27.5.10
NEVER LET THEM TELL YOU THAT YOU'RE ALL THE SAME
PENNILESS AND TIRED WITH YOUR HAIR GROWN LONG...
I was looking at you there and your face looked wrong
memory is a fickle siren's song I didn't understand
In the gentle light as the morning nears
You don't say a single word of the last two years
Where you were or when you reached the frontier
I didn't understand
See you rugged hands and a silver knife
Twenty dollars in your hand that you hold so tight
All the evidence of your vagrant life
My brother you were gone
And you will try to do what you did before
Pull the wool over your eyes for a week or more
Let your family take you back to your original mind
There is nothing I can do
There is nothing I can say
Fleet Foxes I "He Doesn't Know Why" I Fleet Foxes
memory is a fickle siren's song I didn't understand
In the gentle light as the morning nears
You don't say a single word of the last two years
Where you were or when you reached the frontier
I didn't understand
See you rugged hands and a silver knife
Twenty dollars in your hand that you hold so tight
All the evidence of your vagrant life
My brother you were gone
And you will try to do what you did before
Pull the wool over your eyes for a week or more
Let your family take you back to your original mind
There is nothing I can do
There is nothing I can say
Fleet Foxes I "He Doesn't Know Why" I Fleet Foxes
20.5.10
CRIPPLE CROW
It's hard to find the words to describe this bizarre talent of a man. Never failing to amuse with his curious quirky nature, Banhart creates irresistible folk music for the twenty first century hippie in us all. I can always count on him and his music to leave a smile on my face. Cripple Crow was the album that made me fall in love with Devendra and all his wonder.
Highlights...
Now That I Know - quiet, calming, bliss. A gentle beauty of song.
Long Haired Child - the kind of informal subject matter Banhart does best with simple charm and jubilance.
Cripple Crow - a free spirited hymn of magnetic proportion.
Just Like A Child - tapping into the pristine wisdom, simple absurdity, and pure exuberance of childhood with lyrics that strangely ring so true. "I need you to please explain the war" haha
19.5.10
OH TO BE NOT ANYONE ...
gone
this maze of being
skin
oh to cry
not any cry
so mournful that
the dove just laughs
the steadfast gasps
oh to owe
not anyone
nothing
to be
not here
but here
forsaking
equatorial bliss
who walked through
the callow mist
dressed in scraps
who walked
the curve of the world
whose bone scraped
whose flesh unfurled
who grieves not
anyone gone
to greet lame
the inspired sky
amazed to stumble
where gods get lost
beneath
the southern cross
Patti Smith I "Beneath The Southern Cross" I Gone Again
this maze of being
skin
oh to cry
not any cry
so mournful that
the dove just laughs
the steadfast gasps
oh to owe
not anyone
nothing
to be
not here
but here
forsaking
equatorial bliss
who walked through
the callow mist
dressed in scraps
who walked
the curve of the world
whose bone scraped
whose flesh unfurled
who grieves not
anyone gone
to greet lame
the inspired sky
amazed to stumble
where gods get lost
beneath
the southern cross
Patti Smith I "Beneath The Southern Cross" I Gone Again
MUSIC YOU CAN FEEL DOWN TO THE BONE
Buddy Guy I "Baby Please Don't Leave" I Sweet Tea
The blues at its finest. The pure soul of rock; raw power, true emotion, surrendered to the guitar. Music you can feel down to the bone.
Loved hearing this song blasted at the opening of a BRMC concert last month before they came on stage. It set the tone for a great night.
17.5.10
IT'S BLITZ!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs I It's Blitz! I 2009
Karen O and the boys took a surprising turn on their latest album. Dance floor friendly tracks, that are guaranteed to put you in great mood, are beautifully melded in with gentle rock lullabies. From start to finish this album is full of songs that are to be cherished for all their poetic splendour and melodic joy. Though I still love the harder edge of their previous albums, I cannot praise the band enough for departing into this brilliant new territory.
Highlights...
Zero - "shake it like a latter to the sun" says it all.
Heads Will Roll - new age goth rock meets electro dance brilliance.
Soft Shock - the vocals, the beat, the lyrics...magnificent.
Dull Life - the bands hard edge comes shining through, picking the pace of the album up a notch
Shame and Fortune - down and dirty guitar anthem with a pulsating sound
Hysteric - this song is on a level of its own, a whimsical rock ballad of a new generation.
ABOUT AS SUBTLE AS AN EARTHQUAKE...
