The mad auld Swede!
Mercy Street by Fever Ray
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
3 Bands, 3 Tunes, One Riff!
A lot has been made about Nirvana ripping Killing Joke off, with Come As You Are. I'm not sure what came of it all but I'm sure all is gravy as Dave Grohl ended up drumming on one of their later albums.
I just arrived home and my housemate and guest contributor Brian (check out his review of ATP: The Movie here) was playing a Damned tune that came out a few years before Killing Joke's Eighties, with, yet again, a very similar opening riff with a very similar guitar tone.
Three great bands, three great tunes, and a lovely riff. I like rock music.
The Damned - Life Goes On Alt (from Strawberries, 1982)
Killing Joke - The Eighties Alt (from Night Time, 1985)
Nirvana - Come As You Are Alt (from Nevermind, 1991)
And since they're all such great bands, a few more from each! Industrial to the max.
(this one sounds like the intro to the start of The I.T Crowd)
Duuuuurty!
Can't wait for ...Electric Picnic! no. 5
Leftfield! ...with John Lydon on vocals, John is playing with PiL on the Friday!
I can't wait for ...Electric Picnic no. 4
I've talked about Janelle Monae before, but after seeing this I have this to say: Lady Gaga can go scratch, this is the Queen of Pop. She's playing TWO gigs at Electric Picnic, 6 p.m on the main stage, and (ever so excited), 10 p.m on at Body & Soul. Wow.
Monday, August 30, 2010
....gonna miss no. 1
I'm emigrating far far away this day two weeks. From Ireland to London. Not too far so, but an excuse to post shit-loads of Irish music til I go. For a start the wonderful Divine Comedy.
Neil Hannon knows his way around a pop song like very few others in this world do. Like truly great comedies, funnily enough, that you can watch over and over, finding new joys in each watch, his songs are packed so full of musical joy that it's a refreshing listen each time! Simple seeming pop songs that don't get old.
I can't listen to Divine Comedy if I'm in a foul mood. In the same way that you love your family but come the tail end of Christmas when you're pissed off, bored and dying for a cigarette you want to kill them all. Maybe it's a bad example, but you know what I mean? Something you love that in a certain mood you can't stand? Ok, will there goes, I'm in fine form now, so I like Divine Comedy.
On top of all this, he joined up with Thomas Walsh from Pugwash last year to release an album about cricket as The Duckworth Lewis Method, which, of course was charming, hilarious and musically fantastic.
And on top of all of this he wrote the soundtrack to the greatest television show ever written, Fr. Ted:
Finally finally finally, if you're not familiar with Neil Hannon or Divine Comedy, Eyebrowy will fill you in, oh oh oh!
Neil Hannon knows his way around a pop song like very few others in this world do. Like truly great comedies, funnily enough, that you can watch over and over, finding new joys in each watch, his songs are packed so full of musical joy that it's a refreshing listen each time! Simple seeming pop songs that don't get old.
I can't listen to Divine Comedy if I'm in a foul mood. In the same way that you love your family but come the tail end of Christmas when you're pissed off, bored and dying for a cigarette you want to kill them all. Maybe it's a bad example, but you know what I mean? Something you love that in a certain mood you can't stand? Ok, will there goes, I'm in fine form now, so I like Divine Comedy.
On top of all this, he joined up with Thomas Walsh from Pugwash last year to release an album about cricket as The Duckworth Lewis Method, which, of course was charming, hilarious and musically fantastic.
And on top of all of this he wrote the soundtrack to the greatest television show ever written, Fr. Ted:
Finally finally finally, if you're not familiar with Neil Hannon or Divine Comedy, Eyebrowy will fill you in, oh oh oh!
Sunday, August 29, 2010
iTest, August 29th, Electric Picnic Special!
This evening was the Electric Picnic Special on the show, two hours of regular programming, two hours of purely Picnic bands, ahead of next weekend's festivities.
Here are the tunes I played for the first two hours:
The Budos Band - Unbroken, Unshaven
The Knux - Floozy
DJ Fresh - Gold Dust
Les Savy Fav - Let's Get Out Of Here
Mark Ronson - The Bike Song
Kristoff Krane - Work ft. Slug
Adebisi Shank - Masa
Beck - Summertime
Teen Daze - Wet Hair
Tap Tap - Dry Dry Land
No Age - Glitter
Sufjan Stevens - Heirloom
Eels - Spectacular Girl
Arcade Fire - We Used To Wait
Aeroplane - Superstar
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Janglin' (RAC Remix)
Daithi - Embrace (Hummerbeat)
The Loom - Helen
Les Savy Fav - High & Unhinged
Miami Horror - Holidays
Hotel Mexico - It's Twinkle
Cee Lo Green - Fuck You
Starfucker - Julius
PVT - Window
Land Of Talk - Swift Coin
The Dig - Sisters In Love
And here's the Picnic Special in five parts!
Bonobo - Kong Alt
Simple as. Super excited.
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