music monday on a monday

Over the course of the last week I´ve been listening alot to 2 different bands. 1 band which I have listened to a lot and 1 I listened to a little bit when I first heard about them about 1 year ago, but never stuck with some reason I could´ ve never understood today.

The first band is The Rural Alberta Advantage. After taking a break from listening to this band for a little while, this month it is probably the band I have listened to the most.

Most of the album is good (Hometowns). I like this song the best.

The Rural Alberta Advantage – The Ballad of the RAA

The second band I want to mention in Ra Ra Riot. I remember first hearing about them when I read somewhere they sounded similar to The Arcade Fire whom I´ ve liked ever since Mike Mo´s part in Fully Flared. But when I checked them out their songs kinda didn´t catch on – again, for a reason I really can´t understand. I neven forgot about Ra Ra Riot but I neven gave them a sincere chance till about a week ago. Now I have listened to them nonstop for a week, and I really like 9 out of 10 songs in their The Rhumb Line album…

This song has gotten the most hits over the last week,

Ra Ra Riot – Ghost Under Rocks

… I´ll finish this one off by sharing the song I listened to all morning.

Kurt Vile – Blackberry Song

Oh… Yesterday was fathers day here in Norway, so naturally I hit up my dad (who lives in Greenland), only to find out fathers day in Greenland/Denmark is on July 5th… what a bummer!

Thats all I got right now – All I´m doing is working, working out and hanging out… I don´t know if anyone actually likes these music posts..?

HJ

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music monday on a monday.

I feel a little bit like I´m jumping on the bandwagon by posting this song – I just hope everyone haven´t heard it yet?

I was looking for a song which gave a feel of the fall AND a little bit of winter, and I feel this song represents pretty good… In the winter I always listen to “lighter” music you don´t have to think about and music that can get me pumped when I´m skiing (blip blop music if you will)…

This Florence + The Machine song remixed by The XX has a little bit of “winter” and a little bit of “fall” in it I guess… whatever, here it is…

Florence + the Machine – You’ve Got the Love (XX remix)

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I´m starting up a “new series” of posts – and I´m calling it Music Mondays. Ironically  enough I´m starting it today, on a wednesday, but whatever…

I got this idea straight out of The Post Family, but it fits in really well with one of my big interest – music – and the fact that I lack of things to write about, especially in the offseason.

First I´d like to say something that is really relevant to this post, and that´s why I love the timing of my birth and the places I´ve lived.

I love the fact that I was born in the middle of the 80´s (1986) because I grew up without internet and too much electronics – but started using it at around age 13, early enough for it to be a natural part of my life now. I had video games avaliable to me at around age 7, had an active childhood where I did sports every single day, and I started going to the mountain by myself at an really early age around age 7-8 if I´m not totally mistaking? Greenland is probably the reason why i was able to do this.

I feel like ALOT has happened and changed the way people live their lifes over the past couple of years, and I feel my age made it really easy to cope with it all. Do you remember how your cell-phone looked 5 years ago, or which cell-phone was your first? I do, and also remember what things were like before people got cell-phones. Kids 5 years younger then me probably don´t..? And I really appreciate knowing both sides of the ecuation.

I also remember my first CD and ghettoblaster. I got it for christmas. The CD was Ace of Base – Happy Nation and the blaster was a black sony with Radio, 1 CD player and 2 cassette players. I´m guessing kids now a days wont remember their first mp3 files, computer or cell-phone by the time they hit 20.

Another thing I love about growing up when I did was the cartoons my generation watched. I believe (correct me if I´m wrong) we grew up with more cartoon classics then any other generation before and after us, and this FINALLY brings me right into what I really wanted to share before en started babeling about my childhood…

Here are a few Disney movie songs I fell over to start things off – they are genius! The texts impress me alot now that I actually understand them!..

This is an ode to good music, good cartoons (which adults can actually watch) and everyone how grew up with these movies, and all the other great Disney Cartoons of the late 80´s and early 90´s.

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