Feed Jermaine, and let them know it's Easter time
Ah, well last night was better than I could have hoped! Our team (assembled for £80,000) played Chelsea's (costing £120,000,000) off the pitch for all but a fifteen minute spell in the first half. The ground was packed to the rafters and rocking. Every player performed out of their skin. And as the Independent pointed out, if the tie "had finished on this pitch, there would have surely been only one outcome". Chelski were really holding on by the end of the game. I also enjoyed the Independent's other report, which managed to mention Mao's Long March, and the downfall of Slobodan Milosovic!
You can savour Jermaine Easter's equalizer here:
So to celebrate i've got some really great music this evening.
The first I was going to put up in my Trash post the other day, but I ran out of time. Why? Well it sounds to me like a Trash anthem in the making.
The Violets certainly look the part, have a reputation for steaming live shows, and on the evidence of this scorching single have the songs to match.
Loosely based on Hitchcock's Marnie, and propelled by a primal drum beat and driving bass, it's really Alexis' banshee-like vocals on the chorus that set the track apart. I have a lot to get through, so let's just say it's rocking!
THE VIOLETS - FOREO (highly recommended)
The single is released in February on Angular Records - the label that brought us Klaxons & The Long Blondes. I'm going to see them live next week so i'll let you know then whether The Violets will be headed to the same giddy stratospheres.
Now this is good.... the latest thing to become stuck in my CD player is 4 tracks from The Hussy's, drawn from their first two (sold out) EPs. How these have kept off the radar I really don't know... this is some of the best pop music you'll ever hear.
Like a cross between The Pipettes and Long Blondes, but more irresistible than both, the track i've fallen for the most is 'Napoleon'.
'I've got electric hair, and I get bullied by the kind of people who get bullied elsewhere'. Yes, our heroine is turning into Napoleon Dynamite.
But doesn't she sound thrilled about it! From the opening riff you'll be drawn in; and if you're anything like me you'll be singing along by the second chorus. It's irresistibly catchy, sing-a-long stuff. As you know, becoming Napoleon Dynamite is nothing to be ashamed of. He dances like a bitch!
"Now that's what i'm talking about"
THE HUSSYS = NAPOLEON DYNAMITE (very higly recommended)
I find it incredible that despite the amount I love that song, the other three on the CD are almost as good! I don't generally post two tracks, I really have to share at least one more.
This is exactly what I was talking about the other day when I was bemoaning obtuse lyrics... a life summed up in a line.
"We expected great things from you, but you let us down"
THE HUSSYS - WE EXPECTED
Listen to the other two songs - 'Tiger' and 'Marty' on their myspace. They're real good also.
Something else i've really enjoyed is a single by Fanfarlo on the Club Fandango label. It's a bit more low key than the blasts of pop joy above, but very nice all the same. Some Super Furry Animals horns (think 'Northern Lites') nicely augment what sounds like a jolly nice song, but might well be about a serial killer.
In my 'trunk' (we all know it's a boot) I have two hubcaps, that I have been meaning to 'one day' reattach for about 3 years; a pair of wellies left over from Glastonbury; an empty bottle of Brandy and an assortment of burnt out lightbulbs.
Fanfarlo's trunk contains this:
FANFARLO - IN THE TRUNK
You can savour Jermaine Easter's equalizer here:
So to celebrate i've got some really great music this evening.
The first I was going to put up in my Trash post the other day, but I ran out of time. Why? Well it sounds to me like a Trash anthem in the making.
The Violets certainly look the part, have a reputation for steaming live shows, and on the evidence of this scorching single have the songs to match.
Loosely based on Hitchcock's Marnie, and propelled by a primal drum beat and driving bass, it's really Alexis' banshee-like vocals on the chorus that set the track apart. I have a lot to get through, so let's just say it's rocking!
THE VIOLETS - FOREO (highly recommended)
The single is released in February on Angular Records - the label that brought us Klaxons & The Long Blondes. I'm going to see them live next week so i'll let you know then whether The Violets will be headed to the same giddy stratospheres.
Now this is good.... the latest thing to become stuck in my CD player is 4 tracks from The Hussy's, drawn from their first two (sold out) EPs. How these have kept off the radar I really don't know... this is some of the best pop music you'll ever hear.
Like a cross between The Pipettes and Long Blondes, but more irresistible than both, the track i've fallen for the most is 'Napoleon'.
'I've got electric hair, and I get bullied by the kind of people who get bullied elsewhere'. Yes, our heroine is turning into Napoleon Dynamite.
But doesn't she sound thrilled about it! From the opening riff you'll be drawn in; and if you're anything like me you'll be singing along by the second chorus. It's irresistibly catchy, sing-a-long stuff. As you know, becoming Napoleon Dynamite is nothing to be ashamed of. He dances like a bitch!
"Now that's what i'm talking about"
THE HUSSYS = NAPOLEON DYNAMITE (very higly recommended)
I find it incredible that despite the amount I love that song, the other three on the CD are almost as good! I don't generally post two tracks, I really have to share at least one more.
This is exactly what I was talking about the other day when I was bemoaning obtuse lyrics... a life summed up in a line.
"We expected great things from you, but you let us down"
THE HUSSYS - WE EXPECTED
Listen to the other two songs - 'Tiger' and 'Marty' on their myspace. They're real good also.
Something else i've really enjoyed is a single by Fanfarlo on the Club Fandango label. It's a bit more low key than the blasts of pop joy above, but very nice all the same. Some Super Furry Animals horns (think 'Northern Lites') nicely augment what sounds like a jolly nice song, but might well be about a serial killer.
In my 'trunk' (we all know it's a boot) I have two hubcaps, that I have been meaning to 'one day' reattach for about 3 years; a pair of wellies left over from Glastonbury; an empty bottle of Brandy and an assortment of burnt out lightbulbs.
Fanfarlo's trunk contains this:
FANFARLO - IN THE TRUNK
posted by headphonesex @ 10:54 PM
