tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27988848935016042642024-03-06T01:31:22.512-05:00ALL EARSmusic. entertainment. pop
culture.Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636433607672519945noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798884893501604264.post-66029460630845869312012-05-12T19:20:00.000-04:002012-05-14T14:03:31.125-04:00SHORT SONGS<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If
you've developed a short attention span since summer is currently showering us
with its shine, take a breather and listen to a sharply short song. Sample an early
self-titled Beastie Boys morsel or get pumped up with Battles' </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dominican
Fade</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, a breviloquent blast of audio excellence. These selections are all under
two minutes in length.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Our first entry holds the world record for the
shortest song ever, lasting under two seconds; 1.316 seconds to be exact. <i>You
Suffer</i> by English grindcore band Naplam Death was released in 1987 and Justin
Broadrick has said the band never intended to set a Guinness record. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You Suffer</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was largely a comedy thing,
one-second song. Utterly retarded. It's ridiculous, but it was hilarious. We
played that song in front of 30 local kids, like, every weekend. We played that
song 30 times. It was a laugh," Broadrick is quoted as saying in Albert
Mudrian's book </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Precious Metals: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme
Metal Masterpieces</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scroll on down and you will see short songs don't have to suck.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>You Suffer</i></span></b><br />
<b>Naplam Death</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ybGOT4d2Hs8" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Dominican Fade</i></span></b><br />
<b>Battles</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1S1qNDnkxkI" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Shifty</i></span></b><br />
<b>Flying Lotus</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Z6tVSHBJYQY" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Norgaard</i></span></b><br />
<b>The Vaccines</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8VI3q4T-1Jc" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Bad Time</i></span></b><br />
<b>The Vibrators</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wAXUeE98Ae4" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Dirty Needles</i></span></b><br />
<b>Screeching Weasel</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3TXLcn-NZpo" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Brookfield </i></span></b><br />
<b>Silverstein</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/o0AA--tCRas" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Abra Cadaver</i></span></b><br />
<b>The Hives</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xUdevXDzrcc" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>New Radio</i></span></b><br />
<b>Bikini Kill</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bx8jV9cql-4" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Little Room</i></span></b><br />
<b>White Stripes</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4OqveSybH0A" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Koka Cola</i></span></b><br />
<b>The Clash</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_Mr0ME56CSY" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Reno Dakota</i></span></b><br />
<b>Magnetic Fields </b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/o8JuG6nRhb4" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>The Three Shadows Part III</i></span></b><br />
<b>Bauhaus</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/R532yBoDco4" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>A Struggle Like No Other</i></span></b><br />
<b>Epoxies</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vF71RJNXY1I" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>#1 Is Number Two</i></span></b><br />
<b>The Soviettes</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/T1GIDGi-vn0" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>One Chance</i></span></b><br />
<b>Dananananakroyd</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Jn3Ni19L8fU" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Water Boy</i></span></b><br />
<b>Imperial Teen</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uFV36feyE1I" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Pull Out</i></span></b><br />
<b>Death From Above 1979</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1Kay3JhksG4" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Beastie Boys</i></span></b><br />
<b>Beastie Boys</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nc9299vZrkU" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Team</i></span></b><br />
<b>Bon Iver</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/P2m6J4gqctA" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Short Attention Span</i></span></b><br />
<b>Fizzy Bangers</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/REojIUxX4rw" width="400"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">- BT</div>Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636433607672519945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798884893501604264.post-69576624446862003532012-05-04T18:54:00.002-04:002012-05-05T03:22:16.196-04:00RIP MCA If you were to scroll through my iPod, you would see the artist or group I have the most songs by are the Beastie Boys with 68 tracks total. I was very saddened to receive a text from my friend detailing MCA's passing. Adam Yauch and the boys provided an essential soundtrack for my teenage years. To this day Beastie Boys songs never fail to brighten up my mood when I'm feeling dark and dreary. If the seas of society are pulling you under, the Beastie's music can be the buoyancy you need. The group's output spans seven albums over 20 years. Along side Ad Rock and Mike D, MCA meandered from punk to hip hop. There were massive hits and overshot misses, yet the BBs never failed to electrify my ears like a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8RJ8UPrcRU">live wire</a>.<br />
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I'm thinking about putting the super sized Beastie Boys poster I took down from my bedroom wall back up. Years ago I deemed it too immature and removed it. But now in MCA's honour, I may have to locate some thumb-tacks.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo version of my pubescent poster<br />
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Of course there are Beastie Boys classics no one can deny. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE&ob=av3e"><i>Sabotage</i></a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5pvxgWJnws"><i>Slow and Low</i></a> and <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g&ob=av3e">Intergalactic</a>,</i> to name a few. I personally tended to gravitate towards the more obscure tracks. Aside from <i>Hello Nasty</i>, their recent releases found the trio at peak performance level. <i>To The Five Burroughs</i> and <i>Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2</i> are funky and magically modern respectively. In addition, if you haven't heard their Grammy-winning instrumental album <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blw9rw0IMkk">The Mix Up</a></i>, give it a listen. I can't count how many articles I hammered out with that lyric-less masterpiece encouraging my keystrokes.<br />
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MCA will live on forever in the ears of appreciative music fans. He delighted us with his rapid fire rhymes and made the outcasts feel welcome thanks to Beastie Boys' non-judgemental philosophy. For the decades of artful entertainment; I feel <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJ5e70Q8mw&ob=av2e">gratitude</a>.<br />
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<i>Twenty Questions</i><br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eZxIALBCWrw" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<i>I Want Some</i><br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PPXcEc5h94I" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<i>Here's A Little Something For Ya</i><br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9TJUcpOz5BI" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<i>Dub The Mic</i><br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uOLteH0bi1o" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<i>3 MCs and 1 DJ</i> (Live video take)<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XflfiylNNXY" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<i>Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win </i>(Extended video)<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w-QIiVS_7Hs" width="400"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">- BT</div>Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636433607672519945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798884893501604264.post-73739533281769341892012-04-22T12:46:00.002-04:002012-05-14T14:05:01.330-04:005 SONGS FOR EARTH DAY<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Pop Goes the World</i></span></b><br />
<b>Gossip</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Big Yellow Taxi</i></span></b><br />
<b>Joni Mitchell</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZgMEPk6fvpg" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Monkey Gone to Heaven</i></span></b><br />
<b>Pixies</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>I Remember California</i></span></b><br />
<b>REM</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/r-QDmnIkw_c" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><i>Red Tide</i></span></b><br />
<b>Neko Case</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3zP4CP5FTZU" width="400"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">- BT</div>Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636433607672519945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798884893501604264.post-19170675318428532602012-04-09T22:31:00.014-04:002012-04-10T00:30:25.330-04:00SEVEN DEADLY SINS SONGS Many associate this time of year with pastels and <a href="http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.junkfoodnews.net/JUST-BORN-MARSHMALLOW-PEEPS.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.junkfoodnews.net/marshmallow-peeps.htm&h=300&w=400&sz=23&tbnid=HmvBLqq7K8JfPM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=120&zoom=1&docid=W08Nog-6gvDapM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xpmDT-iyD-PV0QGPuOngBw&sqi=2&ved=0CEwQ9QEwAg&dur=322">poultry peeps</a>. Yet Christian chronicles say that Jesus was crucified for our sins and resurrected on Easter Sunday. If you've consumed too many ultra-rich rabbits or remained a comatose couch potato this past weekend, don't crawl up on the cross just yet. All Ears prescribes music therapy to help you overcome the guilt of your misdeeds.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">LUST</span></b><br />