I know, my mistakes were made for you
And in the back room of a bad dream she came
And whisked me away, enthused
And it's as solid as a rock rolling down a hill
The fact is that it probably will hit something
On the hazardous terrain
And we're just following the flock,
'Round and in between, before we're smashed to smithereens
Like they were, and we scramble from the blame
And it's the fame that put words in her mouth
She couldn't help but spit 'em out
Innocence and arrogance entwined
In the filthiest of minds
She was bitten on her birthday and now
A face in the crowd she's not
And I suspect that now forever the shape
She came to escape is forgot
And it's a lot to ask her not to sting
And give her less than everything
Around your crooked conscience she will wind
'Cause we're just following the flock,
'Round and in between, before we're smashed to smithereens
Like they were, and we scramble from the blame
And it's the fame that put words in her mouth
She couldn't help but spit 'em out
Around your crooked conscience she will wind
And it's a lot to ask her not to sting
And give her less than everything
Innocence and arrogance entwined.
The Last Shadow Puppets I "My Mistakes Were Made For You" I The Age Of The Understatement
And in the back room of a bad dream she came
And whisked me away, enthused
And it's as solid as a rock rolling down a hill
The fact is that it probably will hit something
On the hazardous terrain
And we're just following the flock,
'Round and in between, before we're smashed to smithereens
Like they were, and we scramble from the blame
And it's the fame that put words in her mouth
She couldn't help but spit 'em out
Innocence and arrogance entwined
In the filthiest of minds
She was bitten on her birthday and now
A face in the crowd she's not
And I suspect that now forever the shape
She came to escape is forgot
And it's a lot to ask her not to sting
And give her less than everything
Around your crooked conscience she will wind
'Cause we're just following the flock,
'Round and in between, before we're smashed to smithereens
Like they were, and we scramble from the blame
And it's the fame that put words in her mouth
She couldn't help but spit 'em out
Around your crooked conscience she will wind
And it's a lot to ask her not to sting
And give her less than everything
Innocence and arrogance entwined.
The Last Shadow Puppets I "My Mistakes Were Made For You" I The Age Of The Understatement
FATE UP AGAINST YOU'RE WILL
Echo and The Bunnymen I "The Killing Moon" I Ocean Rain
On the topic of Donnie Darko, love this Echo & the Bunnymen song that the movie open's with. The track couldn't be more perfect for the feel of the film.
MY BAT LIGHTNING HEART
Bat For Lashes I "What's A Girl To Do" I Fur & Gold
Such a cool idea. This video makes you want to recruit a creepy animal head helmut biker gang to ride around with late at night.
Also makes me want to watch Donnie Darko again for the 2876th time.
12.5.10
SHOTTER'S NATION
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The band definitely hit their mark with this album, surpassing anything Pete Doherty did with the Libertines. Putting aside Doherty's heroine antics and infamous relationship with Kate Moss, you've got to give it to the guy for making fantastic music through it all. His wildly outlandish character is what drives the band's sound and his unmistakable persona makes each song on this record a brilliantly eccentric masterpiece that perhaps could only have been conceived from the mind of a tragically dysfunctional drug addict.
Highlights...
UnBiloTitled - beautiful song, honest and infectious, there is just something about the guitars in between the chorus that is simply magnificent.
Baddie's Boogie - an overall cheerful & carefree song juxtaposed with the bridge of "lousy life for the washed up wife of a permanently plastered pissed off bastard". Brilliant.
There She Goes - jazzed out base rhythms with Doherty's vocals some how managing to be delicate and brute all at once.
Side Of The Road - put this song on, and dance like mad in you're room to let loose some steam.
The Lost Art Of Murder - hauntingly beautiful.
11.5.10
IT CAN'T BE KNOWN WHAT LIES IN WAIT
Restless sinner rest in sin
He's got no face to hold him in
He fills his days as dark as night
He's been waiting with the blind
Just to find a place to hide his ghost
Unopen eyes no consequence
The door's been closed since he's walked in
The fight's been ragging so many days
He'll greet you with a cross and a cycle
As he helps you in
You fall in waste
An open fire
You've got no taste for his desire
He brings you in to warm your bones
He's the reason why you came
And the reason why you ought to go
Fool's gonna fall and raise
Another fallen child
It can't be known
What lies in wait
For those of us in crippled states
A broken mind is no escape
When there's no one left to reason with
There's no one left to call your name
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club I Restless Sinner I Howl
He's got no face to hold him in
He fills his days as dark as night
He's been waiting with the blind
Just to find a place to hide his ghost
Unopen eyes no consequence
The door's been closed since he's walked in
The fight's been ragging so many days
He'll greet you with a cross and a cycle
As he helps you in
You fall in waste
An open fire
You've got no taste for his desire
He brings you in to warm your bones
He's the reason why you came
And the reason why you ought to go
Fool's gonna fall and raise
Another fallen child
It can't be known
What lies in wait
For those of us in crippled states
A broken mind is no escape
When there's no one left to reason with
There's no one left to call your name
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club I Restless Sinner I Howl
PROCAINE PROVES THE PUREST ROCK MAN GROOVE
The Clash I Straight To Hell (Live) I From Here To Eternity
Hands down favourite record from the Clash, even better is the live version recorded in Boston 82'. Strummer's vocals on the live track build into a fantastic rendition of the song that give the lyrics new life. Well worth listening to the track the whole way through. The "sing in tune you bastards!" at the end is just priceless.
