Showing posts with label review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label review. Show all posts

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Running a straw man up the flagpole

"new music what I are listen to:

Amusement Parks on Fire
The Arcade Fire
Beck
The Divine Comedy
Fountains of Wayne
Gotan Project
Guillimots
Hope of the States
Oxes
Sara Tavares
The Secret Machines
Sigur Ros
Sonic Youth
Steve Reich
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Frank Zappa"


This submission is from Simon Day of 14 Ellis Road, Cardiff. (This is not his real address. We changed it to protect his privacy. His real address is 16 Ellis Road Cardiff.) My question: what's wrong with this submission? Answer: he hasn't rated any of this on our scale of 13! We don't make up these obscure, difficult schemes for you to ignore them. Did you think we were just running a straw man up the flagpole?
If any of you have difficulties with this, please call the help line (number witheld) who don't know anything about it. Or you can e-mail me but I don't understand it either. Let's try and get through this together.

Monday, January 8, 2007

5 albums I've binged on during the last 3 years

So let's get started with a few personal selections. If you hate them all, then maybe you mistakenly came to this web site because your google porn search was full of typos. For those of you who aren't illiterate pervs, here's the list.

Want Two - Rufus Wainwright
I'm old enough to remember his dad, but his dad was never this brlliant
Vehicles and Animals - Athlete
It's pop music, but so, so much more. And every song outstanding
Half These Songs Are About You - Nizlopi
Isn't it great that people can still invent music like this, so unlike anything else out there at the moment. Featured recently on a trailer for McLeod's Daughters - because of its typical evocation of remote outbacks full of beautiful people?
Shaman - Santana
Maybe the most emotional guitarist ever, put into a context of real songs. Although probably the producer should have told him to shut the f@#! up at certain points, it's still a brilliant modern combination.

Going Somewhere - Colin Hay
Not many people can carry off an album of just (more or less) acoustic guitar plus voice. It's called talent. In case you don't know, Colin Hay was the lead singer with Men At Work, of Land Down Under fame.
Room for Squares - John Mayer
I'm working backwards through John Mayer's work and it keeps getting better. Which is good for me but worrying for him.

Was that 5?