Brassneck – The Wedding Present Remember i wondered why such a lack of Wedding Present representation? I think that has kind of been corrected now, in the past week or so, reflecting much more accurately the songs i have trapped up here. Be prepared for more yet.
Archive for November, 2009
Brassneck
Posted in Wedding Present on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rockit
Posted in Herbie Hancock on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rockit – Herbie Hancock Has there been a Grammy performance as revolutionary and as spearheaded since this song at the 1984 awards? Michael Jackson in 1988, maybe, but that explosion was set off in 1983 with Billie Jean at Motown 25; already well established, and one of a lone artist. Rockit, though overdue, was the [...]
Electricity
Posted in Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Electricity – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark After watching Synth Britannia (You can too!), i’m a total convert. There wasn’t much of me to convert. It was not like this music had to win me over, or situate itself as something legitimate or venerable – I just had not ever heard it. Synth Britannia was [...]
And The Weight Of That Silence
Posted in This Machine Kills on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And the weight of that silence – This Machine Kills The story of This Machine Kills is now the story of Steve Aoki, his trust fund and his bloghouse DJ career. I don’t know enough about him or his new career to comment on anything, nor can i say how he feels about this time [...]
Once More
Posted in Wedding Present on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Once more – The Wedding Present Once more. This is the Wedding Present i’ve collected from the English point of view and influence. The early stuff, with all its up tempo and frantically strummed guitar, strewn over various single, Peel session and compilation releases. I can’t make my mind up if i like this Wedding [...]
Dalliance
Posted in Wedding Present on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dalliance – The Wedding Present I think i’ve been introduced to, and had esteem and the importance/insignificance of the Wedding Present garnered mainly from an American point of view. The most English of bands. Whether from elders who remember and actually were receptive to their enterprising efforts there and waited up to see their appearance [...]
Alright
Posted in La's on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Alright – The La’s The only other La’s song i know. And one i’ve just learned isn’t really a La’s song at all, rather one divvied up in divorce proceedings and was recorded a Cast song. I don’t know enough about the band to care, but the recording i have here is from Dutch radio [...]
Glad I Don’t Know
Posted in Lemonheads on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Glad i don’t know – Lemonheads Is Evan Dando still a babe? At one stage everyone – cool older girls, alternative and even mainstream press and radio, my mother, everyone – thought so. He was the early to mid 90′s slacker male ideal. It must have been great. I’m not sure if at the time [...]
Hung Up On a Dream
Posted in Zombies on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hung up on a dream – The Zombies Goes to show you what you can accomplish when you put your mind to writing a good song. Keeping on top of a rapidly developing and competitive pop music world – bands, styles, equipment; developing and performing how you are supposed to, foreordination with the hit parade; [...]
Postal Blue
Posted in Softies on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Postal blue – The Softies Probably the sweetest band i know. And quite often the saddest, most isolating, most gentle, tether-to-this-earth cutting band i know. This is my one band everyone else seems to have many of – mood setting music for those down times, those alone times. I’ll listen to the Softies whenever, though, [...]
