Vinnie the Intern #20: "Microwave, Meet Your Maker"

In celebration of 20 blogs, I'd like to give a playlist of my top 20 songs of the week. Some are new, some are old favorites, and some old-but-new favorites.

A video to watch: Check out the new, non-NO LOVE DEEP WEB track from Death Grips titled "True Vulture Bare." The video is a collaboration with Director/Animator Galen Pehrson and just as most of Death Grips' material, it is as unsettling as it is beautiful.

Hymie's Basement (2003/Lex Records)

A song to listen to: Keeping in line with being at times unsettling is Hymie's Basement's "Ghost Dream," which is featured in this playlist. I recently came across Hymie's Basement (a side project of WHY?'s Yoni Wolf and Fog's Andrew Broder). Released in 2003, a majority of the album is a take on the American Dream and way of life. "Ghost Dream" tells the tale of a man who takes a detour to find a bass guitar at a city dump before he makes his way to a school dance. As he swerves his van to avoid a couple he plunges into water and slowly drowns. One of his final thoughts is that the water was soaking out the starch of his new dress shirt. Ending on the the chorus "Brand new skinny ghost, meet your brand new angel monster  Microwave, meet your maker." Any WHY? fan should love it.

Additional Details:

01. Fog - "Check Fraud" - Fog (2002)

02. Oh No! Oh My! - "I Painted Your House" - Dmitrij Dmitrij (2008)

03. Andrew Jackson Jihad - "Bad, Bad Things" - People That Can Eat People Are... (2007)

04. Hymie's Basement - "Ghost Dream" - Hymie's Basement (2003)

05. Shapes And Sizes - "Islands Gone Bad" - Shapes And Sizes (2006)

06. cLOUDDEAD - "The Teen Keen Skip" - Ten (2004)

07. Animal Collective - "Crimson" - KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic (2012)

08. We Are Trees - "Sunrise Sunset" - Boyfriend (2010)

09. Death In Plains - "Yeah Go" - Unreleased/Demo/Past (2009)

10. Les Savy Fav - "Adopduction" - Go Forth (2001)
11. Bear Vs. Shark - "California Hotseat" - 1653 - EP (2001)

12. Slipdiver - "Banana Cereal" - We're Still Here And We're Doing Just Fine (2012)

13. Pavement - "Newark Wilder" - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)

14. Local Natives - "Breakers" - Hummingbird (2013)

15. Paul Banks - "The Larynx That You Have" - Unreleased (2009)
16. Death Grips - "Hunger Games" - NO LOVE DEEP WEB (2012)

17. The Show is the Rainbow - "Gothic Cajun" - Gymnasia (2007)

18. Gonjasufi - "Candylane" - A Sufi and a Killer (2010)

19. Q And Not U - "Y Plus White Girl" - No Kill No Beep Beep (2000)

20. Born Ruffians - "Wedding Rings & Midnight Strollers" - Little Garcon - EP (2008)