Probably my favourite Led Zeppelin song just for the way he sings that line; it’s impossible not to mouth it while big Bobby Plant howls the fuck out of it! I’d recommend A Single Man for all you film buffs. It’s one of those films that seems better in retrospect. Every scene looks like a painting. ‘Green Onions’ and ‘Stormy Weather’ were both featured as well and brought back memories of me and my friends listening to Green Onions playing Final Fantasy VII when I was like 14 hahahaloveit.
Saw Kick-Ass yesterday and it blew me away. Highly recommended. There’s a scene is it where Hit-Girl blasts her way down a hallway full of guys with bazookas, and then Joan Jett booms in amidst the utter chaos. Genius.
So I watched the cool new trailer for the new Wes Anderson-directed Fantastic Mr. Fox film and what stuck out for me most (other than the mental stop motion animation) was the songs attached to it. Don’t think anybody’s really mentioned them so far so here you go.
You know when you just HAVE to be yourself post a song or you’ll just burst? Well I got that when I first heard ‘Odyssey’ by Woolfy when it was posted on I Guess I’m Floating. His description said it best and made me hit the ‘Play’ button instantly.
You’ve been lost on a desert island for 3 days. You find a radio in an abandoned beach shack, still works. You scan the channels looking for some distant flutter of life beneath the static. You turn the dial until the static subsides… it seems your whole life as been condensed down to those few gut wrenching seconds of silence. And then… a few snare hits. A guitar strum. Hand claps. A walking bass line? And then a voice: “Taking your tiimmmmmeee, to seeeeee, yourseelllllff.” “You’re giving it up.” “Odyssey.” You scan your surroundings beaming through a new veil of optimism. Hell, you don’t even care. Passive optimism. “Grab a coconut,” you tell yourself. “Stay a while.”
This weekend saw the “largest ever gathering of clan chiefs” in Edinburgh for ‘Gathering 2009‘. Sounds like some sort of techno festival! LOL. Anyway, Prince Charles (known as the Duke Of Rothesay when in Scotland) and that came up to open the festival, which saw over 50,000 people and representatives from over 125 clans (scattered around the world). I always find it fascinating that there’s about 4.5 million Scots in Scotland but at least 25 million more of us settled abroad.
The Gathering 2009, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh
Don’t ask me what clan I’m in. I don’t have a fecking scooby. Anyway, back to what I do know. For instance, this is a banger.
I have a dilemma. My big MSc year hand-in is due on August 20th but I just recently found out The Proxy is coming to Edinburgh! The question is ‘should I go?‘
Of course I’m gonna fuckin go! Gonna get my ticket this week. So excited I could shoot some trees with a machine gun…
I was perusing the RAKETA blog (well, as much perusing you can do when you can’t read Russian) and found this really great summer mix from a Russian group called 7he Myriads. I know what you’re thinking. I love the use of 7 instead of a T as well. Aaanyway, was deciphering the tracklist and trying to work out what I was listening to and found this band called Cassette Club (the song in the mix was ‘Living In A Video‘). Decided to check them out for myself (hi google) and discovered that they’ve had literally no blog coverage. WTF!? Songs this good should not go unheard. Well fret no longer my love, help has arrived in the form of a 23-yr old Scotsman. Whodathunk eh?
Listen: Cassette Club – Talk To Me
Listen: Cassette Club – Living In A Video
Listen: Cassette Club – Number Seven ←♥♥♥ (All removed by request)
MP3: Cassette Club – Talk To Me
MP3: Cassette Club – Living In A Video
MP3: Cassette Club – Number Seven
Number Seven is my favourite out of this selection. Crying out for a remix too.
Lets big-up 7he Myriads, then, for letting us hear this new band. Megapolice sounds like the soundtrack to a 70s car-chase movie (yeah, yeah i know Bullitt was 1968). Really good actually.
I feel like I’ve gone off point.
What was the point of this post?
Yeah, you guessed it. Scottish Friction regular Boys Noize.
..And I’m not gonna be there. Instead of smashing shit up I’ll just let The Proxy completely annihilate this Boys Noize track… in the best way possible of course. It’s not really payback at all, is it. It’s just making me even more jealous.
This Punks Jump Up remix is a cracker. I’d say this and the JUPITER remix of Chew Lips (another Scottish Friction favourite) are the best remixes I’ve heard for, ooh at least a week, which is like a year in blogtime. Plus they sound nice played one after the other
I’ve been to T in the Park twice now (2006/07) and each time was fantastic. Think it only rained a couple of times. Thats me on the left incase you’re wondering – looking like a twat in my Kamikaze bandana and Devo t-shirt hahaha. I don’t care. Look at our faces. We’re practically glowing. Good beer to man ratio. Great weekend.
So excited about the new Jay Reatard album. I think I worn out Blood Visions within a week of first hearing it. I even started a Jay Reatard myspace page with my favourite song of his at the time because I wanted to add it to my myspace profile but nobody had it! Hahahhaa. How sad is that. I’ve not been on my myspace for aaages. 6,222 plays though! RESULT! Anyway, I really like this new song of his.
Before I forget I got a great email from the Polaris Music Prize-nominatedElephant Stone. I gave their song ‘I Am Blind’ a listen and I think it’s great. T’otherwise I wouldn’t have posted it. If you like it, apparently the album’s streaming at the Indiecater website.
Bassline at the start sounds a bit like Jackie Wilson‘s ‘Higher & Higher’ eh? And that song reminds me of the end scene in ‘Death To Smoochy‘. You have to see that film. Hilarious.
“It’s got, ah, Ted Danson and Magnum P.I. and that Jewish actor…”
It seemed like a throwaway statement when I saw it in The Hangover last week, and there was delayed laughter as it took me about 10 seconds to work out what Zach Galifianakis’ character was talking about. Then it clicked!! I nearly died.
Speaking of hangovers, there’s no better cure for a hangover than the 3,000 year-old Scottish remedy – a bottle of Irn Bru and a Greggs‘ sausage roll (pictured).
Recently I’ve been getting into Miike Snow. I could swear it’s the singer from Passion Pit on a couple of tracks. That’s who they sound like most actually. You could take the best songs from ‘Manners’ and add them to the best tracks ‘Miike Snow’ have to offer and you’d have a pretty awesome debut album from Passion Snow… or Miike Pit. I haven’t really decided.
It’s quite good sometimes how remixers take shite songs and make them good. Just heard this Burns remix of White Lies‘ ‘Death’ over at LAFriendly. It’s not got quite the tyrannosaurus firestorm wamp that the Crystal Castles remix seems to muster from nowhere, but tis still a fine doodle.
Heard sayCet from OhhCrapp a while back when he/she/they did this Panda Bear remix. Loved it then and I love it now. Also just heard this sayCet original. Makes me want to turn out all the lights and hibernate.
The internet is a fast moving beast, so the streaming MP3s that are posted may not work after a while due to them being taken down. And since I can't be arsed uploading them all again it's tough shite. I'll always post a link to a downloadable MP3 though. As always, if you like what you hear - away and buy it eh!
p.s. if I've put up a song you'd rather not see here then let me know, you can email me here
