Oblivious – Galaxie 500 I listened to the Galaxie 500 covers album the other day. Some of them were ok, but every single one made me wish i were listening to the band themselves. That is not something i can level to Galaxie 500. Their covers are some of my favourite and preferred versions of [...]
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Oblivious
Posted in Galaxie 500 on November 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Temperature’s Rising
Posted in Galaxie 500 on November 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Temperature’s rising – Galaxie 500 Just as it’s getting warmer here… Weather-wise, not anxiety or drug influence-wise.
Ceremony
Posted in Galaxie 500 on May 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ceremony – Galaxie 500 Here’s another scoffable gap of mine: I don’t think i’ve ever heard the original version of this song. To compound that, i don’t even know if it’s a Joy Division (late or posthumous) or a New Order song. Of course i could research it, find out and fill that gap, but [...]
Blue Thunder
Posted in Galaxie 500 on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blue Thunder – Galaxie 500 The best song ever written about a car. In my opinion. It’s sort of for music what Two-Lane Blacktop is for car movies: convention-defying, divergent, dissidentive, poetic, existential, at an irregular tempo to anything it could be lumped with, and one you never see appear on a list of the [...]
Strange
Posted in Galaxie 500 on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Strange – Galaxie 500 The way Dean Wareham sings “i went alone down to the drugstore”, with the sustain of “alooooooooooooooone” held to the perfect nanosecond, almost as though it were scientific, his voice quivering and raspy as he holds the note, but holding it so adeptly, without any hint of struggle to hang in [...]
