You know i'm no good
If like me you've been in tonight, you are probably searching out an antidote to the increasingly overblown Brit awards.
I thought Amy Winehouse was excellent, and I must admit that 'Rehab' has been popping into my head at ever decreasing intervals recently. I contemplated posting something, but everything I have of hers is here. So go there & get clicking. The more I listen the more I like. Both the singles are great, and though you too must be tired of hearing how rock 'n' roll she is, she does possess a destructive fascination that's compulsory for any decent pop star.
Otherwise the whole thing was a demonstration of production values and lavish sets covering up some mediocre music. The Scissor Sisters show was great to watch (i'm sure it'll be on youtube soon if you didn't see it), but it can't cover up the fact that 'I don't feel like dancing' isn't very good. 'Chasing Cars' had some spectacular lighting, but it didn't stop it being dull. Joss Stone has undergone a bizarre transformation... she's swapped her endearing Devon accent for a transatlantic sludge, and tottered about on heels & a tiny dress like Beyonce getting ready for a night out in Newcastle. Anthony Keidis is a 50-year old man with a teenage girls' socks on his hands. Take That showed that pretty young boys turn into fat and grizzled middle-aged men. Gah, I just remembered that James Morrison & Orson won awards! And that The Killers won two! It's good to see that the judges are still a bunch of coked up record execs in Armani suits. That sounds like a Patrick Bateman playlist.
But ah yes, 'The 2007 Brits belonged to Oasis', as they picked up a lifetime achievement award or somesuch.... and then demonstrated why no-one likes them anymore with a mini live set. To be fair it was good that they didn't play the obvious songs... but I think I can isolate their decline to the point where they started sacking band members & replacing them with competent session musicians. They turned from a gang of working-class lads turned good, to a pair of ego ridden rockstars and some performing monkeys.
Liam's voice was shit; Noel looked bored. They played a dreadful (but mercifully short) song that wouldn't have got near 'Definitely Maybe' or 'What's the Story'. And when Liam sang 'all I need is Cigarette and Alcoh..' it was with so little conviction it became ludicrous. The more he tries to be a rock 'n' roll star, the more he fails.
I was lucky enough to see Oasis a couple of times on their way to the top, and for their time they were perfect. They gave the music business a kick up the arse. They were thrilling live. They wrote effortlessly anthemic songs. They don't half sound dated now though.
Here are some more professional cynics....
And here's Joss Stone being fucking weird:
Ah shit, did I promise an antidote to all this?
Well how about something new on Ed Banger? Why not indeed. For in March 'Ed Recs Vol. 2' hits the shelves, your stereos and your nightclubs.
You may be asking what happened to volume 1? Well it seems that it was a promo only affair that compiled tracks from previous singles. This on the other hand is available to all, and nearly all new. Hurrah!
Fresh meat by Uffie & SebastiAn; a new Klaxons remix; and 'Phantom' by Justice should tantalise you enough. The highlight though is this cracker from the cruelly underrated Vicarious Bliss.
My best description of it would be that it sounds like an Alan Braxe remix of Justice... with the luscious 'maximal' sheen of the former, and the crunchy beats of the latter.
It's kind of like this
with the demon replaced by a cuddly bear with sweet breath and a warm embrace.
It's good.
VICARIOUS BLISS - LIMOUSINE
I thought Amy Winehouse was excellent, and I must admit that 'Rehab' has been popping into my head at ever decreasing intervals recently. I contemplated posting something, but everything I have of hers is here. So go there & get clicking. The more I listen the more I like. Both the singles are great, and though you too must be tired of hearing how rock 'n' roll she is, she does possess a destructive fascination that's compulsory for any decent pop star.
Otherwise the whole thing was a demonstration of production values and lavish sets covering up some mediocre music. The Scissor Sisters show was great to watch (i'm sure it'll be on youtube soon if you didn't see it), but it can't cover up the fact that 'I don't feel like dancing' isn't very good. 'Chasing Cars' had some spectacular lighting, but it didn't stop it being dull. Joss Stone has undergone a bizarre transformation... she's swapped her endearing Devon accent for a transatlantic sludge, and tottered about on heels & a tiny dress like Beyonce getting ready for a night out in Newcastle. Anthony Keidis is a 50-year old man with a teenage girls' socks on his hands. Take That showed that pretty young boys turn into fat and grizzled middle-aged men. Gah, I just remembered that James Morrison & Orson won awards! And that The Killers won two! It's good to see that the judges are still a bunch of coked up record execs in Armani suits. That sounds like a Patrick Bateman playlist.
But ah yes, 'The 2007 Brits belonged to Oasis', as they picked up a lifetime achievement award or somesuch.... and then demonstrated why no-one likes them anymore with a mini live set. To be fair it was good that they didn't play the obvious songs... but I think I can isolate their decline to the point where they started sacking band members & replacing them with competent session musicians. They turned from a gang of working-class lads turned good, to a pair of ego ridden rockstars and some performing monkeys.
Liam's voice was shit; Noel looked bored. They played a dreadful (but mercifully short) song that wouldn't have got near 'Definitely Maybe' or 'What's the Story'. And when Liam sang 'all I need is Cigarette and Alcoh..' it was with so little conviction it became ludicrous. The more he tries to be a rock 'n' roll star, the more he fails.
I was lucky enough to see Oasis a couple of times on their way to the top, and for their time they were perfect. They gave the music business a kick up the arse. They were thrilling live. They wrote effortlessly anthemic songs. They don't half sound dated now though.
Here are some more professional cynics....
And here's Joss Stone being fucking weird:
Ah shit, did I promise an antidote to all this?
Well how about something new on Ed Banger? Why not indeed. For in March 'Ed Recs Vol. 2' hits the shelves, your stereos and your nightclubs.
You may be asking what happened to volume 1? Well it seems that it was a promo only affair that compiled tracks from previous singles. This on the other hand is available to all, and nearly all new. Hurrah!
Fresh meat by Uffie & SebastiAn; a new Klaxons remix; and 'Phantom' by Justice should tantalise you enough. The highlight though is this cracker from the cruelly underrated Vicarious Bliss.
My best description of it would be that it sounds like an Alan Braxe remix of Justice... with the luscious 'maximal' sheen of the former, and the crunchy beats of the latter.
It's kind of like this
with the demon replaced by a cuddly bear with sweet breath and a warm embrace.
It's good.
VICARIOUS BLISS - LIMOUSINE
posted by headphonesex @ 11:56 PM
