Original video located here. Accessed 26th June 2017
Song title: Want You Back
Artist: Haim
Year: 2017
Why I like this song:
The Este sisters do it again.
Its a fun listen and the vocals are great. It also doesn't hurt that the video is entertaining.
Original video located here. Accessed 23rd June 2017
Song title: History
Artist: The Verve
Year: 1995
Why I like this song:
Lately I've been listening to the Verve's second album, A Northern Soul
One can only wonder how history will remember The Verve: On one hand is the band that the monumental hit with Bittersweet Symphony and it's parent album Urban Hymns. But on the other was this: the lesser known period before Urban Hymns that was less audience friendly but more highly regarded by some.
Certainly it is a shock hearing this having come from Urban Hymns but that's what makes it intriguing. A tough listen to be sure but a rewarding one.
Original video located here. Accessed 20th June 2017
Song title: The Perfect Drug
Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Year: 1997
Why I like this song:
Yes there was a time when this song was awesome and not just the most difficult song to master on Expert Drums in the Rock Band franchise XD
Pretty much an effective way to show addiction, starting from infatuation and ending on dependency/withdrawal - and what a miserable journey it may be.
Original video located here. Accessed 16th June 2017
Song title: Anybody Seen My Baby
Artist: Rolling Stones
Year: 1997
Why I like this song:
Apparently this song got the Stones into a lot of legal trouble as it sounded too similar to KD Lang's hit Constant Craving. So much so that it earned KD and her songwriting partner Ben Mink a credit as co-writers.
Having listened to both songs back to back, for comparison's sake, I can see a resemblance however vague.
Or maybe I just don't know any better XD
Still, it's a solid effort and shows there's still life in the old dogs yet.
Original video located here. Accessed 9th June 2017
Song title: Perfect Detonator
Artist: sleepmakeswaves
Year: 2014
Why I like this song:
Seems listening to sleepmakeswaves made an impression on me so I decided to seek out their debut album.
It certainly rocks hard and I will not turn up my nose to an instrumental, let alone an exclusively instrumental band. Certainly, the thrill of an instrumental is listening to it and drawing one's own conclusions and this band certainly is throwing down that particular gauntlet.
Original video located here. Accessed 7th June 2017
Song title: Isaac or Fuzz
Artist: Machine Gun Fellatio
Year: 1997
Why I like this song:
Did he ever find out what that song was called? We may never know.
Its the first impression for this band and boy do they make their presence known.
Original video located here. Accessed 23rd November 2019
Song title: Inner Universe
Artist: Origa
Year: 2002
Why I like this song:
Yoko Kanno tries her hand at industrial. Why not? She's tried many other genres.
This is the opening to the Ghost in the Shell TV series Stand Alone Complex. And whereas the movie opened with a hymn sung in Bulgarian, this does a similar trick with it being sung in Russian.
Also helps that the hits like a truck with the synths and beats. Having a child soprano doesn't hurt either.
Keep in mind, it had been years since the movie and many people had been crying out for a follow up since. And when it did, it was after the cinematic landscape had been changed by The Matrix, one of Ghost in the Shell's disciples. Thus the use of industrial suggests some degree of cross-pollination.
No matter, it still works a treat.