Low

Sometimes this kind of music puts me to sleep (hence the label "snorecore"). Other times it's the perfect background music to my current state of affairs. Brilliant band with songs of simple words. Like haikus for the depressed and suicidal. The soundtrack to slashing wrists or before that jump into the tracks of an approaching train. Weird, cause Low is a trio of mormons from Duluth, Minnesota.

Down
Slide
Whore

Cleavage

I'm alone, in the twilight hour
no one's coming home
Well it's you I'm waiting for
waiting for

I'm alone in the blissful dark
only shadows fall apart
Well, I know, that you are not that strong

Prey
words and music by Chet Rigonan
performed by Cleavage

Popsicle.

More Popsicle. mp3s off their Abstinence album


Diving Bell
Histrionics
Could Be

Popsicle

Terrible English to damn good music. Back in college when I was much into Swedish bands, Popsicle was my favourite band. Guitar riffs that stick to memory like pvc glue, singing wrought with emotion but in a wry tongue-in-cheek way, their music was the soundtrack of my banal 17-year old existence back then. I remember being in a one-gig only band that played their covers. Simple 3-chord songs suited to the skillset of this wannabe novice guitar player. Thanks to J for teaching me the chords and how to play them in a "minimalistic" sort of way (aheheh). But most importantly for giving me one of the best gifts I've ever recieved-- an mp3 disc of Popsicle's entire discography.

Sadly Popsicle has long been disbanded. I have no idea what their members are up to and am too lazy to google them. I have moved on to other music, but whenever I feel the need to go to my "happy place", I run to the aural playground of Abstinence-- their 1995 album which in my opinion is one of the best produced albums of the 90's, possibly of all time. Here's a track...

Make Up

"it won't last... hold on fast..."

So let's revive this near-forgotten site. My own way of sharing my blessings to create good karma... Since I'm on dial-up it takes me around 40 minutes to upload a song so I have no choice but to do it one song at a time.

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I fell down our flight of stairs yesterday. Foul luck never seems to take a vacation in my place. My 4-year old son and I just came back from a dip in the pool on a lovely Sunday morning. Still dripping wet I sensed that he had to take a dump, so I sat him on the toilet upstairs. Realizing that his wipes were in the bathroom downstairs, I rushed down to get it before he gets his business done. It's just me and him in our condo and since I cannot "leave my child unattended", I had to mind him every single minute. Last time I left him upstairs by himself, he ate half a tube of toothpaste. Anyway, being the absent minded klutz that I was, I rushed downstairs still in my damp bikini and with wet bare feet.

Wet feet+narrow steps+poor eye-foot coordination=unsightly accident.

I fell on my back and slid down to the landing. My right arm still hurts as I hit my elbow during the fall. Like the world stopped. I just wanted to lie there and writhe in pain. But in a split second I remembered my kid upstairs, I remembered that I cannot afford to have a fracture as I have no health insurance and am down to the last few pesos in my bank account. I forced myself to get up. The world in slowmo now. And as I urged my aching limbs to move, this song by Low faded up in my head...

Embrace