Twenty Indefinite Songs
Twenty Songs, 28th May 2006
This week's twenty is a great one. Having no money to spend on new music and having got up to dates with reviews and stuff we basically just went through the archive and picked out albums we should be reviewing along with a few we should really have spent more time with first 'time round. Which brings us this lot. Plus a few other gems chucked in for good measure.
From last week's random occurance at Club NME we have The Postal Service's Such Great Heights which we enjoyed greatly and still stands as the best thing they've ever put their name to. Above that and starting what is a festival of remixes (it's been a remix biased period, building up to a future feature on the site) we've got Bloc Party's Positive Tension with the Blackbox Remix which is apparently by, um, someone from Pretty Girls Make Graves I think. Someone like that. I can't be bothered to check right now.
A remix of Thee More Shallows's Freshman Thesis by Nosdam apparently (featuring Why? too, but not on any sort of vox that we can tell) is next up and that EP, Monkey Vs Shark, is definitely growing on us. Then at seventeen we've got the supercute Boys Or Ballet? singing Ce N'est Pa Un Fin on my answer phone. Hah. A good song from them, which is always good to see. Sister Vanilla is next with her older compilation appearance Pastel Blue while at the opposite end of the spectrum from it's acoustic simplicity Infinite Livez gives us the ridiculous-as-its-name White Wee Wee. Quite.
Elbow refine things again as only they do with the sumptuous Snowball and our third remix hits with Mystery Jets, again, and the Riton Re-dub of The Boy Who Ran Away, which was reviewed this week. LCD Soundsystem is next, as brought to our attention during the Simian to Simian chain, and it's his stellar mini-epic Yeah, here in its Crass Version.
Introducing the top ten is a welcome return from Autolux whose Here Comes Everything managed to get into the chart despite it being the similarly good Boxer Rebellion album we were reviewing. Remix four is The Go! Team's Ladyflash, and dancefloor oriented by Simain Mobile Disco, whose next release we anticipate greatly. Bearsuit's umpteenth appearance is next because all the way through the Boys Or Ballet? video shoot I was lucky enough to attend last week I couldn't stop singing it. Itsuko got married, something something, have you seen that new band that she's in. Like nothing you have heard before.
The same could have been said, by me, at the time Dizzee Rascal hit my ears and he remains flavour of the month week day and minute here at No, Really to now. Here he shows with Knock Knock but new material can't be far off. Another Mystery Jets remix, this time by new favourites GoodBooks who don't so much remix as just cover and reinterpret the song. Still, we've called it the GoodBooks Remix in the chart cuz that's what it's call on the sleeve.
That was number five, in a four is a surprise entry for The Playwrights who, upon first hearing their album we chastised ourselves for the impluse purchase. Movements Towards A Paperless Life is the first step on our complete reversal of that opinion, being a quirky and randomly timed vaudeville slice of indie, dramatic and impetuous. Or something, I'm not listening to it as I type and I'm in a massive rush so I apologise about the awful description there. Good song though.
As is everything by Out Hud, in this case though we chose Dear Mr. Bush, There Are Over 100 Words For Shit And Only 1 For Music. Fuck You, Out Hud. Yeah. Indeed. Need we say more. Into the top two and it's two second appearances. Firstly for Kill Kenada who we still dearly love and appear in this weeks chart at twelve with K Screams 2 Kill and two with Massachusetts Murder Medallions, both fantastically riotous art punk rock death slabs of rigidly organised chaos. Their album was reviewed this week and so those two songs - as with the best albums - could be any two of about ten.
Up at one, then, and once again thanks to a Pure Love appearance is Magnet with Chasing Dreams, while slightly lower down at eight is The Day We Left Town. The man is a ninja songwriter and could break your heart just by looking at you. These two songs are perhaps the feathers in his cap except, if we feather his cap with those we'd be remiss if we did add another nine feathers for other similarly excellent songs and to be honest he'd look ridiculous. I think we'll just upgrade his cap to a shinier one, to be honest. And doff our less shiny one to him.
