Twenty Bouncetastic Songs
Twenty Songs, 24th September 2006
It's not been a bad week this week here at the Unlixes Castle. I mean, we're totally out of money all together and we hate all our so-called friends but ignoring that we're all good. The Twenty this week has been influenced by the return of the Portable Device which lets us ignore the public even more easily by filling our ears by the glorious sound of music. Such as the following...
We love Buffseeds anyway. We have for ages and we aren't going to justify it to the likes of you. You like early Stereophonics. Like, actually like them. Coward is one of their many lovely songs and features the line don't tell my friends i'm a coward which is heart wrenching. What happened to them anyway? We know what happened to Milanese vs Virus Syndicate because this single was only released, like, two weeks ago. We're still enjoying it, in this case especially You Can't Remix, which we believe is just a remix of a song called You Can't but we suspect sounded nothing like this guitar twitching indie glitch schizophrenia grime affair. Which is all the better. Compared to this most people really can't remix. We also took a bit of time out to throw ourselves around the room to the room to the spastic pop of 586 and We Got Bored which screams and runs around the room with scissors looking to put a fucking great hole in the wall like the delinquent it clearly is. They got bored so they ate it.
we got boaaAAARRRGGGHHH!
Speaking of grime - which we have, a lot recently, cuz it's great and we miss it (it's too expensive for our meagre wages) - we plundered the archives and picked up a little Bashy to keep us going, and we just can't get enough of the lines the boy drops in this little nugget of hot damn. Cuz we got tweety pie you got batman. We don't have many celebrity friends. Some of our normal friends are like minor celebrities or some shit but the closest we get to being In With The Band is some girl we know off of LiveJournal being the girlfriend of someone in Semifinalists. Luckily, we don't care and are only interested in the fact that the London trio make such divinely lovely music. This could've been one of many but we plumped for the slightly less well known and excellently titled Let's Kill This. So yes, let's.
We follow it up with that with the similarly textured but somewhat more nocturnal creep of Calla and Swagger from their more decisive recent album, which picked up where the frankly wonderful Televise left off and streamlined it so each track was a more memorable one without giving up to more base throes. Which can also be said for Pete And The Pirates who we love more and more each week, as they tumble into our hearts like an cute indie child whose running around is endearing rather than annoying and is clever enough to sit down and talk to rather than repeating the same stupid kiddichat over and over. Except, obviously, they're a bit more mature than a small child.
As is, obviously, Dizzee Rascal, the Raskit, who here teams up with Marga Man to sing about everyone's favourite topic, Girls. Except without the usual thoughtless brutality which ruins so many other songs. It's about macking, sure, but it's got more wit and style to its delivey and Marga Man is on form with his usual no-nonsense nonsense. Over the last week we'll admit we've changed our mind a little on Stories, one of the tracks on Tunng's Comments Of The Inner Chorus. We don't think it's that good. Which leaves just the twelve tracks of genius, of which Jenny Again (The Earlies Remix) is just one (version of). The Earlies have done a super job with it, making it even more spacey and delicious. Jum. Finally for the bottom half of the chart are Sound Team who haven't been in it since June but return on the strength of the lead single to their new album, both of which are actually really good and a surprise improvement on the previous EP. This one, Born To Please, sounds a bit like Hours by TV On The Radio. Who'd've guessed?
Into the ten and recent newbies to our ears Dananananaykroyd pop up. We actually really wanted to hear more from Michael Dracula the band from whom members have been pillaged to create Dana. Still, it's made up for by the fact that Some Dresses is great, albeit it in quite a Hot Club de Paris kind of way. Except, more willing to flat out rock instead of always being so damn noodly. Oh, whoops. There's Hot Club de Paris now and here are we badmouthing them. To be fair though, we love their noodle-y-ness. However it's pretty much absent on Who Am I?, replaced by the awesome first line, what's, my, mother, fucking, name, in a hushed harmony. Ho ho. Rabscallions.
Which we could also say for fellow Scousers Alterkicks who were supposed to put me on the guestlist for their show last night but didn't and I ended up spending my food money for the rest of the week to see their remarkably short set before leaving to go home to bed cuz I couldn't be bothered to stand around alone, half asleep waiting for Larrikin Love to start - nothing against Larrikin. Alterkicks were good though and their new material sounds strong, although it was a shame they never played Oh Honey, but obviously the crowd (i.e. me) went most wild for previous single Do Everything I Taught You. Fair dinkum. Still a bit of a gash night mind, oh well.
More exciting are Scottish newcomers and Unlixes Pages regulars we are THE PHYSICS whose Less Than Three was released last week via some websites or other and iTunes. Go find buy enjoy. Also for your purusal is The Orange Shop (Rude As Version) from the single of almost the same name (minus the parenthesis) by Das Wanderlust. A little simple for our liking compared to what they can do but certainly massively enjoyable when you get into it.
