But I Feel Good

Groove Armada are one of those bands which I'd like to be too much of a snob to love. But alas, Love Box is one of my favorite albums. It has some wailing guitars, crowd pleasing beats, cute british rapping, and it tops it all off with a deliciously upbeat dancehall-lite final track "But I Feel Good"

Other great tracks from Love Box include "groove is on" (life is slow when the groove is on,) "hands of time," "purple haze," (it all made sense until the shrooms and the purple haze), "madder" (great example of how adorable the british are when they rap), and "final shakedown" featuring none other than Mr Red Rat, who is the height of class in Jamaican music.

I do like to think the track "But I Feel Good" has a slight edge to it because of that "but." It's, y'know, this cheerful song about feeling good and feeling high. But "but" what? It's never explained. It sounds to me like everyone was having a great time, only to have the carpet pulled out from under them. Like mum just came home and turned off the music. "Aw, but I feel good, but I feel high." Or maybe it's a comment on the miserable fucking state of the world, life, and existence. The human condition sucks goat balls... but I feel good, but I feel high.

For that, But I Feel Good is my song of the week

You Can't Go Home Again

I'm minding my own business in 2002, when someone walks in with dj shadow's 2nd album (2nd and a half, if you count unkle) "The Private Press," says "you have to hear this song" and plays You Can't Go Home Again, a phat retake on El Condor Pasa.

Believe it or not, that was the less cheesy of the videos I found for El Condor Pasa. I recommend just not looking. It makes it look like a song about condors or something. Also, apparently every Peruvian on youtube considers it their patriotic mission post that this song is not, infact, Bolivian. Er, go Peru! (warning: Llamas) Anyways, it's one of those songs which is beautiful if you can forget how cheesy it is. Don't think about pan pipes.

Which brings us to your favorite dj savior. This is just one of those instantly likable bouncy tunes with a great choice of sample and it all comes together real nice. For that, it's my tune of the weekend.

Also, I had a mind blowing musical experience a month ago listening to the dj shadow essential mix. Seriously, I told like everyone about it. You can get the torrent. It's two hours long. And like the file says, it is amazing. A musical journey, if you will. And he scratches John Peel, which is cute.