Carpe Musica

I have been considering doing some sort of "Best of the Decade" list. Not sure if it would be best artists, songs, or both. One thing I know for sure is that Radiohead is in my opinion the best/most influential band of this decade. With Kid A (2000), Amnesiac (2001), Hail To The Thief (2003), and In Rainbows (2007) all coming out in the span, I can declare the award with unbelievable certainty. Radiohead was even featured in my favorite South Park episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die" (aired in 2001).

A few months ago Thom Yorke stated that he, and Radiohead were done producing albums because he was afraid they had peaked and were drained of all which they could provide musically. Since then however, the band has released a couple singles and announced that they have begun work on another album! I can not wait to see what they have in store for us in the upcoming decade. Below I have provided three either covered or remixed Radiohead links:

John Mayer- Kid A (cover)
Radiohead- Idioteque (BBC Remix)
Radiohead- Nude (Holy Fuck Remix)

Here are some fresh remixes to check out, including a Wale "Pretty Girls" remix and my favorite being the Talib Kwali/Geo Remix:

KRS-One & Buckshot- Oh Really (Remix f. Talib Kweli & Geo of Blue Scholars)

Wale ft. Gucci Mane- Pretty Girls (DJ Apt One Remix)

FrankMusik & Don Diablo Feat. Ish- Confusion Girl (The Name Is...)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Heads Will Roll (Digiraatii Dance Til You're Dead Remix)

just.one.duran- Shake that Around the World (Ying Yang Twins vs. Daft Punk)
just.one.duran- Day N' Feel (Kid Cudi vs. Santiago and Bushido)

Sufjan Stevens's most popular song "Chicago" now has three different, very appealing remixes floating around the internet. Speaking of Chi-Town, that was a huge win for Bear's fans tonight. I'd say that was the best MNF game to watch this whole season. Might have even extended Lovie Smith's life as Bears HC for another year...but we'll just have to see. My superbowl picks are Charger's vs. Eagles with the Charger's coming out on top. Back to Sufjan though, after listening to each of the the versions a few times I thought my favorite was the acoustic but I've decided its a little too similar to the original so I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the adult contemporary version is the best of the three. Grab them all right here and drop a comment below including your pick to go to/win the Superbowl and also which "Chicago" version you prefer:

Chicago (Acoustic)
Chicago (Adult Contemporary Easy Listening Version)
Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder Version)

So every year dating back to 07 DJ Earworm takes the most popular 25 tracks of the year (according to Billboard) and mashes them into one song. Though this sounds impossibly hard, he actually does a real nice job with it. Here is his latest one for 2009:

DJ Earworm- United State of Pop 2009 (Mashup of the Top 25 Hits of 2009, according to Billboard)

Here's a collection of rap/r&b singles I've been diggin lately amongst the tons I download from various other blogs/sources. The U-N-I song was brought to my attention by my blogmate "Carpe" and I duno why he hasn't posted it but props to him for finding it. The Jamie Foxx/Wayne track is gonna be the shit for New Years Eve parties to go along with the new White Panda Mixtape below...

U-N-I- Land of The Kings
Jamie Foxx- Straight To The Dance Floor (Feat. Lil Wayne)
Purple Monkey Sircus- FML
Drake- It's Been A Pleasure
J. Cole- Lights Please Remix (Produced by XV)
Kevin Cossom- U Know What U Doin ft. Pusha T

This past week I read that John Frusciante (guitarist, third from the right) has left quite possibly my favorite band of all time, THE Red Hot Chili Peppers. This broke my heart. I know all great things must come to an end, but I thought RHCP was exempt from this rule. NOTE: The band is not breaking up entirely, quite the opposite in fact; they are hard at work on a new album. Frusciante has left them before (in 1992 he was overwhelmed with the band's popularity and entered a heroin-addicted solo career). Once he had been rehabilitated, he returned to the band in 1999, and created: Californication, By The Way, and Stadium Arcadium. This is quite possibly the band's best stretch of albums. Either way it is very obvious the increase in music quality when Frusciante is the one melting faces. He is ranked 18th on Rolling Stone's "Best Guitarists of All-Time" list. Anyways, this article led me to listen to some of his solo stuff, one thing led to another and I compiled a few tracks to put on this post (one of which is by Frusciante, and the others being connected even though it is impossibly unobvious):