Into the top five we get more Hot Chip and their lovely Keep Fallin' from their first album (which on reflection we really should've bought next month) which talks a lot about what Stevie Wonder can see. Which, presumably, is nothing. Above them is the second reason I personally am in I Hate Everybody mode as apparently they're playing in Darlington today and I'm sitting here typing this crap up for the benefit of pretty much nobody. Anyhoo, let's not let that detract from the fact iLiKETRAiNS are one of the best bands on the face of the planet right now and Stainless Steel is one of their best songs and is exclusively about revenge, betrayal and murder and you just wish your band were that good. But they're not. Unlucky.
Next up though is a relative newcomer for us, a Canadian act who were sent to us under the premise that they're "not as angry as you're used to but they're good". When we first listened we thought they were alright so either we've become innured to their averageness or their timelessness has shone through. Probably a combination. You should form your most solid opinions just after your first opinion but just before your second. Either way, Pernice Brothers' High As A Kite has some lovely vocal moments in its three and a quarter minute length and even if it doesn't hit all the highest notes certainly when it swoons it takes you with it and for that we give it third spot this week.
Just above it is the b-side to we are THE PHYSICS's Less Than Three which we downloaded from iTunes, a track called Turning Heads which is just as jerky as the title track, just as jitterying and therefore pretty much as good. It's not quite as good to be honest although on first listen it sounded a bit better, however it is darn good and we want to promote as much PHYSICS as possible cuz everyone should have heard of them (cuz it increases our chances of them playing 'round our way, which'd be a bonus).
Finally, in at number one and their second appearance this is a surprise showing for the excellent Hot Club de Paris. Ayem, all I can say is you were right. Whenever I think of this band I think back to when they were our friend Ayem's favourite band and we weren't convinced. Oh how the tables have turned (for us anyway, she might still love them), cuz their forthcoming album is packed with anglepop bubble gum clockwork joy. For the top spot this week though we've chosen the b-side to forthcoming single everyeveryeverything, I Quit My Job because, sure it's well written and executed but mostly because it feature the line;
i went and quit my job so i could concentrate on having thoughts by just counting how many times the neighbours would climb the stairs next door
Quit your job and waste your life, folks. Or, better yet, start a band and be as good as some of the ones named above and we might be bumming you too. Exciting idea, non. Excellent.
It's not been a bad week this week here at the Unlixes Castle. I mean, we're totally out of money all together and we hate all our so-called friends but ignoring that we're all good. The Twenty this week has been influenced by the return of the Portable Device which lets us ignore the public even more easily by filling our ears by the glorious sound of music. Such as the following...
We love Buffseeds anyway. We have for ages and we aren't going to justify it to the likes of you. You like early Stereophonics. Like, actually like them. Coward is one of their many lovely songs and features the line don't tell my friends i'm a coward which is heart wrenching. What happened to them anyway? We know what happened to Milanese vs Virus Syndicate because this single was only released, like, two weeks ago. We're still enjoying it, in this case especially You Can't Remix, which we believe is just a remix of a song called You Can't but we suspect sounded nothing like this guitar twitching indie glitch schizophrenia grime affair. Which is all the better. Compared to this most people really can't remix. We also took a bit of time out to throw ourselves around the room to the room to the spastic pop of 586 and We Got Bored which screams and runs around the room with scissors looking to put a fucking great hole in the wall like the delinquent it clearly is. They got bored so they ate it.
we got boaaAAARRRGGGHHH!
Speaking of grime - which we have, a lot recently, cuz it's great and we miss it (it's too expensive for our meagre wages) - we plundered the archives and picked up a little Bashy to keep us going, and we just can't get enough of the lines the boy drops in this little nugget of hot damn. Cuz we got tweety pie you got batman. We don't have many celebrity friends. Some of our normal friends are like minor celebrities or some shit but the closest we get to being In With The Band is some girl we know off of LiveJournal being the girlfriend of someone in Semifinalists. Luckily, we don't care and are only interested in the fact that the London trio make such divinely lovely music. This could've been one of many but we plumped for the slightly less well known and excellently titled Let's Kill This. So yes, let's.
We follow it up with that with the similarly textured but somewhat more nocturnal creep of Calla and Swagger from their more decisive recent album, which picked up where the frankly wonderful Televise left off and streamlined it so each track was a more memorable one without giving up to more base throes. Which can also be said for Pete And The Pirates who we love more and more each week, as they tumble into our hearts like an cute indie child whose running around is endearing rather than annoying and is clever enough to sit down and talk to rather than repeating the same stupid kiddichat over and over. Except, obviously, they're a bit more mature than a small child.
