I'm Beginning to Know Things...

So, I finally have some time, and I remember there being a request for this wonderful album, but I forget by whom. The Cansecos were played in my car during Canadian music week, though I never got around to posting it on here.
They hail from Toronto and as far as I know, this album dropped in 2002 is their only offering. I heard somewhere that they have a follow-up due for release sometime this year, but I don't know how accurate those rumours are. It's damn difficult to find now, so I hope you like it.


Track List:
1. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
2. In Bloom
3. Faster Than You Go
4. The Shore
5. This Small Disaster
6. This Girl and This Boy
7. What It Was You Said
8. Common State of Being
9. Blue Whale
10. Another Ordinary Day
11. Sawtooth
12. Stop, Breathe, Repeat

You Chose to Sputter On

Kristi, where art thou? Gentleman Reg album coming soon! If you love me, there are some ads there for your convenience.

Get It All Now, Cause I'm On The Prowl

If you're one of the zero people who has not checked out the leak for At War with the Mystics, get out from under your rock and head here.
At War With the Mystics
I was on a drugless high (and likely still am) for many many hours upon first hearing, and you should be too. I can die happy now.

Happy Valentines Day to everyone whos paired up out there. If however, you're like me and alone on this day, go out and get your favourite movie and curl up on the couch. Or hit the bars. Either one.
Here's a V-Day treat for you: another album that continues to be in my rotation despite being released in 2003 because it's just that darn good.


Track List:
1. Remember
2. That Great Love Sound
3. Noisy Summer
4. The Love Gang
5. Let's Rave On
6. Dirty Eyes (Sex Don't Sell)
7. Love Can Destroy Everything
8. Heartbreak Stroll
9. Little Animal
10. Untamed Girls
11. Chain Gang Of Love
12. The Truth About Johnny
13. New York Was Great

This Is Whiplash Rock N' Roll

Since I have every faith in the world in French-Canadian bands, particularly from Montreal and if you take the time to send me a sonewhat lengthy email, as vocalist Patrick Pleau did, your songs will get heard. Plus, I'm happy to give anyone an audience, as long as they don't suck or make my ears bleed. At the risk of sounding pretentious, I really like Plajia, anything that reminds me of Pink Floyd and Radiohead gets a thumbs up in my books. Here are the songs recommended to me by Mr. Pleau:
Plajia - Sleeping
Plajia - The Party
Plajia - Am I A Magician?(Flaming Lips-esque title+Good Song=Solid!)

Cheers All!

We've Got a Winner!

Rapidshare seems to have sent up the white flag to me, so you may have noticed more albums being posted. This may be because of my general lazyness or you guys just like 'em so much. Who knows.

Since I gather this didn't post well the first time, here's a repost.



Track List:
1. Clint Mansell - Tappy's Intro (Film Score)
2. Plant - In the End It's All Nice
3. Psilonaut - Ghosts in the Machine
4. Paul Oakenfold - Aeternal
5. Clint Mansell - Seacoast Towers (Film Score)
6. Jagz Kooner - Coney Island Express
7. Clint Mansell - Seacoast Alarm (Film Score)
8. Wish FM - Haunted Dreams
9. Kronos Quartet - Tense
10. Josh Wink - Full Tense
11. Clint Mansell - Food (Film Score)
12. Delirium - Deluxed
13. Clint Mansell - Island (Film Score)
14. A Guy Called Gerald - Body and Fear
15. Clint Mansell - 112 (Film Score)
16. Ils - Overturned
17. Clint Mansell - Sara (Film Score)
18. Hive - Hand Jive
19. Clint Mansell - Arnold (Film Score)
20. Clint Mansell - Ghosts (Vocal Version)

Techno-tastic Take Two!
Let me know if there are any problems this time around...

The Cansecos album coming as soon as I can find it...

