PODCAST 2 "here's where the story ends..."

FUN DEFICIT (podcast)
presents PODCAST #2
"... here's where the story ends... "

1. Sky Ferriera - "Animal (Miike Snow cover)"
2. Belle and Sebastian - "A Century of Fakers"
3. Fun Deficit - "Believe (smashing pumpkins cover)"
4. Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution - "It's a Wonderful Life"
5. Kings of Convenience - "Love is no big truth"
6. The Sundays - "Here's where the story ends" (live on french radio)
7. Styrofoam - "Couches in Alleys" feat. ben gibbard
8. Fun Deficit - "Love Won't Wait"
9. Blueboy - "So Catch Him"
10. Youth Group - "Forever Young"
11. Fun Deficit - "Van, by yourself"
12. Defiance Ohio - "Road signs always look better looking over your shoulder"
13. Hauschka - "Heimat"
14. Club 8 - "Spring came, rain fell"
15. The Radio Dept. - "A Token of Gratitude"
16. Small Factory - "If you hurt me"
17. That dog. - "Being with you"
18. Fun Deficit - "Karla"


Here's a podcast for you, a mix. I made this to put my songs in a lovely context. This mix is road songs and love songs about not being in love right now.


1. Sky Ferriera - "Animal (Miike Snow cover)" - I love this girl's voice. She's only 17 years old and she sounds like Cat Power.
2. Belle and Sebastian - "A Century of Fakers" - One of my favorite belle and sebastian songs. "If you ever go lardy or go lame, I will drop you straight away."
3. Fun Deficit - "Believe (smashing pumpkins cover)" - I've been listening to a ton of Smashing Pumpkins lately, inexplicably. I just love them and I've always loved this song, so I decided to cover it and it ended up sounding a lot like the Radio Dept.,
4. Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution - "It's a Wonderful Life" I just saw Streetlight Manifesto play live and this is them acoustic. They're so relentlessly positive. I can't listen to it enough.

5. Kings of Convenience - "Love is no big truth" Not really sure if we should listen to Billy Corgan and The Pumpkins for love advice, but I listen and believe in the love advice from Kings of Convenience.
6. The Sundays - "Here's where the story ends" (live on french radio) Brad says this is one of two decent songs they'd play at the department store where he used to work. I love this song and I love the girl's voice. The lyrics are fantastic and the song is just two chords.
7. Styrofoam - "Couches in Alleys" feat. ben gibbard - This song is an open letter to Jack Kerouac. I recently proposed to one of my friends she start a band of all open letters, like this and Leonard Cohen's "famous blue raincoat."

8. Fun Deficit - "Love Won't Wait" - A new song I wrote in one day. Written for my new album, but not written about me. A response song to Radiohead's "True Love Waits."
9. Blueboy - "So Catch Him" - love blueboy. Sarah Records twee from 1995
10. Youth Group - "Forever Young" (alphaville cover) I love the Jay Z song sampling this, but this cover speaks to my indie aesthetic. Classic.
11. Fun Deficit - "Van, by yourself" - a response song to Small Factory's "if you hurt me" - reference to a car, sensitivity, and a sly joke and lack of seriousness at the end.
12. Defiance Ohio - "Road signs always look better looking over your shoulder" - I saw DOH about a month ago and I loved it. I try to pitch them to my friends as the "Arcade Fire of the Gutterpunks" but I'm still the only person I know who likes them. Maybe they're more like a "yelling Weakerthans."
13. Hauschka - "Heimat" - beautiful prepared piano. Jaw-droppingly beautiful.
14. Club 8 - "Spring came, rain fell" - I love her voice so much and when I listen to this I imagine she's only singing to me.
15. The Radio Dept. - "A Token of Gratitude" - I love minimalist love songs. All it needs to say is "Do I love you? Yes I love you. But easy come, easy go..."
16. Small Factory - "If you hurt me" - Simple and emotional, what I like. "If you hurt me I'll be angry and I'll be sad."
17. That dog. - "Being with you" - the radder girl-weezer from the 1990s. I feel like I'm their only fan now.
18. Fun Deficit - "Karla" - With all the songs about love lost, this is the song in which I get the girl.


Further Reading

Braid - "I keep a Diary"

My Favorites

According to Last.fm, this is a ranked list of my 100 favorite bands:

1		The Lucksmiths			1,301
2		The Hold Steady			589
3		Defiance, Ohio			578
4		Elliott Smith			551
5		The Promise Ring			533
6		Kings of Convenience			511
7		Turtles In Time			446
8		Explosions in the Sky			435
9		Kind of Like Spitting			400
10		Damien Jurado			356
10		The Magnetic Fields			356
12		The Wrens			329
13		múm			316
14		Club 8			311
15		Jawbreaker			300
16		Braid			289
17		Bob Nanna			287
18		Brand New			279
19		Fun Deficit			272
20		Belle and Sebastian			266
21		The Microphones			265
22		Billy Bragg			263
23		The Mountain Goats			248
24		Low			245
25		Cat Power			240
26		Idlewild			239
26		R.E.M.			239
28		The Field Mice			237
29		Weezer			236
30		Rockets And Blue Lights			231
31		The Weakerthans			229
31		Apples of the Earth			229
33		Pinhead Gunpowder			226
33		Bright Eyes			226
35		Beulah			219
36		Small Factory			213
37		The Get Up Kids			209
37		The Notwist			209
39		Cap'n Jazz			200
40		Ted Leo and The Pharmacists			193
41		Blur			177
42		Nada Surf			176
43		Casiotone for the Painfully Alone			174
44		Fennesz			169
45		Another Sunny Day			162
46		Styrofoam			161
47		Built to Spill			160
48		The Streets			159
49		Phish			157
50		One Reason			153
50		Wu-Tang Clan			153
52		Christie Front Drive			152
53		that dog.			149
54		Streetlight Manifesto			144
55		Townes Van Zandt			143
56		Against Me!			142
57		Yo La Tengo			140
58		The Capstan Shafts			137
58		The American Analog Set			137
60		No Kids			136
61		Ben Lee			128
62		Superchunk			125
62		The Softies			125
64		Reggie and the Full Effect			123
65		The Sea Urchins			122
66		Castawaves			120
67		The Pine			119
68		Ash			118
68		Pavement			118
70		Boys Life			116
71		The Secret Stars			115
71		Kalpana			115
73		Ben Folds			113
74		The Walkmen			109
75		Maritime			103
76		Graham Coxon			100
77		The Smashing Pumpkins			97
77		Silver Jews			97
77		Mirah			97
80		Blueboy			96
81		Death Cab for Cutie			94
81		The Transmissionary Six			94
83		The Orchids			92
83		The Knife			92
85		Novi Split			91
85		Trembling Blue Stars			91
87		The One AM Radio			90
87		Hot Chip			90
89		Jason Anderson			88
89		Oasis			88
91		Jimmy Eat World			87
91		Saturday Looks Good to Me			87
91		Röyksopp			87
94		M83			86
95		This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb			85
96		Unrest			84
97		Superdrag			83
98		Bad Religion			82
99		Rocket Punch			81
100		The Evens			77
100		Jets to Brazil