This week's twenty is a great one. Having no money to spend on new music and having got up to dates with reviews and stuff we basically just went through the archive and picked out albums we should be reviewing along with a few we should really have spent more time with first 'time round. Which brings us this lot. Plus a few other gems chucked in for good measure.
From last week's random occurance at Club NME we have The Postal Service's Such Great Heights which we enjoyed greatly and still stands as the best thing they've ever put their name to. Above that and starting what is a festival of remixes (it's been a remix biased period, building up to a future feature on the site) we've got Bloc Party's Positive Tension with the Blackbox Remix which is apparently by, um, someone from Pretty Girls Make Graves I think. Someone like that. I can't be bothered to check right now.
A remix of Thee More Shallows's Freshman Thesis by Nosdam apparently (featuring Why? too, but not on any sort of vox that we can tell) is next up and that EP, Monkey Vs Shark, is definitely growing on us. Then at seventeen we've got the supercute Boys Or Ballet? singing Ce N'est Pa Un Fin on my answer phone. Hah. A good song from them, which is always good to see. Sister Vanilla is next with her older compilation appearance Pastel Blue while at the opposite end of the spectrum from it's acoustic simplicity Infinite Livez gives us the ridiculous-as-its-name White Wee Wee. Quite.
Elbow refine things again as only they do with the sumptuous Snowball and our third remix hits with Mystery Jets, again, and the Riton Re-dub of The Boy Who Ran Away, which was reviewed this week. LCD Soundsystem is next, as brought to our attention during the Simian to Simian chain, and it's his stellar mini-epic Yeah, here in its Crass Version.
Introducing the top ten is a welcome return from Autolux whose Here Comes Everything managed to get into the chart despite it being the similarly good Boxer Rebellion album we were reviewing. Remix four is The Go! Team's Ladyflash, and dancefloor oriented by Simain Mobile Disco, whose next release we anticipate greatly. Bearsuit's umpteenth appearance is next because all the way through the Boys Or Ballet? video shoot I was lucky enough to attend last week I couldn't stop singing it. Itsuko got married, something something, have you seen that new band that she's in. Like nothing you have heard before.
The same could have been said, by me, at the time Dizzee Rascal hit my ears and he remains flavour of the month week day and minute here at No, Really to now. Here he shows with Knock Knock but new material can't be far off. Another Mystery Jets remix, this time by new favourites GoodBooks who don't so much remix as just cover and reinterpret the song. Still, we've called it the GoodBooks Remix in the chart cuz that's what it's call on the sleeve.
That was number five, in a four is a surprise entry for The Playwrights who, upon first hearing their album we chastised ourselves for the impluse purchase. Movements Towards A Paperless Life is the first step on our complete reversal of that opinion, being a quirky and randomly timed vaudeville slice of indie, dramatic and impetuous. Or something, I'm not listening to it as I type and I'm in a massive rush so I apologise about the awful description there. Good song though.
As is everything by Out Hud, in this case though we chose Dear Mr. Bush, There Are Over 100 Words For Shit And Only 1 For Music. Fuck You, Out Hud. Yeah. Indeed. Need we say more. Into the top two and it's two second appearances. Firstly for Kill Kenada who we still dearly love and appear in this weeks chart at twelve with K Screams 2 Kill and two with Massachusetts Murder Medallions, both fantastically riotous art punk rock death slabs of rigidly organised chaos. Their album was reviewed this week and so those two songs - as with the best albums - could be any two of about ten.
Up at one, then, and once again thanks to a Pure Love appearance is Magnet with Chasing Dreams, while slightly lower down at eight is The Day We Left Town. The man is a ninja songwriter and could break your heart just by looking at you. These two songs are perhaps the feathers in his cap except, if we feather his cap with those we'd be remiss if we did add another nine feathers for other similarly excellent songs and to be honest he'd look ridiculous. I think we'll just upgrade his cap to a shinier one, to be honest. And doff our less shiny one to him.