Will you be our Valentine? (Jaime’s Mix)

In honor of Valentine’s Day, we Daybowbow staffers decided to make mixes of our favorite love songs. We ask you to forget your cynicism, open your hardened hearts and, well, be our valentine. Also, feel free to steal any of our lists, or some combination thereof, and make a last-minute Valentine’s Day gift for that special someone.

As opposed to Ms. Bagherpour, I’m pretty anti-Valentines day as I tend to find the whole thing pretty droll due to the obligations involved. No matter if you’re for or against the holiday there’s an obligation tied up in it–either you’re making it a point to spend the day like any other day, or you’re forking out wads of cash for no reason whatsoever. (Note: When I worked in a restaurant I loved the hell out of the holiday. It was money heaven). Anyway, in an effort to be a part of the site’s theme I’ve decided to concoct a list. Please don’t read too much into it.

Talking Heads- This must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

I am not, and will never be talented enough to sum up the greatness of this song. Let’s just say it’s one of the few love songs ever written by David Byrne, because by his own admission writing about love is one of the most difficult things one could do. That being said, he absolutely nails it.

Broken Social Scene- Lover’s Spit

An outright slap in the face to meaningless young love, Kevin Drew’s sprawling attack at what is precieved to be beautiful lends a certain weight to the argument that we may all just be fooling ourselves by letting emotions rule all.

Prince- Let’s Pretend we’re married

Prince is undoubtedly the godfather of sex music, and with a chorus like “Excuse me but I need a mouth like yours/2 help me forget the girl that just walked out my door/Let’s pretend we’re married and do it all night/I won’t stop until the mornin’ light” he proves that you don’t need to tell someone you “want to fuck them like an animal” to be seductive. Just make sure to follow it up with something like “I sincerely wanna fuck the taste outta your mouth”. Seriously, any time someone tries to say they like to do it to that insipid NIN song, it’s hard not to laugh.

The Week in Music & Video: 10/5 to 10/11

The baseball playoffs have started, so you’re not getting much commentary with these tracks, just enjoy the music, and we’ll try to give you a bit more next week.

As usual don’t be a dick, either catch a show, hit the local record shop, or an online retailer.

The Week in Music & Video: 9/28 to 10/4

Hey look music and videos of what’s going on this week! You might wanna take a listen, and if you like it make it out to one of the shows, or purchase the bands work at your local Record Shop, or one of the fine online retailers.

(do to a bandwidth issue, this post has been moved.)

The Week in Music: 9/8 to 9/13

Slow week folks, and I didn’t have a lot of tracks to draw from so there’s going to be some videos, anyway check it out after the jump.

The Week in Music: 7/7 to 7/12

Man, Starbucks is fucking terrible about their Internet access, if it wasn’t the closest place to work at I’d never go there. Anyways, as usual “Please if you enjoy the music provided make an effort to either go down to your local record shop, or try one of the online retailers (amzon, emusic, itunes) to find the albums for purchase.”

The Week in Music 6/29 to 7/5

Not alot going on this week, so music is gonna be sparse, try to enjoy what we have.

Monday

Wilco- You Never Know

Man there was a bunch of white people at Good Records last night, and I’m not trying to offend by saying that. (ok, maybe a little.)

Tuesday

Patrick Wolf- I just Wasn’t Made For These Times(Beach Boys Cover)

The legions of kids at this show are going to regret this one day, mark my words this look/movement makes the Flock of Seagulls fad look well though out.

Plastiscines- La Rgle Du Jeu

One of my best friends dates a girl from Germany, she’s cute, hip, and an all around vixen. She would eat this shit up, and it annoys me.

I’m not usually this negative, blame the weather.

Picking a poster is aways a bit of a bitch

So, our Art Director Blaire, mocked up a bunch of posters for the showcase next week, and I have no idea which one to use, so I’m opening up a poll to you people, so we can have a democratic decision, but first a word on the bands.

The Week in Music 6/22 to 6/28

Blah, blah, blah opening paragraph, blah, blah, blah something esoteric, blah, blah, blah, I’m sick, blah, blah, blah, Please if you enjoy the music provided make an effort to either go down to your local record shop, or try one of the online retailers (amzon, emusic, itunes) to find the albums for purchase.

A closer look at all who’re involved with our little shindig on Friday

The best part about putting together shows is it raises my awareness/appreciation for the bands we end up working with, something that has kind of ruled my week as of late. Fishboy‘s upcoming record features a press release nugget that’s slightly mind blowing, and I quote…

The Week in Music 6/15 to 6/21

I’m going to attempt to make this a weekly feature of mp3s from touring artist that are coming through town. the key word is try. You may have noticed that we used to frequently post mp3s in the “Weekly Rundown”, but the decision was made to make this it’s own separate entity in hopes of better showcasing the artists work. Please if you enjoy the music provided make an effort to either go down to your local record shop, or try one of the online retailers (amzon, emusic, itunes) to find the albums for purchase.