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Of course there are hundreds of thousands of love songs that would make good bed fellows for the sin of lust. However a song about strippers, or rather comparing politicians to dollar hungry whores, is my pick. Is there anything more awkward and lustful than being a spectator at a strip club?<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Lapdance</span></b><br />
<b>NERD</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">GLUTTONY</span></b><br />
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Modern thinkers usually view gluttony as one of the least severe sins. St. Gregory the Great had a different view of gastro-centric gobblers, writing that gluttony isn't just about eating too much. Gregory, a doctor of the church, considered adding spices to food or seeking out delicacies to be glu<span style="font-family: inherit;">ttonous actions in addition to over eating. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Bjork</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> is an artist who has devoured the world music scene, selling over 15 million albums. Her style and musical ascetic are a literal smorgasbord of sounds; spanning rock, electronic and experimental. If you're craving a great track to tide you over, nibble on this alt-rock hors </span>d'oeuvre<span style="font-family: inherit;"> from one of Bjork</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">'s early Icelandic outfits. </span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">I'm Hungry</span></b><br />
<b>The Sugarcubes</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">GREED</span></b><br />
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Besides the obvious subject matter of this song, who better to represent the sin of greed than spotlight seeking, Taylor Swift-usurping, self-aggrandizing sample stealer Kanye West?<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Gold Digger</span></b><br />
<b>Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">SLOTH</span></b><br />
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Easily the most accessible sin, If I had the ambition I'd wager most Westernised readers indulge in sloth daily. According to the gospel sloth isn't only about inactivity. Loving sleep, resting on your laurels or simply squandering your gifts are all described as sloth in the Bible.<br />
The Clash's <i>Should I Stay or Should I Go </i>speaks of indifference but the track<i> </i>wasn't squandered on the music listening public. The song remains the band's only #1 UK single and was ranked at #228 on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone%27s_500_Greatest_Songs_of_All_Time"><i>Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time</i></a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Should I Stay or Should I Go</span></b><br />
<b>The Clash</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">WRATH </span></b><br />
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Anger, or wrath, is right up there with sloth as the most frequently indulged sin. Hopefully most individuals will never become so enraged they commit familicide as the character in Violent Femmes' <i>Country Death Song</i> does.<br />
<i> Country Death Song</i> was penned by Femmes leader Gordon Gano while stewing in tenth grade study hall and this tale of offspring offing is reportedly based on a documented murder-suicide from 1862. Fittingly this song appeared on the band's 1984 album <i>Hallowed Grounds</i> which relies heavily on Christian concepts.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Country Death Song</span></b><br />
<b>Violent Femmes</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">ENVY</span></b><br />
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The Muffs are an unremarkable band, although I may have mislead you judging by how much I blog about them. They'll never win a Grammy or score a surprising opus but Kim Shattuck and company's music is perfectly peppy pop-punk. It's usually direct with straight-to-the-point lyrics. Example: <i>I Wish That I Could Be You </i>succinctly embodies the essence of envy.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">I Wish That I Could Be You</span></b><br />
<b>The Muffs</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">PRIDE</span></b><br />
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Pride isn't really a sin. From gays and lesbians to the psychotically patriotic, in many views pride is a positive asset to posses. However vanity and self-inflation are where pride can turn pitch black, sending the sinner into a self-congratulatory shame spiral.<br />
Veruca Salt may not be as relevant today but their pleasant 1994 album <i>American Thighs</i> mixes '90s alt-rock with cushy coffee house chick cool. Nina Gordon and Louise Post should be proud.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">All Hail Me</span></b><br />
<b>Veruca Salt</b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8LimHXfavgw" width="400"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">- BT</div>Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636433607672519945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798884893501604264.post-39466003237239570442012-04-06T15:03:00.005-04:002012-04-12T12:50:06.314-04:005 SONGS FOR EASTER<b><span style="color: red;">Easter</span></b><br />
<b>Patti Smith</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Red Rabbits</span></b><br />
<b>The Shins</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Cosmic Egg</span></b><br />
<b>Wolfmother</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits</span></b><br />
<b>The Magnetic Fields</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Crucify</span></b><br />
<b>Tori Amos</b><br />
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Created by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748620/">Paul Rudd</a>, Dan Etheridge, John Enbom and Rob Thomas, the <a href="http://www.starz.com/">Starz</a> original series ran for two seasons and was cancelled in 2010. Partially improvised with delicious deadpan delivery, the show failed to find an audience and star <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004395/">Adam Scott </a>estimates the series finale garnered just 15 000 viewers; abysmal ratings even by cable channel standards.<br />
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Although couch potatoes failed to RSVP, critics praised the show for its irreverent style and inspired performances.<i> Party Down</i> follows the staff at the titular Hollywood catering service as they float from one tedious event to the next.<br />
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Ron Donald (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0547800/">Ken Marino</a>) leads the troubled team and is overly earnest at first. Yet Ron's failures cause him to crash and burn as the series progresses. Henry Pollard (Scott, who you can now see on NBC's <i>Parks & Recreation</i>) is a has-been actor who can't shake being associated with a catch phrase he uttered years ago. Casey Kline (<i>Mean Girl</i>'s <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0135221/">Lizzy Caplan</a>) and Kyle Bradway (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1218621/">Ryan Hansen</a>, better known as Arrow-in-the-head guy from the terrible <i>Friday the 13th</i> reboot) are struggling actors while Roman DeBeers (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0771414/">Martin Starr</a>) is an aspiring, nihilistic writer. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0528331/">Jane Lynch</a> steals scenes as Constance Carmell, a past her prime actress who doles out advice to Kyle and anyone else who will listen. Lynch left the series mid-way through the first season to join <i>Glee </i>and was initially replaced by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0177639/">Jennifer Coolidge</a>. In season two <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005259/">Megan Mullally</a> took over Lynch's spot full time as Lydia Dunfee, a dim witted stage mom.<br />
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The spark that critics saw in the show will hopefully set the big screen ablaze as Mullally and Scott have independently confirmed that <i>Party Down</i> will be resurrected for theaters. Shooting is expected to commence this summer.<br />
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"We're like 90% there... If everyone's schedules work out and the guys get time to write a script. They have kind of a skeleton of a story worked out so we know where it's going to go but we just have to kind of cross the Ts and dot the Is, or something. But Starz are being super cool and they're going to let us do it, and we're all excited, we all want to do it," Scott said in an interview with Christopher Schobert for <i><a href="http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/adam_scott_says_party_down_movie_will_shoot_next_summer_if_schedules_can_be">The Playlist</a></i>.<br />
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<i>Casey should be more discreet</i><br />
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<i>Willow Canyon Homeowners Annual Party part 2</i><br />
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Cai.ro means to conquer. With their debut release this Toronto-based quintet strive to vanquish preconceived notions of popular music. However Cai.ro's choral crusade on the <i><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/young-love-ep/id459467270">Young Love EP</a></i> isn't heavy handed like the Ottoman Empire's invasion of Egypt. Instead Nate Daniels, Dante Berardi Jr., Matt Sullivan, Caitlin Grieve and Wooyoung Kim wage an audio assault with an arsenal of folk-pop and orchestral opulence. Frequently described as an orchestral folk ensemble, Cai.ro straddle enemy lines with diverse songs exploring themes of love, addiction and self-discovery.<br />
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All Ears recently spoke with lead singer and guitarist Daniels and guitarist Berardi Jr. to gain insight into Cai.ro's plan of attack.<br />
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Before joining Cai.ro's ranks Daniels and Berardri Jr. were each part of separate musical armies.<br />
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Daniels floated around several bands offering his vocal talents. The material created with one nameless Montreal band Daniels fronted found its way to Cai.ro's play list, however Daniels left that outfit opting instead to have more control over his musical output.<br />
