Downright Dynamite Downloads Of The Week: The Servant, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Raconteurs…

You know what this is, so stop gawking and start downloading. Legally. We've got six more tracks for you this week, six tracks that may just change your life for the better. Six tracks that've been known to make the socially retarded suddenly develop people skills, and six tracks that completely wiped out polio back in the fifties. We've some powerful songs here, it's true. And we'd like nothing more than to pass them on to you.

This week featuring fantastic tunes from The Servant, The Zutons, Of Montreal, Starflyer 59, Sunny Day Real Estate, and The Raconteurs!

Of Montreal: Lysergic Bliss off Satanic Panic in the Attic
(Canada has two great exports: sun dried baby seal skin & this quirky little song - which is distinctly the cheaper of the two. It starts off with some Tom Waits style chanting, then quickly turns into a delightful little ditty. And the album's got the coolest name we've heard in an age. Barring unnatural intervention, that's around four years.)

The Raconteurs: Call It A Day off Broken Boy Soldiers
(This is one of hecklerspray's favorite tracks off the Raconteurs album. Want to hear something crazy? Play it right after Smashing Pumpkins' Glynis that we recommended last week. We ain't pointing no fingers!)

The Zutons: Remember Me off Who Killed The Zutons?
(This tune is a sad tale of a lonely guy who's recently lost his best friend to a lousy girl. We knew pain like that once. Except it wasn't losing just a friend - we lost our girlfriend too. At the exact same time. At the exact same dance. The experience taught us something though - never trust the handicapped.)

Sunny Day Real Estate: Snibe off The Rising Tide
(Much more than just a bunch of realtors from which Foo Fighters culled a bassist, these guys also deal in stocks, bonds, and run a mostly hispanic cock fighting ring for outlandish profit. Well, technically that's not true. On an educational note - most members of the band have now reformed into The Fire Theft.)

Starflyer 59: I Like Your Photographs off Leave Here a Stranger
(This album may well be in our top twenty of all time - and this is our favorite track off it. The whole thing was recorded in mono, and really gave the band a much softer sound than they'd started out with. In the beginning, they were shoe gazers.  Remember shoe gazers?)

The Servant: Conversation off The Two Mini Albums: Mathematics
(We threw another The Servant track out there not too long ago, but they're quite literally all we can think about these days. This particular track is off a compilation album listed above - and it's our favorite track of late, period. Recently, while driving around, we listened to it 15 times in a row. The last seven of those listens were upside down in a crushed car chassis, while we watched most of our wheels bounce and roll over the next hill. When the medics arrived, they joined us in a sing along.)

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[story by Shawn Lindseth]