The Tiger Mendoza Blog

I don’t really know why, but I love this:

And a great Family Guy mini version.

I realise this is probably pretty old to some people now but a little while back the brilliant [adultswim] posted a free compilation of stuff from the Ghostly International record label, and it’s a really quite brilliant little compilation. And Free! Here’s the player Sorry, the player auto-playing whenever you go to the site annoid me. Here’s the first track instead:

Michna - Triple chrome dipped

The whole lot can be downloaded from here.

5 years ago, Elliott Smith died. His death is probably the only ‘celebrity’ death where I can say I know exactly where I was and what I was doing when I found out (putting out CDs in hight street ‘music retailer’). For better or for worse, he was is one of my favourite song writers and his music has meant a lot to me over the years. Here’s a short article from the LAist on his life from SPIN.com on the circumstances leading up to his death.
Cheers for the music Elliott.

Elliott Smith - Angeles (from the album Either/Or)

Great song, cool video.

God I’m obsessed with this song at the moment

SeeqPod Music beta - Playable Search

The previously mentioned demo thing is now up to 5 tracks:

1. Untitled 1
2. Untitled 2
3. No Heroes Left
4. Wait for Tomorrow
5. Take

On another note Toy #1 have finished a new 2 track CD with this cover:

I was talking to someone last night and and we got on to the subject of whether or not the Foo’s had lost it. Now, I’m a pretty big Foo Fighters fan, but I was being told that after ‘The Color And The Shape’ they kind of lost it. My friend then went on to say that Prince’s Suberbowl 2007 cover of Best Of You was better than the original.

So I’m mulling this over (with my chipped tooth after hitting myself in the face with a mic and at a gig last night) and I still have to say ……No. The Foo’s are still great. And maybe I do like the MOR acoustic stuff too much but hey, such is life. So here - Dave’s acoustic version of ‘Times Like These’ from One By One:

See also:

>> Prince’s version of Best Of You with All Along the Watchtower intro

But it is one of the greatest songs ever. That’s all.

New Order - True Faith: