Fearless
By The Bravery
I first heard this song on the trailer for the awesome Russian vampire movie Nightwatch. It's a rocking little song that I originally thought was about sitting around pretending to be tough, but generally being clumsy (hence probably why I connected with it...) but really, I'm pretty sure its about nothing at all.
But still, you can't beat the cockiness of a line like: "And I know that's why you love me, Chicka"...
Letter From An Occupant
By The New Pornographers
I've had the pleasure of seeing Canada's foremost super group play live before and its pretty damn cool... They are made up of seven musicians from popular bands (in Canada I guess... I don't really know any of the bands they are from:S) and one independent film-maker. It makes for a crowded stage, but it also mean some rather large and full sounds. Its kind of like the opposite of the Arcade Fire, also Canadian, and I'd like to see them battle each other to the death in some kind of musical/gladiatorial combat.
Either that, or join together to form an even larger and more ridiculous stage band. And then save the world from aliens and SARS.
Sorry About The Noise
By The Jessica Fletchers
Despite their easily recognizable pop culture reference name, I don't really know that much about this Norwegian band... Except that I thought they were a small American indy band that never mand it too big. But in actual reality they released 4 albums and are pretty well known in Norway.
It just goes to show that Eurovision is not a good indication of music is actually like in Europe.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Swedish garage punk rock Wednesday: Breaking out in The Hives.
Main Offender
By The Hives
Once again I'm a little lost as to what to write... Much to my dismay I've never seen these guys live so I don't have any 'possibly fictional' tales of rock and roll hi-jinks this time around. However, The Hives are one of my favorite bands, and damn good at what they do (which is rock out, co-incidentally), so it seems a waste not to feature some of their songs.
This one is off of their first major album 'Your new favorite band'. Pay special attention to the lyrics, because I'm pretty sure they make no sense at all.
Missing Link
By The Hives
Missing link is off the second tour de force of an album (and my favorite), Tyrannosaurus Hives. It was hard picking just one song from this album, but that's why I'm here... making the tough decisions. Also for listening pleasure please consider 'Dead quote Olympics', 'B is for Brutus' and 'Two timing touch and broken bones' from the same album. Actually, just make that the entire album, just to be safe.
The reason I'm so dismayed that I haven't seen The Hives live yet is because apparently they do one of the greatest rock shows of all time. Rolling stone rated it as 8th best ever or something. Apparently this is due to the lead singer, 'Howling' Pelle Almqvist, engaging in what he has dubbed "Colorful idiocy". Such a display can be seen below, in quote form (I got this from Wikipedia, so it's gotta be true):
Pelle: "I'm out of control! Tell me to take it easy!"
Crowd: "Take it easy!"
Pelle: "No, I wooon't!"
I think that pretty much sums it up.
Bigger Hole To Fill
By Delta Goodr- I mean The Hives
This one's from their latest album, "The Black and White album", which is a reference to the band's need to have a different uniform every time they go on tour, but always only in black and white. This album's also pretty rad, but I don't like it as much because they felt the need to mess with the timing in some songs. It's not in this one, put for others they are there rocking out and then suddenly BAM... songs at half speed for some reason. It throws out my dance steps.
Anyway, every time I hear this song I think of this first person shooter I'm going to make one day. One of the characters will be an assassin who kind of looks like Andy Warhol and dresses like a French punk. At some point in the game, his henchmen (dressed similarly, but also wearing mime makeup) manage to jump you and capture you. When you come to, you are tied to a chair and assassin Andy does a song and dance to this song, with choreographed mime dance moves.
By The Hives
Once again I'm a little lost as to what to write... Much to my dismay I've never seen these guys live so I don't have any 'possibly fictional' tales of rock and roll hi-jinks this time around. However, The Hives are one of my favorite bands, and damn good at what they do (which is rock out, co-incidentally), so it seems a waste not to feature some of their songs.
This one is off of their first major album 'Your new favorite band'. Pay special attention to the lyrics, because I'm pretty sure they make no sense at all.
Missing Link
By The Hives
Missing link is off the second tour de force of an album (and my favorite), Tyrannosaurus Hives. It was hard picking just one song from this album, but that's why I'm here... making the tough decisions. Also for listening pleasure please consider 'Dead quote Olympics', 'B is for Brutus' and 'Two timing touch and broken bones' from the same album. Actually, just make that the entire album, just to be safe.
The reason I'm so dismayed that I haven't seen The Hives live yet is because apparently they do one of the greatest rock shows of all time. Rolling stone rated it as 8th best ever or something. Apparently this is due to the lead singer, 'Howling' Pelle Almqvist, engaging in what he has dubbed "Colorful idiocy". Such a display can be seen below, in quote form (I got this from Wikipedia, so it's gotta be true):
Pelle: "I'm out of control! Tell me to take it easy!"
Crowd: "Take it easy!"
Pelle: "No, I wooon't!"
I think that pretty much sums it up.
Bigger Hole To Fill
By Delta Goodr- I mean The Hives
This one's from their latest album, "The Black and White album", which is a reference to the band's need to have a different uniform every time they go on tour, but always only in black and white. This album's also pretty rad, but I don't like it as much because they felt the need to mess with the timing in some songs. It's not in this one, put for others they are there rocking out and then suddenly BAM... songs at half speed for some reason. It throws out my dance steps.
Anyway, every time I hear this song I think of this first person shooter I'm going to make one day. One of the characters will be an assassin who kind of looks like Andy Warhol and dresses like a French punk. At some point in the game, his henchmen (dressed similarly, but also wearing mime makeup) manage to jump you and capture you. When you come to, you are tied to a chair and assassin Andy does a song and dance to this song, with choreographed mime dance moves.
Friday, July 4, 2008
I don't really have any little stories for these songs... but I'm gonna play them anyway.
A Perfect Sonnet
By Bright Eyes
It's a shame Conor Oberst is pretty much the definition of emo, because he writes some incredibly beautiful stuff. This is some of that stuff.
Eleanor Put Your Boots Back On
By Franz Ferdinand
Who would have thought that a bunch of art pop lads could write a song like this. It also reminds me of The Warriors because of its references to Coney Island.
Little Wing
By Jimi Hendrix
I've already mentioned that Jimi Hendrix is Black Guitar Jesus. Enough said really.
By Bright Eyes
It's a shame Conor Oberst is pretty much the definition of emo, because he writes some incredibly beautiful stuff. This is some of that stuff.
Eleanor Put Your Boots Back On
By Franz Ferdinand
Who would have thought that a bunch of art pop lads could write a song like this. It also reminds me of The Warriors because of its references to Coney Island.
Little Wing
By Jimi Hendrix
I've already mentioned that Jimi Hendrix is Black Guitar Jesus. Enough said really.
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