(no subject)
Usually I can take or leave the Go! Team, but I've just heard their cover of Sonic Youth's 'Bull In The Heather' and it is ridiculously ace; Some excellently authentic SY-style guitar skronking with added glockenspiel and shouty massed vocals. I hope it is released as a single, a 7" of it would be perfection, but I fear that is unlikely. I heard it listening to Phil Jupitus' 6Music breakfast show, and it was a rare gem (along with 'A Message To You Rudy', surely The Specials' finest moment) in a mire of mediocrity. Lily Allen? For god's sake, just because she's an 'internet sensation' doesn't excuse the fact that her single sounds like Atomic Kitten. They also had Mani from Primal Scream claiming that PS are 'the greatest rock band around at the moment' or something equally moronic, 'Country Girl' was one of the lamest excuses for country rock I've ever heard, Neil Young could toss off a song in 20 seconds that would piss on it from a height of several miles. The show finished with 'emo-tronica' from Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly... As much as I wanted to like this guy, based entirely on his name, his whiny, sensitive-boy-with-a-guitar schtick, coupled with lame-ass powerbook strings and beats in an attempt to be 'cutting-edge' which is sadly about 5 years behind the times, left me completely unimpressed. My friend Ben does an ostensibly similar thing in one of his many and varied music-making personae (ie acoustic guitar + laptop + vocals) but about 50 times better.
On a more positive note, all of the tracks I've heard so far from the new Johnny Cash album (can someone have a new album when they've been dead for 3 years? Latest posthumous release of previously recorded material might be more appropriate) sound absolutely wonderful, and I will be buying it ASAP. I'm also eagerly awaiting delivery of albums by The Olivia Tremor Control, Flying and a This Heat box-set - 6CDs of groundbreaking, experimental post-punk goodness.
On a more positive note, all of the tracks I've heard so far from the new Johnny Cash album (can someone have a new album when they've been dead for 3 years? Latest posthumous release of previously recorded material might be more appropriate) sound absolutely wonderful, and I will be buying it ASAP. I'm also eagerly awaiting delivery of albums by The Olivia Tremor Control, Flying and a This Heat box-set - 6CDs of groundbreaking, experimental post-punk goodness.