Richard's Happy Songs
So before heading for Brighton today, I banged myself together a playlist on The 'Pod to provide soundtrackery to my current upbeat, chipper outlook on things. Here's the ingredients:
Fallout Boy - Of All The Gin Joints...:
Bouncetious* pop-punkery what Mike sent me through tinternet t'other night. Has a cool 'oh oo wo-oh' bit in it, which is exactly what I'm in the mood for at the moment.
Downset - Empower:
Shouty, but in a 'Yeah!' kinda way, as opposed to a 'Noooooo!' kinda way.
Lostprophets - For Sure, Ode to Summer, and Burn Burn (not all in one go; dispersed throughout the other songs, of course):
Is it just me, or are 'prophets one of the best bands ever to listen to while driving through the sunshiney Sussex countryside with your windows open?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control:
You know what? Fever to Tell is an awesome album, and I'm buggered if I'm going to let the fact that I Used To Listen To It With The Ex All The Time In Her Car put me off listening to it any more. Up yours, painful memories. Same goes for:
Hundred Reasons - Silver:
This just chugs along being all sorts of good, and then right near the end there's some crazy synth bit which is just awesome. I hope Mike's keytar can make that noise. That would be awesome.
Coheed and Cambria - Blood Red Summer and A Favor House Atlantic:
Yes, I made yet another playlist with Favour House... on it. What can I say? I fucking love that song. It's the sex. Blood Red Summer's another good example of C&C leaving off the proggy weirdness just long enough to make a pretty, shimmery guitar pop song. Not that I don't like the proggy weirdness, mind.
Sabbath - War Pigs:
Look, it's the best Sabbath song, ok? And it just kicks arse. So I wanted to listen to it.
Therapy? - Gimme Back My Brain:
A rough, dirty Rawk classic from T?'s much-overlooked post-Troublegum output.
A.F.I - Synthesthesia and Paper Airplanes (Makeshift Wings):
A couple of songs from Sing the Sorrow that are actually nearly good enough that they wouldn't seem out of place on its far superior predecessor, The Art of Drowning. Mainly cos, in these, there's not too much fannying about, something that some of songs on StS are guilty of at times. To be honest, I'd probably have put Of Greetings and Goodbyes and Days of the Phoenix on here instead, if I'd actually got round to transferring my vinyl copy of AoD into iTunes yet, but there you go. Look, I really don't think Sing the Sorrow's a bad album (even though I never shut up about it being Not As Good As AoD), it's just that The Art of Drowning's one of my favourite records EVAR, and the follow up was just a bit of a disappointment.
The Smugglers - Especially You:
This song reminds me of being seventeen, and dancing around with my friends in car parks, full of Dirty Super Strength Lager. That is to say, my friends and I were full of Dirty Super Strength Lager. The car parks were not full of Dirty Super Strength Lager. We would have drowned, and all the cars probably would have melted or something. Which would be A Bad Thing. Unlike this song, which is A Good Thing.
Screeching Weasel - Dummy Up:
Nowt fancy, just classic three chord catchy snottiness from Ben & Co. If you don't like this, you're Wrong.
HIM - Endless Dark:
Yeah, I know, HIM don't really fit in with the whole 'cheerful music' theme of this mix, but this isn't really one of their more morose offerings. Plus, in the chorus (which is rad), it has that thing where there's some Really Distorted Guitars going on, but fairly low in the mix, there's also a bit of acoustic guitar knocking about, and it sounds really pretty. HIM do this quite a lot, and I suspect they nicked it from Think About You off Appetite. But I don't care, cos it sounds cool.
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*Yeah, I'm declaring 'bouncetious' a Real Word. Got a problem with that?
Fallout Boy - Of All The Gin Joints...:
Bouncetious* pop-punkery what Mike sent me through tinternet t'other night. Has a cool 'oh oo wo-oh' bit in it, which is exactly what I'm in the mood for at the moment.
Downset - Empower:
Shouty, but in a 'Yeah!' kinda way, as opposed to a 'Noooooo!' kinda way.
Lostprophets - For Sure, Ode to Summer, and Burn Burn (not all in one go; dispersed throughout the other songs, of course):
Is it just me, or are 'prophets one of the best bands ever to listen to while driving through the sunshiney Sussex countryside with your windows open?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control:
You know what? Fever to Tell is an awesome album, and I'm buggered if I'm going to let the fact that I Used To Listen To It With The Ex All The Time In Her Car put me off listening to it any more. Up yours, painful memories. Same goes for:
Hundred Reasons - Silver:
This just chugs along being all sorts of good, and then right near the end there's some crazy synth bit which is just awesome. I hope Mike's keytar can make that noise. That would be awesome.
Coheed and Cambria - Blood Red Summer and A Favor House Atlantic:
Yes, I made yet another playlist with Favour House... on it. What can I say? I fucking love that song. It's the sex. Blood Red Summer's another good example of C&C leaving off the proggy weirdness just long enough to make a pretty, shimmery guitar pop song. Not that I don't like the proggy weirdness, mind.
Sabbath - War Pigs:
Look, it's the best Sabbath song, ok? And it just kicks arse. So I wanted to listen to it.
Therapy? - Gimme Back My Brain:
A rough, dirty Rawk classic from T?'s much-overlooked post-Troublegum output.
A.F.I - Synthesthesia and Paper Airplanes (Makeshift Wings):
A couple of songs from Sing the Sorrow that are actually nearly good enough that they wouldn't seem out of place on its far superior predecessor, The Art of Drowning. Mainly cos, in these, there's not too much fannying about, something that some of songs on StS are guilty of at times. To be honest, I'd probably have put Of Greetings and Goodbyes and Days of the Phoenix on here instead, if I'd actually got round to transferring my vinyl copy of AoD into iTunes yet, but there you go. Look, I really don't think Sing the Sorrow's a bad album (even though I never shut up about it being Not As Good As AoD), it's just that The Art of Drowning's one of my favourite records EVAR, and the follow up was just a bit of a disappointment.
The Smugglers - Especially You:
This song reminds me of being seventeen, and dancing around with my friends in car parks, full of Dirty Super Strength Lager. That is to say, my friends and I were full of Dirty Super Strength Lager. The car parks were not full of Dirty Super Strength Lager. We would have drowned, and all the cars probably would have melted or something. Which would be A Bad Thing. Unlike this song, which is A Good Thing.
Screeching Weasel - Dummy Up:
Nowt fancy, just classic three chord catchy snottiness from Ben & Co. If you don't like this, you're Wrong.
HIM - Endless Dark:
Yeah, I know, HIM don't really fit in with the whole 'cheerful music' theme of this mix, but this isn't really one of their more morose offerings. Plus, in the chorus (which is rad), it has that thing where there's some Really Distorted Guitars going on, but fairly low in the mix, there's also a bit of acoustic guitar knocking about, and it sounds really pretty. HIM do this quite a lot, and I suspect they nicked it from Think About You off Appetite. But I don't care, cos it sounds cool.
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*Yeah, I'm declaring 'bouncetious' a Real Word. Got a problem with that?