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Tune of the moment

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Sebastian Flyte

07:26 / 05.07.07

Today, and in fact for most of the past three days, White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane has been making me incredibly fucking happy.

I have no idea why, other than the fact it is utterly wonderful.

10:13 / 06.07.07

Crossover! I dug them out of my iPod a few months ago and they stand up as one of the high points of early naughties Electroclash with their hypnotic electro sound and super-evocative nonsense vocals. Vanessa Tosti's icy, sexy Euro-American accent on Phostographt never failed to lure this body onto the dancefloor, and I imagine the same would be true today even though these bones have now breached 31. And Extensive Care must be one of my favourite tracks of the decadecade. In fact Crossover must be one of my favourite acts of the new millenium - why I don't have their last album is completely beyond me, a problem that will be rectified right now.

And that brings me neatly onto this tune - Night Hawks. Not sure whether it's been released - as usual I nabbed it offa 20JFG, and it's bloomin' ace. Totally reminded me why I love this band. Quite how these guys manage to work within such well-worn forms and produce stuff that sounds so fresh and original I'll never know, but Night Hawks bloody well does it. Lovely to hear repetitive breaks making a comeback, an' all.

Bloody mesmerising this tune.

10:19 / 06.07.07

Their Myspace page

All Acting Regiment

12:55 / 06.07.07

Does anyone like Vitalic? I do.

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:57 / 06.07.07

Essential Dazzler

20:40 / 06.07.07

I've found a few JME mixtapes and I'm falling head over heals in love.

Favourite track currently is the awesome Deceived. it's that old-school storytelling shit, with a shyamalan style twist! (but not a pile of wank like Shyamalan)

mp3s of Decieved and Carry Out Orders following

Deceived

Carry Out Orders

A fall of geckos

13:04 / 11.07.07

I've just discovered Jonathan Coulton and I've fallen absolutely in love with Skullcrusher Mountain, which features the lines:

I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you
But I get the feeling that you don't like it
What's with all the screaming?
You like monkeys, you like ponies
Maybe you don't like monsters so much
Maybe I used too many monkeys
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony.. making a gift for you?

Possibly the greatest lyrics ever.

The song's been released under a creative commons license and can be downloaded for free here.

Kiltartan Cross

20:34 / 11.07.07

Vulcan, by Snake River Conspiracy. I'm not sure why, since it's an extended, screamed insult (opening: FUCK! ...I'd post a YouTube link but the darn thing is censored) from start to finish, but it's bringing me one hell of a smirk.

(I'm not sure what's up with that band, or exactly what they're about, but they seem to have more than their fair share of internal disputes...)

All Acting Regiment

03:08 / 13.07.07

Saint-Saens!

Dans Macabre!

Mon Coeur S'ouvre a ta voix!

Quite impossible to explain except in terms of themselves.

04:14 / 13.07.07

I recently discovered an MF Doom song called "Somersault" produced by Danger Mouse. It might be old but it made me nod my head and smirk.

Janean Patience

07:06 / 13.07.07

I think that's by Zero 7 featuring MF Doom. It's a nice song.

I've got Sugar Daddy in my head...

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

01:48 / 14.07.07

Eartha Kitt singing "I wanna be evil."

"...and in the theatre, I want to change my seat/ just so I can step on everybody's feet..."

14:15 / 14.07.07

Few things that are floating my boat in a weird (often retro) way at the moment:

Love your money by Daisy Chainsaw.
Idealistic by Digitalism.
Baby Let Me Kiss You by Fern Kinney.
Rose Garden by Lynn Anderson.
Schrapnell by Isolée.
Malaguena Salerosa by Chingon.
You're in a Bad Way by Saint Etienne.
'Round Midnight by Dakota Staton.

19:25 / 15.07.07

"The Heinrich Maneuver" by Interpol. Very down and moody indie rock that sounds like Echo and The Bunnymen transplanted to New York. Absorbing, questioning lyrics flooded with what another poster referred to (in regards to something completely different, admittedly) as Hamlet's depression.

Find them, and it, here

19:30 / 15.07.07

Why do things always pop in after you hit post? I'd also add that they definitely have sound in common with also-indie rock band White Rose Movement, for the two other Barbeloids who have heard of them.

00:33 / 16.07.07

I think that's by Zero 7 featuring MF Doom. It's a nice song.

Ah! That's who the vocalist is in the background. I knew it sounded familiar.
That's kind of the downside of loading songs, you have no little booklet to scrape song info out of. (that and I'm too lazy to look it up).

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

02:43 / 13.08.07

I downloaded MIKA's "Big Girl (You are beautiful)" the other day and it glistens - other than that gross liquid-through-a-straw opening, which squicks me but then leads into this wicked poptastic body love thing.

Also, right now, Janis Ian's "At Seventeen," the Joni Mitchellness of it all, the upbeat vibe masking the dark lyricism...

15:57 / 14.08.07

for laughs: "i'm not a thug" by plastic little
(on the philly rappers first album, thug paradise)
best intro to a rap song ever.
-"yeah, you like that terminator three flick, baby?"

"i'm a cuckoo (avalanches remix)" belle & sebatian
just nice and pretty.

"good song" - blur
(graham and damon better work all their shit out and give us a new album this summer)

18:23 / 14.08.07

right now the two songs Big Bikes and Green Machine by the amazing Kyuss have me in an amazing state of happiness.

Sometimes randomly (?) picking songs out of my collection can still show me why I have the music in the first place, even after long periods of not listening to it.

I need to listen to more Kyuss, now

23:25 / 14.08.07

I'm really loving Change Your World by Anthony Hamilton lately. It starts out a fairly standard but solid soul song, and builds up at the end to a great finale, just classic. And, he has an amazing voice.

Para Para Paradox

04:56 / 15.08.07

I wouldn't quite say that Spoon's "Don't You Evah" makes me happy, but I know that it always makes me want to dance. It's my favourite track off of their new album, and I love the whole thing.

Gendudehashadenough

21:39 / 16.08.07

Everything by Mapmaker. That is all.

08:51 / 17.08.07

Christ, this thread really has taken a turn for the worse.

Each tune gets no more than three lines of explanation now, then? Great!

The Natural Way

12:48 / 17.08.07

I'm starting a new thread, I think.

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