2011, and that starting with lots of good music.
5 - Ok Go - "Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky" Fuck the White Stripes, Coldplay, Lady Gaga and 30 Seconds To Mars: the band that makes the best videos today is Ok Go. From an animation on toast made up impossible choreography made in one take with many dogs and a goat , through the machine "This Too Shall Pass" (and these guys will go down in history with that video, I play whatever), Ok Go showed that a little twine and many ideas you can do great things. At last, after all, were made famous by a video dancing on treadmills and nothing else.
Nobody in the world that challenges them to Ok Go. What I discussed (just see the comments of the videos) is whether the Ok Go's music to match videos. For me, yes. "Oh no, the previous record, which was" Here It Goes Again "(the video tape to walk) was a track to move the handle side by side. "Oh No" is the type of disc that you can put on a party and, with one or two songs, everyone is going to keep dancing.
With "The Blue Colour Of ..." does not happen. The first sentence of hard is "what the hell I was trying to figure out what is happening", and it is exactly that feeling that you get when the disc ends. This album does not seem to Ok Go. I do not even sound like a band, but everything seems to be made by computer. Damian's voice is so hyper processed goulash that even looks like a human being who sings (and the pseudo waltz "Before the Earth WAS round" go to hell so why even bother with.)
What happens is that "The Blue Colour Of ..." not a record to listen or to put in the background. It's an album to put on your headphones, close your eyes and let yourself go. Yes, it has its moments where you're going to dance without moving ("White knucles", "End Love") but are the least. If one expects a record for dancing, shit, that is to listen and pay attention.
And the final scream of goulash in "Skycrapers" (my favorite song on the disc) is paw.
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Oh, there was no note, but the posting is full of links to see videos of OK Go, if you live in a jar of salsa golf stale and do not know what he was talking about.
4 - Take That - "Progress" few days ago was the birthday of my friend's boyfriend Sebastian. At one point I talked (keep in mind that my idea of \u200b\u200bconversation is to exchange more than ten words) with cousin Groom, he told me he was going to go see Roxette and I said "Live"!?. " At the end of the day, Roxette next twenty years ago Chorando disks filled with variations of "The Look". After a while I give Sebastian a Take That cd that I had requested, and the cousin's boyfriend saw him and said "But these are Chorando with that?", Or something.
not say anything because, obviously, had not heard "Progress."
Short version in case anyone does not know what I mean: Take That was a band of five guys that made British pop pretty nice, all very politically correct, talking about love making very nice vocal harmonies. In mid- Robbie Williams 90s balls swelled and left the group. Of those who remained, two began a solo career (Gary Barlow and Mark Owen) with little success (the first pig fattening, the latter became famous for winning the Celebrity Big Brother.) In mid-2000 it seems that they began to run out of money and Take That are together again, but without Robbie Williams. They released two albums, one very good and the other very bad, and regained the fame he had before. Similarly, Robbie Williams's fame began to fall (and four albums ago that the guy does not hit a hit), and must have spent all the loot in splint because in the end last year agreed to return to Take That.
The problem is that Take That have today 40 years and does not continue to make stupid at that age pop.
does it?
The guys had a very intelligent idea. They had to get someone to be able to do that five forties pop need of twine made without losing face. They realized that Madonna is in a situation similar to theirs (actually it is worse, because they are over 50 and still believes it has 23), and called Stuart Price, producer of that awful Madonna album is " Confessions On A Dance Floor. "
When Sebastian told me that he had fallen "Progress", he said "It's good, but this is Take That." And it's true. The only song Take That seems to always be "The Flood", the first track. This is a typical air anthem song with lyrics that serves as analogy for the return of the band. But four minutes after the disc gives a 180 degree turn and becomes a ball of electronic noises, violent beats and lyrics that are repeated until the alienation. "Happy now" sounds like an issue of Massive Attack, except in the chorus, where an army of gnomes falsetto scream "I feel like I'm falling and I feel happy." "What do you want from me" could have been the ballad of the album, but the producer got to kick the piano and violin and put him synthesizers, guitars and sharpshooters everywhere until you got the blues and turned it into ... God knows why. "Flowerbed" a voice echoed, half body and a battery new age monotonous, and nothing else, you expect something to happen, but the song just gets on your nerves.
But there are two songs that take all the applause. "SOS" has a letter supposedly an environmentalist, the typical cliche that if you do not care for the environment we all going to die. But Mark Owen repeated as possessed "It's an SOS, it's an SOS, oh yes, oh yes, it's an SOS" and you just want to grab a chainsaw and go cut trees. As if to make things more irritating in the middle of the track is a sampling of a speech by John F. Kennedy. The other song is "Kidz", a military march in the style Nine Inch Nails, again, works by repeating phrases over and over again. For the bridge had no better idea to repeat the tune a hundred times saying "la la la lala." Apparently "Kidz" will be the second single, wanted to present it in a The X-Factor (a program similar to English Talento Argentino) but because the choreography had police scrambling to blows with children, not allowed to make the presentation. No matter: if "Kidz" comes on the radio, more than one going to use the song for shit to punching someone.
