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Yeah the new Kasabian album’s great, big fan of Fire.
I’ve just bought the Audioslave discography. I’ve been a huge Chris Cornell & Soundgarden fan for a couple of years so thought I’d start of his other band. I just think they’re fantastic and anything that Cornell touches is like gold dust.
On another note, I downloaded the top 40 singles last night just to see what the current state of music is like. I was absolutely disgusted to hear the shocking standard of music these days. Everything was rap-style RnB rubbish and found 3 songs out of the 40 that I actually like. I can’t help but feel that it’s a huge influence on the growing crime rates in this country.
The perfect combination of melody and noise…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH84yTCO … re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO2HP8msjC0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUqSMzmBA14(NAP)
Had
Debaser
on myself only last night.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Love Pixies stuff but didn’t get into them till much later. I always find the bands I followed during their careers and saw play are the ones I’m most strongly attached to.
I’ve given Eeels new album Hombre Lobo a couple of spins. Everett seems to have mutated from the ‘Dog-Faced Boy’ of Souljacker into a predatory Wolfman for this. It hasn’t grabbed me instantly the way Souljacker did but still sounds pretty good all the same.
I love it when I latch on to a band that I’ve never heard of before; that happened to me with The Pixies as well, so I went out and bought 3 of their albums and couldn’t believe what I was hearing [this was before they re formed]. It also happened with The Levellers [still my favourite band of all time], so, when I bought the fIrst couple of albums I could hear how the music had developed straight away. I like to work out who bands were influenced by when they were younger.There was an article about Blur in The Observer yesterdayl; not sure if it was the same one as the Guardian…never really thought of them as a live band, for some reason
. Wish that Damon was with Justine, still, but thats a girlie thing! [my son in law has just discovered Dylan; boy, has he got some catching up to do!]
Similar thing for me with Modest Mouse, who I knew nothing about till a couple of years ago. Also with Dylan I guess as I didn’t really start listening to him till the ’80s, likewise Joni Mitchell.
Blur are great live (I must be at well over 20 gigs by now
). Some lovely person has put several videos (decent quality) up on Youtube from Saturday’s show. Beetlebum. They’ve still got it 
This may be a contentious statement to make, but –
I think most modern day bands and musical output is second divison fare compared to the quality Premiership offerings of the 60s and 70s.
All the classic artists and albums were of that period.
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Can’t agree with that Himself, and I’m a big fan of loads of ’60s artists. I think the industry became more cynical as it evolved and the longer it’s gone on, the more rubbish there’s been. But bands like The Smiths and Radiohead are certainly up there with the likes of The Kinks and Bowie for me (just to keep it to British artists).
I’d agree with what you say as far as the black music scene goes though (not that I’m that familiar with it these days I admit). There’s nothing even remotely comparable to the perfectly-crafted pop music Motown put out, or the great soul singers like Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Gladys Knight and so on. Nowadays it’s trash like Beyonce or indecipherable ego-tripping rap or hip-hop or whatever they’re calling it. The stuff they call ‘R&B’ these days bears no resemblance whatsoever to the music of that genre a few decades ago to my ears.
Can’t agree with that Himself, and I’m a big fan of loads of ’60s artists. I think the industry became more cynical as it evolved and the longer it’s gone on, the more rubbish there’s been. But bands like The Smiths and Radiohead are certainly up there with the likes of The Kinks and Bowie for me (just to keep it to British artists).
Well, each to their own, Steerforth, but I come down firmly on the side of messrs Bowie and Davies in this particular shoot off. Their song writing output, both quantitvely and quality wise is different candy to the offerings of Stephen Morrissey and Thomas Yorke’s –
but then, I am totally and unashamedly biased.
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I’ve been thinking about this all afternoon, Steerforth…when do Blur play Song 2? Beginning, middle or end….or, omigod, what if they don’t play it at all?
Setlist from Sat:
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x28/LisaW1975/353.jpg
I know they’ve rehearsed everything off five of their seven albums (excluding Leisure and most of Think Tank). I’m expecting their sets to vary but that one would do me just fine.
They announced this morning they’re doing a gig tonight and the first 100-odd to turn up at Brixton Academy after 11am got wristbands to see the show. Jammy beggars, I’m stuck up north
Up Dharma Down from The Philippines.
Just listen to these. Absolute top notch imo. Bjork eat your heart out on the fourth one. Quality, quality, quality, quality!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts0cNzItMlw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYtxN2Bm … re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcURUssFzoA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kVraTjrroYSaw Later with Jools Holland the other night, and think the extended programme on Friday will be brilliant. Basement Jaxx [never know what to make of them or what niche to put them in] with Yoko Ono; Eric Clapton with Smokey Robinson;showing what happens when a man has one face lift too many [not too bothered about seeing those two] a guy from Mali whose name I didn’t catch, but whose band sounded pretty good and Miike Snow who I think are going to be my new favourite band [a bit Kings of Leon meets Fleet Foxes with a bit of MGMT thrown in].
Moe – yer man from Mali is Bassekou Kouyate. I’m sure he’ll meet our needs very nicely until the next Amadou & Mariam album comes out.
I love this kind of stuff.White Stripes / Raconteurs / QOTSA / Kills side-project The Dead Weather also featured. Rather less than the sum of its parts, I fear.
Personal favourite performances of the series so far would have to be Alela Diane, Editors, The XX and – of course – Seasick Steve. Think the Spaghetti Western Orchestra was one of the most imaginative things I’ve seen in a while, though, rather like The Mummers the series before, I really can’t make up my mind about them.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Seem to have missed most of the series so far. Caught a bit of the Spaghetti Westen Orchestra and they sounded like good fun. Have to admit, to my shame, to buying the new Shakira album the other week after she was on the programme [good singalongtointhecar music]. Don’t know what to make of the Dead Weather; although I tended not to like the albums whenever I bought them, I always found Jack and Meg mesmerising when they appeared at Glastonbury and places like that, but this lot I just don’t get at all. Bit Emperorsnewclothes’ish; want to shout out ‘they’re rubbish’. Miike Snow are great, although I may be biased in that the singer looks a tiny bit like Viggo Mortenson in LOTR [sigh]….there was something ‘momentintime’ ish about the Yoko Ono performance, and I keep watching it on iplayer.
Ooh, will look out for Yoko on the Friday re-run with interest. Did she do "Walking on Thin Ice"?
One of mine and Mrs Column’s joint guilty pleasures, that – she’d perform it with her band if she thought she could do all the yelping bits convincingly (see also "TV-Glotzer (White Punks On Dope)" by Nina Hagen).
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
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