Apartment - Custard

Damn right this is now nothing but songs about apartments.

Apartment - Young the Giant

A very stupid band name but a really good chorus! Get into it now before its featured on a season finale of some dumb american drama and gets overplayed to the point of ruination.

Also, although good, totally not the best song about apartments.

Myriad Harbour - The New Pornographers

I love them not only because they're pornographers, but also because they're new to it (although they've been making ace music for quite sometime now). (Under that name). (I wonder if anyone will ever start referring to them as "The Pornographers").

(Also, now I want to start a cover band and call it "The New New Pornographers").

(Also, how freaking great is the line:
"Someone somewhere asked me is there anything in particular I can help you with? 
/All I ever wanted help with was you" )

Hot Water & Milk - Spiderbait

A.k.a. the song that I was tracking down yesterday. So. Damn. Rock.

For some reason I couldn't embed the proper film clip one though. That ones better, so check it out here.

Lonely in your arms - Deep Sea Arcade (In which Gareth pines for the days of Australian alternative rock and roll...)

So I spent today in a nostalgic haze... For some reason I started listening to a bunch of the old Australian bands I used to love in the late 90's/early 00's and I was just blown away with how great and relevant they still sounded- but then remembered just how much I hadn't been getting into anything recently. How could Aus music, having been so incredible, experimental and, most importantly, interesting take such a wrong turn down the neon-lighted, but soulless dance avenue, or the laid-back, emotionless surfer one-pieces.

That's not to say there isn't anything around anymore, there's always worthwhile music out there somewhere, but it's certainly not being played on the radio. I'll defend Triple J until the end of my life, no matter what shift they put the doctor on (or hell, even if they hire Robbie Buck back) but I think everyone knows they're not the station they used to be.

Is it their fault? Has the audience changed and this is their new desire? Am I just now too old and I have a little of the what-I-thought-was-hot-is-now-not syndrome going on? Maybe... but at the same time- fuck that!  Yes, music is subjective, but great music is not. Great music is for the ages. Great music never gets old. Great music gives you that all-over tingle and gets stuck in your head, but in the best way possible. I'm talking about dropping your preconceived notions of what kind of music you're into.... there's good stuff in every genre.

Lastly though, great music sometimes get lost. If I have a point to get to in this post: its that. So, in an effort to remind myself of bands I'll probably at one stage forget, and with the hopeful side effect of getting some other people to listen to them, I'll put linking one song per day from now until I run out of songs (or get bored). Maybe I'll write some words to go with, maybe I wont. It's a mystery. Tune in regularly to see what answer to it is....

Lonely in your arms
By Deep Sea Arcade

So another genre thats popular and sooooo at risk of being over exposed at the moment is what a friend of mine has deemed "Cuddle Pop". It certainly seems to be dominating the local scene at least. However, I don't want to through out the dishes with the dishwater, as it were. Lonely in your arms is a bittersweet masterpiece with a catchy chorus and a killer bridge. If I had to compare it to a creme biscuit it would be one of those ones with the orange creme.

Music blog end of year finale - Bangin' on about the classics

And so.... Here we are at the end of the year, with what looks like to be the final music blog. However- we will be back next year if there is enough popular demand. The music never stops, so why should this blog?

Heroes
By David Bowie

Aka The Thin White Duke Aka Starman Aka Ziggy Stardust. Bowie is a justifiable legend. If the music scene was like some kind of fantastical far away land, David Bowie would be some kind of rare beast. Like a Unicorn. NO!.. Like King of the Unicorns. David Bowie is the Supreme commander of all Unicorn kind.

This song has been covered many a time, but the original is still the best. It's also something of a karaoke staple, so it really gets my goat when they don't have it available to sing.

Spanish Castle Magic
By Jimi Hendrix

In this ficitonal far-away land, Jimi Hedrix would be a wandering minstrel with an enchanted loot wandering from town to town and casting spells on himself to get high. Eventually he'd cast sleep on himself too many times and wind up dead. Then his bust german wench would commit suicide. This isn't a happy fantasy land...

This song is for screaming out the window while hurtling down the highway on a roadtrip... Or sitting in your room.

Quinn The Eskimo
By Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan would be a drunk dwarf. And be followed around by his posse of similarly drunk dwarves.

Best drunken sing-along chorus ever.

Super Bonus Modern Classic:
Paranoid Android
By Radiohead

Radiohead would be like scientists, holed up in thier technofortress trying to kill magic because they don't fit into a magical based world.

If they created a nation of sentient robots and then attempted to invade the fantasy world, this would be their anthem.

Super Late New Australian Music Time.

War Coward
By Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!

Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! have an awesome name and are from the awesome city of Adelaide. The song came from the band members love of WW2 rather than any recent war atrocities. My favorite part is how the guitar part seems to sound like its a totally different song with totally different timing.

Flippers
By Art Vs. Science

Art Vs. Science, or AVS for short, are from somewhere in New South Wales and could very well be the next Presets. I'm not entirely convinced about their credentials as scientists, but they can rock a fine beat, so I guess they bring the art. This is also the 2nd or 3rd best song about dancing like a fish. That I can think of at the moment at least. Well.. I like it better than the salmon dance at least.

My Sun
By The Temper Trap

This one is actually a little older, but the Temper Trap have recently released their first album so I dont think its cheating to add it here. They also follow the great Australian tradition of having their early stuff be VASTLY different to what eventually ends up on the album (I'm still pissed at Expatriate.... why no killer cat damn you!), but their album is actually pretty nice too, so I'm sure I'll live.