Gotta love that M.I.A. sampled the track for "Paper Planes".
YOU BLINK WHEN YOU LIE
The Dead Weather I "Treat Me Like You're Mother" I Horehound
Jack White and Alison Mosshart decked out in leather and in the suburbs pumping rounds of bullets into each other with machine guns...yes please.
New album out today. Having my first listen right now, basically drooling over every song. It's like being electrocuted by a thousand volts of ferociously fearless experimental blues, heaven.
So excited to see them live again this summer, they we're unreal the last time.
7.5.10
KASABIAN
Brit band Kasabian's self titled debut album is a masterpiece that has yet to be topped by their two follow ups. Start to finish this album is loaded with songs that will get you're pulse going, wickedly fusing rock with high energy electro beats.
Highlights...
Club Foot - viciously vibrant, pulsating rock beats, played best driving in the car.
LSF - an addictive anthem to scream at the top of you're lungs.
Running Battle - a stunningly mellowed out track with striking lyrics.
Processed Beats - GREAT song, awesome video.
THE BREATH OF THE MORNING...
I keep forgetting
The smell of the warm summer air
I live in a town
Where you can't smell a thing
You watch your feet
For cracks in the pavement
Up above
Aliens hover
Making home movies
For the folks back home
Of all these weird creatures
Who lock up their spirits
Drill holes in themselves
And live for their secrets
They're all uptight
Uptight..
I wish that they'd swoop down in a country lane
Late at night when I'm driving
Take me on board their beautiful ship
Show me the world as I'd love to see it
I'd tell all my friends
But they'd never believe
They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely
I'd show them the stars
And the meaning of life
They'd shut me away
But I'd be all right
All right. I'm just uptight
Uptight..
Radiohead I "Subterranean Homesick Alien" I OK Computer
The smell of the warm summer air
I live in a town
Where you can't smell a thing
You watch your feet
For cracks in the pavement
Up above
Aliens hover
Making home movies
For the folks back home
Of all these weird creatures
Who lock up their spirits
Drill holes in themselves
And live for their secrets
They're all uptight
Uptight..
I wish that they'd swoop down in a country lane
Late at night when I'm driving
Take me on board their beautiful ship
Show me the world as I'd love to see it
I'd tell all my friends
But they'd never believe
They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely
I'd show them the stars
And the meaning of life
They'd shut me away
But I'd be all right
All right. I'm just uptight
Uptight..
Radiohead I "Subterranean Homesick Alien" I OK Computer
NONE WILL LEVEL ON THE LINE, NOBODY OF IT IS WORTH
Jimi Hendrix I "All Along the Watchtower" I Electric Ladyland
Arguably the best version, tough call though.
6.5.10
I SAY FEVER
Ramona Falls I "I Say Fever" I Intuit
This video blows me away every time. It adds such great dimension to the song. Brilliant and powerful.
4.5.10
TAKE THEM ON, ON YOU'RE OWN
The second of many great albums from B.R.M.C. Sex, politics, and blues are what these boys do best and Take Them On, You're Own blends all three into a hot rage of fire and desire.
Highlights...
Red Eyes and Tears is dripping with the nostalgia of new love.
Six Barrel Shotgun is an unruly fury of strong lyrical work
Ha Ha High Babe pure sex, raunchy tantalizing guitars, brilliantly blended with a single line of lyrics.
3.5.10
YOU'RE JUST LIKE TIME...
Except you can feel the shame
All hands on deck, now
The sea is getting rough again
You see me out your window
Even when you close the blinds
And all you ever wanted
Was someone to treat you
Nice and kind
Take a step before running
Take a breath now before you die
When you work the streets, darlin'
Make sure
Your sneaker laces they get tied
I'll be your black bird darlin'
Hanging on your telephone wire
Flap my wings, oh yeah
And set your heart to fly
The Black Keys I "All You Ever Wanted" I Attack & Release
All hands on deck, now
The sea is getting rough again
You see me out your window
Even when you close the blinds
And all you ever wanted
Was someone to treat you
Nice and kind
Take a step before running
Take a breath now before you die
When you work the streets, darlin'
Make sure
Your sneaker laces they get tied
I'll be your black bird darlin'
Hanging on your telephone wire
Flap my wings, oh yeah
And set your heart to fly
The Black Keys I "All You Ever Wanted" I Attack & Release
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