hackthis_archive ([personal profile] hackthis_archive) wrote2004-11-30 10:44 am

Help a starving writer get inspired

I have a favour to ask of you lot (no, not body disposal). I have been listening to the same mp3s fifteen times a day for nine months, and really, it's starting to grate and my plot bunnies are starting to riot. So -- I need something new. Something shiny. I need something I've never heard before -- or something I've heard but might have forgotten.

Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses Matt Nathanson, your Tchaikovsky, your Jigga-what Jigga-who, your Ryan or Jeff or Snoop or Weekend Players, Portishead, Morcheeba, Massive Attack. Give me never-released Verve stuff! Give me your much-loved demos. Let's talk live recordings and 90s Brit-rock. Give me Motown and the Stones. The Beatles, the Supremes and the Strokes. Give me your Modest Mouse and other animal bands. Give me something you think I'll love. Give me something you think I've never heard. You have a song that reminds you of me* or Theodore or Seth or Jamie or hey, even Lex? Let me hear it. Please?

Stick on your website. Yousendit. Attach it by carrier pigeon, just you know, hook me up!

C'mon it's not like I'm asking for money blood. Hell, you can just send me someplace where I can DL stuff and I'll be happy -- but then I might wind up unemployed, so yeah, no kazaa or winx. I already have plenty of experience with them. Not of the illegal sort. No, never. Napsterwhat?

* ([livejournal.com profile] ethrosdemon and [livejournal.com profile] kattiya have already cornered the market on The Streets 'Fit But You Know It).

Icon courtesy of the lovely [livejournal.com profile] oxoniensis, who made me lots of pretties for my birthday. YAY!


ETN: You guys are spoiling me rotten! Don't stop! (Thank you :)

ETN #2: I see now that the way to find out who you people are is not to ask, but to send up a distress cry for music. ::makes note::

[identity profile] fivil.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
I sent you that pretty song by Massive Attack off the Snatch-soundtrack that probably has everyone heard of. Anyway, sent it via yousendit.com.

The song is called "Angel".

Re: made you a .zip file

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
This is totally like an early Christmas! YAY!!

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
OMG Sesame Street!!!

::loves goss::

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
Is that a cover of Sting's Fieilds of Gold. Also, a song called 'Dear Janet Jackson'? Rock on!

[identity profile] bibliotech.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
8 versions of 'Hallelujah' and three versions of 'Wonderwall' (http://www.livejournal.com/users/aralinde/227504.html)

8 songs titled 'Evangeline' BECAUSE THAT IS MY NAME AND IT IS THE BEST NAME EVER (http://www.livejournal.com/users/aralinde/227275.html)

Four random songs from yesterday (http://www.livejournal.com/users/aralinde/226974.html)

Two more songs from yesterday (http://www.livejournal.com/users/aralinde/226808.html)

[identity profile] helvetius.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
Rachael Yamagata - Letter Read (http://s15.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=97C02DD821C995313EA91D77A2A979BD)

Rufus Wainwright - Memphis Skyline (http://s15.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=599E175716D0AC06A74D3E28F0330877) (a tribute to Jeff Buckley to boot)

Interpol - Say hello to the angels (http://s15.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=F0F6D5F1942731115B66120ACC239B87) (Hmm. Angels and sex.)

[identity profile] kickthebeat.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
djfhaslkdh oh man, Lise. :D *steals link for own evil use*
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[personal profile] starfishchick 2004-11-30 12:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It is a cover of the Sting song, yes. And it's *beautiful*.

The Janet Jackson song is hilarious. You can hear more of Richard Thompson's stuff - not in the same vein, though still good - here: http://www.richardthompson-music.com/audiodownloads.asp.

If any of the links don't work, let me know and I'll re-upload.
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[personal profile] starfishchick 2004-11-30 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you have the k.d. lang version of 'Hallelujah'? Beautiful.

(Sorry, commenting here as your entries are flocked.) :)

Re: made you a .zip file

[identity profile] the-larch.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Merry Christmas!!

[identity profile] serialkarma.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. I have a friend who likes Postal Service a lot. I happen to think they're better than Death Cab for Cutie, if that means anything. They're good going to sleep music, as far as I'm concerned.

[identity profile] ex-thissuga.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
no problem, man!

[identity profile] bibliotech.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I have: k. d. lang, Allison Crowe, John Cale, Gavin Degraw, Jeff Buckley, Ari Hest, Rufus Wainwright, and Leonard Cohen. Damn. That's a lot. And there's more out there that I need to find.

[identity profile] bibliotech.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Evidently one of my friends is hurt on my behalf because I piss people off. I tried explaining that making people cry is just part of my charm, but she wants me to be nice. So, am giving the gift of music! Am so nice! And never mind that I would've done this anyway, because I get so much great music from my flist...I'm NICE, damn it.

Alexi Murdoch - Blue Mind (http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=41A88E2514623079C1882F67650F1BDD)

Alexi Murdoch - It's Only Fear (http://www.sweetspontaneous.com/files/music/alexi%20murdoch%20(it's%20only%20fear).zip)

Alexi Murdoch - Grace of God (live) (http://s17.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=9098A127D66F004DB8D8BD04713EADB2)

Alexi Murdoch - Crossing the River (http://s21.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=527D4DBB5D37B5597866722AFCA1C080)

Alexi Murdoch - Song For You (http://www.sweetspontaneous.com/files/music/alexi%20murdoch%20(song%20for%20you).zip)

Alexi Murdoch - Orange Sky (live) (http://s15.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=877F7340DEB6E309C361BED1ED05B436)
shirasade: my reading fairy tattoo + my username (golf dance)

[personal profile] shirasade 2004-11-30 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I've put together some soundtracks that you might enjoy - and there's my huge playlist with over 6000 songs, from where you can request anything you like... :)
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[personal profile] starfishchick 2004-11-30 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, you've got some that I haven't - I'll have to look for those.
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[identity profile] svmadelyn.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
A few of my personal favorites:


Confidence for Quiet (http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=7C53EDE74EC9919BB2B39248351841D9) The Corrs

A Girl Like You (http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=70AD0983CA8E01A3E84D57F1DB6D330E) The Smithereens

Brand New Lover (http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=F7DDB8CA1E6CB875A04C45A910B5E43D) by Dead or Alive

All You Want (http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=65F7B243C3E13758A829EEFE00C8FB1A) Dido

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
::grabs various versions of Hallelujah::

I'm shocked you don't have the Mike Flowers version of Wonderwall I have to tell you ;) You know the story about that, right? How Noel wrote Wonderwall for Meg Matthews (his wife at the time) and she came home one day after hearing the Mike Flowers version and yelled at him (Noel) because she thought he'd lied to her. V funny.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I love that song, thank you!

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
The new one, the old one, I'm just taking them for a test-drive, so I am at your mercy.

[identity profile] bibliotech.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I had not heard that story, or of that version. I have to go find that now, because hahah, he got yelled at.

[identity profile] circe-tigana.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you SO much. I'm so excited to hear more of his stuff!

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
::looks up from heap of mp3s::

They're really good! Yis.

[identity profile] circe-tigana.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You're not bad yourself, darlin'.

::squiffles::

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude! That song by Akiva is the Shit! ::dances in chair::

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