Listening
A propos of nothing in particular, here’s what I put on my MP3 player when I went away the other week:
- Alabama 3 - Outlaw
- More directly country-acid-house than their last one (I mean, their last proper album; obviously it’s more acid house than the acoustic album). “Last Train to Mashville” is particularly good.
- Girls Aloud - Chemistry
- I’m belatedly realizing that the video for “See The Day” was really good. As is the video for “Whole Lotta History.”
- Tatu - Dangerous and Moving
- For non-native speakers of English, they have some great lyrics. I realize F. R. Leavis is, strictly speaking, dead, but I’m considering convoking a seance in order to get a New Critical interpretation of “Cosmos”.
- DJ Whoo Kid and DJ E-Rock - Bay Bidness
- A Bay Area mixtape which features a great track from Hoodstarz which introduced me to the expression “Get your grown man on,” i.e., dress up in proper clothes. Also, the splendid E (or X, or purple, as the Americans call it) fueled R&B lightness of J. Valentine’s “Go Dumb”. Also, E-40’s “Tell Me When to Go,” which has a great Oakland-set video.
- Ghostface Killa - Fishscale
- The absurdly sentimental Ghostface Killa is as good as ever. Features a song about getting beaten by his mother which is all upbeat soul-samples and heartbreaking lyrics.
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
- I thought this was a bit blah when I first heard it, but it’s really grown on me. Manages to be both surprisingly conventional and more experimental than most of the British neo-post-punk I’ve heard.
I also listened to a podcast of Mark Lawson interviewing Orhan Pamuk about being put on trial for not denying the Armenian genocide. Mark Lawson remains a wanker, though.
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Hey Tim, did you hear about the new series on Channel 4 called Boys Will Be Boys?
“Former 80’s boyband star Nathan Moore and music industry guru Olivier Bezardi want to pull off one the most audacious stunts in the history of pop: passing off a bunch of former male stars as a hot new girlband.”
If you look at the photo while clicking on the Girls Aloud link then it instantly morphs from men in drag to girls in drag. Scary.
Comment by Moll @ 4/17/2006 1:10 pm
hm, the link didn’t work. Try again: here
Comment by Moll @ 4/17/2006 1:12 pm
I had heard about that Boys Will be Boys program through a disparaging remark on PopJustice. But your link reminded me to download the Girls Aloud documentary, so many thanks for that.
Comment by tim @ 4/17/2006 10:09 pm
Tim, any chance you have a’communist’ track for the mix I’m putting together. Free copy in return, o’course. Trying to bridge the pond a bit; you might say this is a bad thing though, dunno.
Comment by Matt @ 4/20/2006 12:21 pm