Under Clear Skies

RT Hummingbird - Luke Tiller

I have been messing around with the playlists function on youtube and have finally nailed what I think is a pretty decent indie/alternative bird related music setlist. Hope you enjoy it:  http://www.youtube.com/p/AA119E9311CC651A?hl=en_US&fs=1

Track List: 1/ Eels – Little Bird 2/ Grant Lee Buffalo – Mockingbirds 3/ Iron and Wine – Flightless Bird, American Mouth 4/ The Bird and the Bee – Please Don’t Stop the Music 5/ Goldfrapp – Little Bird (Animal Collective Remix) 6/ Catbird – Yellow Moon 7/ Sun Kil Moon – Heron Blue 8/ Electrelane – Birds 9/ Foals – Hummer 10/ The Decemberists – Crane Wife Three 11/ De Rosa – Robin Song 12/ TV On the Radio – Owl and Stork 13/ Fleet Foxes – Meadowlarks 14/ The Tallest Man on Earth – Where do my Bluebirds Fly? 15/ Swans – Love Will Tear Us Apart

Here’s another bird music gem as sent to me many moons ago by a regular on my bird walks Wendy Knothe. Anyone else got any bird themed music tunes they want to recommend?

A Rhianna cover of all things and not one of her finer moments either!

A highly underrated band my brother turned me on to, and a nice fit with my bird music playlist.

Another bird music classic from Sun Kil Moon. The kickoff bird music playlist here. Click the bird music tab below for more tunes!

Another gem from the bird music game. Goldfrapp and Animal Collective on one track – all good!

Black Swan Green - The Ruin Gaze

Toni sent me this great track which fits very nicely with my theme of bird related music. See links to my other posts here. BSG are a cool new band out of Brooklyn that have that classic indie rock, shoegazing sound. You can listen to the track here (just press play on the track under the photo). You can also hear snatches of other tracks and buy their album at CDBaby the home of independently produced records.

On a similar note, my brother also turned me on to the Fleet Foxes fairly recently. Great band, and I was thrilled to find they had a nice little bird related track on their debut album Meadowlarks. Seems like they get a lot of comparrison to Crosby Stills and the Beach Boys. Anyway cool music and nice to see Sub Pop records keep on digging up some great bands (CSS, Band of Horses etc). As a kid back in the UK I was a huge fan of Sub Pop, with the likes of Dinosaur Jr.,  Afghan Whigs, Mudhoney and of course Nirvana were all essential parts of my mis-spent youth. The record labels bands and records were also an essential part of the musical accompaniement to many a great night spent at ‘The Venue’ in New Cross in London- happy days!