Dan! @dconley@linernotes.club

whoops I put on Side B of The Now Now first

it seems good, albeit out of order?

I remember a few years ago when Wayne Coyne was being really shitty to indigenous people, or at least palling around with the daughter of the Oklahoma governor who was wearing headdresses and shit?

I used to really, really like The Flaming Lips but now my reaction is "I like this; pity Wayne Coyne sucks 😔 "

ngl when Trent starts singing about halfway through "Over and Out" I thought it was a Bowie sample at first

homygod this half-speed remaster of "Criminal" sounds so, so good

Tonight's listening, badass lady edition:

- Courtney Barnett, "Boxing Day Blues (Revisited)" (💙 CB)
- Suzi Wu, "Teenage Witch" (check her OUT she is fucking incredible)
- Fiona Apple, "Tidal" (I was way into The Idle Wheel but somehow that never translated into listening to anything else until now. Why, why, this is Extremely My Shit.)

this song is using a TON of bitcrushing and it's freaking me out because I keep thinking there's something wrong with my stream

Dirty Computer 2xLP up for preorder on Janelle Monae's site http://store.jmonae.com/dirty-computer-color-vinyl-2xlp-w-lenticular-cover.html

Whoops I ordered a U Turn Orbit (blue with the UM5E cartridge)

Listening to the Vinyl Me, Please release of TV On the Radio's Return To Cookie Mountain. I hadn't heard any TVOTR before.

"Wolf Like Me" was cool, obviously, but "A Method" is *really* doing it for me on my mediocre-but-still-decent-I-guess system. Each track is distinct but blends together.

Suzi Wu's "Teenage Witch" EP is super fucking good y'all. Kind of a dark, electronic pop.

Gasoline Dreams -> So Fresh, So Clean -> Ms. Jackson is a hell of a start to an album

I forget how much I like Courtney Barnett's "Kim's Caravan"

I also now am just realizing that I've always misheard the chorus to "Problems and Bigger Ones": I thought it was "so damage to ground control" but it's "from damage to damned control".

I'm getting emotional reading the liner notes in the gatefold of Harvey Danger's "Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?"

Because most people might think of them as a one hit wonder (for "Flagpole Sitta") but they were incredibly important to me growing up. This is one of my top five albums.

Apparently I've never listened to LCD Soundsystem on anything even remotely approaching decent headphones because holy crap "Dance Yrself Clean" has so much more depth

btw, I absolutely am working on an ActivityPub-powered last.fm replacement. It's going to take a lot of work so it might not ever be ready, but it's fun to learn about AP and @cj' github.com/go-fed/activity

As of tonight, if you query a user profile it checks to see if one exists and, if so, returns it. But only via a curl call and only if you manually insert the user into the database beforehand.

Listening to good kid, m.A.A.d city for the first time (I know, I know). "Swimming Pools (Drank)" comes on and I realize I remember hearing it on NPR's All Songs Considered podcast when it would have been new. I can even remember turning out of the gas station as it played. I thought it was pretty interesting sounding and then, obviously, forgot all about it.

Maybe I'm just grumpy today. I don't FEEL grumpy.

Oneohtrix Point Never, though, absolutely not my thing.

Which doesn't mean it's bad! Just not my thing.

Even LUMP ("let's get away from bearded white dudes") isn't really grabbing me.

I'm taking a sort of weird pride at checking out these artists everyone is talking about and not really liking them. Or maybe it's a sense of relief, since I won't feel compelled to buy them.

I actually am liking Father John Misty (God's Favorite Customer) more than I thought I would, because I heard comparisons to Bon Iver. I don't love it, but I guess it's okay?

I need another bearded white dude in my life like I need a left handed smoke sifter, though.