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Dark Was the Night Compilation

iamsam_pjiamsam_pj Posts: 300
edited March 2009 in Other Music
has anyone given this a listen yet? i've been listening to it all week at work and just bought it for myself today. pretty much all of my indie favorites all on the same benefit cd for the Red Hot organization.

here's a song list. so far the stand out tracks for me are "tightrope" - yeasayer and "so far around the bend" - the national. i've only just begun to explore though :)

THIS DISC
1 Knotty Pine – Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
2 Cello Song (Nick Drake) – The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez
3 Train Song (Vashti Bunyan recorded, written by Alasdair Clayre) – Feist + Ben Gibbard
4 Brackett, WI – Bon Iver
5 Deep Blue Sea – Grizzly Bear
6 So Far Around the Bend – The National (arrangement by Nico Muhly)
7 Tightrope – Yeasayer
8 Feeling Good (popularized by Nina Simone) – My Brightest Diamond
9 Dark Was the Night (Blind Willie Johnson) – Kronos Quartet
10 I Was Young When I Left Home (Bob Dylan) – Antony + Bryce Dessner
11 Big Red Machine – Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner
12 Sleepless – The Decemberists
13 Stolen Houses (Die) – Iron and Wine
14 Service Bell – Grizzly Bear + Feist
15 You Are The Blood – Sufjan Stevens

THAT DISC
1 Well-Alright – Spoon
2 Lenin – Arcade Fire
3 Mimizan – Beirut
4 El Caporal – My Morning Jacket
5 Inspiration Information (Shuggie Otis) – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
6 With A Girl Like You (The Troggs) – Dave Sitek
7 Blood Pt 2 (based on original song “You are the Blood” by the Castanets) – Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti)
8 Hey, Snow White (Destroyer) – The New Pornographers
9 Gentle Hour (Snapper) – Yo La Tengo
10 Another Saturday (traditional song) – Stuart Murdoch
11 Happiness – Riceboy Sleeps
12 Amazing Grace (traditional song) – Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues
13 The Giant Of Illinois (Handsome Family) – Andrew Bird
14 Lua – Conor Oberst + Gillian Welch
15 When the Road Runs Out – Blonde Redhead + Devastations
16 Love vs. Porn – Kevin Drew
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  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    holy shit that looks like a great compilation.
  • ArcticangelArcticangel Posts: 1,443
    Brackett, WI = YES.
    Great compilation for sure.
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  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    I'm picking it up on vinyl when I go into the city today. :D
  • soclosesoclose Posts: 628
    I REALLY want this, but I spend too much money on music. Seriously, I have a problem. :cry:

    Let's see how long I make it before I push the "buy mp3 album with 1-Click" button on amazon.com . . .
  • alliw719alliw719 Posts: 99
    Too bad the Iron and Wine song was only like a minute long. The rest of the compliation looks pretty good though.
    "Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues you can tell by the way she smiles."
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    wow. might have to pick this up soon! thanks for the heads-up!
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  • fotdfotd Posts: 514
    soclose wrote:
    I REALLY want this, but I spend too much money on music. Seriously, I have a problem. :cry:

    Let's see how long I make it before I push the "buy mp3 album with 1-Click" button on amazon.com . . .

    Emusic.com has it. I get 75 downloads a month for 19.99. But no matter how you BUY, it's for a charity, it you need to get this. It is very good!
    I’ve seen Pearl Jam 25 times, Eddie Vedder 9 times, and Brad once.
  • soclosesoclose Posts: 628
    fotd wrote:
    soclose wrote:
    I REALLY want this, but I spend too much money on music. Seriously, I have a problem. :cry:

    Let's see how long I make it before I push the "buy mp3 album with 1-Click" button on amazon.com . . .

    Emusic.com has it. I get 75 downloads a month for 19.99. But no matter how you BUY, it's for a charity, it you need to get this. It is very good!

    I'm already an emusic member, so I'm well aware of this. :)

    Actually, I don't want to use up the majority of my downloads on one album, so I'm leaning toward amazon.com for this particular purchase. With so many tracks the price actually ends up being comparable between the two sites (if I'm not mistaken).
  • iamsam_pjiamsam_pj Posts: 300
    alliw719 wrote:
    Too bad the Iron and Wine song was only like a minute long. The rest of the compliation looks pretty good though.
    i was really sad that the iron and wine song is short...but it's a great little song :)

