Why, yes, I will have bacon on that.

Why not, right? You should put bacon on everything.  And just like that, another BCOL is launched.  What does bacon have to do with it? Nothing… and everything, but really still nothing.

I’m gearing up for an end of the year show and I want your help.  Email me, comment on me or facebook comment on tracks from the past BCOL shows you’d like to see included in this Best of 2009 Best of the Best of the Brown Couch of Leisure.

Yes, that is the title and yes it’s awesome.

I’ve started my list and it’s pretty darn good, but what kind of podcasting host would I be, if I took all the fun.  I’d be terrible and one of the things I pride myself on, is my lack of terrible.  It’s a good thing to pride oneself on.

Further more, that’s it.

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Beck - So Long, Marianne - Songs of Leonard Cohen

Spoon - Written in Reverse - Transference
Alec Ounsworth - This is not my Home (after Bruegel) - Mo Beauty
Department of Eagles - Family Romance - The Whitey on the Moon UK LP
A Fine Frenzy - Electric Twist - Bomb in a Birdcage
The Lonely Forest - Far Outer Banks - We Sing the Body Electric

Arbouretum - Another Hiding Place - Song of the Pearl
Ugly Thrash Demon - He Tried - Built Up to Let Down
The Dry Spells - Lost Daughter - Too Soon For Flowers
Devendra Banhart - Goin’ Back - What Will We Be
Elephant Gun - Guts In - Beartime Stories

Beach House - Walk In The Park - Teen Dream
Sunset - Sunshine Hair - Gold Dissolves To Gray
My Bloody Valentine - You’ve Got Nothing - Before Loveless
Flake Music - Structo - When You Land Here, It’s Time To Return
Little Joy - Don’t Watch Me Dancing - Little Joy

Pavement - Spit on a Stranger - Terror Twilight

Don’t spit on strangers.

I’m so excited by a couple tracks included this week… I’m glad to hear a new track by the Cold War Kids… not only a new track, but a GOOD one. I hope this new album delivers on all the promise they had in those early EPs. I also just nabbed the new album by “The Editors,” which I didn’t even hear was out, or anything, so I look forward to listening to the rest of that soon. I’ve also got a track from the Schomberg Fair’s new album, which I’ve been listening to over and over again for the last couple weeks. At first I found the whole punk-banjo thing kind of jarring, but now I embrace it and the band’s unique sound. Part of me really wonders where the band is coming from though… at times the songs seem to come from a really honest spiritual place (”Strange Kind of Grace” is one I find encouraging and special myself), and at other times they seem to just be taking the piss out of a genre that suits what they’ve morphed into. There’s also a song by Jookabox, a group I haven’t heard before, but after hearing this, I’m looking at exploring further. Have a great week everybody. And a happy Yanksgiving to you south of the border.

1. “Audience” by Cold War Kids from “Behave Yourself”

2. “Satan, Your Kingdom Must come Down” by Schomberg Fair from “Gospel”

3. “In This Light and On This Evening” by The Editors from “In This Light and On This Evening”

4. “Young Lions (alt version)” by the Constantines from “Too Slow for Love”

5. “If I Were A Tree” by Forest City Lovers from “Phodilus and Tyto Single”

6. “You Cried Me” by Jookabox from “Dead Zone Boys”

7. “Dead deer” by Evening Hymns from “Spirit Guides”

8. “Tobias Grey” by Postdata

9. “There’s Too Much Love (live)” by Sufjan Stevens from “Castaways Ithaca, NY 9/23/09″

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I know some of my listeners are familiar with the cartoon The Boondocks. I used its theme song in a previous episode from long ago and got a couple comments. In the show, we’re eventually introduced to a character named “A Pimp Named Slickback”. People try to shorten it, but he corrects them, informing them that you can’t shorten it, that it’s like “A Tribe Called Quest”. What does this have to do with my podcast? Am I playing A Tribe Called Quest? Not really. I am playing a cover of A Tribe Called Quest song, so you’ll have to be happy with that. Onto the playlist:

A Day To Remember - Since U Been Gone from “For Those Who Have Heart”

Del The Funky Homosapien - Lyrics To Go 2009
Pigeon John - The Last Sunshine featuring RJD2 & J-Live from “And The Summertime Pool Party”
Hawk Nelwon - Ode To Stanley from “Live Life Loud”

Joy Electric - When You Were Young from “Favorites At Play”
Fox Jaws - Youth Dance from “At Odds (Or Exercises in Separation While United in the Fall)”
The Paint Movement - Knock Knock from “Our Eurythmy”
John K. Samson - Heart Of The Continent from “City Route 85″

Ely Falls - Transit Light (Kaleidoscope) from “Let Your Yes Be Yes”

Thanks for listening and we’ll see you next week.