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3 - Cowboy Junkies - "Renmin Park - The Nomad Series, Volume I" The Cowboy Junkies long ago ceased to be a country band and became a group that God knows what. "Open" were given by the distortion, in "At The End Of Paths Taken" proved to superimpose layers of things, and managed to track where a person was singing while another, while reading a story.
"Renmin Park is no exception. It is not understood even if you have the concept of the disc. It is anecdotal, but here goes: Michael Timmins, guitarist and composer of most issues, he went to China to adopt a baby. On that trip he recorded many sounds of the street, bought some traditional instruments and invented a story about two lovers arranging their secret meetings in different parts of the city.
do not know what will have been smoked, or hooks because you realize that. "Renmin Park" alternates a nice folk song with an unspeakable experiment. For example, in "Sir Francis Bacon at the net" it denotes the sampling rate of two Chinese playing tennis, while three people reciting the letter but mistimed the three. "(You've got to get) A good heart" is a pop rarity in the discography of the Junkies, but throughout the entire song is a little girl screaming in Chinese, as if teaching karate to a teddy bear . The height of everything is "A walk in the park, where a Chinese doing something like singing in a voice hoarse. Above the song is in Chinese, so you have no where to hold on when they start soloing I do not know what instrument is that China and starts screaming like a siren. Thank God
are issues that always make the Cowboy Junkies and I do not know why I always end up liking. "Sadly I Can not sit by your side" is a cover of a Chinese theme, the chorus is just the name of the song that slow, dragging word for word like a heavy stone. And the song is just that: a woman who can not bear to be with his love because he killed another man. "My fall", another cover of a Chinese, is a rare delicacy and precision today. "A few bags of grain" has a piano that sounds as if under water, while Margo sings as if his life depended on it. Every time I heard her say "Oh the shame, the shame, the shame ..." puts you goosebumps.
But just in case, if any of us had found some comfort in the slow folk, the Junkies are responsible for closing the record of the most bizarre possible: someone phones a number where, instead of listening to the rings common, an acoustic pop song. After a few seconds, skip the answering machine (Lucy Liu know what he says, because, again, the voice spoke in Chinese), and cut.
And so ends the disc.
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2 - The Divine Comedy - "Bang Goes The Knighthood" & "Live At Somerset House" Yes, I cheated here. Neil Hannon, the man behind The Divine Comedy, earlier this year released "Bang Goes The Knighthood", a festival that had become independent and now could do what he sang his signature. Months later, without telling anyone, used and released his first live album, "Live At Somerset House. We
piecemeal.
"Bang Goes The Knightood" no move at all from the formula that is The Divine Comedy. The melodies are somewhere between a Broadway musical and a song by Jacques Brel, the lyrics have an intelligence and a sense of humor that you can not find in pop songs of today and a team of arqeólogos. In "The complete banker," Hannon discusses the crisis that has engulfed Europe from the place of a banker and says "So I causes a second great depression, What can I say / I guess I got a bit Carried Away / If I say I 'm sorry you will give me the money? ". "I Can not Abide with horizontal life / It's time to rise, assume the perpendicular" sings a song, and that is the poet of always Hannon: perpendicular life would be, basically, standing, doing something and not lying in bed staring at the ceiling (horizontal life). If even you feel like getting out of bed and do something.
are the last two best tracks on the disc. "Can you stand upon one leg" is a hopelessly stupid song, where Hannon that challenges you to win a chess match your dad or tell a joke to make someone laugh. Sure, that's something that makes anyone. But Hannon, who is rough and it does challenge you one last thing: you hold a high note for TWENTY SECONDS. In this not beaten anybody. And "I like" is a beautiful love song with an almost Beatlesque melody, the kind that you are in your head for days.
"Live At Somerset House" is an album that fans come Hannon waiting nearly twenty years, and is a good album by The Divine Comedy live. He left a DVD a few years ago, but is increasingly inconseguible (and is a Poronga who has not appeared on cd). "Live At Somerset House" is a TRIPLE album! Hannon is charged where their best songs by himself on piano or guitar, depending on the subject. Hannon is wrong on the piano, he forgets the lyrics, jokes, short subjects and engages people, and that proves to be a whore san frontman.
It's weird because in the study provided an orchestra is assembled dozens of people, and that "Everybody Knows (Except You) "is only with piano (and the audience singing) is something ... yeah, weird. What happens is that when a song is good, it will be good to touch her with a guitar or with an orchestra symphony. And songs like "Songs of Love", "National Express", "Your daddy's car" or "Tonight we fly" (if you get excited about this, you're a robot) are very good tunes.
