MP3 Call from Science
posted by on February 5 at 9:30 AM
Our trusty man of Dear Science
Dr. Jonathan Golob has made a call to LineOut. Lobes in a Dresden mind are yearning for songs. German eardrums need sound. A man has come out of deep freeze and needs to be caught musically up to speed. Get your scrubs on. Scalpel. We need 15 CC’s of “Jesus Christ Pose.” We’re performing an MP3 fill.
What music has happened since 1989?
Dr. Golob writes:
Dear Music,I need your help on a gift for a (former East) German scientist who believes Dire Straits were the pinnacle of music.
He was my generous host when I visited Dresden as a scientist this fall. During the Soviet era, this doctor risked his life and his career to smuggle in albums. He was among the first in line for the limited release of Born in the USA—deemed sufficiently anti-American for a hundred thousand or so copies to be legally sold behind the wall. He lovingly spoke of the 80’s rock he was denied.
I’d like to honor my host by sending him an MP3 player filled with all the music he missed, plus a decent mix of what else has happened since 1989.
What should he listen to as he strolls across the Elbe to the lab?
I’d say Thomas Dolby’s “She Blinded Me with Science” but that’s ’82. Sci-sci-SCIENCE! I think that goes in the MP3 anyway.
Golob’s picks so far after jump.
Stevie Wonder? (“Signed, sealed, delivered! I’m yours!”)
The Halo Benders? (“…faster than airplanes, faster than cats, faster than robots, faster than bats, faster than matter, faster than thoughts, faster than atoms…”)
The Arcade Fire? (“….we know a place where no ships go. Hey! No cars go!”)
Elliot Smith? (“…we have no power in the end…”)
Aretha Franklin? (“…this was the land he worked by hand…”)
Big Audio Dynamite? (“… situation ok. Rush for a change of atmosphere….”)
Cold War Kids? (“…splashing around in the muck and mire…”)
Electric President? (“…and the moon’s just a torn fingernail…”)
Four Tet Remixes? (beep. beep. boop. boop.)
Avril Lavigne? (“Hey! Hey! You! You! I don’t like your girlfriend…”)
Help me LineOut, you’re my only hope.Science
Well based on the German scientist + love of the Boss (and presumably of "classic rock") = Neil Young's Trans, the oft hyped on Lineout electronic album that I believe, is the first in a substantial line of proof that Young is Daft Punk.
And geez, music from the '89 on?
Fugazi, Drive Like Jehu, Battles, Bjork, Pixies, the Constantines, Broken Social Scene, Broadcast, the Clientele, Spoon, Tortoise, Smog, Celebration, Q and Not U, Ted Leo, Wilco, et al.
if someone thinks dire strait are the pinnacle of music, an mp3 player full of anything should be earth-shatteringly remarkable. instead of sending an mp3 player to a dire straits fan, why not send them a vhs tape of 'baseball follies' recorded from the tv during mlb rain delay broadcasts?
Get the man some Prince. I don't care if it's before 89.
And speaking of Nada Surf - he needs 'Let Go'.
dj shadow's endtroducing, flaming lips' the soft bulletin, the cure's disintegration, and orbital's in sides.
Definitely the Shadow. And Disintegration too.
Donte could do the MP3 fill in about 10 seconds. He is LineOut's Science.
And Rachel's 'Systems and Layers'.
And Boards of Canada 'Campfire Headphase'.
And Trans Am 'Sex Change.'
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