Gubbins!
Hello people (not that there are any of you anymore but I live in hope that people will return to live journal and get rid of their social lives some time soon).
I am at work. Its fairly quiet so I thought I would bore the pants off cyber space with some rants.
At Da Club
I have never prided myself on my command of the English language (mainly because I didn't do any work at school and in my later life had to try to make myself sound clever by copying people off the telly) but I draw the line at using bizarre text speak like "Da", "R U ALRITE?", "LOL" etc. I think there is a certain innocence and simplicity in smiley faces so I sometimes use them. Recently I have got text messages from my friend Chris using "Da" an awful lot. He is a well spoken, intelligent man but when I read out his texts in my head I now do so in a chavvy spazz (any complaints directed to Tiger Woods please) voice. Also my friend Grania has informed me the lead singer of 90's indie band Marion uses this language too. He is 30 FFS! (Thats "for fuck's sake" in shorthand for mongs.) I'm probably coming over all Daily Mail now but what happened to good old English? We have a perfectly acceptable language being taught in schools but increasingly people are resorting to comunicating in a stunted crazy frog manner. Next time you think of texting "LOL I am @ da shops ROFL" to your chums please don't. Just communicate in English, you never know it might catch on.
My favourite music.
I have been thinking about my favourite albums of all time. I obviously have very odd/bad taste because whenever I admit to any of these I get slightly weird looks (like "yeah thats nice but what about James Brown and Bob Dylan").
Firstly there is Blink 182-Blink 182. Universally accepted as being the best Blink album but still looked down upon. Its a very eclectic LP. It has duets with Robert Smith, quotes from letters sent to loved ones from the front line in the second world war, amazing drumming (I'm not usually interested in that but this is an exception), amazing slow songs, amazing fast songs and also a few duff tracks. It really is a quality listen and if you have any love for the tattoo'd 3 you really should get the album, even if you don't like it atleast you can pretend to be a 12 year old, wear baggy trousers and ride around on a bmx while shouting at your 'mom'.
Then there is Easyworld - Kill The Last Romantic. Ignored almost entirely by the media for some reason Easyworld actually produced 3 really good albums and this is the best of all. They had a very individual sound and again the album has a lot going on. Interestingly on the couple of tracks in which they try to recreate their punky past they let themselves down badly but on the more progressive songs featuring really nice keyboard/piano they really hit the nail on the head. It has one of my favourite songs on it which is "Til The Day", which will probably be playing at some point during my wedding if I can edit out the swear words.
David Ford - I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I Caused. Well he definately isn't apologising for the trouble he caused in the charts (ie. none) but having had this album for nearly a year I have decided it is a classic. People go on about the fact that wrote and recorded it all single handedly but its doesn't matter how many people recorded it, the end product is amazing. Its all piano and acoustic guitar led ballads but doesn't fall in the the schmaltz catagory because of David's humour and the fact he's self-aware. To get a taster download "I Don't Care What You Call Me" and have a little cry.
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan. This is another that gets better the more you listen to it. There are a couple of throwaway tracks like "Little Ghost" which are unremarkable but really good fun. Then there are the xylophone songs. I've never really heard xylophones used in any decent songs before but I love the off-key, slightly out of time touch it adds which makes you feel a bit queazy but gives the songs depth (for want of a better word). Why Jack White has taken a break from the Stripes to make plodding, moronic rock with the Raconteurs is unclear but I hope he gets back together with Meg soon to make another album.
Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak. The ideal album to have playing in the background during a late afternoon/early evening piss up in the summer. Its all about Caleb's insecurities and faults and I think everyone can associate with that. The music is kind of country/rock'n'roll that veers from high-speed balls-out (is that a saying?) rock to quiet thoughtful (probably stoned) songs with a swing beat. The fact the band are quite a bit younger than me pisses me off greatly but that fact they aren't happy cheers me up no end.
Kenickie - At The Club. Probably the album any self-respecting teenage glam rocker wishes they'd made. Sometimes things are better if you don't overcomplicate them and this is a good example of that rule. They just wrote songs about what they got up to at night (clubbing, piss-ups on hills, shallow people, boys being annoying etc) and made an album. All with their regional accents intact. The result is a top quality party album. Unfortunately they pissed it all up against a wall (how ironic as only one of them is capable of pissing against a wall cos the rest were girls) and released a shite second album and then split. Rock n roll indeed.
So there you have it, six of my favourite albums which you will go and buy and you will love!
Embrace!
Look boys, I let you have your number 2 (quite literally) single, now can you crawl back under your rock? Oh, whats this? You have raped the corpse of your mildly successful late nineties career and produced yet another torturous lullaby of a song? And you've made it the official anthem for England in the world cup? So wait a minute you've combined the worst music in the world with football? Hmm, is this the apocalypse?