And, thank God , the Virgin and Zulma Lobato, also makes "Can you stand upon one leg", and also keeps the note for thirty seconds, while it encourages the public to follow. Oh, and also makes "Jiggery Pokery", a song tells a cricket match and has one of the choruses nobody understands how humanity took so many millions of years to write. (And it gives all the impression that Hannon had problems that night with that song in particular ... and very funny when you make a mistake)
Hannon has not done anything that has not done before, nor has it tried anything new. What happens is that there is no one who does what he does Hannon, so every time you get a new album The Divine Comedy you know you are to hear something different. Well, always good.
Clicking here you can download "Bang Goes The Knighthood" , the live album I found no link, but I guess you can find it in Portal.
1 - Liz Phair - "Funstyle" Never in my life I could take seriously Liz Phair. And why almost all my life I heard angry girls making rock. But there was no way, Liz Phair always struck me as a poser, a mine that he could be digging in public with this to get attention but that had nothing to say. If he even made a song where the refrain again and again said "Give me your hot white cum" and I never understood if he was serious or fuck.
And one day Liz Phair up in their 'Funstyle "for people to download it for free. As has happened eight hundred thousand times, the label had not liked what he had recorded, so she continued writing and recording songs, and they continued negándoselas ... and got tired and went to the Internet.
The Pitchfork said a great truth about "Funstyle" when you hear the record, my first thought is "But what the hell is this?". The response comes after a few heard, "This is the testimony of a mine that is tired of the hypocrisy of his colleagues, that is rotten materialistic society, which is losing about raising your child (the mother Phair single), and does not know how to deal with the world without leaving a pear to kill everyone. Liz Phair In forty minutes takes you through all the moods that you can think of, not is not easy to keep up.
The first track, "Smoke" is ... There ... how to say ... Begins a slow pace, and displayed a high-pitched screams. Instead of a verse, we have people talking. Then there is a chorus that just says "There's smoke on That", and instead of a verse is another dialogue in which Phair not let go to a party. Chorus again, and again another dialogue between Phair y. .. a person gagged. The "song" (to call them that) tries to show how tired he is from the music industry, but everything is so rare that I do not know if it succeeds. "Bollywood", the song that follows, has the same intention. With a good percussion india, Phair RAPE his experience as a composer of soundtracks programs in India and how fucked up the contract that made him sign. Again, is a pigsty. Just
from there the album starts to take regular songs. In "You Should Know Me" Phair confesses "I get down, I get up, I get angry, I get sad" and while talking about her ex-husband is a very good description of what comes next in the disk. "Miss September" is a beautiful pop song that could have easily sung Costa Esperanza boys on the banks of river. A funky guitars and a trumpet make "My my" in a set for dancing in the pipe (in the U.S., not here because nobody here knows Liz Phair).
"Oh, Bangladesh" is the closest thing on the disc to the Liz Phair of the first records. You own the dirt of the early DIY Phair, and when asked "Why do you treat me so well if I am a disaster?" not really seem to want to know the answer. The trip-hop of "Bang!" Bang "is the best album:" I had a difficult day and I could never feel good about being single "asks aloud, to immediately threaten saying that it will begin to bang, bang, bang, bang ... and every bang is repeated ad infinitum. Hammering the finished dishes throughout the song, as if each were a shot getting into an instrument.
of nowhere appears some Latin rhythms of Gloria Estefan an Indian who gives advice to raise self-esteem. Liz Phair takes his best accent and said inconsistencies cheta hilarious about rich people eat junk espiritualoide as "I definitely like the gin-sing and the gingko bal ... boa?". The chorus sounds like aerobics class, and now you start to understand who wanted to shoot in the previous topic.
"And I slayed her" is a play on words the phrase phonetically sounds the same to Andy Slater, the owner of the record company rejected several times "Funstyle." And it's a merciless song: "What kind of guy you were when you were little? What kind of man does the things that you did? What kind of life you expect to live if everyone put a price on your head? "asks Slater, and by the end the only thing left to say is that it will go straight to hell and will stay there." Satisfied "released tensions, teen returns to the atmosphere of "Miss September" and is so romantic phrases like "I remember you when I grabbed her hair while I threw up everything."
"Funstyle" ends as it begins: with a "song" that actually is the dialogue of two critics who do shit because I hate the album, while the background sounds a string of unrelated songs with each other, and an occasional Woody Woodpecker. The song is called, logically, "U hate it" and Critics say incoherent things like "My hate is growing, it's getting larger and hotter" or "You know, I listened to it twice. The Second Time Was Worse." In the middle of the song, Phair give an award for the disc and the two critics are turning like pancakes and start saying stupid thing to praise the album even more ridiculous than before.
Musically, Funstyle "is impossible. Cuesta horrors understand what shit happens in this album. And therein lies the value of the album: sometimes you do not understand why things happen that happen, and one does not know what to do with all that. Phair tried to exorcise those doubts as he could, and did so in the most brutal and honest that comes to mind. No one, not by a long shot, did something this year.
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