My Hard Drive Ate My Music Collection: #1: Through The Wilderness, A Tribute To Madonna

With all of the "Radiohead-destroyed-the-music-industry" hype that's circling the net right now, you've doubtlessly heard that NIN & Madonna have (in their own way) followed suit. So I'm not gonna talk about that. I also feel like there's a more important issue at hand--this weekend something horrible happened: my external hard drive crashed and took with it my 100+ GB music library. As a result, I've freeloaded from the internet's countless mp3 blogs. This is post #1 in a series of what we can call, "Desperate Picks" or, "My Hard Drive Ate My Music Collection And These Are The Highlights Of What Was Available To Highlight."

Through The Wilderness: Tribute To Madonna
Scheduled Release: 27 November 2007

I've heard some of this, and I must say--it's certainly not bad. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Lavender Diamond, Giant Drag, and Mountain Party are all great artists and I am definitely interested in hearing them do their best Madonna. If you're interested and would like to hear more, I've taken the liberty of directly linking to some available downloads (courtesy of stereogum). But please consider the fact that all proceeds benefit Raising Malawi, so buy it (even if you only buy one album for the next 6 months). Orphans with AIDS need the ten/twelve/however many dollars you know you'll only spend on cigarettes anyway (after you download the album from someone on soulseek).

Official Track List (Manimal Vinyl, 29 October 2007)

Jonathan Wilson "La Isla Bonita"
Golden Animals "Beautiful Stranger (Blues)"
Winter Flowers "Live To Tell"
Mountain Party "Material Girl"
Jeremy Jay "Into The Groove"
Ariel Pink "Everybody"
Giant Drag "Oh Father"
The Tyde "Hung Up"
Alexandra Hope "Lucky Star"
The Chapin Sisters "Borderline"
Apollo Heights "Dress You Up"
The Bubonic Plague "Who's That Girl?"
The Prayers "Cherish"
Lion of Panjshir "Crazy for You"
Lavender Diamond "Like A Prayer"
Siddhartha "Holiday" (iTunes only)
Pangaeans "Impressive Instant" (iTunes only)


DOWNLOADS
Giant Drag - "Oh Father" (MP3)
Ariel Pink - "Everybody" (MP3)