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"I realized later that it's not about control but about sharing a common vision with people who support me and would extrapolate on that vision," Daniels said.<br />
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Across the trenches, Berardi Jr. comes from a prolific industry family. His father was a musical marvel, mastering many instruments. Berardi Sr. was the composer, arranger and band leader for Rockabilly Hall of Fame inductee <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bobby-Curtola-Official/194711267255466">Godfather Bobby Curtola</a>. In addition his maternal grandfather worked with acclaimed record producer <a href="http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/emc/donald-k-donald">Donald K. Donald</a>.<br />
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"I think having a musical family helped push me in the direction of playing and more importantly loving music," Berardi Jr. explained. "I've definitely gone my own way and found my own sound and process along the way. Music is in my blood so I can't deny my family played a part. There's no way I could stop playing and writing. Even if it ends up not being my career down the road. I'm going to cop out and say it was nature and nurture and a little stubbornness as well."<br />
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That stubbornness landed Beradri Jr. with Sound23, a collaborative project, and then with the alternative-influenced group <a href="http://www.myspace.com/goodbyegloryband">Goodbye Glory</a> before being drafted into Cai.ro.<br />
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"[We] did some small scale touring and traveled to Europe and played in a festival. [It was a] great learning experience. It definitely laid the ground works for who I am and how I play now," Berardi Jr. said of his time with Goodbye Glory.<br />
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Now that the two are comrades with Cai.ro their mutual battle has just begun. The <i>Young Love EP</i> is sublimely stunning with moments of malleable melodies and instances of alt-rock awesomeness. Daniels describes their effort as "a penetrative scoring to any given circumstance in your life. Dramatic and sometimes anthemic." However even with the obvious talent this EP exudes, the Canadian music industry remains a minefield for any symphonic solider who to dares to tread on its grounds.<br />
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"The quest for notoriety in the music industry has always been a struggle for anyone who attempts it. Thankfully that is not the only reason we play music. In regards to our opinion of the Toronto and Canadian music industry; it has a lot of catching up to do." Daniels said.<br />
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"That's why we're here though. Trying to move forward with the momentum of great bands before us like Arcade Fire. They completely re-shaped the formula and format of what it means to be a Canadian artist; even if their roots were in Texas. A little American injection has done us good."<br />
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Cai.ro will appear in an episode of Canadian indie music chronicle <a href="http://nxew.ca/?p=4243"><i>From Far and Wide</i></a> this May and took to the stage at this year's<a href="http://www.cmw.net/"> Canadian Music Week</a>. In addition look for some DIY music videos to accompany songs off <i>Young Love </i>to be posted soon.<br />
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To help increase Cai.ro's rations visit <a href="http://wearecairo.com/">wearecairo.com</a> or check out<a href="http://myspace.com/cai.ro"> the band's myspace</a>.<br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b>Turn It On</b></div><b>Peaches </b><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b>Heartbeat</b></div><b>Detroit Cobras</b><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b>Buddy Holly</b></div><b>Sheezer</b><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b>Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses</b></div><b>Garbage</b><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b>Pacer</b></div><b>The Muffs</b><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b>Bloodbuzz Ohio</b></div><b>Oh Land </b><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b>Velvet </b></div><b>Lykke Li</b><br />
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"On some level, it's thinking about spiritual crisis, crying out for guidance and not hearing a voice in return, or hearing a nefarious voice," of Montreal founder Kevin Barnes told <a href="http://www.spin.com/"><i>Spin</i></a> last month about the marvelously uneven track <i>We Will Commit Wolf Murder</i> (listen below.)<br />
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<i>Mean To Me</i><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b><i>Reign of Terror</i></b></div><b>Sleigh Bells</b><br />
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<i>Comeback Kid</i><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b><i>Port of Morrow</i></b></div><b>The Shins</b><br />
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<i>Simple Song</i><br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="182" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1VrWPofV5UE" width="300"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">- BT</div>Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636433607672519945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798884893501604264.post-69461387305932608912012-01-18T13:09:00.003-05:002012-01-18T13:21:00.032-05:00SANTIGOLD'S BIG MOUTH Santigold (formerly Santogold) have released the first single off of their anticipated sophomore album <i>Master Of My Make Believe</i> due out this spring. The Philadelphia duo of Santi White and John Hill became known for melding grime, rock and electronic sounds with tracks like <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVIedQ88rxY">Lights Out</a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIY-qd8todk">Say Aha</a></i> on their self-titled 2008 debut. This new offering, <i>Big Mouth</i>, is a high energy cut with tribal techno influences. Watch the peculiar partially animated video below. You can download <i>Big Mouth</i> for free by entering your email or cell number on <a href="http://www.santigold.com/">Santigold's official site</a>. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Following up 2010's<i> Die Stadt Muzikanten </i>and my personal favourite 2008's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA8It7lbPUc&feature=related"><i>Treasury Library Canada</i></a>, this six track collection would be a great introduction to the Calgary ensemble for those who have yet to take flight with Woodpigeon. </div><i></i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The track <i>Are You There God? It's Me Mark</i> is an indelible song. An ambivalent arrangement, it's lush with softly psychotic strings and heavenly harmonizing set against harsh guitar feedback. <i>One To Many </i>is also memorable with it's echoing guitar riff. Hamilton's delicate voice is frequently the star on <i>For Paolo</i> and it's easy to see why Woodpigeon are quickly ascending the ladder of Canadian indie cred. <i>For Paolo </i>has left me wanting more and I'm looking forward to hearing Woodpigeon's next full length release. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<i>For Paolo</i><br />
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Below is my interview with Hamilton from 2010. This article originally appeared on<i> soundproofmagazine.com</i>.<br />
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German speakers be damned—Mark Hamilton has purposely misspelled the title of <a href="http://www.myspace.com/woodpigeon">Woodpigeon</a>'s new album, because he finds his spelling more visually pleasing. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i> Die Stadt Muzikanten</i>, their third album—after 2006's <i>Songbook</i> and 2008's self-released <i>Treasury Library Canada—</i>dropped earlier this year and lead singer and guitarist Hamilton says he has always had a fondness for the written word. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> "I get hung up on words a lot," Hamilton explains. "I love the way that words look. Someone once asked me why I would call a band Woodpigeon. To me it's beautiful to write down." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> The songs found on <i>Treasury Library Canada</i> are also nothing less than beautiful. Hamilton says he chose to self-release the album because he'd grown tired of dealing with record labels. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> "We were without a label, and I'd had it with labels," he explains. "I wanted to try doing something entirely on my own and we got signed up pretty fast for our first record so we never had the experience of self-releasing something. I think that's really important." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Reluctant to call Woodpigeon a band, Hamilton says he views it as more of a collective with over 50 members contributing since inception. Current band members include Michael Gratton, Annalea Sordi, Daren Powell, Peter Moersch, Foon Yap and AJ Benoit. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Another band member, Kenna Burima, annually organizes the Midway festival, adjacent to Calgary's High Performance Rodeo. A cross-format event, the festival features live music as well as visual art. Last year Woodpigeon attempted to perform Björk songs exclusively. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> "We decided we would do Björk's <i>Vespertine</i>, then realized how frickin' hard that album is," Hamilton laughs. "So we just made a selection of Björk songs where she plays more than one chord. That was probably the most challenging thing we've ever done." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Getting noticed by high-profile bands, however, wasn't as much of a challenge. Woodpigeon has gone on tour supporting Grizzly Bear, Calexico and Broken Social Scene. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> "The phone would ring and it was Grizzly Bear or Broken Social Scene. The first couple of times I kind of thought it was a joke, then a few weeks later we were playing a big theatre with them. It's really cool when people you like take notice. Like Calexico for example, they are the favourite band of three members of Woodpigeon." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> As for the future, Hamilton admits that many Woodpigeon members have begun taking flight in their own right and he couldn't be more pleased for them. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> "We are kind of in the phase where everybody in the band is taking on different projects. We are all growing up and everybody is spreading their wings a little bit. Woodpigeon is what we all collectively come back to and we also go out to pasture a bit more than we used to and that's really exciting and cool. I'm happy to be in the audience to see my friends that I play music with do their own thing." </div><div class="blogger-post-footer">- BT</div>Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636433607672519945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798884893501604264.post-60756529761241785282012-01-13T11:07:00.005-05:002012-01-14T16:52:09.369-05:00MY FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF '11<i><b> </b></i> 2011 was a good year for music; keyword being <i>good</i>. There were a lot of good albums last year but I struggled to choose <i>great</i> albums to include on this list<i><b>. </b></i>These eight collections are albums I know I will be listening to for years to come. Additional <i>good</i> albums with questionable staying power have been included as honourable mentions.<br />
