Original video located here. Accessed 25th February 2015
Song title: Young
Artist: Vallis Alps
Year: 2015
Why I like this song:
Disjointed beats and atmospheric synths make for a hypnotic listen.
Is this the Australian answer to London Grammar? Who cares: This is great.
Original video located here. Accessed 9th February 2015
Song title: What's the Frequency Kenneth?
Artist: R.E.M.
Year: 1994
Why I like this song:
When you need a new method to reach a younger audience....
They say revivals happen in chunks of twenty years. That being said I have spent the past few years digging up music from the early nineties and finding it much to my liking. I've discovered gems that I never knew existed (Sugar), I've come to see acts I knew of in a different light (Lemonheads, KLF, L7 and Wonderstuff) and I've come to enjoy acts I never thought I would (Aphex Twin). Indeed, it's great to go back and discover stuff that passed me by the first time around and seeing that it does indeed hold up two decades later.
However, this year is 2015: And going by the logic of the twenty-year revival thing, it was in the mid-nineties (1996 to be precise) that I started listening to Triple J and ended my music exile. What this means is that the unfamiliar is now starting to become familiar. The sense of exploration is now replaced with the sense of coming back to ground I once traversed.
In that sense, perhaps it is time I stopped being so disillusioned with modern pop/rock music and started living in the present....
Song title: Swordland
Artist: Yuki Kajiura
Year: 2013
Why I like this song:
Recently I've been watching the anime Sword Art Online.
I am well aware that a lot of people don't like this anime and I can understand their viewpoint. But I have enjoyed this anime a lot - and I will admit that Kirito and Asuna are a couple worth shipping.
What is of note is that this by Yuki Kajiura - the same composer who gave us .hack//SIGN - thus suggesting she does great for anime where people are trapped in a MMORPGur. And whilst she may be applying the same tricks here, they are ramped up to something more energetic and foreboding.
Its just the thing for doing a World of Warcraft dungeon. Or any RPG dungeon for that matter.
Original video located here. Accessed 5th January 2015
Song title: Sore ga ai deshou
Artist: Mikuni Shimokawa
Year: 2003
Why I like this song:
It's a very pretty love song that is completely ill-fitting for such a demented comedy that is Full Metal Panic Fumoffu
Original video located here. Accessed 5th January 2015
Song title: Where Boys Fear to Tread
Artist: Smashing Pumpkins
Year: 1995
Why I like this song:
Mellon Collie was a defining album of my teen years and, twenty years later, this still rocks hard
Original video located here. Accessed 22nd December 2014
Song title: Let Me Sleep
Artist: Pearl Jam
Year: 1991
Why I like this song:
Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Original video located here. Accessed 15th December 2014
Song title: Uptown Funk
Artist: Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars
Year: 2014
Why I like this song:
To be honest, I didn't think much of Mark Ronson's previous efforts under his own name but here? He blows them all out of the water. Bruno Mars sounds like he's having the time of his life, the funk is unstoppable and, no matter many times I've heard it, it has yet to get old.
Which in itself is a rare achievement in the world of pop music.
Some say it may be derivative but who cares when it sounds so irresistable?