Musak! And Yuletide (eep!)
Today I am working on my yuletide story. Finally. I have 500 words 716!. Only 284 to go. Or something.
You all seemed real keen on last week's Friday Five of Awesome, so in honor of me slogging through my story I'm presenting the Thursday Five of Awesome and Yuletide Power!, you know, for motivational purposes.
1. Tricky 'Black Steel' -- In the mid-90's there was this AWESOME music movement in the UK called trip-hop. Featuring groups like Massive Attack (Protection or Blue Lines depending on who you ask) and Portishead (Dummy), trip-hop was the sort of music that God would produce if he was making a soundtrack for sex. That's a little blasphemous innit? And yet, it's true. Ask anybody hanging around London, Bristol, Brighton or any of the US scene and they'd agree. Tricky's Maxinquaye is seen as the third album of the Massive, Portishead trinity and with good reason. This particular song is a cover of Public Enemy's 'Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos' and uh, just yeah.
2. Midlake 'Roscoe' -- I've had this song for about a year now, and everytime I play it I have to replay four or five times. A song about fixing houses and being born in another time, I defy you not to listen to it twice in a row. The video is very fitting for the song.
3. Elbow 'Something in the Air' -- I was informed this week that Elbow will have a new album out sometime in the new year. There are no fucking words for how happy this makes me. I really hope this song will be on there. A beautiful song about hoping for something better and getting yourself together because the revolution is coming dammit! And it's not on your TV.
4. Guillemots 'Sao Paolo' -- An eleven minute song about love lost, love hated and wanting a lawyer so you can sue the ass off of somebody. Anybody. I can't do it justice by talking about it, you just have to listen.
5. Run DMC 'My Adidas' -- This is classic rap. This is classic old skool. It's fucking RUN DMC! And they're talking about their trainers. Who doesn't talk about their trainers? Really?
Five songs (plus some extras)
You all seemed real keen on last week's Friday Five of Awesome, so in honor of me slogging through my story I'm presenting the Thursday Five of Awesome and Yuletide Power!, you know, for motivational purposes.
1. Tricky 'Black Steel' -- In the mid-90's there was this AWESOME music movement in the UK called trip-hop. Featuring groups like Massive Attack (Protection or Blue Lines depending on who you ask) and Portishead (Dummy), trip-hop was the sort of music that God would produce if he was making a soundtrack for sex. That's a little blasphemous innit? And yet, it's true. Ask anybody hanging around London, Bristol, Brighton or any of the US scene and they'd agree. Tricky's Maxinquaye is seen as the third album of the Massive, Portishead trinity and with good reason. This particular song is a cover of Public Enemy's 'Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos' and uh, just yeah.
2. Midlake 'Roscoe' -- I've had this song for about a year now, and everytime I play it I have to replay four or five times. A song about fixing houses and being born in another time, I defy you not to listen to it twice in a row. The video is very fitting for the song.
3. Elbow 'Something in the Air' -- I was informed this week that Elbow will have a new album out sometime in the new year. There are no fucking words for how happy this makes me. I really hope this song will be on there. A beautiful song about hoping for something better and getting yourself together because the revolution is coming dammit! And it's not on your TV.
4. Guillemots 'Sao Paolo' -- An eleven minute song about love lost, love hated and wanting a lawyer so you can sue the ass off of somebody. Anybody. I can't do it justice by talking about it, you just have to listen.
5. Run DMC 'My Adidas' -- This is classic rap. This is classic old skool. It's fucking RUN DMC! And they're talking about their trainers. Who doesn't talk about their trainers? Really?
Five songs (plus some extras)