Til next time,
Joe
X
I am at work. Its fairly quiet so I thought I would bore the pants off cyber space with some rants.
At Da Club
I have never prided myself on my command of the English language (mainly because I didn't do any work at school and in my later life had to try to make myself sound clever by copying people off the telly) but I draw the line at using bizarre text speak like "Da", "R U ALRITE?", "LOL" etc. I think there is a certain innocence and simplicity in smiley faces so I sometimes use them. Recently I have got text messages from my friend Chris using "Da" an awful lot. He is a well spoken, intelligent man but when I read out his texts in my head I now do so in a chavvy spazz (any complaints directed to Tiger Woods please) voice. Also my friend Grania has informed me the lead singer of 90's indie band Marion uses this language too. He is 30 FFS! (Thats "for fuck's sake" in shorthand for mongs.) I'm probably coming over all Daily Mail now but what happened to good old English? We have a perfectly acceptable language being taught in schools but increasingly people are resorting to comunicating in a stunted crazy frog manner. Next time you think of texting "LOL I am @ da shops ROFL" to your chums please don't. Just communicate in English, you never know it might catch on.
My favourite music.
I have been thinking about my favourite albums of all time. I obviously have very odd/bad taste because whenever I admit to any of these I get slightly weird looks (like "yeah thats nice but what about James Brown and Bob Dylan").
Firstly there is Blink 182-Blink 182. Universally accepted as being the best Blink album but still looked down upon. Its a very eclectic LP. It has duets with Robert Smith, quotes from letters sent to loved ones from the front line in the second world war, amazing drumming (I'm not usually interested in that but this is an exception), amazing slow songs, amazing fast songs and also a few duff tracks. It really is a quality listen and if you have any love for the tattoo'd 3 you really should get the album, even if you don't like it atleast you can pretend to be a 12 year old, wear baggy trousers and ride around on a bmx while shouting at your 'mom'.
Then there is Easyworld - Kill The Last Romantic. Ignored almost entirely by the media for some reason Easyworld actually produced 3 really good albums and this is the best of all. They had a very individual sound and again the album has a lot going on. Interestingly on the couple of tracks in which they try to recreate their punky past they let themselves down badly but on the more progressive songs featuring really nice keyboard/piano they really hit the nail on the head. It has one of my favourite songs on it which is "Til The Day", which will probably be playing at some point during my wedding if I can edit out the swear words.
David Ford - I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I Caused. Well he definately isn't apologising for the trouble he caused in the charts (ie. none) but having had this album for nearly a year I have decided it is a classic. People go on about the fact that wrote and recorded it all single handedly but its doesn't matter how many people recorded it, the end product is amazing. Its all piano and acoustic guitar led ballads but doesn't fall in the the schmaltz catagory because of David's humour and the fact he's self-aware. To get a taster download "I Don't Care What You Call Me" and have a little cry.
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan. This is another that gets better the more you listen to it. There are a couple of throwaway tracks like "Little Ghost" which are unremarkable but really good fun. Then there are the xylophone songs. I've never really heard xylophones used in any decent songs before but I love the off-key, slightly out of time touch it adds which makes you feel a bit queazy but gives the songs depth (for want of a better word). Why Jack White has taken a break from the Stripes to make plodding, moronic rock with the Raconteurs is unclear but I hope he gets back together with Meg soon to make another album.
Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak. The ideal album to have playing in the background during a late afternoon/early evening piss up in the summer. Its all about Caleb's insecurities and faults and I think everyone can associate with that. The music is kind of country/rock'n'roll that veers from high-speed balls-out (is that a saying?) rock to quiet thoughtful (probably stoned) songs with a swing beat. The fact the band are quite a bit younger than me pisses me off greatly but that fact they aren't happy cheers me up no end.
Kenickie - At The Club. Probably the album any self-respecting teenage glam rocker wishes they'd made. Sometimes things are better if you don't overcomplicate them and this is a good example of that rule. They just wrote songs about what they got up to at night (clubbing, piss-ups on hills, shallow people, boys being annoying etc) and made an album. All with their regional accents intact. The result is a top quality party album. Unfortunately they pissed it all up against a wall (how ironic as only one of them is capable of pissing against a wall cos the rest were girls) and released a shite second album and then split. Rock n roll indeed.
So there you have it, six of my favourite albums which you will go and buy and you will love!
Embrace!
Look boys, I let you have your number 2 (quite literally) single, now can you crawl back under your rock? Oh, whats this? You have raped the corpse of your mildly successful late nineties career and produced yet another torturous lullaby of a song? And you've made it the official anthem for England in the world cup? So wait a minute you've combined the worst music in the world with football? Hmm, is this the apocalypse?
Til next time,
Joe
X