Jared

Ahoy kids!

After I’m done creating a show, I often realize I forget to say things or forget what is happening in the future… it’s weird.  I didn’t mention Thanksgiving at all, yet I love it and have a lot to be thankful for.  I often say I’ll reference things which I don’t (this show for sure).  Luckily I have this platform to do my dirty work… so here is goes:

1) Thanksgiving: Hope you spend it with family and friends and I hope you have as much to be thankful for as I do.  Plus, thanks for music for being awesome.

2) Some tracks in this show were on because they are new and others for other reasons.  Here are some other reasons:

I just re-read and re-watched High Fidelity (by Nick Hornby) for the 20-some-odd-time.  Why does this matter? Well, after I found the re-released My Bloody Valentine stuff, I just had to add some Jesus & Mary Chain and then they came to fill the void left off where my precious Echo and the Bunnymen left off (it’s from the movie) but is a great scene, but also fit well into this show.

After High Fidelity, I then started re-reading Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, which is a collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut and it is amazing.  Of course, the Dandy Warhols have an album which is titled Welcome to the Monkeyhouse which I listened too, which got me to listening to other Dandy’s and there you have the track included. Whew… That’s a lot of work for a few tracks, but they all paid off.

Oh yeah, and still doing Blip.FM so check that out!

Tracks? Why yes sir, have some more!

Breakestra - Need a Little Love - Dusk Till Dawn

My Bloody Valentine - Drive It All Over Me - Before Loveless
Floatation Toy Warning - Happy 13 - Bluffer’s Guide to the Flight Deck
Jesus & Mary Chain - Rollercoaster - Honey’s Dead
Echo & The Bunnymen - Do You Know Who I Am - The Fountain
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin - Grey Cell Green - God Fodder

Colonies - Floating Fast - Thirty Thousand
The Dandy Warhols - Mohammed - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
The Charlatans - The Only One I Know - Some Friendly
Glasvegas - Lonesome Swan - Glasvegas
Black Kids - Hit The Heartbrakes - Partie Traumatic

Elephant Gun - Hot Shots - Beartime Stories
Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can’t See Land - Swim Until You Can’t See Land
Okkervil River - A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene - The Stage names
Tapes’n Tapes - Insistor - The Loon
Menomena - The Pelican - Friend and Foe

Breakestra - Come On Over - Dusk Till Dawn

Another week, another pretty random bit of music that I think flows nicely together. This week’s theme is “people saying bad things about you” for no particular reason. Here she be.

1. “Big Love (Fleetwood Mac cover)” by CFCF from “Continent”

2. “Johanna” by Think About Life from “Family”

3. “Hatari (Drunkenmonkey remix) by tUnE-YaRdS

4. “Stillness is the Move (Dirty Projectors cover) by Solange Knowles

5. “Successful” by Drake from “So Far Gone”

6. “Ransom the Sunset” by Bass Lions

7. “Shit Talker (solo acoustic)” by David Bazan from “DVD Bonus Material”

8. “The Backlash” by Octoberman from “Fortresses”

9. “Do” by “Do Make Say Think” from “Other Truths”

10. “House Show” by Etaoin Shrdlu from “Mating Calls”

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I don’t have too much to say other than what I’ve already said in the podcast, so onto the playlist:

Mel Blanc - I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat from “Britain’s First Numbers Ones: 1945-1952″

The Grouch & Eligh - All In featuring Pigeon John from “SAY G&E!”
Mars iLL - Say So from “Slow Flame”
Cookbook - What’s Happening Now from “I Love The 80’s”

Chiodos - Flagpole Sitta from “Punk Goes Pop 2″
Interpol - Slow Hands (Britt Daniel Remix) from “Slow Hands” single
Sufjan Stevens - I Went Dancing With My Sister from “Seven Swans bonus 7″”
Switchfoot - God Only Knows

Pop Unknown - Follow You from “Summer Season Kills”

Thanks for listening and I’ll see you next week.

Jared

Fellows!

After last week’s verbose entry, I’m going to pare it down today:

1) Check out http://www.blip.fm/bcol for a daily track of greatness.

2) Don’t trust anyone under 14.  They are smarter than you are in the ways of the world.

3) Crazy show today with loads of new wierdness but it’s good and entertaining, or at least that’s the point.

4) That’s it.

Have a tracklist and enjoy it… seriously.

