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Ben

Feb 28 2006, 07:18 AM

ABBA keys, flighty female vocals that put Regina Spektor to shame, HANDCLAPS, a big chorus, and dozens of little sonic twinkies stuffed in the cracks. This is where it's at.

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Via Flux: Marit Larsen - "Don't Save Me"

The video is here.

Hips

Feb 28 2006, 08:16 AM

i'm actually likin this. how old is this girl?

Ben

Feb 28 2006, 08:57 AM

My research effort began in earnest earlier this morning.

Montana

Feb 28 2006, 09:04 AM

QUOTE(Ben @ Feb 28 2006, 08:18 AM) [snapback]30962[/snapback]

ABBA keys, flighty female vocals that put Regina Spektor to shame, HANDCLAPS, a big chorus, and dozens of little sonic twinkies stuffed in the cracks. This is where it's at.

IPB Image

Via Flux: Marit Larsen - "Don't Save Me"

The video is here.

A cross between Alanis Morrisette and Avril Lavigne. Weak. Oh yes, I really do think....

Ben

Feb 28 2006, 09:14 AM

WRONG

Ben

Mar 1 2006, 08:26 AM

I take it The Board isn't with me on this one.

I will go down with this ship.
There will be no white flag above my door.

QUOTE(Boy With The Filthylaugh @ Feb 28 2006, 08:16 AM) [snapback]30967[/snapback]

i'm actually likin this. how old is this girl?

All signs point to 22. She used to be in a girl group called M2M. Learn more (but not much) at THE BLOG.

Hips

Mar 1 2006, 08:31 AM

QUOTE(Ben @ Mar 1 2006, 07:26 AM) [snapback]32124[/snapback]

I take it The Board isn't with me on this one.

I will go down with this ship.
There will be no white flag above my door.

All signs point to 22. She used to be in a girl group called M2M. Learn more at THE BLOG.

nice...thanks for the tip on that. hopefully the rest of her record holds up. all too often these first release tracks are gold then the rest of it can't hold water.

Jigga

Mar 1 2006, 08:33 AM

nice song. what style is this then?

Ben

Mar 1 2006, 08:36 AM

QUOTE(Jigga @ Mar 1 2006, 08:33 AM) [snapback]32129[/snapback]

nice song. what style is this then?

If PL was around he'd probably want to call it fluxpop, cuz he invented the damn word. I don't know what'd you'd rightly call it other than pop music. It's firmly in the Scandinavian vein, drawing from ABBA's tradition of tight songcraft and huge hooks, but also from the region's recently revived tradition of guitar slangin' singer-songwriters modeled more on the Dylan/Carole King archetypes. Just from the little I've heard, I'd say she's sort of the Scandanavian version of Regina Spektor, Vanessa Carlton, Michelle Branch, etc. I find this sort of stuff can often serve as a pleasurable golden mean.

Of course, this song is better than all that. What I like most about it, besides the big hooks, are the little smiley-faces penciled all over. It's like the Junior Senior record and those United States of Electronica singles I loved so much, there's something new that delivers a sugar rush each time I listen. My favorite thing so far in this one is the GROUP SHOUTING BIT near the end.

Jigga

Mar 1 2006, 09:05 AM

yeah, its upbeat and cheerful, like The CArdigans, rememberthem. somone said sweden and probably scandanavian countries is running music right now. Weren't the early producers or N Sync and Backstreet boys scandanavian, its all good, ABBA are the shit. DAncing Queen is a classic by any standards.

_______

Mar 1 2006, 02:51 PM

QUOTE(Montana @ Feb 28 2006, 08:04 AM) [snapback]30988[/snapback]

A cross between Alanis Morrisette and Avril Lavigne. Weak. Oh yes, I really do think....

man, you confuse the fuck out of me. why do you even bother engaging in discussion around here? how old are you?

Saskadelphia

Mar 1 2006, 03:02 PM

Yeah, I like this one a lot. Harmonica...how charmingly un-hip.

I can't believe it, but I actually remember M2M.

solace

Mar 1 2006, 03:16 PM

pretty decent.

but i'll take this opportunity to say that even tho his blog is decent, Matt Perpetua is a total fucking GOOBER. bunch of my friends in NYC have met him and said he's seriously the biggest loser/whiner/nerd on the planet. and from having dealt with him briefly online, it doesn't surprise me.

