Twenty Gaelic Songs
Twenty Songs, 8 April 2007
More in the mix and another week where it was, pretty much just the songs purchased that week we were listening to. As we say, this will return to its old eclectic best soon however, don't let that fool you into thinking this is by any means a slouch list. We were listening to these songs cuz they are shit hot. For actual.
20 Fury Of The Headteachers, Fables
19 Good Shoes, Small Town Girl
18 colonopenbracket, Codes
17 Benjamin Theves, Texas (SebastiAn Remix)
16 DJ Medhi, Lucky Boy (Surkin Remix)
Once again calling them Headmasters on the site but that's been corrected now, the Sheffield's own Headteachers mostly reminded us this week how good Fables really was by making it the standout on their recent album. I think the album's been released now. Dunno. The quaint Small Town Girl is close to our hearts cuz of a lyric about not really caring. That's just how we roll, yo. Having seen them in Leeeeeeds (when mens gwan the grimest of tings to proceed) we quite enjoy colonopenbracket, despite having now accused them to their faces of being A Bit Emo and had them not take it quite as well as expected. They are though. Dunno what to make of Benjamin Theves but they seem alright and a SebastiAn remix is a SebastiAn remix innit, bound to be good. Finally, we gotta give props to the boy Surkin for similarly dropping another bit of quite mint tunage actually with his remix, here.
15 Foals, Astronauts And All
14 Count Of Monte Cristal, Ghetto Bitches (Sinden Remix)
13 Krazy Baldhead, Strings Of Death
12 Services, Element Of Danger
11 The Futureheads, Skip To The End (Digitalism Remix)
To say we're bumming Foals at the moment is like saying Hitler had some interesting views. He did and we do. This is one of their bleepiest and, therefore, obviously, best. We also quite enjoy this bitch-heavy Sinden remix, possibly even more than Strings Of Death but we listened to it a lot less this week. We're still undecided about Services but they seem alright and Element Of Danger is pretty damn good. Obviously all the hype is around Digitalism and their remix of The Futurheads finally dawned on us as being pretty damn shit hot this week. Cuz it was the first time we'd actually listened to it. Bonus. Still, Switch's is better, obv.
10 Kavinsky, Testarossa (SebastiAn Remix)
09 Mr Oizo, Intra
08 Grammatics, The Shipping Forcast
07 Sky Larkin, Keepsakes
06 Good Shoes, Morden
So. Into the top ten and SebastiAn raises his talented head again, over uber-eighties electro-er Kavinsky, who we're not so fussed about. We dip our toes into Ed Banger country again with the mouthwatering Intra by Oizo before swanning off into pre post prog indie rock territory with Grammatics, who we also fully bummed to death live this week. Fully. A little more lovely are Sky Larkin, apparently, who heard us shouting Keepsakes all through their set and rattled off a superfast version right at the end to keep us smiling through our sobriety. Nobody played Morden at the aftershow but that was their loss cuz it's a blinder of a little song. Lovely.
05 iLiKETRAiNS, I Am Murdered
Less lovely, as the title suggests, is I Am Murdered by WELOVETRAiNS. Which we do. It's the b-side to Spencer Perceval which is also about someone being murdered, we assume the stories are linked but are too lazy to do your hard work for you and find out. We're a bunch of kids with scuffed knees, not a resource. Sit down, enjoy and figure it out for yourselves.
04 This Et Al, Catscan
Similarly, we can't tell you exactly what don't let them put the battery in her mean per ce but the whole thing is about some sort of man vs science and the big conspiracy affair, like This Et Al often are. The main thing to note is that when this dropped live (after, again, us and two other random strangers had been shouting for it), it was massive and everyone, literally, went a bit wild and, for the only time that night that we'd seen, started throwing themselves at each other.
03 Klaxons, Golden Skans To Interzone (So Me Remix)
We love this song anyway and when, ages ago, we heard this version we thought it was a SebastiAn remix, which seemed to good to be true. More strange than fiction is that this astoundingly clashy remix is by a bunch of Parisian illustrator. Is there nothing those cheese eating surrender monkeys can't do?
02 Feadz, Edwrecker
Apparently not, if Edwrecker is anything to go by because it's just bloody great and for us to talk about it every week for the next few weeks - which we'll have to cuz we don't see it going anywhere - we're gonna have to come up with some new works for carcrash funk switch bleep bass scratch genius. How about Bloody Heckers Like Loov. Maybe.
01 Cut Copy, Going Nowhere (SebastiAn Remix)
So, apparently, the French are taking over. No more lying down and leaving it all to Daft Punk, every single human being in France is getting up and remixing songs - good and bad - and making them absolutely outstanding. We don't even particularly like Cut Copy and were bored of Going Nowhere well before it stopped being played (which was well after it'd out-stayed its general welcome anyway, in fairness). This rips it up, makes it better, gives you a quick hint in the middle as to what you've escaped, then wraps it all up sweet as a nut mate. Sweet as a nut.
