now im on wordpress
bit of a spur of the moment decision
but it's offering me a better service and layout

new url is http://horrorshowtunez.wordpress.com

it might not look that good right now, it's amidst editing so bear with me

Was sent recently this track from a reasonably new indie two-piece, it's the lead single off of their forthcoming 2009 debut album. They're from Sweden, they're called the Sweet Serenades. It's really good, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the outcome if Abba decided to take an indie direction with their work. And that's not solely because of their shared port of origin, this music is genuinely up-beat and feelgood. It makes me very happy.




MP3: Mona Lee


Also thought that I'd post, on the subject of Sweden, about Lykke Li, she's someone I sort of ignored through 2008, now i have her album though, and upon first listening it's really good, if I had heard it earlier I might have included it in my best of year list. Well on first listen my favourite track is "Breaking It Up". the lyrical story of which I've ended up on the other side :/ but its a great song!

Lykke Li - Breaking It Up

She's also starred in the recent big triet with kanye west and santogold on the track "Gifted", it's pretty much on every blog, so not really much need to post it again, though you can find it here

DMCfuckingA!!!

I don't understand why they need to take down posts without notifying me first, i have a perfectly good disclaimer to my right. As it states, I would remove any track immeadiately. I have a sneaking suspicion of what caused it out of the ten tracks but i'm not going to be risky. I'm rather pissed off as it deleted all of my analytical musings as well!!

Here's my list but bereft of mp3s. I still want it up

10. Last Shadow Puppets - Age of the Understatement
9. Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
8. Late of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
7. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
6. Noah & The Whale - Peaceful the World Lays Me down
5. Foals - Antidotes
4. Bloc Party - Intimacy
3. Vampire Weekend - S/T
2. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
1. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals

I've been listening to a few good remixes recently, having a good dance about. I'm only going to post the one today though. One I was sent earlier that it is actually surprisingly goood. It is by a dj/remixer of the name "Death to the Throne" who sent me this in an email, its actually something good that has been sent. I have to admit his other tracks sort of fall short in comparison, no offence to the guy just this reworking of Chromeo's fancy footwork is actually one that does not diminish the songs quality.

here it is:
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Death To The Throne Remix)

be sure to check him out on MySpace:
Death To The Throne

I feel like posting some songs, just because of the great lyrics

"Wouldn't it be great to be Dorian Gray, just for a day?"
The Libertines - Narcissist
A lovely question, wouldn't we all want to be that man of beauty from Oscar Wilde's novel. Its a great book which although overtly gay does conjure up some amazing imagery, coupled with the characterisation of the central character as this lustful, passion-desiring man who would sink to the lowest of lows and commit the most heinous acts for no fear of reprisal. I don't think i'd want to be him to be honest, there is such a lack of restraint and his nature is despicable

"It was all a dream/I used to read word up magazine"
Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy
Possibly the best opening line ever. Rhyming dream and magazine makes it a winner which although i guess is not a hard rhyme, just stuck out at me as a good'un. The song also mentions super nintendo and the sega genesis consoles. Which is coooool. Also can't wait to see the Notorious film coming out next year.
TRAILER:


"Loooooooooovvve me, wherever you are"
Razorlight - Wire to Wire
Ok, basic chorus but still I find it touching. The song is also very good, even coming from a band which are decidedly hit and miss with me. I absolutely hate Borrell, i'm sure of that but the band just produce good song after good song. I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't actually involved in the rest of the song. The song's also been stuck in my head for a while now so I thought it best to include here.

Ok, it's gone and past now, but couple of days ago i was listed in the hottest blog section on hype machine :) to prove look left for the pic. Well I might not have been at the top, which I would like to one day but it was a good advancement and my hits are nearing 25,000. Which i like to be fair.

Anyway, I want to post a few tracks that I've been enjoying recently

Cut Copy - Far Away

The Hold Steady - Stay Positive

Los Campesinos - Death to Los Campesinos!

Wow I actually received something good in my email inbox yesterday, sorry to the people who send me stuff, but mostly it is not to my liking, yeah there have been a few good tracks here and there.

Well I've heard of Spinto Band somewhere before, either an enthusiastic friend/magazine article but my memory deceives me. Anyway the two songs I was given were from their recent album Moonwink and they are pretty awesome

I actually want this album now, based on the strength of these songs

The Spinto Band - Summer Grof

and also their new single and generally awesome song
The Spinto Band - Pumpkins and Paisley

I just listened to the new Justice live album, "A cross the Universe" and god darn it's very good. Just an amazing recording of a show I would very much liked to have been at.

