Help a starving writer get inspired

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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?

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

Icon courtesy of the lovely 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::

Comments

[elzed.livejournal.com]

You don't really know me but I friended you a little while back. Couldn't help but be pulled into your requests when you mentioned mid-90s Brit-rock (or indeed Brit-pop) - my country, my generation - so I felt honour and duty-bound to go dig a few things out of my CD collection. Morcheeba. Massive Attack, Portishead and more. You probably know most of those tracks - and you may have them already but dammit, I felt like sharing. So here goes...

Primal Scream: Rocks (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=674D8D3FAC356461634FA23EE3D92D83)
Primal Scream: Moving on Up (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1E9E92DA9BCC445C1824D456F7F583A4)
Placebo: Nancy Boy (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=74EDF6546F04E6A4CE2CACF9605725E4)
Suede: Trash (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=31BAB298C7337F781B52598033B9C2D8)
Morcheeba: The Sea (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0F6C95A2372764513FF5979F9ED0CFA8)
Morcheeba: Big Calm (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=6257EEB9A72AF99A2E02FB782336455B)
Prodigy: Smack my Bitch Up (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=34A6CC97BDFF4BFC691B64BBFF2064FE)
Massive Attack: Unfinished Sympathy (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=21431E6134EC941F6BFB25B4B1E569C0)
Portishead: Wandering Star (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=688E001D8605A80D26989927AEB838BF)


And I'm so glad I did this because I hadn't listened to some of these in ages. And I had forgotten how much I liked them. Hope you enjoy them...

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I am always happy when people share! Share! My generation, my adopted country -- why must you make it so hard to get visas to stay permanently? I digress. Thank you :)