Metric - Gold Guns Girls - Plug In Plug Out

The Brunettes - Red Rollerskates - Paper Dolls
Jens Lekman - The Opposite Of Hallelujah - Night Falls Over Kortedala
The Robot Ate Me - Everyone Was Still - They Ate Themselves
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks - Veckatimest
Songs - Retreat - Songs

Glorytellers - Concaves - Atone
Caledonia - We Are America - We Are America
‘Sketches’ - Suburban Witchcraft - Ah Sage
Evening Hymns - Tumultuous Sea - Spirit Guides
The Ruby Suns - Tane Mahuta - Sea Lion

Little Girls - Growing - Concepts
Woodhands - Be Back Soon - Heart Attack
12 Rods - Make-out Music - gay?
We Were Promised Jetpacks - Ships With Holes Will Sink - These Four Walls
World’s Greatest Ghosts - Phantastes - No Magic

Blakroc - On The Vista (ft. Mos Def) - Blakroc

What!

We all like covers, just admit it. It’s fun and unique to hear other people play a song that’s familiar to you but in a completely different style. I tend to play a lot of covers but I try to spread them out a little so you don’t get sick of them. Somehow, I wound up picking 4 songs this week that have been redone. That may not seem like much but since I’m only playing 8 songs, 50% of the material that you’re about to hear was not written by the performing artist. It just kind of happened as I was putting it together this week. However, after listening to the playlist a couple times it seemed to fit pretty well and I didn’t want to mess with it, so this is what you get. Next week should have a much lower percentage of cover songs.

The Misfits - Dream Lover from “Project 1950″

The Schomberg Fair - Drunkard’s Prayer from “Gospel”
Old Canes - Next Flood from “Feral Harmonic”
David Bazan, Rosie Thomas, J. Tillman, Laura Gibson, John Totten And Chris Totten - Hard Times from “Come O Spirit! Anthology of Hymns And Spiritual Songs Volume 1″

Silver Speakers - Kensington Market from “Silver Speakers”
Over The Rhine - Son Of A Preacher Man from “Live from Nowhere, Volume One”
Violent Femmes - Crazy

Poor Old Lu - Speak Soft from “Straight Six”

Thanks for listening and I’ll see you next week.

Jared

Humans…

Oh!  My fellow humans. Rise up from the shackles of not listening to music. Transpose the distant thunder and revolution into sounds, blips and overtures.

Follow the rank and file no more, lest you be overrun by silence! And the deafening boredom of the void.

Humans! Rejoice in the tiniest of bones which allow us to feel. Expound and trumpet to the heavens and the earths.

It has been created so that you must form joy and wonderment from the tumult. The outrage. The celebration.

It is more than notes, tones and tympani.

It is more.

Ps. Here’s the tracklist and also check BCOL out daily on blip.fm/bcol and my twitter account!

Gentleman Jesse - Highland Crawler - Gentleman Jesse

BOAT - Friends Since 1989 - Setting the Paces
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks - Veckatimest
Gentleman Reg - You Can’t Get It Back - Jet Black
Born Ruffians - Foxes Mate For Life - Red, Yellow & Blue
Germans - Tiger Vaccum Bottle - Cape Fear

The Ghost is Dancing - Louis Riel - Battles On
Kent - Taxmannen - Rod
Julian Casablancas - Tourist - Phrazes for the Young
Parlovr - Pen To Paper - Pop Montreal 2009
Animal Collective - My Girls - Merriweather Post Pavilion

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Come Saturday - S/T
Crystal Stilts - Crystal Stilts - Alright of Night
Woods - To Clean - Songs of Shame
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945 - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

The Ponys - 10 Fingers 11 Toes - Laced With Romance

HUMANS!

Well after a couple weeks of “themes,” and other crazy business, we’re back to just your straight up seamless mix of rock, folk, country, whatever, featuring mostly new stuff, lots of Toronto stuff, a couple covers and some old classic stuff. Enjoy! And a special shout out to my friend Jon Marck, who was previously a member of my old band, Strike the Set, and is now slapping the bass strings for “Drive Faster.” Keep an eye out for them on their upcoming episode of “Master Tracks” on aux.tv.

1. “Heavy Hands” by The Diableros from “Old Story, Fresh Road”

2. “The Slo” by The Balconies from “The Balconies”

3. “Suitcase” by Drive Faster

4. “Left and Right in the Dark” by Julian Casablancas from “Phrazes For the Young”

5. “Invisible (ease v Remix)” by Winter Gloves from “A Way to Celebrate”

6. “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Vampire Weekend Cover)” by Hot Chip & Peter Gabriel

7. “Glorious Dawn (Cosmos Remixed)” by Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking

8. “Crooked Moon” by Graham Wright

9. “I’m An Old Believer” by Slow Down Molasses

10. “Quarantine Girl” by Fox Jaws from “Goodbye Doris”

11. “I’m a Loner Dottie, a Rebel” by the Get Up Kids from “Something to Write Home About”

12. “Still Crazy After All These Years (Paul Simon Cover)” by Deer Tick

13. “Cop Shoot Co” by Spiritualized from “Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space”

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