    i'm going to drive my co-workers nuts by playing this all day again tomorrow...but i don't care! some of the songs will need time to grow on me...but all in all, one of the best compilation cds i own.
  • ZosoCatZosoCat Posts: 176
    I'm loving this CD.. A great version of 'Lua'. I really love the tracks by the arcade fire, sufjan stevens, MMJ, Andrew bird and The National. It really is the best compilation out there I have ever heard. Pretty much EVERY indie band worth listening to is included on this CD. I recommend it to everyone!
  • chimpatchimpat Posts: 590
    "Tightrope" by Yeasayer is an awesome song, especially live. Really good band.
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  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    Gotten through some of it - 3 record vinyl set! I was really struck by The Decemberists' song. Beautiful. Also liked the one Grizzly Bear song I heard, which is a good sign, as usually I find them pretty lame. Nice different take on "The Giant of Illinois" by Andrew Bird. It was cool to get a new version I don't already have.
  • PrlJam27PrlJam27 Colonia, NJ Posts: 346
    i just picked this up yesterday. one of the best compilations i've ever heard. go get this if you havent already. right now i'm lovin cello song by the books w/ jose gonzalez. nick drake cover.
  • gleemonexgleemonex Posts: 848
    I picked this album up on Tuesday and I think I've listened to it 3 or 4 times now. Only songs I don't like at all are Sufjan Stevens and Buck 65. Everything else is at least tolerable to me and that's pretty good for 31 songs from a very wide variety of bands.

    Some of my favourites so far are So Far Around The Bend by The National; Hey, Snow White by The New Pornographers; Well Alright by Spoon; Brackett, WI by Bon Iver; Knotty Pine by The Dirty Projectors + David Byrne; and With A Girl Like You by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio.
    “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
  • soclosesoclose Posts: 628
    Okay, I finally ordered this at the same time I pre-ordered Neko Case's new album one amazon.com, so it should hopefully show up sometime next week. Glad to see lots of people are enjoying it so much. I'm especially looking forward to Feist's contribution.
  • ArcticangelArcticangel Posts: 1,443
    BUMP
    Because this whole album is great and I can't stop listening to it. Made a great soundtrack to my roadtrip yesterday.
    The National's song is one of my favorites for sure.
    PJ: St. Paul 6.16.2003, St. Paul 6.26.2006, St. Paul 6.27.2006, Hartford 6.27.2008, Mansfield 6.28.2008, Mansfield 6.30.2008, Beacon Theater 7.1.2008, Toronto 8.21.2009, Chicago 8.23.2009, Chicago 8.24.2009, Philly 10.30.2009, Philly 10.31.2009, Columbus 5.6.2010, Noblesville 5.7.2010

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  • smithnicsmithnic Posts: 1,563
    Arcticangel wrote:
    BUMP
    Because this whole album is great and I can't stop listening to it. Made a great soundtrack to my roadtrip yesterday.
    The National's song is one of my favorites for sure.

    That and the one by Bon Iver are my favorites. I love the National. Saw the at NYU for $10. It was great.
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  • gleemonexgleemonex Posts: 848
    I'm pretty jealous of anyone who's seen them live. For $10 that just makes me shake my head and wish I didn't live in the middle of the prairies.

    I wish the Iron & Wine song was longer. I usually have to listen to it twice.
    “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    gleemonex wrote:
    I'm pretty jealous of anyone who's seen them live. For $10 that just makes me shake my head and wish I didn't live in the middle of the prairies.

    It's almost as bad in NY. Just try getting tickets to almost anyone on the album. I'm glad I got a few Andrew Bird shows in before the current tour.
  • ZosoCatZosoCat Posts: 176
    I'm glad this album thread was bumped because it's such a great listen... Loving the whole thing. How good is the gentle hour by yo la tango... so so good.
  • LiftedLifted Posts: 1,836
    not to rain on the parade because everyone seems to be loving this compilation, but i found it to be very disappointing. i'm a big fan of most of the musicians/bands on the album but it just didn't work for me. it has it's moments, i like the sharon jones song, mmj, the feelin good cover, and train song with feist off the top of my head, but for the most part it sounded like a collection of throw-away b-sides from a bunch of great artists.
  • soclosesoclose Posts: 628
    I'm up to track 13 of the first disc so far. The only song I I felt like skipping was Yeasayer, which isn't surprising as I dislike their album.

    So far my favorites are Feist w/ Ben Gibbard and the Decemberists track, and this Iron & Wine song is in fact quite beautiful.
  • PJGARDENPJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    soclose wrote:
    Okay, I finally ordered this at the same time I pre-ordered Neko Case's new album one amazon.com, so it should hopefully show up sometime next week. Glad to see lots of people are enjoying it so much. I'm especially looking forward to Feist's contribution.

    Same here. Got the Neko album in the mail but no Dark was the Night :( Next week hopefully.
  • lephtylephty Posts: 770
    hrm, i guess i might have to get the rest of this. the other day i searched itunes for anything bon iver and downloaded the track he has on this compilation without looking at the rest of it. i only really know Cat Power, MMJ and Bon Iver. is the rest of the music that kind of folkie/indie genre? i've really been getting into that kind of music=p fleet foxes, bon iver and ray lamonsomethingsomething are amazing. anyone have any suggestions for bands that fit into that genre?
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