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<div style="color: red;"><i><b>Cults</b></i></div><b>Cults</b><br />
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New Yorkers Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion have elaborated on the under the radar popularity of their debut EP with this self-titled full length release. <a href="http://cultscultscults.com/ca/splash/"><i>Cults</i></a> is pretty pop music punctuated with the right amount of punk imperfection on tracks like <i>Abducted</i> (below), creating an album that manages to be modern while throwing back to the sweet sounds of the '60s. Other tracks like <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWnGQPOQLhw&feature=fvsr">Go Outside</a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E50pF7ntx1M&ob=av2n">You Know What I Mean</a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbTiF5Q1L9E">Walk At Night</a></i> are strictly pop and just might usher the use of keyboards and xylophones back into indie fashion.<br />
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<i>Abducted</i><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><i><b>What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?</b></i></div><b>The Vaccines </b><br />
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I didn't know what to expect from <a href="http://www.thevaccines.co.uk/ca/home/">The Vaccines</a> and it was very surprising to learn that this is the English band's debut. It may be their first album but this Justin Young-fronted quartet already sound like well rounded veterans. The Vaccines have drawn comparisons to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSO0T4daYqA">The Jesus and Mary Chain</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiDvKqRjYn0">The Ramones</a> but I'd say they are more accurately described as a more industrious incarnation of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBJSei0XV0">Interpol</a>. The Vaccines themselves say they are inspired by "'50s rock 'n' roll, '60s garage, girl groups, '70s punk, '80s American hardcore, C86 [a compilation released by UK music mag <a href="http://www.nme.com/"><i>NME</i></a>] and good pop music." Just like most good pop music, the majority of their debut effort is incredibly catchy. From the short and striking<i> </i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQKjI6395iU&ob=av2e"><i>If You Wanna</i></a> to the melodic <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qkYWEHwtSo&ob=av2e"><i>Blow It Up</i></a>, The Vaccines haven't exactly reinvented rock but they've interpreted it with such clarity that it will inevitably catch on. <br />
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<i>Post Break Up Sex </i><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><i><b>The Hot Sauce Committee Part 2</b></i></div><b>Beastie Boys </b><br />
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It's bewildering to me that <i>The Hot Sauce Committee Part 2</i> isn't on more critics' best of 2011 lists. Less serious than <i>To The 5 Boroughs</i> and more entertaining than <i>Hello Nasty</i>, this album is some of the most fun the trio has had in decades. Whether they're challenging <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gB_vCdUsFY">Santigold</a> (<i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdnYzIxQUWE&feature=fvwrel">Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win</a>), </i>telling off their wives (<i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK8S7XWmsrk">OK</a></i>), encouraging fellow artists (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K7bHCkn4oY"><i>Say It</i></a>) or rapping along side Nas (<i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNB8pNqwrKw">Too Many Rappers</a></i>) <i>The Hot Sauce Committee Part 2</i> is a sample heavy, smile inducing LP. <br />
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<i>Make Some Noise</i><b><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><i><b>Wild Flag</b></i></div><b>Wild Flag</b><br />
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I did not enjoy <i>Wild Flag</i> at first listen. Maybe it's because as two Wild Flag members are Sleater-Kinney vets I was expecting something else or because Carrie Brownstein's voice is a very acquired taste. Subsequent listens later, I can't deny that Wild Flag's hooks are rock perfection and Brownstein and Mary Timony's guitar work is some of the best fingering my ears have had all year. Making <i>Wild Flag</i> easily the best guitar record of 2011.<br />
Wild Flag isn't dissimilar from the Sleater-Kinney sound but the absence of Corin Tucker is immediately obvious. What's missing is the softer pop edge Tucker provided. In its place Brownstein, Sleater-Kinney drummer Janet Weiss, former Helium member Timony and The Minders' Rebbecca Cole deliver neoteric, psychedelic, keyboard infused rock. Standout tracks include <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h4-z_VbmGw">Future Crimes</a></i>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdsGBLWNp58"><i>Boom</i></a>, <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NBbCs7jpws&feature=related">Glass Tambourine</a></i>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSMffOPza1I"><i>Something Came Over Me</i></a>, which has Timony taking to the mic. Look for a not so subtle dig at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oI27uSzxNQ">Arcade Fire</a> in the video for <i>Romance</i> (below.)<b> </b><b><br />
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<i>Romance</i><br />
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I never thought I'd adore a hardcore punk record described as a "a rock opera love story between a boy named David and a girl named Veronica." Then I listened to <a href="http://davidcomestolife.com/announcement.html"><i>David Comes to Life</i></a> by Toronto's <a href="http://www.matadorrecords.com/fucked_up/">Fucked Up</a> and found myself engrossed in their nihilistic narrative. If you can appreciate Damian Abraham's scream-o vocals you too will learn to love Fucked Up's symphonic and sometimes sick story. As a bit of serendipity the track <i>Queen of Hearts</i> (below) features guest vocals by another entry on my best of 2011 list, Cults' Madeline Follin.<br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b><i>Sound Kapital </i></b></div><b>Handsome Furs</b><br />
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<i> Sound Kapital</i> is another record I thought didn't get the attention it deserved last year. Montreal's <a href="http://handsomefurs.com/">Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry</a> continue to be inspired by Eastern Europe on their third album but have traded largely guitar based sounds for '80s keyboard kitsch. This amalgamation of the rocky and the retro has become the duo's signature sound. Tracks like <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rmRLx6yE7Y&feature=related">Repatriated</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3KxK1y9mb4">What About Us</a></i><i>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c94avCpj5G4">Damage</a> </i>and<i> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET-CltKvK6o&feature=related">Bury Me Standing</a> </i>demonstrate that Handsome Furs are one of the most underrated and inventive Canadian acts creating music today.<br />
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<i>No Feelings</i><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><i><b>El Camino</b></i></div><b>The Black Keys</b><br />
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Much like Arcade Fire last year, <a href="http://www.theblackkeys.com/">The Black Keys</a> have been rightfully dubbed the "it" band of 2011. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney have cited iconic '70s rockers like T. Rex and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwX_aKGjMg0">The Cramps</a> as influences for the music of <i>El Camino. </i>These references are spot on as <i>El Camino</i> is full of glam heavy, glitzy riffs, making for an album that is much catchier and livelier than their last record, the amazing Grammy-winning, <i>Brothers</i>. I challenge any listener not to have hooks from songs like<i> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_426RiwST8">Lonely Boy</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhs5yl9ls44">Run Right Back</a> </i>imprinted on their brain after an earful of this album. <i><br />
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<i>Dead & Gone</i><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><i><b>Let England Shake</b></i></div><div style="color: red;"><i><b></b></i></div><b>PJ Harvey </b><br />
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Since I blogged extensively about Ms. Harvey late last year, I'll direct you my post titled <i><a href="http://allearsblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/20-years-of-pj-harvey.html">20 Years of PJ Harvey</a></i>. As I embedded my four favourite tracks off <i>Let England Shake </i>in that post, here's my fifth fav song from PJ's arresting, Mercury Prize-winning album. <b> </b><br />
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<i>In Dark Places </i><br />
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<u>Honourable mentions:</u><br />