It's got great tracks on it throughout. There are a few bands that I have yet to see that I seriously long to. Justice are one of them, this just affirms their amazing live shows like i've seen before on tv from their glastonbury and reading fest sets.

Well I recommend you buy it on it's release this coming monday! Here's a preview

Justice - We Are Your Friends (Reprise)

Justice - DVNO

blog has had like two recent layout changes, I'm stick with this one I think, it's rather interesting, abit different and well I just cannot be arsed anymore, i spent an hour making a logo earlier for it only not to show up on the blog page when i tried to insert it. goddamit!

oh well

now, I'm over that testing of my patience, it's time for some mussickkkkk
two covers today that I can't stop listening to, they're faaaaaaantastic

Vampire Weekend - Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac Cover)

Noah & the Whale - Girlfriend in a Coma (The Smiths Cover)

Because I haven't done a Tuesday Tuneage post in a while I thought I should post this for good measure. Just the three tracks though, don't want to post too much music as i've had a post the last couple days too.

Lil Wayne - Mrs Officer
I like this? I don't even know why specifically. 'Tis good and as more and more hip hop enters into my musical habit it can't be a bad thing, broadens my cultural palette and all that.

Foals - Astronauts 'N All
Just another Foals song that's rather good. I love the band, definitely on the list of 'have to see live'

Justice - DVNO
My favourite Justice song, Cross is just an album I can continually go back to, it's very easy to listen to.

Side note - Good at design? Not got anything to do?
Design me a logo please
use photoshop or something just send it in a jpeg file, so i can upload it, try to get the same shade of red if you can
the hex code for the red is #cc0000

Just a little post about some albums I've been listening to recently, bit of a mixed sort and definitely older. These are some tracks I've never posted before I do believe.


Kanye West - Homecoming feat. Chris Martin

I'm a sucker for a good pop song every now and then, this pulled me in when it was released, I'm surprised i never mentioned it before. Now with his latest album on the verge of release and the surprisingly good sung song "Love Lockdown" out and about, what better time than to revisit the last of Kanye's bear cover albums? This song is a personal favourite of mine, it does work really well, especially Chris Martin's chorus.


Beck - Girl

The 2003 album Guero was what first got me into Beck, I just pretty much loved it and this song, Girl is definitely a highlight, if not THE highlight of the album. From the Gameboy sampling beginning this song is great.

ffffffffinally, some old Panic At The Disco
I actually really liked their first album, bit of a guilty pleasure, but at the end of the day musically the album was really good, yeah it's a bit emo and all abit over the top with its long titles but I just really enjoyed when i first got it. Whatever you say won't disuade me, they had balls to change direction recently and it paid off but seriously I wouldn't have minded a second album of similar stuff

Panic at the Disco - The Only Difference Between Martydom and Suicide is Press Coverage

Keane just seem to be getting forever better with each album, I liked them when they started, the first album was a good, slow & melodic LP and the 2nd just seemed to better that, they gained even more popularity to the dismay of NME. I can't help liking them. There is just something about this band that screams a likability, yes it was funny that the lead singer was on drugs, he looks so innocent!, but musically these guys are geniuses. Their latest effort "Perfect Symmetry" is actually quite good. On first listen I really like it, are they the only modern band whose follow-ups better their previous works?

Keane - Spiralling
First single and immeadiate highlight of the album, being the opener

Also for those who don't remember their sophomore album,
Keane - Nothing In My Way
It's definitely my favourite song off that album, Under the Iron Sea

the blogger police

I had a post deleted due to thew copyright reasons apparently. I'm rather annoyed they didn't actually contact me and they went straight throught to blogger about it. As stated on the right hand side, I will remove any track if it bothers people, they don't have to go and get rid of my intellectual musings goddamit!

Well anyway I think I can guess what the offending track was now, so that is an artist I won't post anymore of, (if you want to guess, it begins with a 'Run' and ends with a 'C')

I think it shouldn't've been offending copyright holders, think I would have piqued alot of interest for that song again with the 100+ people who viewed my blog recently. I'm going to continue to blog and stick it to the man,so there.

Depeche Mode - People Are People

The Clash - Train in Vain

Willy Mason - We Can Be Strong

In my 100th post and on Halloween especially, I present the 5 scariest songs ever! And not the ones that are just shouting!