More in the mix and another week where it was, pretty much just the songs purchased that week we were listening to. As we say, this will return to its old eclectic best soon however, don't let that fool you into thinking this is by any means a slouch list. We were listening to these songs cuz they are shit hot. For actual.
20 Fury Of The Headteachers, Fables
19 Good Shoes, Small Town Girl
18 colonopenbracket, Codes
17 Benjamin Theves, Texas (SebastiAn Remix)
16 DJ Medhi, Lucky Boy (Surkin Remix)
Once again calling them Headmasters on the site but that's been corrected now, the Sheffield's own Headteachers mostly reminded us this week how good Fables really was by making it the standout on their recent album. I think the album's been released now. Dunno. The quaint Small Town Girl is close to our hearts cuz of a lyric about not really caring. That's just how we roll, yo. Having seen them in Leeeeeeds (when mens gwan the grimest of tings to proceed) we quite enjoy colonopenbracket, despite having now accused them to their faces of being A Bit Emo and had them not take it quite as well as expected. They are though. Dunno what to make of Benjamin Theves but they seem alright and a SebastiAn remix is a SebastiAn remix innit, bound to be good. Finally, we gotta give props to the boy Surkin for similarly dropping another bit of quite mint tunage actually with his remix, here.
15 Foals, Astronauts And All
14 Count Of Monte Cristal, Ghetto Bitches (Sinden Remix)
13 Krazy Baldhead, Strings Of Death
12 Services, Element Of Danger
11 The Futureheads, Skip To The End (Digitalism Remix)
To say we're bumming Foals at the moment is like saying Hitler had some interesting views. He did and we do. This is one of their bleepiest and, therefore, obviously, best. We also quite enjoy this bitch-heavy Sinden remix, possibly even more than Strings Of Death but we listened to it a lot less this week. We're still undecided about Services but they seem alright and Element Of Danger is pretty damn good. Obviously all the hype is around Digitalism and their remix of The Futurheads finally dawned on us as being pretty damn shit hot this week. Cuz it was the first time we'd actually listened to it. Bonus. Still, Switch's is better, obv.
10 Kavinsky, Testarossa (SebastiAn Remix)
09 Mr Oizo, Intra
08 Grammatics, The Shipping Forcast
07 Sky Larkin, Keepsakes
06 Good Shoes, Morden
So. Into the top ten and SebastiAn raises his talented head again, over uber-eighties electro-er Kavinsky, who we're not so fussed about. We dip our toes into Ed Banger country again with the mouthwatering Intra by Oizo before swanning off into pre post prog indie rock territory with Grammatics, who we also fully bummed to death live this week. Fully. A little more lovely are Sky Larkin, apparently, who heard us shouting Keepsakes all through their set and rattled off a superfast version right at the end to keep us smiling through our sobriety. Nobody played Morden at the aftershow but that was their loss cuz it's a blinder of a little song. Lovely.
05 iLiKETRAiNS, I Am Murdered
Less lovely, as the title suggests, is I Am Murdered by WELOVETRAiNS. Which we do. It's the b-side to Spencer Perceval which is also about someone being murdered, we assume the stories are linked but are too lazy to do your hard work for you and find out. We're a bunch of kids with scuffed knees, not a resource. Sit down, enjoy and figure it out for yourselves.
04 This Et Al, Catscan
Similarly, we can't tell you exactly what don't let them put the battery in her mean per ce but the whole thing is about some sort of man vs science and the big conspiracy affair, like This Et Al often are. The main thing to note is that when this dropped live (after, again, us and two other random strangers had been shouting for it), it was massive and everyone, literally, went a bit wild and, for the only time that night that we'd seen, started throwing themselves at each other.
03 Klaxons, Golden Skans To Interzone (So Me Remix)
We love this song anyway and when, ages ago, we heard this version we thought it was a SebastiAn remix, which seemed to good to be true. More strange than fiction is that this astoundingly clashy remix is by a bunch of Parisian illustrator. Is there nothing those cheese eating surrender monkeys can't do?
02 Feadz, Edwrecker
Apparently not, if Edwrecker is anything to go by because it's just bloody great and for us to talk about it every week for the next few weeks - which we'll have to cuz we don't see it going anywhere - we're gonna have to come up with some new works for carcrash funk switch bleep bass scratch genius. How about Bloody Heckers Like Loov. Maybe.
01 Cut Copy, Going Nowhere (SebastiAn Remix)
So, apparently, the French are taking over. No more lying down and leaving it all to Daft Punk, every single human being in France is getting up and remixing songs - good and bad - and making them absolutely outstanding. We don't even particularly like Cut Copy and were bored of Going Nowhere well before it stopped being played (which was well after it'd out-stayed its general welcome anyway, in fairness). This rips it up, makes it better, gives you a quick hint in the middle as to what you've escaped, then wraps it all up sweet as a nut mate. Sweet as a nut.