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<i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHQIa1RbcLw&feature=fvst">Mirror Traffic</a>,</i> Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A9jGzzZdlA"><i>Suck It & See</i></a>, Arctic Monkeys<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXrwKOOacEw"><i>Endless Now</i></a>, Male Bonding<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4qDVyzMSmU"><i>Gloss Drop</i></a>, Battles<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXLpXu9T7j0"><i>Nine Types of Light</i></a>, TV On The Radio<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cXDgFwE13g"><i>More Monsters & Sprites</i></a>, Skrillex<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQGhUnFnvS4"><i>Undun</i></a>, The Roots<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puu3IvKnSb4&ob=av2e"><i>Kaputt</i></a>, Destroyer<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KrmxavLIRM"><i>Bon Iver</i></a>, Bon Iver<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGBEgLXy6rU&feature=fvsr"><i>Creep On Creepin' On</i></a>, Timber Timbre<div class="blogger-post-footer">- BT</div>Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636433607672519945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798884893501604264.post-71029380449177628692012-01-10T08:59:00.012-05:002012-01-10T12:43:04.026-05:00OSCAR HOSTS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJC7N3ZpAdZEVcbdHzPajL8YNpfKyLNNCjovuUMrRv6ZFe6jAqtoYYxm5oSh_hgJBsh9ukNVj16cq-2c5v6Ylih7RITlC7YuhpSn8En1A9bRIE5MFkTLtQu3UHrShDbW9lwbWbe8FFdRg/s1600/crystal1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJC7N3ZpAdZEVcbdHzPajL8YNpfKyLNNCjovuUMrRv6ZFe6jAqtoYYxm5oSh_hgJBsh9ukNVj16cq-2c5v6Ylih7RITlC7YuhpSn8En1A9bRIE5MFkTLtQu3UHrShDbW9lwbWbe8FFdRg/s200/crystal1.jpg" width="133" /></a><br />
Unless you've been cavorting with yetis in Mongolia, you have probably heard the underwhelming news. Billy Crystal will host the Oscars for the ninth time on Feb 26.<br />
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The big <strike>yawn</strike> reveal came in the form of a <a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/">Funny or Die</a> trailer (watch below) co-starring Robin Williams, Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel. The sweeping and overblown mini-movie is indeed engaging and some pundits see the production value as an attempt to reel in younger viewers. However this observation raises a problem. Could there be anyone less hip than Crystal? (more after the trailer.)<br />
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Just look at how hip he is, he mentioned texting! Many regard Crystal as a comic genius but I'd wager the majority of those people are of baby boomer age. Crystal's appointment (as mentioned this will be his ninth after hosting from '89 to '92, then again in '96, '97, '99 and '03) is undoubtedly due to last year's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82fIpQjOxmc">generally panned hosting performances by Anne Hathaway and James Franco</a>. Although Franco looked like he blazed with Aaron Sorkin just before the show, I thought Hathaway did an adequate job (with the exception of quipping "This is the young, hip Oscars" after 94 year-old Kirk Douglas' slurred speech.)<br />
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If the Academy was looking to appeal to the youth demographic, I think they missed the mark by tapping Crystal. There are several other veterans who, aside from being funnier, have performed exceptionally as the master of ceremonies in the past. I would have preferred another year of Whoopi or giving Ellen a second turn. Let's take a look at former Oscar hosts who have passed away or were passed over this year.<br />
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<b style="color: red;">Whoopi Goldberg</b> ('93, '95, '98, '01)<br />
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Watch Whoopi's memorable opening monologue at the 71st Academy Awards <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x67vxDnszs">here</a>. <br />
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<b style="color: red;">Bob Hope</b> (11 solo in '40, '41, '43, '60-'62, '65-'68, '78 and 7 with co-hosts in '45, '46, '53, '55, '58, '59, '75)<br />
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Watch Jack Lemmon and Arthur Freed surprise Hope with an Oscar gold medal at the 1966 awards <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCrgbIcaRnU">here</a>. <br />
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<b style="color: red;">Johnny Carson</b> ('78-'81, '83)<br />
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Watch the arrivals and Carson's opening monologue at the 1980 Awards <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAPqKR59hE">here</a>. <br />
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<b style="color: red;">Steve Martin</b> ('00, '02, '09 with Alec Baldwin)<br />
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Watch Martin and Baldwin's opening monologue at the 2009 Awards <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBZj7qIOAE8">here</a>.<br />
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<b style="color: red;">Ellen DeGeneres</b> ('06)<br />
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Watch part of DeGeneres' opening monologue <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whgVLNC5KSY">here</a>. <br />
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<b style="color: red;">Jon Stewart</b> ('05, '07)<br />
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<i>Stewart watches Lawrence of Arabia on his iPhone</i><br />
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Scott Wolf and Jay Mohr are closeted boyfriends, Sarah Polley is an amateur ecstasy dealer and a pre-Suri Katie Holmes is just some chick sitting in an apartment; all set against the backdrop of the holiday season. Directed by Doug Liman and written by <a href="http://johnaugust.com/">John August</a>, <i>Go</i> is comprised of three interconnected story lines and is definitely an underrated gem of the '90s. Watching <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n96Twb3rSIA">Nathan Bexton trip out </a>or Wolf and Mohr discuss the head they received should make anyone feel all warm and happy inside. Look for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1478338/">bridesmaid</a> Melissa McCarthy as a ditsy roommate. Polley said she only took the role of Ronna because she adored the cutting dialogue in the opening scene (watch below.) <br />
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If horror is what you're seeking this holiday, look no further than this fright fest from the trio that brought us the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O76m3kpgPTQ"><i>The Hills Have Eyes</i></a> remake. Set in a parking garage on Xmas Eve, <i>P2</i> stars <i>Criminal Minds</i>' Rachel Nichols as a business woman being pursued by an obsessive psychopath (Wes Bently, who builds on the creepy vibe he first embodied in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JobUrsonks"><i>American Beauty</i></a>.) P2 was met with generally negative reviews, however it filled <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/">Roger Ebert </a>with enough yuletide cheer to recommend it, writing: "Although the plot may seem like a formulaic slasher film, <i>P2</i> is in fact a very well made, atmospheric thriller with gritty yet realistic characters." As an extra present under the tree, <i>P2</i> features the most sinister use of Elvis' <i>Blue Christmas</i> ever (watch a live version below.)<br />
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It would be easy to confuse the <i>Gremlins</i> with greedy kids on Christmas morning. Both start out cute then morph into monsters, yet while kids want to shred wrapping paper off gifts, the <i>Gremlins</i> want to shred you into Christmas confetti. <i>Gremlins</i> is festively filled with luscious greens and reds; in the form of scales and blood. Through the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogwai" target="_blank">mogwais</a> and gore the darkest scene comes from Phoebe Cates' father who, acting as Santa, slips down the chimney and breaks his neck; revealing to his daughter that Mr. Claus is a fabrication. Watch the cheesy, oh-so-obviously '80s trailer below.<br />
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Adapted from the novel by <a href="http://twitter.com/breteastonellis">Bret Easton Ellis</a>, <i>Less Than Zero</i> is another '80s entry that is all about cheating, cocaine and Christmas cookies. Andrew McCarthy is Clay Easton, a privileged guy who returns to Beverly Hills for the holidays, only to learn that his girlfriend has moved on and his best friend is fading fast. Art imitates life as Robert Downey Jr. is perfectly cast as an addict turned rent boy who's intent on having a very "white" Christmas and James Spader plays, what else, an asshole. Look for Brad Pitt in a small role for which he was paid $38. <br />
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I hadn't seen the testosterone and tinsel fest that is <i>Die Hard</i> until a few months ago when my PVR was on the fritz and I was forced to rely on home video for entertainment. Balding bad ass Bruce Willis stars as police officer John McClane who is burdened with taking down a group of criminals when they take a corporate Christmas party hostage. <i>Die Hard</i> is easily the most revered entry on this Xmas movie list. Nominated for four Oscars, <i>Die Hard</i> is ranked at #106 on IMDb's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/chart/top">top 250 movies poll</a>. <i>The Cleveland Show</i> recently parodied <i>Die Hard</i> to hilarious effect (watch the trailer below.) Merry Christmas and yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.<br />
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<a href="http://www.grammy.com/">The 54th Annual Grammy Awards</a> will be held February 12 2012 in Los Angeles and will air on <a href="http://www.cbs.com/">CBS</a>. Check out all the nominees <a href="http://www.grammy.com/nominees">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer">- BT</div>Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636433607672519945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798884893501604264.post-82485345779706049522011-12-05T06:31:00.002-05:002011-12-05T07:42:19.760-05:00AB FAB 2011 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL SNEAK PEEK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXAEMKKhTp6D57oxfwZ7TmD4HBdIu6VRUAd6nqMGEGIcoj2RNiRAbPgM9pzUfHln0IackHKeTKT1FyYKxl7aii4HCcBR0NiiJXeJblG8i9hOrbtwg8yAOWOXTjVB42tus_9TOJ8hhowyzm/s1600/absolutely-fabulous-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXAEMKKhTp6D57oxfwZ7TmD4HBdIu6VRUAd6nqMGEGIcoj2RNiRAbPgM9pzUfHln0IackHKeTKT1FyYKxl7aii4HCcBR0NiiJXeJblG8i9hOrbtwg8yAOWOXTjVB42tus_9TOJ8hhowyzm/s320/absolutely-fabulous-logo.jpg" width="244" /></a></div> If you're like me and discovered <i>Absolutely Fabulous</i> as a Canadian teenager, then you forced your friends to sip terrible vodka martinis while taking in the over the top antics of Patsy and Eddie on The Comedy Network.<br />
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Ok, that was probably just me but I know I'm not the only fab fan out there. As an early stocking stuffer a short clip of the upcoming Christmas special has been released (watch below.) The clip shows Eddie (series writer Jennifer Saunders) downing hand fulls of pills doled out by her spacey assistant Bubble (Jane Horrocks) and trading barbs with her long suffering mother (June Whitfield.)<br />
