c/o Last.FM
1
Afel Bocoum, Damon Albarn, Toumani Diabate and friends – Mali Music
2
Hot Chip – Made In The Dark
3
Pivot – O Soundtrack My Heart
4
a-ha – Hunting High and Low
4
The Books – The Lemon of Pink
6
Roberto Fonseca – Zamazu
7
Four Tet – Pause
8
Ratatat – Classics
9
The Shadows – KON-TIKI
10
Four Tet – Dialogue
11
Charge Group – Escaping Mankind
11
Hot Chip – The Warning
13
Gorillaz – Gorillaz
13
The Beatles – With the Beatles
15
Amon Tobin – Bricolage
15
Four Tet – Rounds
17
Lemon Jelly – Lost Horizons
18
Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Return to the 36 Chambers
18
Fleetwood Mac – The Dance
18
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Filed under: muse o muse, musik | Tags: amazing, band, Charge, group, lyrics, music
Light my way home
My boots are worn through
And I’m soaked to the bone with snow
Light my way home
My boots are worn through
And I’m soaked to the bone with snow
Oh how the tables turn
How the tables turn
Right round
How the tables turn
So lady
Light my way home
My boots are worn through
And I’m soaked to the bone with snow
Drag me through town
In the stillness of night
In the wet winter streets
I’ll drown
And I couldn’t resist if I wanted
You gave me your hand and the keys to your treasure
What my frost-bitten fingers stole from you
These hands that you trusted just fed seven vices
In a mild psychosis
Instead of golden sun
So lady
Light my way home
My boots are worn through
And I’m soaked to the bone with snow
Drag me through town
In the stillness of night
In the wet winter streets
I’ll drown
Help me get home
There’s no holes left to hide
And they don’t like me drinking alone
These vices have won
My boots are worn through
But your sole mending days are done
Oh how the tables turn
Oh how the tables turn
Filed under: image conscious, musik | Tags: class, comic, gym, heroes, image, music, video
Yet another collection of things which I find fascinating.
The microphone which Gym Class Heroes‘ lead singer Travis McCoy snapped over the head of a ‘racially offensive’ member of the audience. Read the press release at their official website here. You should also listen them if you haven’t already, there’s a reason why they have over 20 million views on Myspace. Via I Shoot Shows.
An interview with Iggy Pop on French TV in 1977. Before seeing this, I’ve only ever seen pictures or video of the haggard, over-smoked Iggy that is still touring today. This gave me a wholly new perspective. Via The Constant Seige.
And, to finish the trio I present Dresden Codak, one of the only webcomics that I’ve read which I’ve had to regressively read in order to fully understand. Fantastic artwork, too.
I’ve wished for a long time that somebody would travel around asking ‘big name’ artists to share their taste in music. But I had no idea that somebody, namely Azuli Records, was already doing just that. I stumbled across the above album, ‘LateNightTales: Air‘, inside a torrent containing Air’s discography… and my day was pretty much made. I’m now halfway through the album, and I felt like sharing it because… well, it’s beautiful. The quieter, electronic-ish sounds of artists from Cat Power to Elliot Smith blend cleanly as Air pays a sort of homage to their influences.
It’s worth more than just a listen.
Filed under: generic text, image conscious, musik | Tags: comic, interesting, links, music, random
Things are changing again in my life. New job, new studies, new interests. Even my media centre PC is getting a re-install of Windows as we speak. But for once I feel like I’m in control. I’m not worried about next semester; I’m not worried about finding a new job; I’m not worreid about my singleness. I’m finally allowing myself a few simple pleasures in life, like concert tickets and hoodies and the study of history. And it’s all working for the better.
Of course, I’ve also stumbled across a whole bunch of interesting things recently. If you were the one who told me about them, feel free to take ownership. Anyway, here’s a few.
- Gregorian: Masters of Chant (You’ve never heard Metallica nor Green Day like this) via Poster Child
- Freak Angels (The free online comic from Warren Ellis)
- You Look Nice Today (Fantastic indie-ish podcast from the US)
- Poster Child (Urban guerrilla gardener)
There’s plenty more than that, but I’ve run out of time… need to finish configuring the PC. Blah.