Ben

Mar 1 2006, 03:23 PM

I had no idea. He likes a lot of music I don't (Fiery Furnances) and tends to overhype things in the manner all too common among mp3 blogs, BUT he's hooked me up with so many cool things I wouldn't have heard otherwise that I'd be willing to put up with a lot. If you're going slander the man's character, do it outright. What did he do that was so terrible?

solace

Mar 1 2006, 03:26 PM

yeah... he gets his stuff from the same mp3 forum i'm on, and always has. suppose i can't fault him for having the time and energy to post so much stuff.

it is a good resource, no doubt. but like you, i tend to not agree w/ much of his tastes, and yeah, he does love to overhype often. mp3 blogs, while great for many people, i often can't deal w/ them myself. on the rare occasion i post about an album/band other than Tour Dates, i tend to only post about bands/albums that don't get much press/blog time, otherwise i'd just be doing the same thing as most every other blog out there (posting about the same bands, etc.)

Ben

Mar 1 2006, 03:28 PM

They can be time consuming, I've experienced a resurgence of interest since I rigged RSS feeds through an MP3 label in Google Reader. Now I can scroll right through all the new posts every morning and download whatever may interest me inside of five minutes.

solace

Mar 1 2006, 03:31 PM

like, i love Gorilla vs. Bear, and Chris is such a cool guy, but man i just can't keep up with all of the bands he posts about. there seems to be a good 2-3 a day on average.

same w/ brooklynvegan, love Dave, but he posts so frequently i often miss news.

i guess it's better than posting once every few weeks, but still...

Ben

Mar 1 2006, 03:33 PM

Do they have RSS feeds?

http://www.google.com/reader

solace

Mar 1 2006, 03:34 PM

yepper

i use bloglines myself. checked out google's reader but didn't really like it all too well :-/

looks neat tho

_______

Mar 1 2006, 03:41 PM

QUOTE(Ben @ Mar 1 2006, 02:28 PM) [snapback]32728[/snapback]

will you teach me how to do this?

solace

Mar 1 2006, 03:42 PM

def check out bloglines.com if you haven't yet. think it's def the best online RSS reader. combine that w/ the firefox bloglines toolkit and livelines plugin (or any of the other notifier programs for windows/mac).

i used to use actual program RSS readers, but i like that i can log onto bloglines from anywhere and catch up.

Ben

Mar 1 2006, 03:47 PM

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yepper

i use bloglines myself. checked out google's reader but didn't really like it all too well :-/

looks neat tho

The key is to pimp your ride with greasemonkey and start using the labels. The labels and mouse scrolling combined make it. It's also browser based.

solace

Mar 1 2006, 03:48 PM

yeah, i've used it a bit, just found it tended to not remember what i'd read and hadn't read from time to time, which pissed me off. that was a few months ago tho, might have improved. i'll check it out again.

but yeah, greasmonkey is the shit

Ben

Mar 1 2006, 03:51 PM

QUOTE(simakos @ Mar 1 2006, 03:41 PM) [snapback]32769[/snapback]

will you teach me how to do this?

The most difficult part is diggin up the XML/ATOM/RSS address for all the blogs you're interested you. Feed them into an RSS reader and it will consolidate every new post into a central source. Click that edit subscription button in google to start dumping them in. When you create them you can make a label to accompany each one. I have one that's simply mp3. I pull down that label and I get every fresh mp3 post since I last looked in chrono order. You can star them, leave them unread, just like email.

QUOTE(solace @ Mar 1 2006, 03:48 PM) [snapback]32789[/snapback]

Agreed. But it's improving. I just love that scrolling two-window setup. Greasemonkey dudes have really fixed a lot of the little problems. They've even got an autodiscovery plugin that appears in the corner of my browser when I'm on a blog with RSS. I can click one button down there and BLAM it's in my reader.

solace

Mar 1 2006, 03:53 PM

sweet, yeah that's what the livelines plugin does essentially. cool, will def check out the reader again tonight

Eskimo Kisses

Mar 1 2006, 05:23 PM

I can't stop listening to this song, it's ridiculously perfect.

Saskadelphia

May 18 2006, 04:43 AM

Time to revive this thread, because Larsen's album is so disarmingly great. I don't even know what to compare it to, it's so varied stylistically. It just radiates with life more than any pop record I've heard this year. Year-end list worthy, I tell you.

animals and men

May 18 2006, 09:17 AM

I've never met Matthew Perpetua, but I tend to talk about him as if he's a close friend just from reading Fluxblog. Don't always go for what he hypes, don't necessarily think he searches out the mp3s in places others don't know, but I think Fluxblog's one of the best mp3 blogs for knowing what you're getting when you download a song, plus Perpetua's writing is really sincere, optimistic, supportive of artists, un-egocentric, and pretty decent.