I Wouldn't Need a Hero If I Wasn't Such a Zero

Since I've had a lot of unexpected free time lately, I was diggin' through the ol' CD library (finding some very interesting and sometimes very scary things by the way) and I found this forgotten little gem to post. It's hard to find a story sadder than that of Elliott Smith(unfortunately known to some as "that Good Will Hunting guy"). He was actually named Steve but he deemed that too "jockish." How rock and roll is that?


Track List:
1. Needle In The Hay
2. Christian Brothers
3. Clementine
4. Southern Belle
5. Single File
6. Coming Up Roses
7. Satellite
8. Alphabet Town
9. St. Ides Heaven
10. Good To Go
11. The White Lady Loves You More
12. The Biggest Lie


Need a Metal Man Just to Pick Up Your Feet

In case you get too depressed, here's the Chronicles of Narnia rap from a recent SNL.
Cupcakes!

Well It's Good to Know That You'll Be OK

Edit(11.00 A.M) - Looks like Saturday's post of The Age of Electric's Make a Pest a Pet album didn't publish. I'm too lazy to post it again, so email me if you want it.

To round off my all Canadian music week, I leave you with an album that is very special to me. This is the first album that I ever really fell in love with. I was about 12 when I first heard it, a very good friend of mine used to play Superman's Dead on his guitar and have me sing for him. This album showed me that music is more than what's on the radio, and it can be Canadian too. I'll admit, I am disappointed with the new OLP album, but this classic holds a special place in my heart.


Track List:
1. Superman's Dead
2. Automatic Flowers
3. Carnival
4. Big Dumb Rocket
5. 4am
6. Shaking
7. Clumsy
8. Hello Oskar
9. Let You Down
10. The Story Of 100 Aisles
11. Car Crash

I hope to God I Figure Out What's Wrong

Mp3's:
Controller.Controller - Disco Blackout
Metric - Raw Sugar
Crash Test Dummies - Afternoons and Coffeespoons
Rufus Wainwright - Beautiful Child (So what if he was born in New York, he was raised here, so we're keepin' him)
Tegan and Sara - Welcome Home
Bif Naked - Rich and Filthy
Hawksley Workman - Striptease
Magneta Lane - Ugly Socialite

I hope you enjoyed my Canuck week. Send any comments to lostonpurpose@gmail.com
Hopefully this gives you a few new favourites from the great white north, none of which say "eh."
Aaaand, I'm spent. (temporarily)

Seventeen and Half Alive...

Here's one I know you'll like. I don't know what it is about the so-called Montreal scene, a fair number of my posts this week come from this gorgeous city. Perhaps there's something in the water.


Track List:
1. Your Ex-Lover is Dead
2. Set Yourself on Fire
3. Ageless Beauty
4. Reunion
5. The Big Fight
6. What I'm Trying to Say
7. One More Night
8. Sleep Tonight
9. The First Five Times
10. He Lied About Death
11. Celebration Guns
12. Soft Revolution
13. Calendar Girl

Keep Watching the Sky, Cause You Might Get Lucky Again

Mp3's:
Big Sugar - Nicotina
Sloan - Rest of My Life
The Constantines - Nighttime/Anytime (It's Alright)
FemBots - A Million Dead End Jobs
Matt Mays & El Torpedo - Stand Down at Sundown
Limblifter - Wake Up to the Sun
Crash Test Dummies - Keep a Lid on Things

Let our hatred and affection march in the same line...

Day 4 of Canuck week: I've been pretty good on keeping up with this thing. It's called too much free time.
The insanely catchy Weakerthans hail from Winnipeg, Manitoba.


