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8/11/2017 0 Comments 78. Leave Them All Behind - RideIf you were ever going to mix extreme noise with meditation, I suspect this would be your soundtrack. Continue
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There’s a certain East Coast aesthetic that has always drawn me close: I don’t know if it was ever real, and it wasn’t anything I experienced personally if I’m honest, but I saw it second hand from Stinky and his endless stories, in the films of Whit Stillman, and in particular in the music and clips of They Might Be Giants. Continue
8/8/2017 0 Comments 75. Human Behaviour - BjorkFor years there were 2 places I wanted to see above all others: Istanbul and Iceland. Continue
8/7/2017 0 Comments 74. Connection - ElasticaThis song came onto the radio the other day as I was driving my son to rugby practice, and by the time the chorus rolled around he already knew it, and was happily singing along: he was caught out by the stutter at the end, but otherwise he’d nailed it. Continue
Wait, you’ve got to look at this first. The JAMC on Dave Letterman! Playing with the house band! Continue
I probably admired the Banshees more than loved them for a long time – I knew they were feted, I liked a few songs, but they didn’t worm their way into my head – until this came along, a combination of all that made them great, and my head just exploded. Continue
8/4/2017 0 Comments Hot Damn! The one thing everyone in racing knows about Budapest is that it’s hot, especially when it’s time to race at the Hungaroring: it’s almost always the last round before the summer break, and the combination of the hot, hot heat, the mirage of a holiday just over the horizon and a tight, technical circuit combines to make the Budapest round one of the hardest for all of the teams on the grid. Continue
They can’t be blamed for their fans: Soundgarden would never abide the treatment handed out to Bjork at the Big Day Out, having gone through enough tough times of their own, and Cornell just had something eminently polite about his demeanour, regardless of the state of loucheness he inflicted upon himself and the world. Continue
8/3/2017 0 Comments 70. Kool Thing - Sonic YouthOkay, maybe I was hasty before, maybe Kim Gordon is actually the coolest bass player rather than Kim Deal: it’s got to at least be a tie. Continue
8/2/2017 0 Comments 69. Cut Your Hair - PavementSo it was John who introduced me to the concept of Slanking, and as soon as he did it was as though it had been with me my whole life. And, in a way, it had. Continue
8/2/2017 0 Comments There Goes The Fear Everyone’s a little afraid of Budapest. It’s not the people, who are stern but helpful once they know what you need, and it’s not the city, which is beautiful in a ‘could use a power wash to remove the grime to show how stunning it is’ kind of way, but it’s more about the weather. Continue
The most beautiful song ever. Fact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnHoqHscTKE
7/31/2017 0 Comments 67. Waterfront - Simple MindsThey were so dramatic, once upon a time. All that bombast, those angular guitars and drums like bombs. Continue
7/30/2017 0 Comments 66. Tame - PixiesToo many songs, too many of them classics. What a hardship. Where Is My Mind is an obvious choice, and the tie to Fight Club can only help (what a genius book that was, and a brilliant movie version, albeit with a completely different ending). Monkey for the string offsets and “rock me Joe”. Gouge Away, just because. Continue
7/29/2017 0 Comments 65. Uncertain Smile - The TheThat noise at the beginning (and what is it? I don’t buy that it’s a glockenspiel, but I’ve never worked out what it is) has haunted me for years: as soon as I hear it I just stop whatever I’m doing and listen. I had it as a ringtone a while ago, and freaked out more than a few people: it seems to be one of those songs that people just secretly adore. Continue
Anyone who hasn’t sung this while drunk in a bar in the 90s hasn’t been drunk in a bar in the 90s. Come on everyone: “Peaches come / in a can / they were put there / by a man / in a factory down toooooown…” Just perfectly stupid, as is their video: why are they using a box of peaches as an amp? Why does it become a ninja film? Because it can: tell you wouldn’t, if you could? Continue
They were a cartoon band really, but just crazy fun with it. Eyman and I were skiing one weekend, as per usual, and the local pub in Jindabyne had a sign up for them that night, so there was no choice but to go. Continue
7/26/2017 0 Comments 62. Berlin Chair - You Am II love these guys unreservedly, unapologetically, unendingly. They probably haven’t written a truly great song in over a decade, but I really don’t care when they still play as sound as ever, and the songs they play are as good as this. Continue
7/25/2017 0 Comments 61. Black Steel - TrickyThat first album of his, Maxinquaye, was so incredible, wasn’t it? I remember hearing it the first time and thinking ‘oh, so he’s the talent in Massive Attack’. Continue
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