Help me build my indie rock playlist based on the number 2!
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Help me build my indie rock playlist based on the number 2!
I joined a mixtape meetup group and the first assignment is to make a mix based on the theme of 'duets'. We are encouraged to be as creative as possible with the theme, so the songs don't necessarily have to be all duets.
I decided to use the number 2 as my theme and to build a playlist around that, in various creative ways. For example, Television's "See No Evil" because it features dual lead guitars. New Pornographers' "Twin Cinema" (Duh). Neutral Milk Hotel's "Two Headed Boy" (Duh, again). The Stone Roses' "Don't Stop" because it is a track played backwards (one song becomes 2 by reversing it). The Velvet Underground's "Temptation Inside Your Heart" is a funny sort of non-duet.
Looking for other ideas. Any 2-chord songs you can think of? Songs about split personality, duality? My playlist is rather guitar heavy right now so some dance/electronic stuff would nicely balance it out.
I joined a mixtape meetup group and the first assignment is to make a mix based on the theme of 'duets'. We are encouraged to be as creative as possible with the theme, so the songs don't necessarily have to be all duets.
I decided to use the number 2 as my theme and to build a playlist around that, in various creative ways. For example, Television's "See No Evil" because it features dual lead guitars. New Pornographers' "Twin Cinema" (Duh). Neutral Milk Hotel's "Two Headed Boy" (Duh, again). The Stone Roses' "Don't Stop" because it is a track played backwards (one song becomes 2 by reversing it). The Velvet Underground's "Temptation Inside Your Heart" is a funny sort of non-duet.
Looking for other ideas. Any 2-chord songs you can think of? Songs about split personality, duality? My playlist is rather guitar heavy right now so some dance/electronic stuff would nicely balance it out.
Belle & Sebastian - "Dirty Dream Number Two"
Cake - "World of Two"
Dirty Projectors - "Two Doves"
Grizzly Bear - "Two Weeks"
Mission of Burma - "Trem Two"
Mount Eerie - "Between Two Mysteries"
The Sea and Cake - "Two Dolphins"
Shotmaker - "Two Left Standing"
Six Organs of Admittance - "Words for Two"
Spoon - "Two Sides/Monsieur Valentine"
Yo La Tengo - "By Two's"
posted by The Michael The at 4:37 AM on March 5, 2010 [1 favorite]
Cake - "World of Two"
Dirty Projectors - "Two Doves"
Grizzly Bear - "Two Weeks"
Mission of Burma - "Trem Two"
Mount Eerie - "Between Two Mysteries"
The Sea and Cake - "Two Dolphins"
Shotmaker - "Two Left Standing"
Six Organs of Admittance - "Words for Two"
Spoon - "Two Sides/Monsieur Valentine"
Yo La Tengo - "By Two's"
posted by The Michael The at 4:37 AM on March 5, 2010 [1 favorite]
All Girl Summer Fun Band had an album called 2 (their second album, natch). Other than that, there's a whole heckuvalot of songs with the word two or the numeral 2 in the title. Song 2 by Blur being the most obvious example. I can't think of a duet with 'Two' in the title, though.
The best I can think of is Big Red Balloon, the second song off Nancy and Lee Again, the second collaborative album between Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood.
posted by Kattullus at 4:41 AM on March 5, 2010
The best I can think of is Big Red Balloon, the second song off Nancy and Lee Again, the second collaborative album between Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood.
posted by Kattullus at 4:41 AM on March 5, 2010
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:songmeanings.net%20intitle:two
posted by querty at 5:26 AM on March 5, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by querty at 5:26 AM on March 5, 2010 [1 favorite]
How 'bout 2Tone label founders The Specials doing Too Much Too Young?
posted by drlith at 5:29 AM on March 5, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by drlith at 5:29 AM on March 5, 2010 [1 favorite]
Bowie's Jean Genie is basically two chords.
Split Personality: Personality Crisis by the New York Dolls? (Plus then you can run Velvets/Bowie/Dolls together).
Sorry that I just gave you two (heh) more rock songs.
posted by Infinite Jest at 5:30 AM on March 5, 2010
Split Personality: Personality Crisis by the New York Dolls? (Plus then you can run Velvets/Bowie/Dolls together).
Sorry that I just gave you two (heh) more rock songs.
posted by Infinite Jest at 5:30 AM on March 5, 2010
You should find two songs with "One" in the title and make a mashup.
posted by oulipian at 5:52 AM on March 5, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by oulipian at 5:52 AM on March 5, 2010 [1 favorite]
Half Japanese - Double Trouble, in which the narrator claims to have an impersonator who's up to no good.
Eugene Chadbourne - Life x 2, from this album. What to say when someone claims you have a doppelganger. "I must be living two times the life, I only remember half of it."
Roky Erickson - Two Headed Dog
Screaming Blue Messiahs - Twin Cadillac Valentine
Arto Lindsay - Twins
posted by hydrophonic at 6:01 AM on March 5, 2010
Eugene Chadbourne - Life x 2, from this album. What to say when someone claims you have a doppelganger. "I must be living two times the life, I only remember half of it."
Roky Erickson - Two Headed Dog
Screaming Blue Messiahs - Twin Cadillac Valentine
Arto Lindsay - Twins
posted by hydrophonic at 6:01 AM on March 5, 2010
this group sounds like so much fun!