As is, obviously, Dizzee Rascal, the Raskit, who here teams up with Marga Man to sing about everyone's favourite topic, Girls. Except without the usual thoughtless brutality which ruins so many other songs. It's about macking, sure, but it's got more wit and style to its delivey and Marga Man is on form with his usual no-nonsense nonsense. Over the last week we'll admit we've changed our mind a little on Stories, one of the tracks on Tunng's Comments Of The Inner Chorus. We don't think it's that good. Which leaves just the twelve tracks of genius, of which Jenny Again (The Earlies Remix) is just one (version of). The Earlies have done a super job with it, making it even more spacey and delicious. Jum. Finally for the bottom half of the chart are Sound Team who haven't been in it since June but return on the strength of the lead single to their new album, both of which are actually really good and a surprise improvement on the previous EP. This one, Born To Please, sounds a bit like Hours by TV On The Radio. Who'd've guessed?
Into the ten and recent newbies to our ears Dananananaykroyd pop up. We actually really wanted to hear more from Michael Dracula the band from whom members have been pillaged to create Dana. Still, it's made up for by the fact that Some Dresses is great, albeit it in quite a Hot Club de Paris kind of way. Except, more willing to flat out rock instead of always being so damn noodly. Oh, whoops. There's Hot Club de Paris now and here are we badmouthing them. To be fair though, we love their noodle-y-ness. However it's pretty much absent on Who Am I?, replaced by the awesome first line, what's, my, mother, fucking, name, in a hushed harmony. Ho ho. Rabscallions.
Which we could also say for fellow Scousers Alterkicks who were supposed to put me on the guestlist for their show last night but didn't and I ended up spending my food money for the rest of the week to see their remarkably short set before leaving to go home to bed cuz I couldn't be bothered to stand around alone, half asleep waiting for Larrikin Love to start - nothing against Larrikin. Alterkicks were good though and their new material sounds strong, although it was a shame they never played Oh Honey, but obviously the crowd (i.e. me) went most wild for previous single Do Everything I Taught You. Fair dinkum. Still a bit of a gash night mind, oh well.
More exciting are Scottish newcomers and Unlixes Pages regulars we are THE PHYSICS whose Less Than Three was released last week via some websites or other and iTunes. Go find buy enjoy. Also for your purusal is The Orange Shop (Rude As Version) from the single of almost the same name (minus the parenthesis) by Das Wanderlust. A little simple for our liking compared to what they can do but certainly massively enjoyable when you get into it.
Into the top five we get more Hot Chip and their lovely Keep Fallin' from their first album (which on reflection we really should've bought next month) which talks a lot about what Stevie Wonder can see. Which, presumably, is nothing. Above them is the second reason I personally am in I Hate Everybody mode as apparently they're playing in Darlington today and I'm sitting here typing this crap up for the benefit of pretty much nobody. Anyhoo, let's not let that detract from the fact iLiKETRAiNS are one of the best bands on the face of the planet right now and Stainless Steel is one of their best songs and is exclusively about revenge, betrayal and murder and you just wish your band were that good. But they're not. Unlucky.
Next up though is a relative newcomer for us, a Canadian act who were sent to us under the premise that they're "not as angry as you're used to but they're good". When we first listened we thought they were alright so either we've become innured to their averageness or their timelessness has shone through. Probably a combination. You should form your most solid opinions just after your first opinion but just before your second. Either way, Pernice Brothers' High As A Kite has some lovely vocal moments in its three and a quarter minute length and even if it doesn't hit all the highest notes certainly when it swoons it takes you with it and for that we give it third spot this week.
Just above it is the b-side to we are THE PHYSICS's Less Than Three which we downloaded from iTunes, a track called Turning Heads which is just as jerky as the title track, just as jitterying and therefore pretty much as good. It's not quite as good to be honest although on first listen it sounded a bit better, however it is darn good and we want to promote as much PHYSICS as possible cuz everyone should have heard of them (cuz it increases our chances of them playing 'round our way, which'd be a bonus).
Finally, in at number one and their second appearance this is a surprise showing for the excellent Hot Club de Paris. Ayem, all I can say is you were right. Whenever I think of this band I think back to when they were our friend Ayem's favourite band and we weren't convinced. Oh how the tables have turned (for us anyway, she might still love them), cuz their forthcoming album is packed with anglepop bubble gum clockwork joy. For the top spot this week though we've chosen the b-side to forthcoming single everyeveryeverything, I Quit My Job because, sure it's well written and executed but mostly because it feature the line;
i went and quit my job so i could concentrate on having thoughts by just counting how many times the neighbours would climb the stairs next door
Quit your job and waste your life, folks. Or, better yet, start a band and be as good as some of the ones named above and we might be bumming you too. Exciting idea, non. Excellent.