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<i>Absolutely Fabulous</i> began as a sketch on Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French's show <i>French & Saunders. </i>The idea was expanded upon in 1992 with a season of six episodes. The last new episode aired in 2004 so there's an awful lot of catching up to do with Eddie, Patsy (Joanna Lumley) and Saffy (Julia Sawalha.)<br />
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The first special airs Christmas Day on BBC, followed by another fabulous installment on January 1st. In addition a third special will air sometime around the 2012 London Olympics. Sources are hinting that a 20th anniversary season is also in the works.<br />
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I've included the 2003 Christmas special <i>Cold Turkey</i> after the new clip. Enjoy sweetie darling. <br />
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<i>2011 Christmas Special clip</i><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AO3w943uDiU" width="400"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">- BT</div>Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636433607672519945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798884893501604264.post-57798613511101143832011-11-26T19:48:00.007-05:002011-12-19T08:29:58.891-05:0015 COMMANDING COVER SONGS I was inspired to write this post after sitting through one song on the new reality competition show <i>Cover Me Canada</i>. Skillfully utilizing an instrument is truthfully a talent, but If we're being honest <i>American Idol</i> and similar programs are simply glorified karaoke. <br />
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I'm not saying cover songs can't be musical marvels in their own right. Yet I don't think you'll hear many awe inspiring parallel performances from someone who stood in line for five days in an attempt to impress Steven Tyler.<br />
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In some cases covers can eclipse the original version, as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bng3agUOYiI">Jimi Hendrix's take</a> on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swbcFnkeMwE">Bob Dylan's <i>All Along The Watchtower</i></a> did. Hendrix, who closes out this post with a different cover, interpreted Dylan's song to such amazing effect that it reached the Top 10 in 1968 and ranked at #48 on <i><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/">Rolling Stone</a></i>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone%27s_500_Greatest_Songs_of_All_Time">500 Greatest Songs of All Time</a>, making it perhaps the most successful replicated rendition.<br />
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Here are fifteen of my favourite cover songs, which you probably will never hear celebrity judges critique different versions of; well maybe <i>Lovesong</i> or <i>Use Somebody</i>.<br />
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As a side note, I really wanted to start this post with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J91_D-XSil0">Alkaline Trio</a>'s cover of The Muppets' <i>Movin' Right Along </i>as Henson's puppets are currently relevant once more with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVkla1N9tpQ">the new movie</a> and all. Sadly the YouTube video of this fuzzy, feel good song was recently removed. <br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b>About a Girl</b></div><b>Cibo Matto</b><br />
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</div><div style="color: red;"><b>Crazy in Love</b></div><b>Snow Patrol</b><br />
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<b>Lovesong</b></div><b>Adele</b><br />
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<b>Use Somebody </b></div><b>Matisyahu</b><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnhXHvRoUd0&ob=av2e"><i>Kings of Leon</i></a><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b>Tighten Up</b></div><b>The Watson Twins</b><br />
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<b>Wide River </b></div><b>Sahara Hotnights </b><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUQ5Xf0jJf4"><i>Steve Miller </i></a><br />
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<b>Everybody Wants To Rule the World </b></div><b>Patti Smith</b><br />
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<b>Head On </b></div><b>Pixies </b><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGp47YwDZ48&ob=av2e"><i>The Jesus & Mary Chain</i></a><br />
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<b>Beat My Guest</b></div><b>Epoxies</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Candy Says</span> </b><br />
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<b>Kick Out The Jams</b></div><b>Rage Against the Machine </b><br />
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<b>Crimson & Clover</b></div><b>Joan Jett </b><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hyKLJuDQ9Q"><i>Tommy James & The Shondells</i></a><br />
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<b>Hurt</b></div><b>Johnny Cash </b><br />
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<b>Hey Joe</b></div><b>Jimi Hendrix </b><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CsR0_0jFV7E" width="400"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">- BT</div>Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636433607672519945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798884893501604264.post-51787133132626974752011-11-23T07:01:00.002-05:002011-11-23T20:57:49.358-05:00VOTING FOR THE CANADIAN BLOG AWARDS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5CYU_0HBlWk24_l3fz2c0qkHaOX6Mqcj7Duxh-Qa5XF2mRfooUr-FloUUDR3LGrUvAcIhDJBQrx7EXhVcIcjN-06lMtAz-3FxK8EWcKoMmbgIEtFb7cDANsoQjmtWRVtzCUETq0lBw1Ly/s1600/5k9hc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5CYU_0HBlWk24_l3fz2c0qkHaOX6Mqcj7Duxh-Qa5XF2mRfooUr-FloUUDR3LGrUvAcIhDJBQrx7EXhVcIcjN-06lMtAz-3FxK8EWcKoMmbgIEtFb7cDANsoQjmtWRVtzCUETq0lBw1Ly/s200/5k9hc.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> All Ears has been nominated in the pop culture and music categories for the 2011 <a href="http://cdnba.wordpress.com/">Canadian Blog Awards</a>. <br />
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<a href="http://cdnba.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/voting/">Click here to vote</a> and be sure to check out all in the blogs in each category. Thanks to all who nominated and voted already.<br />
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Handed out since 2004, the CBAs are an annual event where Canadian bloggers and blog readers vote on blogs overall or within a category.<br />
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The first round of voting ends December 24th.<div class="blogger-post-footer">- BT</div>Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636433607672519945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798884893501604264.post-50379000015712455932011-11-22T20:07:00.004-05:002011-12-22T15:19:05.697-05:00JAN ŠVANKMAJER'S ALICE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIqTEbgmacTfsA_hvjRw9sVekgfNTc9NRtOUyimNbAAfR-1Fp-4Zj-BsGRi7TVnliyKS3b2UVSLX60GeRgx09G7xuA7wIIWtxhB5sjHQXt5aDe9enqv3NEponi2HvTEs2fVpwZxhfM_aI0/s1600/220px-NecoZAlenky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIqTEbgmacTfsA_hvjRw9sVekgfNTc9NRtOUyimNbAAfR-1Fp-4Zj-BsGRi7TVnliyKS3b2UVSLX60GeRgx09G7xuA7wIIWtxhB5sjHQXt5aDe9enqv3NEponi2HvTEs2fVpwZxhfM_aI0/s320/220px-NecoZAlenky.jpg" width="217" /></a></div> With the news that both <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh3rFsv_WSE"><i>Grimm</i></a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rga4rp4j5TY"><i>Once Upon A Time</i></a> have been picked up for full 22 episode seasons, it seems that fairy tales are now riding back into popularity on the heels of the vampire and supernatural trend. Personally, I thought <i>Once </i>was a poisoned apple and couldn't sit through the first episode. I have yet to take in <i>Grimm</i>, although I'm looking forward to giving it a chance.<br />
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This resurgence of fairy tale popularity got me thinking about the most impressive adaptation of<i> Alice In Wonderland </i>I've seen, Czech director Jan Švankmajer's 1988 surreal live action and stop animation film<i>, Něco z Alenky</i>.<br />
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From the 1903 silent film to Tim Burton's disappointing take to Syfy's futuristic <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKtiY9PlggE"><i>Alice</i></a> mini-series, Lewis Carroll's<i> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland </i>has been reworked for the screen over a dozen times. This classic has been re-envisioned many more times if you include fare like <i>The Matrix</i>, the <i>Silent Hill</i> video game series or CBC's underrated <i>This Is Wonderland </i>into the mix.<br />
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Švankmajer has said that he interpreted Carroll's work as if it were a dream; not a fairy tale as many other adapters have.<br />
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"While a fairy tale has got an educational aspect – it works with the moral of the lifted forefinger, good overcomes evil; dreams, as an expression of our unconscious, uncompromisingly pursue the realisation of our most secret wishes without considering rational and moral inhibitions. [Dreams are] ...driven by the principle of pleasure. My <i>Alice</i> is a realised dream."<br />
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The finished product may be closer to a nightmare than a dream. The creatures Alice encounters on her strange journey are not cuddly and are rather combative, making for a truly gripping and visually vital film. If only Burton's version were this authentically dark.<br />
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Below is the first part of <i>Něco z Alenky</i>. For more of Švankmajer's hypnagogic work see <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39j7bypVxL8">Food </a></i>or <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocj4-y6sc9o&feature=related">Dimensions of Dialogue</a></i>. <br />
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<i>Part 1</i><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b><i>Endless Now </i></b></div><b>Male Bonding</b><br />
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<i>Bones</i><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><i><b>Heartbeats & Brainwaves</b></i></div><b>Electric Six</b><br />
