Dan Deacon: "Get Old" & "Okie Dokie"

I am not going to kid you with this one. The music of Dan Deacon is not that accessible - it is just really stinking weird. Now before you brush of this post and just move on to people.com or facebook you have to understand the context of this music - this music is made for a live club scene where dancing is involved. Weird dancing, but none the less dancing just the same. Mr. Deacon is releasing a new album next month which is far more accessible to most people than any of his previous works. Here is a great, be it redundant, track from this album entitled Bromst (don't bother looking it up it is a word he made up).

It sounds like a sound orgy for sure. It is exciting and vibrant material crafted from the cold software world of synthesizers, computers, and modulators. Here is a track of his new album, "Get Old."

Dan Deacon - "Get Old"

There is also another track off an older album of his which has caught my attention. It is entitled "Okie Dokie" and I have found it to be absolutely amazing. I'm not going to lie it blew my mind a little bit. No here is the thing. Below I have posted the music video for the song. There is also a really good live version you can find below it (way even better than the studio version in my opnion), however be for warned there is a string of expletives so offensive, so profane to some (ok, most) before the song begins that some of your grandmothers will roll over in their graves. I am not kidding you. If you do choose to listen to these songs - pump up the volume and dance!

Dan Deacon - "Okie Dokie"

(flip the High Quality Switch on this one)

LISTEN AT YOUR OWN RISK - (or fast forward to at least 0:20)

Dan Deacon - "Okie Dokie"

Portishead: "The Rip"

Ok, here is one I have been meaning to post on for a while now. This English band is from a town close to Bristol and actually made it all they way to #2 on the UK charts last year. You may find it surprising that it made it up to #7 on the Billboard top 200 list - but there it is none the less - and I believe it deserves to be there. I hope you like it. Its pretty trippy. Let it take you somewhere else. It is very thought provoking to me. I don't know if the song if referring to ripping emotions out of you or not, but that is what it does for me. It just rips them out of me.

Portishead - "The Rip"

School of Seven Bells: "Half Asleep"

I love the ethereal feel of this song. School of Seven Bells debut album release, Alpinisms, was one of this years strongest debuts. It would make great night driving music.

School of Seven Bells - "Half Asleep"