This morning I found out that Ringo Deathstarr are supporting the Smashing Pumpkins on tour. This is big news. It was so big to me that I had to read the announcement thrice, take a step back and then wallow for a few hours in an inexplicable ‘the…
It’s not entirely inexplicable. R. Deathstarr were among the handful
of bands at the forefront of my neo-gaze studies a few years ago.
Unlike pinkshinyultrablast and Stella Luna, they didn’t just abandon
us after a single EP. A couple of years later, along came a full
length called Imagine Hearts and, oh, just look at them now
*wipes tear*.
Here’s an early track called ‘Starrsha’. I’ve set it up against the
less energetic ‘About You’ by The Jesus and Mary Chain – for
obvious reasons.
I must confess I like The High Wire more than Sigur Ros despite the latter possessing significantly greater amounts of technical merit. It took about half a dozen listens before The Sleep Tape managed to whack me firmly on the noggin to say “OI PA…
I must confess I like The High Wire more than Sigur Ros despite the latter possessing significantly greater amounts of technical merit. It took about half a dozen listens before The Sleep Tape managed to whack me firmly on the noggin to say “OI PAY ATTENTION I am a good album… see?” (yes you are). Meanwhile Sigur Ros, in all their subtlety, don’t really care what I think. They’re all like “Soz, can’t hear your neutrality over our ethereal otherworldliness” and then they emit some ethereal otherworldly sounds.
Given their detachment from the real world, I doubt they noticed the little ‘Hoppipola’ soundalike sitting quietly in the midst of ‘Honeycomb’.
WHAT, Secret Shine are ripping off My Bloody Valentine again? HOW CAN THIS BE?!?! If what ran through your mind is something along those lines plz drop your Shoegazer Club Membership Card at the desk and GTFO for any ‘gazer worth his salt and memb…
WHAT, Secret Shine are ripping off My Bloody Valentine
again? HOW CAN THIS BE?!?!
If what ran through your mind is something along those lines plz drop
your Shoegazer Club Membership Card at the desk and GTFO for any
‘gazer worth his salt and membership card knows that photocopying MBV
is Secret Shine’s USP.
Behold – their version of ‘Sometimes’ which they fondly refer to as ‘Last Words’
One of Todd Rundgren’s assorted bands – Nazz – has a song called ‘Open My Eyes’ which I only know of because it featured in a Nuggets compilation. This is because I don’t really swing the pre-1980s way. There are exceptions though, and one of thos…
One of Todd Rundgren’s assorted bands – Nazz – has a song
called ‘Open My Eyes’ which I only know of because it featured in a
Nuggets compilation. This is because I don’t really swing the
pre-1980s way. There are exceptions though, and one of those
exceptions is The Who and that is why it took me mere
milliseconds to go from ‘hey that’s The Who!’ to ‘oh. No it’s not’
when I first heard ‘Open My Eyes’ because you know as well as I do
that the opening is blatantly Mr. Townshend’s. I think Todd R. ruins a
spectacular riff, though, when he decides to buzzsaw into it 3 seconds
after it launches. You need to revert to the ‘original’ for auditory
closure.
Why I do believe Familiar Sounds gold has been struck and I owe it all to my favourite German.My Rostock-dwelling friend sent me a link to a song from 1980 called ‘All That Heaven Allows’ by a German post-punk band called Fehlfarben.”Does somethin…
I saw the Silversun Pickups’ Melbourne show last night. They didn’t play either of these songs but I know them well enough to have noticed the resemblance between Swoon’s ‘Draining’ and Carnavas’ ‘Waste It On’ when I heard ‘Draining’. Now, let it …
I saw the Silversun Pickups‘ Melbourne show last night. They didn’t play either of these songs but I know them well enough to have noticed the resemblance between Swoon‘s ‘Draining’ and Carnavas’ ‘Waste It On’ when I heard ‘Draining’. Now, let it be known that I am a Carnavas-girl through and through. However I must admit that I much prefer ‘Draining’ to its older doppelganger – I love that cello, it’s marvellous. I love SPPU. I can’t believe I saw them. Here, listen:
I could scarcely believe this one myself.What I could believe even less was how no one else on the internets appeared to have noticed. It’s not like ‘Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean’ by Explosions in the Sky and ‘Grounded’ by Pavement are exce…
I could scarcely believe this one myself.
What I could believe even less was how no one else on the internets appeared to have noticed.
It’s not like ‘Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean’ by Explosions in the Sky and ‘Grounded’ by Pavement are exceptionally elusive search topics for Google. Explosions in the Sky, maaaan, there is only one.
It’s also not like there’s not an overlap in listeners of both bands. Sure, the styles of music are different but jeez, indie kids, you have failed me.
This is my favourite Pavement song.
I heard Elvis Costello’s ‘Pump It Up’ while trying out a new cafe this weekend. He doesn’t really make the kind of music I’m into (ya dig, daddy-o?) so it’s quite fortunate I heard it at all, and quite fortunate that I managed to pick up, over the…
aka ‘wut?’Back with a bang making a rather risky claim. I promise I’ve thought it through, but it just so happens that WHENEVER I hear the opening of the Ronettes’ ‘Be My Baby’, I instantly think of the two lines off one of my favourite Beatles so…
As always, I might be alone in a corner with my observations, but dammit, I make the connection EVERY TIME and that’s reason enough to post it.
The more I listen to this, the more I think it’s just me. Perhaps it’s the ‘if’ bit. Perhaps the songs are too well-known to everyone else. Perhaps I need to do a better mashup to prove my point. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps HEY AT LEAST I’M STILL AROUND, eh, how about some credit there?
Mere words cannot express how agonising it is to put this up.It’s bad enough one of the bands is Jet. We already knew they’d taken the intro to ‘Look What You’ve Done’ from Oasis’ ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ which in turn was happily mooched from L…
It’s bad enough one of the bands is Jet. We already knew they’d taken the intro to ‘Look What You’ve Done’ from Oasis’ ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ which in turn was happily mooched from Lennon‘s ‘Imagine’ – I’m not even going into that.
But when it came on mutedly at a cafe, and I heard the launch of the chorus, I found myself singing along to it – only I wasn’t singing the song that was playing, I was singing a song by the Verve called ‘Sonnet.’
