New Music
Tonight I'm not going out unless I get some sort of unstoppable invitation. That's not likely so I am going to listen to music and do a whole lot of work. BUt I downloaded a lot of music I've been wanting to get to for a while. Here's an overview of some stuff that's just now coming in:
That Ben Folds song "Gone" is pretty good. But man it sounds just like evrything else he does. He always sounds like he's making really angry xmas music.
Yo La Tengo is so peaceful and odd. I really like them a lot. They really sort of got me with my one cd of theirs that I bought, "I can Hear the Heart Beating As One"...oh dude they are doing a London Calling remix...oh it's horrible...wow...funny horrible
The Darkness...man I just haven't figured out whether or not I'm ready for the return of hair metal. It sounds like they do hair metal music. But man it's good like "Dr. Feelgood" by Motley Crue. That chorus is damn catchy..."I believe in a thing called love...just listen to the rhythm of my heart...blah blah blah...yeah youre touching me haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" But man it sounds like they are singing with a big white tiger on stage and they have open collared shirts and he always has his foot on an amp while whipping his hair back. This is just a visual. Actually I know nothing about them. I went and looked at them and put the hi-lites up here. Man this song is damn ctachy...it's rediculous...why the guitar solo though...? why why why!
Ok so after listening to this Darkness ass whipe crap and a somehow ill begotten Kraftwerk mp3. I have decided that soon, maybe later tonight...I am going to have death metal hour. Where I review some of our finer death metal groups for an hour at a time. That actually sounds like a lot of fun.
These songs by the Darkness(bareback, black shuck, Growing on me etc..) are getting even worse. That's it. I quit on them. Maybe I haven't heard it all. But I had to hang up the delightful souunds of "Every Rose Has it's Thorns" way back in the day. I did that out of principle, and now I will do the same to the Darkness. Man I can't believe Britain is moving in this way...what a bad turn for them.
Wow Interpol. Now I'm back to what I like. Whew...I was gettin sick in the stomach for a little while. Ahh this guys voice rules. I never really wanted to check them out before because of the whole mask and bad cover art thing. But this is pretty good.
Ok I know Tim knows this...and I'm pretty sure the rest of my distant Brothers do as well...but...Amazon is honestly the first place I go to find music related to the music that I like. It's fuckin brilliant...when I think..."Man I need to find a new band. I'm sort of depressed. I like Ryan Adams when I'm depressed." and then Amazon says, " oh well here my man let me hit you off with these and I'll also give you people's top lists who have rated the album you dig". Just wonderful. It's the only reason i go there...but it rules.
Yo La Tengo sounds like the Flaming Lips used to sound. Maybe this is just old and they sounded the same at the same time.
Detroit Cobras are pretty good. It's not as heavy as their name suggests. A great female lead. Man this is good.
Stephen Malkimus aye...well it's good. It reminds of a clear sounding Smog. It's simple. It's pretty easy. It's me. It's not toally original or whatever but it fits a great little genre that we all fall in love with when we start to hate the radio and Rolling Stone covers.
Interpol is really really good. I should have been there man!
This Spoon is treating me well as well. It' s alittle rusty and artsy for me but I like it. It sounds like a stripped down Libertines.
Yes Gomez! Gomez is oddly good. It's housey and bluesy and then it just stops that nonsense and slaps you with pop.