Moistworks is the way to go, though.

Eskimo Kisses

May 18 2006, 07:55 PM

QUOTE(Saskadelphia @ May 18 2006, 10:43 AM) [snapback]91597[/snapback]

Any chance of a y'all send the thing?

Saskadelphia

May 18 2006, 08:05 PM

QUOTE(Rob @ May 18 2006, 06:55 PM) [snapback]92319[/snapback]

Any chance of a y'all send the thing?

Not at the moment, sorry. Connection hassles. It's really easy to find on slsk, though.

vurt

May 18 2006, 08:18 PM

QUOTE(Saskadelphia @ May 18 2006, 09:43 PM) [snapback]91597[/snapback]

I like the sound of 'disarmingly great'. I'll have to check this out.

dano

May 18 2006, 08:25 PM

I'll up it.

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Ben

Jul 26 2006, 08:51 AM

Marit blogs her favorite songs.

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Les også:
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Marit åpner dagboken 06.07.2006
Eksterne lenker
Hjemmeside Marit Larsen

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Tilfeldig rekkefølge.

The Angels – My Boyfriend's Back.
Rufus Wainwright & Teddy Thompson – King Of The Road.

Gillian Welch – Soul Journey.

Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins – Melt Your Heart og The Big Guns.

Neil Young – The Painter.

Nick Drake – Road.

Thom Yorke – Black Swan.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band – Look At Me.

Joni Mitchell – You Turn Me On I'm A Radio.

Billy Joel - She's Got A Way.

The Dixie Chicks – Lullaby, The Long Way Around og Long Time Gone.

Sufjan Stevens – UFO Sighting.

Radiohead – Sail To The Moon (Brush The Cobwebs Of The Sky).

The Raconteurs – Steady As She Goes.

Ben Folds Five – One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces.

Hanne Hukkelberg – A Cheater's Armoury.

Josh Rouse – Quiet Town.

King Crimson – Starless.

Magnus Hængsle – Question For You.

Lisa Loeb – I Do.

The Pipettes – Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me.

Dolly Parton – A Tender Lie.

Faith Hill – Breathe.

Thom Hell – All I've Got Left.

Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine, Red Red Red og Slow Like Honey.

Jaga Jazzist – All I Know Is Tonight.

The Like – June Gloom.

Martina McBride – Love's The Only House.

Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous.

Rufus Wainwright – The Art Teacher.

Ryan Adams – New York, New York.

Teitur – Don't Want You To Wake Up.

Crosby, Stills and Nash – Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.

DrJimmy

Jul 26 2006, 09:13 AM

i missed this thread. just listened to that song. it's a little cloying, but maybe okay, i don't know. i hear a little nellie mckay in her voice. is this album any good?

johnny largesax

Jul 26 2006, 09:21 AM

She looks like - and kinda sounds like - a cuter version of Natalie Merchant. In fact, if you told me that the song was a Merchant comeback song, I'd be inclined to believe it (w/o seeing the video).

Then again, if it *was* a Merchant comeback song, I'd doubt you or me would give two sh!ts about it, right?

Saskadelphia

Jul 26 2006, 01:28 PM

QUOTE(DrJimmy @ Jul 26 2006, 08:13 AM) [snapback]143400[/snapback]

is this album any good?

I've said it before, it's the pop album of the year.

amotin

Jul 26 2006, 02:16 PM

QUOTE(Saskadelphia @ Jul 26 2006, 01:28 PM) [snapback]144093[/snapback]

QUOTE(DrJimmy @ Jul 26 2006, 08:13 AM) [snapback]143400[/snapback]

is this album any good?

I've said it before, it's the pop album of the year.

I haven't heard this yet, but I know it can't be true, not in a miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilion years

Saskadelphia

Jul 26 2006, 02:57 PM

QUOTE(amotin @ Jul 26 2006, 01:16 PM) [snapback]144212[/snapback]

I haven't heard this yet, but I know it can't be true, not in a miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilion years

No, it's true. I haven't heard anything as charming as this album all year.

Saskadelphia

Sep 25 2008, 06:06 AM

New single...finally! (as mentioned in the singles thread)

Eskimo Kisses

Sep 25 2008, 07:04 AM

Finding out about new Marit Larsen singles at work = super lame.

Eskimo Kisses

Sep 25 2008, 02:53 PM

This one is a bit too cutesy, not feeling it as much as I hoped I would do.

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