Modest Mouse - whenever you breath out I breath in (positive negative)
LCD Soundsystem - us vs. them
Blur - song 2
posted by nowoutside at 6:02 AM on March 5, 2010
Modest Mouse - whenever you breath out I breath in (positive negative)
LCD Soundsystem - us vs. them
Blur - song 2
posted by nowoutside at 6:02 AM on March 5, 2010
Pavement - Two States
Arcade fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia (which also has the line about Jesus having a twin)
posted by Elmore at 6:03 AM on March 5, 2010
Arcade fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia (which also has the line about Jesus having a twin)
posted by Elmore at 6:03 AM on March 5, 2010
I believe Bow Wow Wow had two drummers. In more current music, the internet tells me Do Make Say Think also do.
posted by kittyprecious at 6:13 AM on March 5, 2010
posted by kittyprecious at 6:13 AM on March 5, 2010
Dance/electronic isn't my area of expertise, so here's more rock.
Stones' Jumping Jack Flash, in which Mick reveals "I was raised by a two-faced bearded hag." (He means Janus.)
Stiff Little Fingers' Two Guitars Clash.
Wire's 12XU. (It's "one two ex you," not "twelvezoo.")
posted by scratch at 6:20 AM on March 5, 2010
Stones' Jumping Jack Flash, in which Mick reveals "I was raised by a two-faced bearded hag." (He means Janus.)
Stiff Little Fingers' Two Guitars Clash.
Wire's 12XU. (It's "one two ex you," not "twelvezoo.")
posted by scratch at 6:20 AM on March 5, 2010
...and what should happen to pop up on my iPod a minute later but One Two by indie-rock delight Imperial Teen! Special bonus consideration: it features two singers and all four bandmembers play at least two instruments each.
posted by kittyprecious at 6:24 AM on March 5, 2010
posted by kittyprecious at 6:24 AM on March 5, 2010
When I make a playlist based on a word, or a series of words, or a concept, I use Hype Machine or Skreemr to search for the keywords and listen to the results. It's a great way to discover some obscure stuff as well as remind yourself of artists and tracks you may not have thought of on your own.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 7:09 AM on March 5, 2010 [3 favorites]
posted by Potomac Avenue at 7:09 AM on March 5, 2010 [3 favorites]
Here's one of mine: Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies - The Spy Part 2
posted by ludwig_van at 7:15 AM on March 5, 2010
posted by ludwig_van at 7:15 AM on March 5, 2010
Wow, just wanted to pop in and say this is pretty awesome. Never really thought about indie rock like this.
I have to throw in the pixies, because what indie rock collection would be complete without the pixies- Surfer rosa and come on pilgrim- double album
posted by TheBones at 7:27 AM on March 5, 2010
I have to throw in the pixies, because what indie rock collection would be complete without the pixies- Surfer rosa and come on pilgrim- double album
posted by TheBones at 7:27 AM on March 5, 2010
low: two-step
bonus points for being a duet. it aint really indie rock as such, but they are absolutely amazing.
posted by soi-disant at 7:36 AM on March 5, 2010
bonus points for being a duet. it aint really indie rock as such, but they are absolutely amazing.
posted by soi-disant at 7:36 AM on March 5, 2010
On their album 2, Black Heart Procession has a song called "The Waiter No. 2"
posted by hermitosis at 8:16 AM on March 5, 2010
posted by hermitosis at 8:16 AM on March 5, 2010
Two Characters in Search of a Country Song - The Magnetic Fields
Two Kinds of People - The Magnetic Fields
Obsticle 2 - Interpol
posted by Lazlo Hollyfeld at 8:50 AM on March 5, 2010
Two Kinds of People - The Magnetic Fields
Obsticle 2 - Interpol
posted by Lazlo Hollyfeld at 8:50 AM on March 5, 2010
The Second Line - Clinic
posted by Lazlo Hollyfeld at 8:51 AM on March 5, 2010
posted by Lazlo Hollyfeld at 8:51 AM on March 5, 2010
Whatever you think of the actual concept, the recently FPPed Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley project fits your theme pretty well.
posted by Caduceus at 9:10 AM on March 5, 2010
posted by Caduceus at 9:10 AM on March 5, 2010
There aren't any twos in it save for the title, but an obvious choice: Elliott Smith, Waltz No. 2 (XO). Can't believe I'm the first to mention it.
posted by cirripede at 9:44 AM on March 5, 2010
posted by cirripede at 9:44 AM on March 5, 2010
The Twin Peaks theme is always a favorite.
An excerpt of Steve Reich's phase works would be cool. For instance "Come Out":
Reich re-recorded the fragment "come out to show them" on two channels, which initially play in unison. They quickly slip out of sync to produce a phase shifting effect, characteristic of Reich's early works. Gradually, the discrepancy widens and becomes a reverberation and, later, almost a canon.
posted by naju at 12:15 PM on March 5, 2010
An excerpt of Steve Reich's phase works would be cool. For instance "Come Out":
Reich re-recorded the fragment "come out to show them" on two channels, which initially play in unison. They quickly slip out of sync to produce a phase shifting effect, characteristic of Reich's early works. Gradually, the discrepancy widens and becomes a reverberation and, later, almost a canon.
posted by naju at 12:15 PM on March 5, 2010
Brian Jonestown Massacre has a song called "#1 Hit Jam" that I think was written specifically to only use two words in the lyrics, "Hey you."
posted by dogwalker at 12:36 PM on March 5, 2010
posted by dogwalker at 12:36 PM on March 5, 2010
Response by poster: Whatever you think of the actual concept, the recently FPPed Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley project fits your theme pretty well.
I love Amanda Palmer! Thanks for the tip.
posted by mattholomew at 1:52 PM on March 5, 2010
I love Amanda Palmer! Thanks for the tip.
posted by mattholomew at 1:52 PM on March 5, 2010
"When Yer Twenty-Two" by the Flaming Lips. It has two 2s.
posted by ishotjr at 7:01 PM on March 5, 2010
posted by ishotjr at 7:01 PM on March 5, 2010
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