Recently I downloaded an iPhone app called 'Band of the Day'. It's free and amazing. It gives you a new, and genuinely awesome, band everyday. Each band has reviews, a biography, clips from albums and more. Here's two great bands that I discovered.
A second Dry the River track - No Rest. I love creative music videos and advertising etc. I feel like thre's been a bit of a drought since the 90s (in music vids anyway).
This is the blurb from under the youtube vid.
Dry the River created these huge paper-craft horse posters in
collaboration with FOAM creative Xavier Barrade. This short film shows
the posters being crafted and fly-posted. Xavier designed the horses in
3D with Google Sketch Up before printing out and assembling the
component parts. Each horse took around 35 hours to build.
Their songs are also available on iTunes, but I think that you should wait and buy a CD like the real human beings of olden times. I hate iTunes! Buy a CD.
It's been ages since I posted anything, so here's a few tidbits.
This is a poem about waiting for your phone to vibrate, waiting for a message from your special person.
Waiting For the Buzz
Waiting for the buzz
that’s coming,
Wearing wings
or fins
(or something).
Who am I against this woman?
She is rather bold
(as brass),
Timid, kind,
Strong and funny.
A great petite tiger,
With the purr of a Persian cat,
Sat
on a steam train
that’s trailing off honey.
The windows are
maple leaves
and outside
it’s sunny.
Yet, in my chest
it is brass monkeys.
As cold as gold
bricks
shining, shimmering,
A trembling hand
that’s won
big winnings.
Who am I without this woman?
Waiting for a buzz
(that’s coming).
A villain
or a fiend
(or somone).
She can change my heart
from black,
Back to red
and back intact.
With her
I feel like
a comic book hero
on a tandem to Happiness
with Helen Shapiro.
Ramblings, randomly
assembled thusly.
Here’s the buzz.
From her?
It must be!
This is a new folk band from
England called Dry the River. This video shows an interesting poster
campaign they did with tin cans that played their song.
Lastly, is Clive Anderson's BBC Radio 4 show Loose Ends. Amongst the guests in this episode is the punk poet John Cooper Clarke. It'll expire sometime, but the show's good to look up anyway, whoever's on it. It's a big mix of things every week.
Bikkuri, as they say in these parts, Scarlett's a good singer. I knew she had solo album but I'd never listened to any of her stuff. This was just the thing I was in the mood for.
"But that's just a stupid dream that I won't realize 'Cause I can't even look in your eyes without shaking and I ain't faking, I'll bring home the turkey if you bring home the bacon."
Buddy Holly
"What's with these homies dissin' my girl? Why do they gotta front? What did we ever do to these guys that made them violent?"
Pork and Beans
"Oakley makes the shades that transform a tool. You'd hate for the kids to think that you've lost your cool."
I'm Your Daddy (live on Letterman)
The lyrics aren't so special on this last one, but this video on Letterman kind of got me back into Weezer after I thought they'd lost it. Nice to see them having some good nerdy fun. And this version is better than the album version actually. The little girl laughing at the end's very cute.
I loves me some pop-rock and Weezer are the kings. Blue, Pinkerton and Maladroit (despite cries to the contrary) are their amazing albums, green, red and Raditude are good (with a few stinkers) and Make Beleive (aside from the awesome Beverly Hills), Hurley and Death to False Metal are so-so. In my humble opinion. I loved Alone 1 too and wasn't fussed with Alone 2. Am currently waiting for the weekend to purchase Alone 3. So in tribute to my overenthusiasm for Weezer, here's a few of my favourites.
Good Life (Live in Camden)
"When I look in the mirror, I can't believe what I see! Tell me who's this funky dude, looking back at me?"
No-one (Livid Festival, Australia)
"I want a girl who will laugh for no-one else. When I'm away she puts her make-up on the shelf."
Holiday (on the Weezer cruise)
"Let's go away for a while, you and I, to a strange and distant land."
Bristolian and magnificent (even though I've only heard this one song). I
thought I'd heard it on BBC Radio 6 and then couldn't remember who
played it, to get back and find it on the tracklisting. This back
tacking was necessary, since he's really really hard to find on youtube!
Anyway, I tracked him down via The Guardian newspaper before realising
that I actually heard him on Clive Anderson's 'Loose Ends' show on Radio 4. Here's his website: ohcrybaby
I love my QI quote book and so here's another, by Chris Rock (with a bit of bad language!) -
"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?"
This is one amazing video and two live clips of the amazing band that was Grandaddy. The first is Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground). Jed was a robot named in another song. The second is Now It's On (on Later... in 2006). The third is So You'll Aim Towards the Sky.
I heard a really nice song on someone's facebook page, called On My Way Back to Harlem. I couldn't find it on youtube though, so here's 1960 What? off his recent (I think) debut. I was so surprised it was a debut. I figured he was from way back.
The quote for today is from Franz Kafka -
"A book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us."
And here's a lovely song (Girl From Mars) by Ash, that's one of my all time favourites. Wish they'd write something like this again! For Chichi-poopoo from Mars!!! Love you XXX
Just in the name of being PC - I wonder if this isn't actually the Irish or Irish/UK version rather than the UK version.
Here is my quote of the day (that was meant to be yesterday's but I forgot). It made my warm a little more to Sigmund Freud and even read his stuff more seriously (maybe!).
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
I love this, because it's easy to read his stuff and think "Really? REALLY?! You really really think that what it signifies? Really?" But now I shall think about his words a bit more seriously knowing this opinion of his.
The next videos and music have some harsh comtent, but I like them. The first one, Born Free by MIA, contains a sample of the second. I was really happy when I heard it and recently purchased the album , which is pretty awesome all the way though. The second is Ghost Rider by Suicide, which is also from a great album.
And this last one is both MIA and Martin Rev from Suicide performing together on Letterman!
A welcome return for The Shins. I love the Shins. This is their new song Simple Song, and their album Port of Morrow will be out on March 20th.
I've also been belatedly getting into The Vaccines album. So, here's the first track Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra), live on Jools Holland.
I heard this band on Guy Garvey's Finest Hour (Radio 6 show) and was pleased as punch
when my sister bought it for my at Christmas. It's Beach House with the
song Zebra.
I haven't posted anything for AGES. This is a tiny post of my favourite track off the Noah and the Whale album The First Days of Spring. It was bought for me by my sister for Christmas and I was jolly pleased I shall tell you!!! Better posts to follow for 2012 I hope! Happy New Year!!!!