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<i>Gridlock!</i><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><i><b>Divine Providence</b></i></div><b>Deer Tick</b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDA4zlNKKChSZBb1WFZ4Gx2C4RaUCo4zbp9FPfdQf-dfwpoHb_RwbtSCy6UVqwnmItirOpN7HaUsJySi4aZoXlUWVorE3vjlF-wWKXRDxoAhAZEaFEAGRWsoXgydMRmxwBHacS7d7nSt95/s1600/DEER-TICK-divine-providence-260x260.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDA4zlNKKChSZBb1WFZ4Gx2C4RaUCo4zbp9FPfdQf-dfwpoHb_RwbtSCy6UVqwnmItirOpN7HaUsJySi4aZoXlUWVorE3vjlF-wWKXRDxoAhAZEaFEAGRWsoXgydMRmxwBHacS7d7nSt95/s200/DEER-TICK-divine-providence-260x260.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> On <a href="http://www.deertickmusic.com/">Deer Tick</a>'s fourth album, John McCauley & company continue to deliver their signature alt-rock, country-tinged tunes. There's nothing as sweet as <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8BRV2USwUw">Friday XIII</a> </i>or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3o8QwraVwM"><i>These Old Shoes</i></a>. Instead <i>Divine Providence</i> contains party anthems (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QubByFr9DZA&feature=related"><i>Let's All Go to the Bar</i></a>), folk ballads (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaErSsfX94c&feature=related"><i>Mr. Cigarette</i></a>) and familiar angry rants (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_tC4_zaqaQ&feature=related"><i>The Bump</i></a>.) Deer Tick's music sounds as if it were recorded in a dive bar, surrounded by spilled beer and clouds of cigarette smoke. According to McCauley that's not far from the truth.<br />
“I can’t even guesstimate how many beers we drank,” McCauley told <a href="http://host.madison.com/entertainment/"><i>77 Square</i></a> of the <i>Divine Providence</i> recording sessions. “We were definitely ourselves.”<br />
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The <i>Avatar</i>-esque anchor story was more successful. Blending the Na'vi template with <i>ToH</i> staples Kang and Kodos was a masterful touch.<br />
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I took a look at <a href="http://tv.ign.com/articles/742/742680p1.html">IGN's picks for the top 10 best <i>ToH</i></a> entries after I had compiled my own list. Not surprisingly the most recent pick on their list aired in 1998, from <i>ToH IX. </i><br />
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As mentioned the <i>ToH</i> entries I regard as the worst are when they diverge from classic tales (<i>Night of the Dolphin</i>, <i>You Gotta Know When to Golem</i>) or the established genre (<i>Mr. & Mrs. Simpson</i>, <i>There's No Business Like Moe Business</i>.) There are countless horror-themed tales The Simpsons still haven't exhumed. Instead of a <i>Friday the 13th</i>-tinged entry where a bulky Bart and a mad Marge take on camp counsellors or a torture porn ride in the vein of <i>Saw</i>, we've recently been offered musical fare like <i>There's No Business Like Moe Business</i>. There's always next year, when hopefully we'll be offered more treats than tricks. <br />
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2. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/21/id420075073">‘21’ - Adele</a><br />
3. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/different-gear-still-speeding/id419808364">‘Different Gear Still Speeding’ - Beady Eye</a><br />
4. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/suck-it-and-see/id434497770">‘Suck It And See’ - Arctic Monkeys</a><br />
5. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/let-england-shake/id418242898">‘Let England Shake’ - PJ Harvey</a><br />
6. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bon-iver/id436243980">‘Bon Iver’ - Bon Iver</a><br />
7. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/submarine-ep/id422359511">‘Submarine (Ost)’ - Alex Turner</a><br />
8. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/directors-cut/id432058355">‘Director's Cut’ - Kate Bush</a><br />
9. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/build-a-rocket-boys%21/id422631012">‘Build A Rocket Boys’ - Elbow</a><br />
10. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/nevermind-remastered/id462548998">‘Nevermind’ – Nirvana</a><br />
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In the US, music sales increased 8.5% for the first half of 2011 when compared to the same period in 2010. This is the first uptick in US music sales since 2004. The mini-resurgence included an 11% increase in digital music sales and a 44% jump in vinyl units moved when compared to 2010. Surprisingly MP3s account for only 1 out of every 3 albums sold. CDs remain the most popular form of music purchase.<br />
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Below is my article on vinyl and <a href="http://birdmansound.blogspot.com/">Birdman Sound</a>'s John Westhaver which originally appeared on <i><a href="http://soundproofmagazine.com/">soundproofmagazine.com</a></i>. In addition a condensed version was published in <a href="http://eedition.ottawa.24hrs.ca/epaper/viewer.aspx"><i>24 Hours Ottawa</i></a>.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">John Westhaver of Ottawa's Birdman Sound has been carving his path through the vinyl for 20 years. Contrary to popular belief, the business of selling tunes on wax has a few more revolutions to go. With the popularity of MP3s, torrents and the iPod increasing, you may think the death of the underground record store is imminent.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"This store is an old school store," says Westhaver. "I cater to people that really did music of all kinds, mostly obscure. If you go through the bins, there are tons of well-known artists but in a more underground way." Which means John Coltrane and Miles Davis are in while crooners like Diana Krall and Harry Connick Jr. are out.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Westhaver has a particular methodology when choosing what to stock in his humble yet inviting store.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It's an educated and semi-scientific approach," says Westhaver. "The science would be based on having done this since the 1970s, and not trying to be somebody that has ever purported to be the be-all and end-all for everybody who walks through that door. It's virtual financial suicide, not to mention insulting to most intelligent people to try and carry everything. It's impossible; there's too much music. With a store these days it's not trial and error—that's a ruination path. You have to start some way, with what you want to do, see what happens, and hopefully develop a clientele and then you have to nurture that clientele."<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet no amount of good intentions can circumvent the fact that a record store operator will always be at the mercy of suppliers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"If you have good connections and you have access to tons of stuff that you don't necessarily bring in, of course, once you develop relationships with your clients and you get to know them and they request a copy of something specific, you just do it. You don't go ‘Yeah, I'll do it' and not do it. It's not as simple as saying ‘Yeah, I'll get it' and have it here next week. It sometimes doesn't work that way. I've seen stuff go on back order for a year before it comes in. It has always been like that. It's a big world and there is a lot of music. After I do my bit and put the order in I have to rely on other people who are also relying on other people. The chain can be long. That's just the way it works. It depends on what the customer wants."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Westhaver has definitely amassed a loyal following. Male, female, young, old, the customers who choose Birdman do so for the selection and quality and Westhaver has achieved this following with absolutely zero advertising.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It's pretty much by word of mouth," Westhaver explains.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He goes on to say that while the production of records has never ceased, he's aware that records will never regain their number one spot as a musical medium. "It would be preposterous to think that all of a sudden the entire music buying population is going to say that CDs suck and MP3s sound like shit, we're all buying records again and all of a sudden everyone is dusting off their record presses."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Westhaver has observed that while many baby boomers still buy records, a lot of younger people are dropping the needle.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"A lot of young people are not buying CDs. Some of those young people are buying records. Many of those kids live in houses with parents who are perhaps my age, and they grew up with their parents listening to records. And if that parent has a big record collection and that child has a good relationship with that parent, there may be some influence there."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">No amount of influence can correct the portability problems the record player faces and, surprisingly, Westhaver isn't about to knock the iPod.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The whole iPod thing—I can see why it exists and I don't really have a problem with it existing. The reason why downloading and the iPod have become so popular is because it is a convenience issue. I think all of these storage forms can co-exist together quite comfortably. There's always something, right? And there will be other things down the road that people will come up with to store your music or to get your music. It's just going to happen. I think it's still good that people are offered choices, because with many things in life there are not many choices."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Major labels have taken notice of the increase in record sales and are offering consumers these choices. Many labels are including download codes or CDs with the purchase of a record.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I've had a lot of customers say that they don't really buy a lot of records but they would buy a certain album especially if it came with a download code."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Just as labels are offering more options to consumers, Westhaver has a varied career that goes beyond his Bank Street store. Westhaver has worked as a talent booker, promoter, as a musician in bands such as Resin Scraper and "the band whose name is a symbol," and has hosted a show on <a href="http://www.ckcufm.com/">CKCU-FM</a> Radio titled <a href="http://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/117/info.html">Friday Morning Cartunes</a> for close to two decades.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"John is a world-class programmer who presents a well-researched show," says Matthew Crosier, CKCU's station manager. "He's been with us for years and he pays homage to the past as well as touching on the present."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A graduate of Algonquin College's broadcasting program, Westhaver has taken the Friday morning time slot on CKCU and transformed it into what many now regard as an institution.