John Frusciante- Murderers
The Temper Trap- Sweet Disposition
Boards of Canada- Dayvan Cowboy
Telefon Tel Aviv- Farenheit Far Enough
Van She- Don't Fear The Reaper (Remake)

As promised, The White Panda has released their first official mixtape "Versus" just in time for New Years Eve. I wanted to post it as soon as possible so I haven't heard the whole thing through quite yet but I can tell you that even though some of the songs are not new, the ones the ones that are, are Fucking Awesome (notice the usage of capitalization, that's how serious I am). My personal favorite amongst the new ones is "Stay Fly Every Single Day." I'll be playin this all night on New Years and I'm gonna bet you might too.

The White Panda- "Versus (MixTape)"

There has been a lot of good stuff out there lately and here are some of my favorites, more to come soon:

Miike Snow- Cult Logic
Miike Snow- Silvia
Radiohead- Reckoner (The Twelves Remix)
Brand New- The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
The Incomparable Shakespeare- Wonderwall ft. Oasis
The Game- Breakin Rules (feat. Busta Rhymes)
Wale- Stronger

I thought I'd listen to this a few times through before posting it. I'm a fan of this album even with the excessive autotuning...thats just wheezy's style right now and its clear he ain't changing. To quote him from his documentary, "I don't care about nobody else's thoughts." My favorites are: Da Da Da, On Fire, Drop the World, and Get A Life. Enjoy wheezy's "rock" album:

Lil Wayne- Rebirth (Deluxe Edition)

Check this out mah bradah!

This song is fucking awesome. It's the best track off of Xaphoon's (DJ for Chiddy Bang) first solo mixtape. Chiddy has already began work on their next mixtape, (or possibly album?) and Xaphoon Jones is the reason for their popularity which only continues to grow. Dude's got talent. You won't stop playing this ish:

Bob Marley/MGMT- I Wanna Know Now (Xaphoon Jones Remix)

A song from the man that brought you one of the most remixed songs of 2009, "1901" by Phoenix. This one is titled "Girlfriend" and though it probably won't sweep the internet the way 1901 did, it is definitely a track worthy of being in your library. Give it a listen:

Phoenix- Girlfriend

Here are a couple remixes involving LMFAO I came across recently. The first one remixes Kanye's "Paranoid" off 808's. The second is LMFAO's song "La La La" remixed by Hyper Crush. Both are pretty legit, rave-like remixes of songs which aren't to bad to start out with:

Kanye West- Paranoid (LMFAO Remix)
LMFAO- "La La La" (Hyper Crush Remix)

If you don't already have this track, download it immediately because you might be the last one to get your hands on it. Give it one listen and you will know what's up with this track. Self explanatory.

Lil Wayne- Drop The World (Feat. Eminem)

Here is a fresh remix of the classic song from the TV show Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. This song really tickles my inner ear.

DJ Mustard - Fresh Prince Remix

The ILLZ is a sick new rapper who is definitely underground at the moment but my beliefs are that he will soon BLOW UP. This is intro on his new album and uses comparisons for his first album through none other than a throwback Jay Z interview. ILLZ, if you're gonna do this, you better not disappoint. Anyway he kills this track over a smooth beat that I cannot stop listening to. Stay on the lookout for ILLZ.

The ILLZ - The Appreciation

This picture is from their official release of "VS." which drops on the internet this Friday. Can not wait for that. In the mean time, here is they track which samples the popular indie band Beirut. As soon as that EP drops, you know it'll be up here. Stay on your toes.

Macklemore ft. Ryan Lewis- Irish Celebration

You might want to throw on a diaper before reading this post. Even though I know Scott MesCUDI has been partying his ass off since his album dropped, he decided to bust a flow over the Vampire Weekend song "Ottoman." The top up-and-coming rapper, over the best new band...what more can a music lover ask for. Thank you Cudi.

“Hello and Happy Holidays to everyone of my fans, hope u guys arnt ragin too much. SIKE! : ) peace and love from your bud, Cud”

Kid Cudi- Cudderisback.

And thank you to Confusion for letting me use your links in times of technical difficulty.