Liner Notes

Soundscape #4: This Is Not My Beautiful House

I don’t know if anyone knows this but apparently the Ikea catalogue is printed more times than the bible each year. Pretty mind-boggling eh? Granted, the Ikea catalogue is updated every year and is distributed free. But something within the glossy pages always seems to get me dreamy– all these beautiful apartments, beds, closets, kitchens and rooms and stuff, you know? I realise though, I don’t want just the sofa, or the couch or the Billy bookcase; I want the complete package, the floors, the carpets, sofas, the books, the artfully-cluttered apartment, the perfect mom fixing something in the perfect kitchen… etc. Damnit, I want to live in these pages. Bloody hell. It’s all just an evil marketing tool targeted to get you to buy more stuff.

Ranting aside, there’s nothing wrong with a little bit of daydreaming, is there? I don’t think anyone would take offence to sitting down on a comfy chair and leafing through its colourful pages, sipping tea on a nice quiet Sunday afternoon, with some nice tracks playing in the background to help you fantasise about finally organising that over-flowing closet of yours or alphabetising your CD collection, to throw out the old and welcome the new and the possible.

Playlist:
1. (0:00) Blood Meridian - Oh Oh Oh (Buy We Almost Made It Home)
2. (3:21) Elliott Smith - Fond Farewell (Buy From A Basement On The Hill)
3. (3:57) Feist - Mushaboom (Buy Let It Die)
4. (10:20) Headlights - Put Us Back Together Right (Buy Kill Them With Kindness)
5. (14:34) Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - Good Kind of Crazy (Buy I Never Thought I Could Feel This Way For A Boy)
6. (18:83) Pavement - Major Leagues (Buy Terror Twilight)
7. (22:07) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On Ice (Buy Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
8. (25:65) The Postal Service - Sleeping In (Buy Give Up)
9. (29:86) Tegan & Sara - I Know I Know I Know (Buy So Jealous)
10. (33:33) The Ladybug Transistor - The Places You’ll Call Home (Buy The Ladybug Transistor)
11. (37:34) Yo La Tengo - My Little Corner Of The World (Buy I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One)
12. (39:59) The Weakerthans - Everything Must Go! (Buy Left And Leaving)