Whatever that means. I’m sure AG will tehgay it up. There are some symptoms of our utopian vision becoming dystopic, as we mentioned previously, but that is for another day. Tonight, we play music! Next week is make Seitz happy with videos week at Song of the Day. *Trust me, that boy gonna be getting the LOTION out.*-Capt. trollypants
Shut up, Captain, but the videos are awesome.
1. Only I-Mull Historical Society
One man band from somewhere in England, typical Englishy retro-esque, not Dad rock (Oasis or Ocean Colour Scene), but not so retro as XTC. I’m not sure how to characterize him. Singer-songwritery but not in the cobaggy vein like I presume that James Blunt dude mines. This one has some horns that pipe in toward the end before the break down and inevetitable return. People that bought this on amazon also bought Clem Snide (teh l4m3 likey!), My Morning Jacket and some other bands. I really love
this tune. 7/10
2. Man is the Baby-Antony and the Johnsons
So this guy has this vibrato deal going and sounds like the most delicate and precious voice coming through space from some far off planet stuck in the 1930s era, like some place that would be visited by the old Star Trek. Just a very delicate without being cloying song, great in small to moderate doses. 7/10
3. Sulk-Radiohead
From The Bends, not a huge fan fave I guess, but this is the kind of soaring one that I’d wish they’d play instead of the song following it (“Street Spirit (Fade Out)). This same template was perfected on “Lucky” from OK Computer. I love The Bends, and I like how the cobaggy wanne-be record clerks are starting the “I prefer The Bends to OK Computer.” Yeah, right. Shut up wankers. OK Computer is still better. 8/10
4. Electric Funeral-Black Sabbath
Maybe a little too prehistoric for even Sabbath. Yes it’s about robots and nuclear holocaust, but it just doesn’t hit the same highs as the rest of the Paranoid Album. The breakdown is a little hokey, but then Ozzy starts to hit his groove. And when Animal from the muppets comes on as is all “‘LECTRIC FUNERAL! ‘LECTRIC FUNERAL” it has to get my vote in spite of itself. Even though “War Pigs”, “Iron Man” and “Paranoid” are played out, they still totally rawk. Oh, and “Fairies Wear Boots” too. 6/10
5. Supernova-Liz Phair
OK, I would never cop to it, but this is indie boy CHUBBY time, no amount of the Matrix or Adult Contemp, or Mix FM or Star can ever take that little boner away. Obviously the cobag Chicagoans will totally got off about Exile in Guyville because she sang about hummers, this one is an electric pop, yeah, I said pop, gem. Cherub’s bare wet ass. HA! 8/10
6. Suntrips-Adventures in Stereo
From the happy Monomania, these sunkissed Beach Boys have a nice little pop thing going. Unfortunately they only really hit with three songs on the album, this isn’t one, but nothing is bad. These kids are more for the mix tape.
7. Get a Job/Stand Down Margaret-English Beat (yeah, cobag that’s what we call them in ‘Murkkka)
What’s the deal with bands these days. “English” Beat could effortlessly drop an “Eat it cobag!” an Maggie Thatcher’s wrinkled, hairy ass, but nobody can do sh*t with Bushwad? Why can’t Jay-Z or Luda drop some bombs and that hairless, collagened ass? Not talking Jenna. Kanye seems boring to me, so I’m looking at those other guys, because what REM? U2? Our politically branded bands? Do we have any? 8/10
8. Problems When You Leave Tipsy-DJMaXEntropy
Some mashup with Jay Z (99 Probs), J-Kwon? (Tipsy) and the Uh-Oh I can’t sing but this beat is KILLER lady. I kind of like Jay Z, but enough with the bitches and hos dude. ENOUGH. That’s played out. I love the specially created 54 mph zone that crimps Jigga’s style. CLASSIC. I bet Pop Ren gets busted for going 24 in a 55 all the time. 5/10
9. Stay With Me-Spiritualized
Pop Ren gets busted because he’s feeling it listening to something slow and druggy like this as he sets the airplane smoke detector off 18,000 feet from the plane overhead. This song is probably pretty good, but as all the songs are annoyingly about heroin, it kind of wears on you. From the pretty great Ladies and Gentelman We Are Floating in Space. 8/10 if you are in the mood.
10. Leave Them All Behind-Ride
So some toolboxes like to claim that all shoegazer bands sounds the same. This is not true. Many of them wash out everything, some of them use a lot of wacky created sounds, some sound relatively thin and trebly, some have more space in there. Ride sounded like Ride, but on this track they have a little My Bloody Valentine in the opener, but then fill in a lot more conventional sounds. They would fade from shoegaze into massive retro-ness and then finally into the derided Tarantula phase, and album that was only in print for a week or some such gimmick. I happen to like that later album, but “Leave Them All Behind” is one of their epics, and I think I’ll let Pop Ren wax about it in comments. It is a pretty good song, but I prefer “OX4″ and “Cool Your Boots” from this album, Going Blank Again. 7/10
Here’s the video edit, without the MBV-style intro, also the guy looks like Carrot Top without the popping veins, a little bit.
