Original video located here. Accessed 26th September 2011
Song title: Amor Fati
Artist: Washed Out
Year: 2011
Why I like this song:
Like walking out of the house and into sunshine.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Back to the Eighties: Perfect Circle
Original video located here. Accessed 6th February 2016
Song title: Perfect Circle
Artist: R.E.M.
Year: 1983
Why I like this song:
It's official: R.E.M. have called it a day.
Some cynics would think they should've done it years ago but this is still the endpoint for one of the most successful bands ever and that should at least shed a tear or two...
Personally, I've been on quite the journey with this band.
In early primary school I became of them through being freaked out by the video to Orange Crush.
In late primary school I knew of Everybody Hurts through it's emotional weight.
In high school I was puzzled by their recent but I rediscovered their eighties efforts.
In university I came to love them, having listened to Reveal lot.
And in the post-university years I heard their first clutch of albums - their independent era which is regarded by some as their best.
In any case, the story of R.E.M. is one of being a pioneer for alternative rock and one that altered the course of history of popular music.
Here's to you legends.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Got it Covered: Anarchy in the U.K.
Original video located here. Accessed 10th July 2015
Song title: Anarchy in the U.K.
Artist: Frazier Chorus
Originally Done By: Sex Pistols
Year: 1989
Why I like this song:
I've talked previously how the best covers are the one's that make the original unrecognisable.
And then there's this.....
Not much I can say expect it's perplexing to hear energy and anger being replaced with.....lethargy?
Really this is the sound of a revolution where no one bothered to turn up.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Got it Covered: Reptile
Original video located here. Accessed 31st August 2011
Song title: Reptile
Artist: Smashing Pumpkins
Originally Done By: The Church
Year: 2008
Why I like this song:
This is a cover I never would've guessed. I love the Pumpkins and I love the Church so seeing both come together is fine by me
Monday, August 29, 2011
Choon of the Month: Junk of the Heart (Happy)
Original video located here. Accessed 29th August 2011
Song title: Junk of the Heart (Happy)
Artist: The Kooks
Year: 2011
Why I like this song:
Currently experiencing problems with my romantic partner - and to that end this song has been handy to have around...
Friday, August 26, 2011
Back to the Eighties: Never Tear Us Apart
Original video located here. Accessed 9th December 2012
Song title: Never Tear Us Apart
Artist: INXS
Year: 1987
Why I like this song:
Given that I've been listening to INXS lately, it would be somewhat inevitable that I would come to what is widely regarded as their best album Kick.
Yeah it's all right.
As for this song, it's funny hearing it now because for years, particularly as an eighties kid, it was one of those song that was always there: The opening strings, Michael's vocals and that sudden stop. You know the song but somehow, it's always the parts of it; never the whole thing.
Although to this day, I find it hard to listen to this song without striking some melodramatic pose.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Nineties Revisited: Tuesday
Original video located here. Accessed 15th August 2011
Song title: Tuesday
Artist: You Am I
Year: 1996
Why I like this song:
Recently I have been listening to You Am I's Hourly Daily album.
Back in the mid-nineties, there was a time when these guys seemed unstoppable: They were the biggest act in the land, they had a monumentally successful album, they were scooping up the ARIAs and they were inspiring many young people to get a guitar and get a band together.
So it is interesting to hear this album now: Did I miss something back then that many people latched onto?
I will admit that presenting the album as a day, from dawn to evening, is effective. Granted it worked for the Moody Blues but this is the same formula wrung through an Australian perspective. And that perspective being that of suburbia.
Furthermore, the album itself certainly has a freshness about it that is undeniable.
Its debatable whether or not this album would've succeeded without that of Oasis' (What's the Story) Morning Glory but if this was the Australian answer to the trends of Britpop then hey, why not?
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