five. shuffle and describe!
- The Cure - Other Voices. One of those cold, brittle things from Faith. Yum. Interestingly, songwriter Russ Ballard snatched the bass line from this song for use in Frida's "I Know There's Something Going On" (on which Phil Collins played drums).
- Sonic Youth - Beautiful Plateau. A quick instrumental. Echoes of their really early stuff (ex. Confusion Is Sex), but is post-Goo era, probably. Doesn't do much for me.
- Broken Social Scene - Swimmers. This song always sounds like it's going to bust out into a huge exaltation of a chorus, but it never does. If this was a New Pornographers' song, it would have the biggest, brassiest, sing-along-iest chorus ever. Instead, this one just repeats the same four bars over and over... Pretty, but, it needs a little something more.
- Modern Lover - Modern World (alternative version). You don't hear a lot of songs with lyrics like "I Love The USA", these days; the modern world in the 70s was a lot different than the modern world of today, I guess. I do like the "Put down that cigarette and drop out of B.U." line.
- Van Halen - Bottom's Up. A snappy shuffle from their second record. Damn, Eddie's rhythm guitar sound is just killer.
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The Christmas decorations are up!
Being lazy. Here’s 10:
1. Coldplay – What If
2. Led Zep – The Song Remains The Same
3. Blondie – Heart of Glass
4. Sex Pistols – God Save The Queen
5. The Doors – I Looked At You
6. David Bowie – Subterraneans
7. The Raveonettes – Dirty Eyes (Sex Don’t Sell)
8. PJ Harvey – Plants And Rags
9. Supergrass – It’s Not Me
10. Ride – Taste
Four-day week this week. And next week. And then a three day week after that. And then that’s it for 2011. Woohoo!
Company party on Saturday – I won a raffle which meant our hotel room got upgraded to a suite – best room in the place in fact. Mrs C delighted. Should be fun.
1. The Jesus & Mary Chain – Bullet Lovers
Really nice slow one from the Chain. Not much to say about really, just a nice stripped down, well written song.
2. The Fall – Craigness
Mid-eighties song from the ever compelling and odd Mark E. Smith. I never really got into The Fall when they are bigger in the eighties but only later as I started exploring what I missed and what I heard was essential. The Fall are essential. I really like the odd turn this song takes at the end, like a trip.
3. Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock and Roll
I like ’em. Like a sloppy, drunk sounding, humorous Franz Ferdinand. It remind me of that old show The Young Ones for some reason, probably because I can picture Vivian singing for them.
4. The White Stripes – When I Hear My Name
A great slab of bluesy sludge. This song is so simple yet I will be singing it for the rest of the night now.
5. Shriekback – All Lined Up
The bass on this is the shit, which is no surprise since the bassist is Dave Allen from Gang of Four. Like The Fall I didn’t fully appreciate Shriekback (or Gang of Four) until I was older. Worth the wait, on both accounts.
While I was copying all the links and stuff my player went on to play two Nirvana songs and a Foo Fighters song in a row. Wonder what that means…
Wonder what that means…
i’m going to go with… Cobain has risen!