Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
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Mush and Dial Square
Midway Still are an obscure English indie band who put out an album called Dial Square in the early nineties then seemingly vanished. It’s an amazing album that really captures the essence of the whole music scene that was going on at that time. I still listen to it a lot and it’s definitely on my list of all time favorite albums.
Leatherface are a slightly better known English punk band that released their third album Mush at around the same time. It is considered to be one of the all time great punk albums and the definitive album of… -
4:20 4/20 four twenty
How weird is this? I’m chillaxing in my bed late, it’s storming outside and I’m not able to get my mind to quit racing with the latest idea I’m dreaming up. My brains annoying like that sometimes. So I’m flipping through my itunes randomly picking tracks and as I go to listen to Ice Cube’s amazing “It Was a Good Day” I notice that it is exactly 4:20 in length. I’m pretty sure I never noticed before, which makes sense because when I used to listen to that song a lot was way back before I made my way over…
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Kill Your Television?
In 1991 for about 2 months 27 days 9 hours and 11 minutes Ned’s Atomic Dustbin were the biggest band in my world. I just loved the sound of how their dual basses played off each other and they had the whole moshing and crowd surfing scene nailed which was exactly what I was looking for.
But that’s not what this post is really about.
I sometimes listen to their albums to reminisce, mostly it’s not that good, I mean it was great for a 13 year old pop kid, but these days I mainly skip through to their anthems… -
Music within music
I’ve been hearing whispers about this around the web for a few weeks now and finally had a listen. It’s really just freaking amazing. They’ve taken the Jurassic Park movie theme song, which is pretty great to begin with, and slowed it down 1000%. What we’re left with is almost an hours worth of something eerily cosmic. This shit is just blowing my fucking mind right now. It’s probably a case of me being in the exact right mood for this kinda thing, but the sensation it’s giving me is that whilst I’m just a humble gathering of atoms on…
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Sid did it his way
Call me a twisted freak but there’s something I’ve always respected about the idea of a skag-head, who ends up killing his girlfriend before dying of an overdose, singing “I did it my way”. Put your headphones on, crank up the volume, and hit play. The whole thing’s just perfect, not just what it is, but also the idea of what it is. From around 27 seconds in when he grabs the mike so hard he ends up smacking himself in his own face, then into the raw power his whole being exudes as he bellows out the tale of…
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a Dog & Panther show
I’d like to introduce you to a band I recently discovered that has been giving me no end of pleasure these last few weeks. Whether I’m driving home from work down Woodward Avenue, am on a transatlantic flight halfway across the ocean in the dead of night, or strolling down Brick Lane soaking up the inspiring creative atmosphere in the East End of London, I can’t but help turn to the magic of their music. Loving every moment of their perfectly composed sound-waves seeping out my headphones, through my ears and into my brain, before eventually piercing the very essence…
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Randy Ramone
There’s something about seeing Randy Jackson wearing a biker jacket on TV tonight that gives me the sensation the shark has jumped on the whole Ramones look thing. The irony does not escape me that the ‘jumped the shark’ idiom comes from a moment in TV history when a once cool guy decided to water-ski over a shark in a…that’s right – a leather jacket. And I don’t wanna be mean to Randy, I like the guy – he keeps it real – he’s my dog yo (if you know what I mean?). I know he’s worn leather jackets before…
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A little Folsom Prison Blues
I love music and it definitely inspires me in big ways. Johnny Cash is a legend and Folsom Prison Blues is legendary. I’ve probably heard the song a thousand times but for some reason when I was driving home the other day I really connected with a particular verse. There’s a lot of great lyrics out there but the thing with the Johnny Cash ones is they’re easy to hear. It’s almost like he’s talking rather than singing and most times he’s telling you a story from beginning to end, which makes it all very entertaining. Look I don’t want…