(Medicinal) Music Monday

The house is filled with empty boxes of Ibuprofen, discarded tissues and the unmistakeable scent of decongestant spray.

This can mean only one thing.

All three people in this house are as sick as parrots.

Why parrots have been labelled as particularly sick animals I don't know.

I really like this song. It's less dancy than their more recent stuff - and in my mind a helluva lot better. Not to go off on a tangent but one of their recent singles (Rocket?) just sounds like annoying Europop. This doesn't.
Goldfrapp, A&E 

I bought this album ages ago and have barely listened to it since, despite it being a perfectly good album. A trap many fall into when then their collections have long exceeded fifty CDs. And I don't get the Joy Division comparisons, either. Editors, Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors 

Well, this song isn't miserable at all, is it?  It drags, but I like his voice so I think I'll let them get away with it. The Modern Lovers, Hospital

Mollx

I Hope You Appreciate This...

...because I've had to drag myself away from Level 10 of Angry Birds to do it. (funniest when said in a fake-angry voice)

Whaddya mean, "It's still not funny?"


Ahh. Nice indie pop. I'm trying to stop using "indie" quite so much - but "alternative" sounds too mature and "pop" doesn't quite cover it. The Spinto Band, Japan Is An Island

Cool song. Even cooler boots. Amanda Palmer, Guitar Hero

The Walkmen are one of those bands. You know the ones. The ones that you see in magazines or hear on the radio and think "I must look these guys up later". Then, later, you get caught up in watching Criminal Minds and Firefly reruns and totally forget. Anyway, from Stubbs The Zombie, The Walkmen with There Goes My Baby

ZOMG.

Yeah.

Level 11 here I come!

Mollxx

Song Of The Week

Now it's a more acceptable hour of the day, how about a song of the week?

Kimya Dawson, I Miss You. The more I listen to her music, the more I like her. Guess what? She's climbed up to the must-buy list.

AOTS is Dishwalla's Pet Your Friends. Fairly standard post-grunge fair, but enjoyable nontheless.

Mollx

So What? It's The Middle Of The Night!

I'm tired, I'm not feeling very good, and I can't sleep.

So to hell with a theme.

Something nice and soft but with a bit of bite too. Likey likey. About Group, Don't Worry

The return of electro-rock! (oh, who am I kidding. It never went, let alone returned.) 31Knots, Candles On Open Water

This song is bugging me. The verses are all whiny and annoying. But then there's that bloody fantastically addictive chorus. Alex Winston (who reminds me of Sabrina from Raising Hope), Sister Wife 

Mollxx

P.S. See here. Pretty cool song - and a pretty cool guitar, too!

Well, This Is Weird.

I heard this (I say heard - heard about thirty seconds of Sliver as I was getting outta the shower) on Steve Lemaq's 6 Music show today, and I just had to share it. Little Roy, Sliver/Dive.

What do you get if you cross a fantastic Stones song with a post-punk/techno band? This: Devo, Satisfaction

I didn't know the Blondie one is actually a cover - but this is a great cover-of-a-cover. Acid Reign, Hangin' On The Telephone. In a similar vein, L7's version

Stick with it 'til the first chorus. Then it goes from ridiculous to sublime. Lawnmower Deth, Kids In America

Also, see here as to why Lawnmower Deth should actually be called Hod'd'd'd' Deth. (From 3.44, but just watch the whole thing, for gods (or James Mason's*) sake.)

Mollxx
(From 1: 29.)

In Memoriam

Thirty-one years ago today, Ian Curtis killed himself. I'm not a devout Joy Division fan at all - I admire them of course, and I don't think you can call yourself Mancunian without knowing at least some of the words to Love Will Tear Us Apart - but there's no denying they were a brilliant band.

And yes - until not very long ago, Love Will Tear Us Apart was the only song of theirs I knew. For the similarly uninitiated, here's a list of my favourite Joy Division tracks:

She's Lost Control. When I first heard this one, I was underwhelmed. Then I pressed replay. And then I pressed it again. And again. And again....so on and so forth until it became one of my favourites.

Digital. Another one that creeps up on you. But if by this time tomorrow you haven't found yourself murmuring "Day in! Day out! Day in! Day out! Day in! Day out!", I don't think you can be human.

Transmission. The intro is fantastic. 'Nuff said.

Disorder. Their best, in my opinion. I mean, come on! Have you heard that bass line? Plus, it's a really good one to yell along with.

And if you haven't already, go rent Control from the library or somewhere. I watched it a couple of months ago and it's one of those films where, even though you know how it's going to end, it still manages to make you cry. It's beautifully shot too, and Sam Riley is fantastic as Curtis.

Mollx

P.S. The original obituary. A very nice piece. http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&p=8469&title=paul_morley_on_ian_curtis_the_myth_gets_&more=1&c=1

Label Day: Jagjaguwar

Greetings from the opposite end of the Interwebs! Sorry for my absence of late - curse busyness! Anyway, I'm back in time for Label Day, with some very fine tracks from the free-download vaults of Jagjaguwar!

Featured on Radcliffe and Maconie way back when, they've been on the "Yeah, I've Heard Of Them. So?" list ever since. I've now promoted them to the "Stuff To Think About Buying" list (which is so prestigious it has its own YouTube playlist! Cue gasps). The Besnard Lakes, Albatross 

This song is beautiful. Really gorgeous. Peter Wolf Crier, Hard As Nails

Less ethereal than the previous two, but just as lovely. Julie Doiron, Consolation Prize

Mollxx

EDIT: Playlist link fixed now!