Song of the day – 65: Effi Briest
Someone was kind enough to send me the Effi Briest album. I was thinking of subtitling this post “one more reason why I’m cooler than you” but realised that the increments of cultural capital I’m obtaining by behaving in such a juvenile way are micro-minute, and that probably I’m best left talking about circular patterns […]
Song of the day – 64: Helen And The Horns
It’s my birthday today, and I was looking for a special Song Of The Day to celebrate it with. So James Brown over on Facebook suggested this. Helen And The Horns – Freight Train It seems like a very appropriate choice to me. Two-thirds of the horns came directly from the college band I was […]
Song of the day – 63: Blur
I don’t hold with reformations. I don’t hold with Britpop or media feeding frenzies either. But this low-key return from Blur – the first new material they’ve recorded since 2003 – is lovely, very Ray Davies, but not chirpy. Where’s that quote from D.H. Lawrence again? I know it’s lying somewhere round here… “The critic’s […]
Song of the day – 62: Gino Washington
ometimes, a song can just do that to you. Grab you by the throat, shake you up and down, mess your head up good and proper with the constant throb of its bass-line and accentuated beat, and set you back down, upside down. This is such a song. There were two Gino/Geno Washington Northern Soul […]
Song of the day – 60: Lust-Cats of the Gutters
As I’ve stated before, I’m riotously easy to please. As I’ve stated before, you want me to hear your music? Send me a link to an MP3 or your MySpace page. Don’t bother your cute honey ass with money-wasting promo CDs and international postal rates. Lust-Cats of the Gutters will never be this great again. […]
Song of the day – 59: Trash Kit
I’d be falling down in my duty to you gentle reader, if I didn’t alert you to this. Trash Kit are from London (I’m guessing). Trash Kit feature Ros M (formerly of Lesbo Pig and Electrelane), Rachel A and Rachel H (I’m not guessing). And they sometimes feature Verity S as a guest (I’m not […]
Song of the day – 58: The Go-Betweens
This entry is to celebrate the fact I attended a lecture given by Mr Robert Forster yesterday at QUT to 40 first-year students. Two songs were played, ‘Born To A Family’ (from Oceans Apart) and ‘Surfing Magazines’ (from my own personal favourite The Friends Of Rachel Worth) – two acoustic guitars, plenty of introduction. The […]
Song of the day – 57: Pikelet
I don’t want to turn this whole Song of the Day series into a string of links to reviews I’ve written recently, but… 1. I usually only ask to review albums that I think I’m going to enjoy. 2. I’m ferociously caught up in finishing my PhD confirmation document right now, on severe sleep deprivation […]
Song of the day – 56: Love Is All
I’ve written a review! Not as experimental as the brace I just wrote for The Vine perhaps – High On Fire, Pikelet (I’ve yet to see if those will appear) – but still exciting. Ah well. Play, listen, evaluate, praise, move along. Here’s the killer single I completely omitted to mention because I was in […]
Song of the day – 55: Bow Wow Wow
Guess you all know why this is here. By some distance, Bow Wow Wow were my favourite of all the bands Malcolm McLaren was involved in. Sure, I liked Adam And The Ants, but I never really understood his solo records – they mostly seemed to be his reaction to the post-Sex Pistols world Sex […]