It’s about time you got your rickety blog in order. And is it me or are you extra horndoggy in this post?
No the horndoggy is next week, wherein Seitz is going to have an uncofmtable bulge in his pantaloons probably most of the week. Song of the Day is dedicated to Seitz next week. Maybe we’ll have a teh l4m3 week after that, but you are harder to pin down. Sometimes it seems we could throw any old slab o’ man up there, and other times you are picky picky picky.
Plus you tend to like boys in bands you HATE, we can’t have that, we gotta have good tunes too.
Poop chute not shoot … just sayin’.
No we crap out tunes while shooting rolos from our rolo gun. A Rolo chute would be weird.
But awesome
i love spacemen 3 and i LOVE spiritualized, especially this album. always got time for stoned dirges about horrible lives; turns me on every time.
the only way to listen to “leave them all behind” is on the album – the single version is chopped so horribly it takes all the nuance out of it as a whole. this was the first album where you couldn’t point out who they were ripping off song by song, and this is a STELLAR opener (as it was live). it’s only hangup are the lyrics, which ride never did well in the first place (songs like “vapour trail” and “twisterella” aside) but at least the harmonies are as sweet as ever. past that, it’s a wonderfully layered song with a super-chunky rhythm section – nothing fancy, just a well played groove. steve queralt wasn’t flash but he was solid. andy bell’s wah solo at the end is epic; gives you the same feeling as the solo at the end of “shout!” by tears for fears. overall, the thing that may make it so damn pleasant is the fact that they’ve learned at this point to let the music breathe a bit and not bash it out until it’s over, giving the individual parts more of an understated importance that the early stuff, save “today”, lacked.
I actually like “Stay With Me” more than any other song on that album, although Come Together is a close second. Speaking of bands whose stuff sounds the same, I kinda thought Amazing Grace sounded exactly like Let It Come Down. This album is probably Pierce’s high point, but personally I kind of prefer Laser Guided Melodies. And you can really here Pierce’s and Kember’s influence in stuff by Brian Jonestown and BRMC (Screaming Gun is almost a complete rip off of Amen/Hey Man).
Leave Them All Behind is really an anthemic track, but there’s a lot of stuff on that album I like better. Not so much Cool Your Boots, but I definitely prefer Ox4, Making Jusy Smile, Twisterella, and Time of Her Time.
And I think Tarantula, or at least parts of it, is really underrated.
And I’m going to see Mazarin in a few hours. You should all check them out.
Thanks PR and Seitz, this is what Poop Shooters are supposed to be like. I agree wholeheartedly about the edit on LTAB, the song does not work in shortened form. The MBV at the beginning is key to making it a little more muscular. Remember to tune in to SOTD next week for Seitz week. He won’t like all the songs, but he might like all the ladies.
I love all the lovely ladies.
I agree with Seitz as far as Stay With Me goes. However, I just never got into Amazing Grace at all, whereas I really liked Let It Come Down. I think listening to Spiritualized can be challenging in that you need to allow yourself to listen to Spiritualized. The music isn’t challenging in itself, but if you’re not listening to it, it just diffracts into the surrounding and its beauty is lost.
Man is the Baby just isn’t that great a track on I am a bird, relative to some of the other high points. I would give it more like an 8/10, but I think all the other superlatives people save for AatJ are mostly deserved.
In the same spirit, Only I is probably the whiniest track on Loss, and just doesn’t compare to the first half of the album. I do love that freaky interlude towards the end of the track right before the horn stuff. MHS is best when they take a straight-up tune and keep elaborating more and more.
So how much did you pawn the site for? And how did you manage to come up with the cash to get it back??
Actually I have a confession. Since you got a Koufax nomination and I didn’t, I paid Captain Trollypants (well, promised to pay Captain Trollypants) TWO BEEEELYON DOLLARS to take your site down. Obviously I should have hired someone more competent than Captain Trollypants to take your site down. (Note to Captain Trollypants: no money for you.)
So, now that you’re one of the big bloggers, I suppose we’re gonna see a bunch of Open Threads and nagging fund-raising appeals while you jaunt off to Amsterdam to send back cell phone photos of the commenter meet-ups your having. Next there will be 3bull Diaries and there will be Pinko Punko’s new book “Crashing the Bullring.” And I’ll just be sitting by myself, with an occasional visit from the fabulous D. Sidhe, while I ridicule America’s Worst Law Student™ and the Gay Patriot.
Thanks for noticing Clify! Although it probably comes down to the fact that we may, or parties related to us, definitely not passing the smell test (I’m looking at Yosef, THYCWOTI and the Rev), nominated ourselves, and since we are going to get exactly zero votes, I think we can call it even.
Hee hee, that being said, Capt. Trollypants is the reason D. Sidhe never visits us, because of the trolls trolling Sadly, No! We received a comment of admonishment, and were laid low by the fabulous D.
Now before we make it to the big time for Amsterdam junkets, we have to make the medium time where we troll (in the fishing sense) for Koufax votes while disingenuously praising equally undeserving yet “humorous (T) boggs” and then say KIDDING!*
*we’re kidding now
are we?&
&yes we are, but about what?
did someone say amsterdam?