Just got a pair of these for the gym and I love them:
$30, very comfortable and they sound 500x better than the Sonys I replaced.
They also serve as a nice set of baby steps as I work my way up to some real headphones
Why share this? Why the heck not?
BELLE & SEBASTIAN – DIRTY DREAM #2 from Lance Bangs on Vimeo.
There's a sketch in here somewhere.
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This post is especially for Dan, Lorie and Sarah since I talked this guy up at dinner the other night, but all of you should be checking out Mayer Hawthorne's A Strange Arrangement. Easily one of my favorite albums of the year. I've been listening to a lot of soul music over the past couple of years, so I was primed to like this guy's stuff.
My list is a little different than the rest of the lists you might be seeing floating around the net these days as it starts with the launch of this site (which occurred a few months before the clock ticked over) and not 1/1/2000. It overlaps enough that it seems like it makes sense to launch this one right now. Especially since my entire list actually falls within the middle of this decade.
While I probably like individual songs on Neon Bible more than anything on this record, the seamless whole here puts it over the top. And that's not to say the individual songs on Funeral are anything to sneeze at. For proof pick any song called Neighborhood (*) or the obvious movie trailer fueling Wake Up.
Brought to you by Parliament. To be honest, only the "Mother" part is actually funky enough.
Apparently, I need my funk uncut.
This is a killer performance, by the way. Waste some time with this. I demand it.