Musical Musings Pt two
Remember my last one of these, featuring Pitchfork’s Top 500 songs of the decade?
Well, what d’you know, it’s less pretentious younger sister Drowned In Sound has only gone and followed suit, and, as I expected, they’ve only gone and done it a DAMN SIGHT BETTER.
Ok, so there are a few misses (Kate Nash? Paramore? Bloc Party? WHAT?), but these are more than equalled out by the triumps. M83? Yes. Sigur Ros? Yes. Bright Eyes? Yes. Elbow? Double Yes. The Veils? Fucking YES-TIMES-BY-ONE-HUNDRED-MILLION.
Oh, and the site also just posted a pretty ace review of Mew's latest album too, which you can read here
Other cool musical things that have gone on since my last post... well, only the arrival of my AWESOME Nux Vomica vinyl!! I seriously wish my camera wasn’t fucked up right now, so I could take a picture for all the world to gander at it’s (his) MAGNIFICENT BEAUTY. And, for those who haven’t seen it in the flesh (I can’t believe that there would be many reading this) you’ll just have to take my word for it on this one. Some other marvellous news on that front - MY DAD ACTUALLY LIKES IT. Like, seriously. The stuff I avoided playing because I knew that would definitely be IT (IT being him hating The Veils for life no question about it kind of IT) but whilst I was playing Jesus For The Jugular (JESUS FOR THE FUCKING JUGULAR, no less!) he was saying about much more he liked it, and how much it reminded him of The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, AND how similar Finn sounded to Robert Plant.
I know. God, I haven’t been so shocked in a VERY LONG TIME.
Oh, oh, oh, and not forgetting WHAT ELSE came through the post that morning... ONLY PALO SANTO - THE EXPANDED EDITION!
I wish my iPod wasn’t so goddamn fucked up right now, cos if it wasn’t I’d have ripped that two-disc album on there so fast my itunes wouldn’t have known what’d hit it. Because, honestly, the beauty of this record is actually kind of shocking. Oh, and I’m pretty sure that part in Red Sea, White Sea where Jonathan Meiburg starts yelping: ‘Oh, yes sir! YES, sir! The walls came down, it was a fucking disaster!’ makes my life. A little bit.
And so onto the last great subject of musical musing over the past couple of days, which was provided by the ever-intellectual and generally wonderful BBC4, showing a documentary I actually noticed was on during Sam’s house do, but obviously wasn’t going to be put on because hey, BBC4 - not exactly a speciallist in dumb but hilarious small-screen material that mostly gets watched at house parties (THAT was where the 40-Year-Old-Virgin came in, btw).
So, essentially, thank GOD for iPlayer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fzv3y/b00fzv2v/Legends_Roy_Orbison_The_Big_O_in_Britain/
Even if you don’t like Orbison’s music, or just that kind of music in general, I still highly recommend watching this. It was interesting, insightful and heartbreaking (yeah, I did cry a wee bit) and just generally a great watch.
/Reccing.