I'm not 100% certain whether or not Ronson is responsible for "My Baby Left Me" -- it definitely sounds like one of his productions -- but either way, I'm pretty sure that it's the best song to come out of his aesthetic since "Rehab."
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The Faint "Machine In The Ghost" - The Faint are at their best when they side-step rock music, and simply imply rock dynamics with their synthesizers and programming.
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Though the knowledge that these people are perverting an already perverse song adds to the pleasure, it holds up rather well as a composition in its own right, particularly if you have a taste for manic, super-charged pop cheese. ( Click here for the White Pony MySpace page.)
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The BPA featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal "Toe Jam" - Norman Cook writes music like an advertising genius. In this track, David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal show up to play that role, and live it up in Cook's fantasy land.
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We ended up chatting about that, and I started thinking about how amusing it would've been if Elliott Smith had recorded a cover of the song, a version that sounded as haunted, fragile and angst-ridden as his original material.
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The setlist leaned on their most accessible songs, and they hit a nice balance of precise, deliberate rocking, and goofing around. Deerhunter "Never Stops" - "Never Stops" is a song about feeling trapped, and not even being able to escape in your mind, or in your dreams.
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Women "Black Rice" - In 2008, any semi-competent person can make a recording that sounds pretty good for a relatively small sum of money. No one needs to be "lo-fi" anymore, but it's still an aesthetic choice available to artists. Women, a band from Calgary, use the lo-fi sound to a different end.
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Menahan Street Band "Home Again!" - When I was young and growing up in the Hudson Valley, I listened to a lot of radio from New York City. It's not any particular time or place, just an abstract impression based on loving the entire place, and what it represents to me, past, present, and future.
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