Downloading new Music - I feel so OLD...

[RetroLounge]

My (younger) friend posted her favorite songs of 2007 on her MySpace blog.

I decided to download them and have a listen.

I've never heard of most of these bands.

It's true, rock & roll is for the kids...

RL

p.s. Heres the list, band, album, song...
(***) means I know of this group

Aqualung - Memory Man "Cinderella" (***)

Athlete - Neighborhood "Second Hand Stores"

August Burns Red - Messengers "The Blinding Light"

Bat For Lashes - Fur & Gold "Horse and I"

Bayside - Walking Wounded "Walking Wounded"

Dear & the Headlights - Small Steps, Heavy Hooves "Run in the Front"

Drop Dead Gorgeous - Worse Than A Fairy Tale "They'll Never Get Me (Word With You)"

Editors - An End Has a Start "The Racing Rats"

Eisley - Combinations "Invasion"

Enter Shikari - Take to the Skies "Sorry You're Not a Winner"

Horse the Band - A Natural Death "Murder"

Idlewild - Make Another World "If it Takes You Home"

Interpol - Our Love to Admire "Pioneer to the Falls" (***)

Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future "Atlantis to Interzone"

Maccabees - Colour it In "X-Ray"

Maximo - Park Our Earthly Pleasures "Our Velocity"

Mew - Frengers "She Spider"

Playradioplay! - Frequency EP "Even Fairy Tale Characters Would Be Jealous"

Mark Ronson - Version "Oh My God (feat. Lily Allen)"

Scissors For Lefty - Underhanded Romance "Ghetto Ways"

Secret Handshake - One Full Year "The Summer of '98"

Siberian - With Me "Paper Birds"

Soular - Love Crash Heal "So, This is the Way it Feels"

Stars of Track and Field - Centuries Before Love & War "Fantastic"

Still Remains - The Serpent "The Serpent"

Tegan & Sara - The Con "Are You Ten Years Ago" (***)

Thirteen Senses - Contact "All the Love in Your Hands"

Travis - Boy With No Name "Selfish Jean" (***)

White Rabbits - Fort Nightly "Kid on My Shoulders"

Wombats - Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation "Let's Dance to Joy Division"

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. I am 27 ... and I only recognize 6 of those artists/groups.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Your friend has some good taste.

I don't know ALL of those, but a good number. Not my favorite stuff, but there's some good music there.

Sounds like the playlist of XM Channel 43 - XMU. It's one of the channels to which I listen frequently.

[RadiationTherapy]

3. Ha! I am old and CREATING new music!

"Now that is unacceptable, old man..." *is dragged away in cuffs by the hip-police*

[lizziegrace]

4. Stick with me kid

I'll burn some cds with artists and songs you'll recognize. :P

[RetroLounge]

6. The stuff I recognize I already have

on vinyl...

:D

RL

[lizziegrace]

10. True

I didn't get any of the vinyl in the divorce... I had to start over. :(

[Maestro]

5. I know the Secret Handshake's mom.

She has been going through a very tough time, divorce, finding employment, but she is very happy about her son. He is a young guy, multi-instrumentalist, being run ragged by the demands of the music industry.

[LoZoccolo]

7. Have you caught this yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_2bZVb13Ao

[RetroLounge]

8. No I hadn't yet...

Thanks. I like it...

Hey Lyla
The star's about to fall -
So what you say Lyla
The world around us makes me feel so small Lyla
If you can hear me call then I can say Lyla
Heaven help you catch me if I fall

:hi:

RL

[bbernardini]

9. Don't feel bad...almost nobody has heard of those bands.

Trust me on this. I teach young people, and I try to keep up with the latest stuff. I've only heard of 11 of those bands/artists.

[SteppingRazor]

11. I'm a music journalist, and I haven't heard of a few of those bands...

so don't feel bad. :)

[leeroysphitz]

12. I like Tegan and Sara alot but the rest? Meh... n/t

[RetroLounge]

13. I like Travis and Interpol

The rest, take it or leave it.

I hear a lot of good stuff about Tegan and Sara, so I think I'll download a bunch and listen.

RL

[bbernardini]

15. I particularly like Travis' cover of Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time."

No, I'm not kidding. They released an acoustic version as a B-side, and it's quite good. Turns out under all the glossy production and stupidity of Ms. Spears and her hangers-on, there's quite a good song there.

[RetroLounge]

16. Oh, I'm with you on that one...

It's pretty good, but I like Fountain of Wayne's version better...

:hi:

RL

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. You're doing great - I recognized none of them

I thought I remembered one of them, but no, I remember Aqualung the album/song, not a group by that name.

Now I'll crawl back to the rock I've been living under.