Track List:
1. (Manifest)
2. The Reasons
3. Reconstruction Site
4. Psalm for the Elks Lodge Last Call
5. Plea From a Cat Named Virtue
6. Our Retired Explorer
7. Time's Arrows
8. (Hospital Vespers)
9. Uncorrected Proofs
10. A New Name for Everything
11. One Great City!
12. Benediction
13. Prescience of Dawn
14. (Past-Due)

All I've Found is Dust that Moves and Shadows of the Afternoon

Mp3's:
The Northern Pikes - Tomorrow Never Comes
Death From Above 1979 - Blood on Our Hands
The Stills - Lola Stars and Stripes
AC Newman - On the Table
Hot Hot Heat - Talk to Me, Dance With Me
Despistado - A Stirstick's Prediction
Novillero - Aptitude

Park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me

I remember when I heard Broken Social Scene on the OC and I remember thinking: If this show knows to play these guys, they know music. This brilliant band hails from Toronto and this wonderful album never ceases to amaze me.


Track List:
1. Capture the Flag
2. KC Accidental
3. Stars and Sons
4. Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix)
5. Looks Just Like the Sun
6. Pacific Theme
7. Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
8. Cause = Time
9. Late Nineties Bedroom Rock for the Missionaries
10. Shampoo Suicide
11. Lover's Spit
12. I'm Still Your Fag
14. Pitter Patter Goes my Heart

Darkness Still, It's Obvious to Everyone

Mp3's:
Tegan and Sara - Not Tonight
Auf Der Maur - Followed the Waves
Jonas - Edge of Seventeen
The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed
Wolf Parade - Dear Sons and Daughters of Lonely Ghosts
Magneta Lane - Constant Lover

Well, I'm off.

Sit On Your Hands for the New National Anthem...

Day 2 of my all Canuck music week. Hopefully you're hearing something new, otherwise this is just a waste of my precious time, so let me know how I'm doing.
I saw this next entry in concert at a club in London about a year back, and he never fails to inspire. Mr. Good always has something to say about everything. Plus, contrary to what people at my work say, Matt Good is so very much better than Nickelback is or can ever hope to possibly be. Plain and simple.


Track List:
1. Put Out Your Lights
2. Poor Man's Grey
3. We're So Heavy
4. Empty Road
5. Alert Status Red
6. Little Terror
7. In Love With a Bad Idea
8. North American for Life
9. Blue Skies Over Nad Lands
10. It's Been Awhile Since I Was Your Man
11. Buffalo Seven
12. Ex-Pats of the Blue Mountain Symphony Orchestra

Way Up in that Sky, I Look Up and Wonder

Mp3's:
Metric - The Twist
Pilate - Overrated
Gentleman Reg - The Boyfriend Song
The Arcade Fire - Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cover)
Hawksley Workman - Jealous of Your Cigarette
Sam Roberts - Brother Down (Not really indie, but no one outside of Canada has heard of him)
Wintersleep - Assembly Lines

Enjoy your Canadian bacon.

Dancing Alone, To Songs From the Past

Alright kiddies, I'm doing something a bit different this week. Coming at you, every day this week (hopefully, if I don't slack off) I'm gonna be giving you 100% Grade A Canadian beef. That's right, everything I post for you will be from the great white north. *Swells with patriotic pride.* Hopefully all this maple goodness won't give you cavities.

To start off, here is an album that anyone and everyone should own. Twin Canuck cuties Tegan and Sara didn't really register with me until I heard 'Take Me Anywhere' and boy did I jump on the boat late. This is now one of my favourites. Get it, get it now.


Track List:
1. You Wouldn't Like Me
2. Take Me Anywhere
3. I Bet It Stung
4. I Know I Know I Know
5. Where Does the Good Go?
6. Downtown
7. I Won't Be Left
8. Walking With a Ghost
9. So Jealous
10. Speak Slow
11. Wake Up Exhausted
12. We Didn't Do It
13. Fix You Up
14. I Can't Take It

Don't You Worry, There's Still Time

Mp3's:
Sharp Like Knives - Holy Gaud
Melanie Doane - Adam's Rib
Hot Hot Heat - In Cairo
Bif Naked - Lucky
City & Colour - Save Your Scissors
Feist - Mushaboom
The Dears - Corduroy Boy
The Mark Inside - Carousel
Controller.Controller - Silent Seven

I'm off this week, so posting = yay!