Filed under: generic text, musik | Tags: amazing, buffalax, руссиа, russia, video
Need I say more? AMAZING.
Filed under: generic text, image conscious, musik | Tags: Brisbane, comic, music, six feet under, tv, video
It seems that today is to be yet another day of nothing. I made dutiful attempts to wake up, exit my bed and have breakfast, yet each of these took longer than usual. I have also attempted to summon the strength required to begin studying, yet… it’s ridiculously hard. Therefore, I’ve done nothing particularly amazing.
However, in the absence of high-quality experiences and actions, I’ve done some useful things. For example, I’ve uploaded a number of videos from the show I went to last night (the last show of No Culture, feat. Chalk and Cheese, Charge Group, Lets Not, and Pikelet), discovered that the comic featured in Six Feet Under [S4.Ep9] “Grinding the Corn” is actually not an authentic comic, and enjoyed the rain.
Therefore, below is a sampling of my experiences. Firstly, there is the two videos from last night: Chalk and Cheese – the enthralling buckley-esque local artist; and Charge Group, who were equally enthralling, although plagued with a few sound issues. Following them is the entire “Blue Twister” comic from Six Feet Under, which was posted on the blog of Eric Wight, the artist who created it, many months ago.
Then, to conclude, look out your window. If it’s dreary, rainy and beautiful, then you’ve experienced essentially my entire day.
Chalk and Cheese
Charge Group (Two Songs)
The Blue Twister
Filed under: generic text, muse o muse, musik | Tags: change, elliott smith, facebook chat, music
There’s always more to take out. More rubbish to ‘dispose of’, more pieces of old friends, more leftovers from relationships, more junk collector’s junk. I thought that was what moving house was for, but now, after moving 8 times in just over 2 years, I think I’m desensitized to anything that moving house can do to me. Or maybe I’m just saturated.
Anyway, I’m attempting to study. It’s really hard! Indescribably hard, actually, now that Facebook Chat has arrived. I jump on, intending to be on there for, oh, 10 minutes or so… and end up wasting an hour. An hour! Memories of epic MSN conversations in those deathly high school years come to mind… of course, 9 hours of chatting is a little different than 45 minutes or so of chat-specific Facebook distractions, but it’s still a waste of time. Or something like that.
Elliott Smith sang, as I was writing that, just then, this second, this moment:
“It’s a waste of time
I put it behind once and for all
And let the hype decline
If the problem wasn’t mine…” [from Go By]
Talk about a distraction. My whole train of thought has derailed itself… thanks, Elliott. I should be used to the Elliott Smith distraction, my housemate is, well, a little obsessed with the lovely chap. This is a rather healthy obsession (is there any other type?) and seems to be in a sort of stasis, not growing, not shrinking… in use every day, but not every moment.
So, anyway. As you can probably tell from the title of this entry, we emptied out the house last night – that is, we moved the TV downstairs, along with one of the couches – in a flurry of cleansing. However, as you may also be able to tell, we haven’t emptied out ourselves… Duncan is still the same Elliott Smith lover, I’m still the same uber-procrastinater, and Peter is, well, just Peter. Therefore, it seems that we have discovered the answer to that old ‘Nature vs. Nurture’ debate… our physical surroundings have changed, yet we have not.
How deep.
Ok, so let me just set the mood. Start this amazingly sexy song playing before you read. Please. It’s by the Voodoo Trombone Quartet… Epic win by my standards.
I was actually going to attempt to write something, but… well, I’ve had a lot of caffeine-infested tea, and I really can’t manage it right now. Instead, I’m just going to put up a bunch of links to music that I’ve been listening to recently and really sort of loving. They’re not particularly new, or indie, or whatever, but they’re all damn, damn fantastic.
Dave Matthews Band – Crash Into Me
There also this amazing cover of The Mighty Boosh – Mod Wolves song… it’s not really a song you can listen to over, and over, and over, and over… but ’tis amazing.
Anyway, all this music, plus the tea… makes for happiness. You should try it.
