More Bleeps and Bloops

God damnit, I truncated my last post fairly severely. I didn't mention any of the music introduced to me via Rock Band.

Which is pretty impressive when you stop to think about it. Rock Band is a game where you play along with music you know and love. New stuff? You're too busy worrying about hitting all the notes to notice the song that the notes make. Maybe it's just me. But there are definitely songs that stood out even during the first play through.

Hell, let's go back to Guitar Hero 2.



It's weird seeing it in a different video game context.

Even Rats is the song that made me a Rock Band fan. Harmonix just threw in music they liked. As a bonus. To share with their fans music that they themselves were fans of. They seem to be music fans first video game developers a close second. Which is why Rock Band, in my humble opinion is the better band rhythm game.

And Rock Band is how I found out about



That was the only song I loved off of that album, unfortunately.

And Rock Band 2 introduced me to a bunch of songs I had never heard before but now love but if I had to pick only one (and according to the rules in my head that I just made up, I do) it would have to be



Still weirds me out that it's a dude singing that song. But these songs are why I am really hoping Harmonix puts out a new game. They've been great with releasing downloadable songs every damn week, but who is gonna take a chance on something they've never heard of? It needs to be Trojan horsed in with all sorts of other music people know and love. And that can only be done on a disc.



I just love that unfaithful line.

And I love CBC radio 3. It has introduced me to so many amazing songs and artists (I still haven't found a good non-Canada centric indie podcast though). But the artist that I can't get enough of at the moment is



I love that whole album (and I like that youtube video, those look exactly like pictures I would take). So, so much. And that came out in 2007. I'm two years out of hip. But I don't think I'll think of Welcome to the Night Sky as unhip. Lovely voices, lyrics that feel good in the mouth, that whole quiet loud quiet thing. This album was made for me to love it. And I do.