Radiohead - National Anthem
It spooks me out as soon as that sinister bass line kicks in, there's something evil in the track and Thom Yorke's vocals don't help out, been amplified with a weird metallic effect, he sounds like a squealing robot and i mean a robot IN PAIN. Plus singing "everyone's got fear" is just scary enough.

Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage
The church organ does it for me, the lyrics are sinister and foreboding enough, but the organ, god damn it sounds evil and damning, like this tale leads to hell. The drum beat as well, what's that about? it sounds like it could jump out and attack someone

Justice - Stress
You'd be forgiven for thinking you were suddenly in some highly tense movie. The beat is just freaky, ain't it? building and building like danger is round the corner, I would not like to listen to this while out at night.

The Zutons - You've Got a Friend in Me
It's not the music here, but the sinister stalker lyrics, it's just frightening the prospect of what the singer describes.

We Are Scientists - Ghouls
I chose this basically because of the title, that's scary, right? It's got a slow, mellow but also frightening beat, the questioning lyrics sung almost monotonously add to the suspense/tension


So there you have it, I hope you're significantly more frightened than you were say half an hour ago.

100th post CELEBRATION TIME - waheeeeeeey what a milestone!

is this possibly the weirdest two tracks posted together at any one time?

Monkey - Monkey Bee
This is a brilliant track off of the Monkey musical soundtrack, there's a live action impressive vid for it, slightly edited version of the song though I think, well i love the chinese dance vibe it gives off, great!


Canned Heat - Let's Work Together
This song i heard the other day and remembered it's inclusion in Big Fish by Tim Burton. It fits in really well with the scene and is a generally good song.

I need to blog more, 6 so far this month is just poor.

If you're familiar with this blog you may have read me going on about Feral Mare a fair bit, well their drummer and a friend of mine, Tom Clements has recently joined this other band who I'm liking very much. The name is run, WALK! and people who listen to XFM may be familiar with them as they were recently part of that uploaded thing right? well they could've won the chance to support the subways and unfairly lost out.

But anyway, they're really good, saw them the other day in the railway inn in winch, £5 entry you can't go wrong. The songs sound much better live aswell, it may be because the recorded tracks don't have tom on them, he's been described as changing the band "from the white stripes to death from above on crack" a observation fairly made.

run, WALK! - GOD! I hate old friends


In other news, I love itunes, it may because i'm using a mac now but i was once adversely against apple's music player. It does have downsides but majoratively its awesome, the genius feature is bona fide ingenuity. Well my last played on itunes are:

Girl Talk - Don't Stop

Laura Marling - Captain and the Hourglass

The Streets - Fit But You Know It

don't have a cold and or flu, just been really cold today especially shopping in b'stoke, surprised that it didn't rain. But I had fun today, got some new clothes, spending my hard earned wages. Felt like posting the following that I've recently listened to.

GUILTY PLEASURE ALERT!!!
Amerie - 1 Thing
one of my favourite songs of recent years, if only all r&b sounded this good.

Jamie T - Dry Off Your Cheeks

The Who - I Can't Explain
I can't explain why this fits so well in the trailer for new adam sandler film 'Bedtime Stories

also has elvis costello's 'pump it up'

We Are Scientists - Cash Cow

I like white denim, listened to their album more in the last few days and it is actually pretty darn good. A couple of songs stick which to be honest are so starkly different it's a bit surprising they are by the same artist.

Well go buy the album - Workout Holiday - it's pretty intense

White Denim - Sitting

White Denim - Shake Shake Shake

Just some filler music for the mid-week time. I feel like blogging, just get some old tracks out and about. Stuff I haven't posted before most likely and things that have come back to me from a while ago.

Kings of Leon - Genius
Possibly my favourite Kings of Leon track, it's just something that's great.

The Zutons - Confusion
Not my favourite ever Zutons track, but one of the best, lovely slow pace and charming lyrics.

Jamie T - Pacemaker
Who's hoping for new Jamie T material soon? I AM!

Dizzee Rascal - Pussyole (Oldskool)
Blud, don't make me get old school


CLASSIC. hope you like 'em

I've been sent a lot of stuff. At first the submissions I wrote about them all, but well now its getting a bit too much, I always have a quick listen, yet a lot of it just doesn't appeal to me at all. Well here's one of the first highlights of my emails I've had in a long time. When a song is named after an actor so great, its hard not to like if I'm very frank.

The Pale Corners - Steve Buscemi

I shouldn't really be blogging, have a lot of college work to be getting on with. I've got a great assignment in Art, to copy one of Jean Michel Basquiat's pieces. This is the one I've chosen. Now to draw/paint it.