - Homegrown Dynamic
04 The American Analog Set - The Green green Grass (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix)
05 Bloc Party - Where Is Home (Burial Remix)
06 Imagination - Just An Illusion (Lindström Vocal Remix)
07 Supermayer -The Art Of Letting Go (Ewan Pearson’s Instrumental Remix)
08 LCD Soundsystem - Us vs Them (Any Color You Like Remix by Windsurf)
09 Klaxons - As Above, So Below (Justice Remix)
10 Atjazz - For Real (Version Mix)
11 Afrilounge - Lux Dementia vs. 12 L’usine - Figment
13 Elektrochemie - My Home
14 Telefon Tel Aviv - Your Face Reminds Me Of When I Was Old

Download All Parts here

Muxtape makes it easy to upload a batch of songs -- JUST songs, eliminating the compulsion for accompanying commentary that has prevented me from experimenting with music blogging in the past. So I'm trying a weekly rotation there, to be updated every Friday. We'll see how it turns out.

This is the first week.

Chromatics: I'm On Fire
包美聖 (Bao Meisheng): 那一盆火
Talking Heads: Dream Operator
The Angels of Light: Untitled Love Song
The Association: Never My Love
Grizzly Bear: He Hit Me
Can: Oh Yeah
FLOPPY: Radiostar no Higeki (Video Killed the Radiostar)
Sakura and the Quests: I Love Cowboy
Tenniscoats: Donna Donna
Labor Exchange Band: My 125cc Motorcycle (風神125)
jesse sykes and the sweet hereafter: Reckless Burning

A list copied verbatim from my RYM. Because I'm super cool and original like that.
It's in alphabetical order, by the way.

1. Arcade Fire- Funeral
I still think it's over rated, but not for kissing in the snow it isn't.

2. Asobi Seksu- Citrus
If Arcade Fire is music for kissing in the snow, this is music for kissing in the high noon sun with clouds drifting by and a breeze washing over you.

3. Be Your Own Pet- be your own PET
For when biting, punching, scratching, kicking and kissing are all acceptable forms of showing your love.

4. Beach House- Devotion
For slow, tender kissing (preferably mixed with heroin). Their other album works too.

5. Beirut- Gulag Orkestar
I feel the only way I can boil down my reasoning on this one is by the following formula:
Gulag Orkestar = Amazing
Kissing = Amazing
Gulag Orkestar + Good whiskey = Amazing^2
Kissing + Good Whiskey = Amazing^2
Good Whiskey(Gulag Orkestar + Kissing) = SO AMAZING

6. Andrew Bird- Armchair Apocrypha
Sensual layer of strings layered upon sensual layer of strings. This is like the music they play in the movies for kissing, except it works for kissing in real life too.

7. Blonde Redhead- Misery Is a Butterfly
For tear-stained break-up kissing.

8. The Boy Least Likely To- The Best Party Ever
Twee kissing!

9. Calexico- Feast of Wire
Brings me back to my years in the Southwest... Like mariachi music of dreams...

10. CSS- Cansei de Ser Sexy
Brazilian disco rave kissing. And possibly more than that.

11. Chromatics- Night Drive
Kissing for martinis and sleeping pills and long nights on the town.

12. Cocteau Twins- Heaven or Las Vegas
Blissed out dreamy kissing for warm nights.

13. John Coltrane- A Love Supreme
I feel no comment is necessary.

14. Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours
Pretty dance party kissing.

15. Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
Lie beside the fire with a couple glasses of wine and some sleeping pills...

16. The Delgados- Hate
Despite the title, this album is really all about love.

17. DeVotchKa- How It Ends
This album will transport you to entirely foreign lands of kissing.

18. El Perro del Mar- El Perro Del Mar
Tearful moving away forever kissing.

19. Elf Power- A Dream in Sound
Blissful arse-over-tits in love kissing.

20. The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
I don't know where the sunbeams end and the star lights begin,
It's all a mystery.
And I don't know how a man decides what's right for his own life,
It's all a mystery.

