13 monsters – Lightning Bolt I watched The Power of Salad and Milkshakes last night, and: It’s the perfect band movie, with just live footage, on the road goofings around, a near eschewing interviews with the band, hangers on, or authoritative music scene voices and all those other usual music documentary cliches Lightning Bolt are [...]
Archive for August, 2010
13 Monsters
Posted in Lightning Bolt on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I Don’t Believe In the Sun
Posted in Magnetic Fields on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t believe in the Sun – The Magnetic Fields SOMEONE who loves the Sun and believes in it very much (or at least is not one to ever deny it) sang this to me when i woke up this morning, supplanting any other possible song that could have been here. Sabotage. Cru-el-ty. This song [...]
Clan In Da Front
Posted in Wu-Tang Clan on August 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Clan in da front – Wu-Tang Clan There are some albums linked so much to a moment in one’s past that by listening to it memory of that moment can’t not be stirred up, severely. It’s not a great battle story, it’s actually quite shameful, but 36 Chambers reminds me of Doom II, and very [...]
Lovers From The Moon
Posted in Magnetic Fields on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lovers from the Moon – The Magnetic Fields Recently, through no legal means, i stumbled upon the two, near identical, demo tapes of the Zinnias, Claudia and Stephin’s band before the Magnetic Fields. It’s naturally fantastic, but the best thing about it is the fragments of what would become Magnetic Fields songs found retrospectively in [...]
Chesterfield King
Posted in Jawbreaker on August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Chesterfield king – Jawbreaker This song kind of suffers from the “Single Effect” – that banner song of everyone’s preference, linked word-associatively with the band’s name, representing their entire output, standing out singularly (single-y) on the album filing the songs before and after it as nothing but the songs before and after it. In the [...]
French Navy
Posted in Camera Obscura, Scottish bands on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
French Navy – Camera Obscura Ok, after watching a few live videos i’m convinced that they might be a little boring live. It is funny to imagine young, attractive, carefree, out for good times things committedly and discourteously doing their thing in the face of stage fright, ageing, struggling, morose, note for note perfection. To [...]
Should’ve Said No
Posted in Taylor Swift on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Should’ve said no – Taylor Swift I wish i had gone to see her. I do. Just after the concert, as people are prone to do, a group of girls in this town wore their official Taylor Swift Australian Tour 2010 t-shirts everywhere, and for some reason that made me feel the pangs of not [...]
Voulez-Vous
Posted in ABBA, swedish bands on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Voulez-vous – ABBA DISCO! It’s funny writing these things at night when i don’t have the time to write them in the morning. A thousand other songs pass through my mind over the day – fleetingly, maddeningly, vitally. The original, the one i post, the one i start the day with, is now buried under [...]
Over And Over
Posted in Sludgeworth on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Over and over – Sludgeworth Is the “one. two. one two three four!” and those little pauses that happen before the chords the second time it progresses around just an unavoidable, reflexive convention every pop punk band must incorporate into a certain percentage of their songs, or a calculated affectation to humour us. They do [...]
The… Third Last Song
Posted in australian bands, Independent Thought Alarm on August 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The third last song on the tape – Independent Thought Alarm REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! REUNION TOUR! [...]
