Song of the day – 196: The Cheapmunks
A female pop group from Pakistan covering ‘Say My Name’ by Destiny’s Child, mashed up with popular Indian movie song ‘O Humdum Suniyo Re’ by A.R. Rahman (the music director of Slumdog Millionaire), with some killer tabla backing. Most of The Cheapmunks’ music seems to be a fusion between Hindi and English pop songs. It’s […]
Song of the day – 195: kyü
The blurb that comes attached to the shrink-wrap with the debut album from this Sydney duo states, rather ridiculously, “10 mind-bending tracks that will change the way you listen to pop music”. Assuming, one presumes, one has never listened to any of Kate Bush’s more ethereal work, or anything associated with certain female singers from […]
Song of the day – 194: Lois Lane
Isaac: “You know, I’ve been dead before.” Dead before? What do you mean? Isaac: “Everyone has been dead before, when the dinosaurs were alive.” Lois Lane – A Brontosaurus Named Bert
Song of the day – 193: Thought Creature
These are New Zealand folk who you feel probably aren’t too familiar with conventional approaches to the razor-blade or obtaining prescriptions for over-the-counter pharmaceuticals
Song of the Day – Top 36 songs (updated 10.10pm, 10.10.10)
This chart is based on traffic at my Song Of The Day entries, up to 9.00am, 8 October, as monitored by Google Analytics. The top entry won’t come as a surprise to any regular reader of Collapse Board. If there’s enough interest, I’ll compile a mix. Click through on the links and you’ll find the […]
Songs about Brisbane – 5: The Go-Betweens
[The following was written almost a year ago to the day for my regular column for the Spanish magazine Go Mag. I was trying to capture the feeling of listening to the rain outside my house in The Gap, and futilely searching around in my iTunes for songs featuring the word ‘rain’, before stumbling across what […]
Song of the day – 192: Fever Fever
I am a living cliché. I cannot resist music that sounds like this. I do not even attempt to. Grating female vocals. Sound and fury. Never a pause for breath. Always another space to be filled in. Guitars that ricochet back and forth like they understand ‘Teenage Riot’ was when Sonic Youth turned spectacular. Frenzied. […]
some folk really don’t like Weezer these days
This is quite my favourite ‘news’ story on the web this morning. A disgruntled Seattle music fan has offered to collect together $10m and give it to Weezer, if only River Cuomo and the gang will do the decent thing and SHUT THE FUCK UP. “Every year, Rivers Cuomo swears that he’s changed, and that […]
Song of the day – 191: Roxy Music
This is pure energy and swagger and 70s art school cool, with a vocal that makes me squirm with unfamiliar and delightful thoughts even now