21. Gotan Project- La Revancha del Tango
I'm pretty sure tango is the quintessential kissing music, and adding chill beats and accordion loops only helps.

22. Grizzly Bear- Yellow House
Stoned kissing with no one else around for miles and miles.

23. Interpol- Turn On the Bright Lights
Another on the long list of spaced out and beautiful kissing music.

24. The Jesus and Mary Chain- Darklands
It's dark and rainy out there, but in here we're kissing.

25. Justice- Cross
Ecstasy and dancing and kissing.

26. The Ladybug Transistor- The Abermarle Sound
Running through the streets of Oxford, and the sun is shining.

27. The Magnetic Fields- 69 Love Songs
Very very long kissing sessions.

28. Aimee Mann- Bachelor No. 2 (Or, the Last Remains of the Dodo)
Depressing and slow, but oh so pretty. For the confident kisser who knows none of the stuff Aimee is talking about will happen to them.

29. Joni Mitchell- Blue
This is really good background music for anything, kissing included.

30. My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
More blissful spaced out kissing music. Note: Should be turned up as loud as possible to emulate the feeling of bathing in a tub full of fuzz.

31. Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Intense and cathartic kissing.

32. The New Pornographers- Mass Romantic
Happy fun kissing!

33. Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Cutting school and work to go to a playground and sit on the swings and kiss.

34. Philip Glass- Music in 12 Parts
For very long, slow, amazing kissing.

35. A Place to Bury Strangers- A Place to Bury Strangers
Sexy angry kissing.

36. Portishead- Dummy
Noir lounge kissing. But anyway, it's druggy and seductive and generally awesome.

37. The Postal Service- Give Up
I don't know, but the ladies love it.

38. Primal Scream- Screamadelica
Don't know what to say about this except that you will probably get some.

39. Radiohead- OK Computer
Radiohead pretty much makes a good soundtrack for whatever.

40. Ride- Nowhere
What can I say, yet MORE spaced out dreamy shoegaze. Spaced out dreamy shoegaze is great for kissing!

41. Sally Shapiro- Disco Romance
I don't think I know any Scandanavian electropop that would make BAD kissing music, but this is probably the best.

42. Slowdive- Souvlaki
Really slow, really spaced out, and really really pretty.

43. Songs: Ohia- Magnolia Electric Co.
Farewell Transmission is its own self enclosed kissing epic, but the whole album works quite well too.

44. Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
I'm not ashamed to say that it would be pretty amazing to lose my virginity to this album.

45. Tarkio- Omnibus
While I would never try to say that Tarkio are better than The Decemberists, they are definitely more consistently good for kissing to.

46. Yann Tiersen- Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
Not much to say on this one except waltzes are amazing.

47. The Twilight Sad- Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
Another slow, pretty, spaced out thing, but this one has a guy with a super thick Scottish accent.

48. The Waterboys- Fisherman's Blues
Badass violins and generally rocking Irish music is good for kissing.

49. Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
I am trying to break your heart.

50. Yo La Tengo- And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
The fact that this album ends with Night Falls on Hoboken makes the entire album ridiculously worthy for a list of good albums to kiss to.


Oh yeah, before I forget, I actually ahven't tried any of these, I kinda just went through my albums thinking what would be good. I do plan on trying them ASAP though. :-)
Also note that I was purposely staying away from cliche things, so don't bother telling me I need some Marvin Gaye. I know already, I know.
So yeah, it's really just supposed to be silly list. So don't try o, I don't know, read giant generalizations about me or my taste or whatever into it.
Blah.

Edit: I got rid of Tap Tap to stick in Ride. Sorry Tap Tap, it wasn't you, it was me.
Edit 2: Changing Slowdive- Pygmalion to Slowdive- Souvlaki because I've just heard it and it's entirely more beautiful and wondrous and good for kissing. Although Pygmalion is still one of the few ambient albums I can actually sit through without passing out. But my comment still stands: "Really slow, really spaced out, and really really pretty."
Edit 3: Got rid of MGMT in favor of Portishead. Because DAMN is Portishead some good kissing music.