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"What I choose to present on that program is what my musical diet is the week leading up to it," says Westhaver. "I don't pull any punches with that. I may start the show with some of the heaviest psychedelic doom rock. I've started my show with Black Sabbath at 9:30 in the morning. People don't have a problem with that. The beauty of radio is if you don't like it you can turn it off. I have fun doing it and I know a lot of people enjoy listening to it. I do it for myself because I really like doing it and there is no self-important bullshit that is connected to it. I'm in a position to be able to elevate people's interest and knowledge in music; it's kind of like instructing or teaching. I think it's providing a valuable resource."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">With so many choices surrounding music and with mediums on which to listen to music changing, skipping like a scratched record, Westhaver has always and will continue to stick by his records.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I personally have always believed that records sound superior to CDs or digital and you do not need an expensive system to appreciate that difference. It's amazing to me how many young people not only believe that as well but also have that conviction."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Westhaver and the sales figures speak for themselves.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">- BT</div>Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636433607672519945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798884893501604264.post-64247092242560032792011-10-06T19:24:00.001-04:002011-10-06T20:43:02.569-04:00MUSIC DIVIDES US<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">- BT</div>Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636433607672519945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798884893501604264.post-72977444302475423522011-10-05T22:06:00.004-04:002011-10-05T23:30:19.909-04:0020 YEARS OF PJ HARVEY<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1o7PPfHT0_XNjSxzAhrhvg7Z_EJrZE0qo76lx8vMgmJbxJg98XTAqXfM0zlSvZs_ior6ZkSMQi7PulQLuujPo_sjL-qR0vNLU01FKYgU9BUHG7Yz0LcnUY_g0M9_b1pwdGBy_upwgypaV/s1600/pj_harvey__9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1o7PPfHT0_XNjSxzAhrhvg7Z_EJrZE0qo76lx8vMgmJbxJg98XTAqXfM0zlSvZs_ior6ZkSMQi7PulQLuujPo_sjL-qR0vNLU01FKYgU9BUHG7Yz0LcnUY_g0M9_b1pwdGBy_upwgypaV/s320/pj_harvey__9.jpg" width="253" /></a> With a second Mercury Prize win for <i>Let England Shake</i>, PJ Harvey has once again struck a successful chord with critics and listeners. <i>Let England Shake </i>finds Harvey returning to the melodic magic last heard on her other Mercury Prize winning creation, <i>Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea</i>.<br />
Her two albums between <i>Stories</i> and <i>England</i>, <i>Uh Huh Her</i> and <i>White Chalk</i>, had auspicious moments but neither garnered as much recognition.<br />
Straddling many genres, utilizing varied instruments and performing in irregular vocal styles, Harvey has, for the most part, remained resourceful and inventive over the course of nine albums. <br />
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Raised on a sheep farm in Dorset, England, Harvey took up saxophone as a teen and was a member of three separate bands before she reached her twenties. <br />
In 1988 Harvey joined the established Bristol band Automatic Dlamini. Founded by future Harvey collaborator John Parrish, Automatic Dlamini also featured Rob Ellis and Ian Oliver. After leaving that band, Harvey would team up with Ellis and Oliver; calling their group PJ Harvey.<br />
"Nothing felt right or either suggested the wrong type of sound," Harvey said of the decision to perform under her name. <br />
Oliver eventually decided to rejoin Automatic Dalmini and was replaced by Steve Vaughan. The trio played their first show in 1991, which ended in disaster. <br />
"We started playing and I suppose there was about fifty people there. During the first song we cleared the hall. There was only about two people left. A woman came up to us, came up to my drummer, it was only a three piece, while we were playing and shouted at him 'Don't you realize nobody likes you! We'll pay you, you can stop playing, we'll still pay you!'"<br />
Although their first outing was lacklustre, the trio pushed forward and released the single <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7s9bnkGeBc"><i>Dress</i></a> via indie label Too Pure. <i>Dress</i> was voted single of the week by Melody Maker and soon after <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nojeYbBpbeU"><i>Sheela-Na-Gig</i></a> was released to similar popularity. With sexually charged lyrics like "Look at these my child bearing hips/ Look at these my ruby red booby lips/ Put money in your idle hole," <i>Sheela-Na-Gig</i> would set the tone for PJ Harvey's debut album <i>Dry</i>.<br />
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<b style="color: red;">DRY</b> (1992)<br />
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<i>Dry</i>'s sound is rooted in stripped down, post-punk riffs. From <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqZ3zWjogYw"><i>Happy and Bleeding</i></a> to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8Fxwjd_qc"><i>Plants and Rags</i></a>, Harvey's debut is on par with the typical early '90s aesthetic. The album's closer <i>Water </i>(below) is a stand out, implementing a loud-quiet-loud outline. Kurt Cobain included <i>Dry</i> on his list of the 50 greatest albums of all time and it is also included in the book <a href="http://www.listology.com/list/1001-albums-you-must-hear-you-die"><i>1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die</i></a>. In 2004, Harvey told <a href="http://filtermagazine.com/"><i>Filter</i></a> magazine that while recording <i>Dry</i> she thought it may have been her first and last album.<br />
"<i>Dry</i> is the first chance I ever had to make a record and I thought it would be my last. So, I put everything I had into it. It was a very extreme record. It was a great joy for me to be able to make it. I never thought I'd have that opportunity, so I felt like I had to get everything on it as well as I possibly could, because it was probably my only chance. It felt very extreme for that reason."<br />
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<i>Water</i><br />
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<b style="color: red;">RID OF ME</b> (1993)<br />
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The trio's next album would find them ditching the (mostly) coherent melodies found on <i>Dry </i>for electric guitar distortion and an even more in-you-face sound. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzwG3r9_L9o">The title track</a> would once again use the loud-quiet-loud outline coupled with Harvey's weirdo baby talk vocals with startling punk efficiency.<br />
Written while recuperating from exhaustion brought on from touring for<i> Dry</i>, <i>Rid of Me</i> was labeled a feminist album by critics. After hearing the Pixies album <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIu_b_fG_2g"><i>Surfer Rosa</i></a>, Harvey personally sought out producer Steve Albini to produce <i>Rid of Me</i>. <br />
"I was really pleased with <i>Rid of Me</i>. For that period of my life, it was perfect," Harvey said.<br />
Critics thought the album was perfect as well, but not just in the context of the '90s. In addition to being nominated for the Mercury Prize, they lost to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqovGKdgAXY">Suede</a>, <i><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/">Rolling Stone</a></i> placed <i>Rid of Me</i> at #405 on their 500 <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231">Greatest Albums of All Time</a> list and <a href="http://www.spin.com/"><i>Spin</i></a> ranked the album at #9 on their list of the <a href="http://spin100.blogspot.com/">100 Greatest Albums of 1985-2005</a>. <br />
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<i>50 Ft. Queenie</i><br />
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<b style="color: red;">TO BRING YOU MY LOVE</b> (1995)<br />
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Less daring yet more complex than her previous efforts, <i>To Bring You My Love</i> is considered PJ Harvey's breakthrough album. Thanks to the massive, international success of the single <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbq4G1TjKYg"><i>Down By the Water</i></a>, <i>To Bring You My Love</i> became PJ Harvey's best selling album. <br />
During the <i>Rid of Me</i> tour, Harvey says she and her band mates began to grow apart and eventually called it quits; making <i>To Bring You My Love</i> the first true PJ Harvey solo album. Written in near isolation, the album's lyrics rely heavily on biblical imagery.<br />
Critics across the board saw Harvey as their musical saviour of 1995. <i>To Bring You My Love</i> was named album of the year by <i><a href="http://www.people.com/">People</a></i>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/"><i>The New York Times</i></a>, <i><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/">Rolling Stone</a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/">USA Today</a> </i>and <i><a href="http://www.hotpress.com/">Hot Press</a></i>. <i>To Bring You My Love</i> also earned Harvey her second Mercury Prize nomination. That year she lost to Portishead's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAsrDu3pL2g&feature=fvwrel"><i>Dummy</i></a>. <br />
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<i>Meet Ze Monsta</i><br />
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<b style="color: red;">IS THIS DESIRE?</b> (1998)<br />
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Trading personal confessions for fictitious themes, <i>Is This Desire? </i>has been labelled Harvey's blues record by many critics. There are few electric guitar riffs on this record. Instead you'll hear keyboards and acoustic bridges in the place of caustic punk sounds. The track <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3tD9EPOEik&ob=av2n"><i>A Perfect Day Elise</i></a> became a popular single, rivalling the success of <i>Down By the Water</i>.<br />
"I do think <i>Is This Desire?</i> is the best record I ever made, maybe ever will make, and I feel that that was probably the highlight of my career," Harvey told <i><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/">The Telegraph</a></i> in 2004. "I gave 100 per cent of myself to that record. Maybe that was detrimental to my health at the same time."<br />
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<i>Angelene</i><br />
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<b style="color: red;">STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA</b> (2000)<br />
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My favourite PJ Harvey album, <i>Stories</i> is her love letter to New York City. The album opener <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny3Ovx7Zzuk"><i>Big Exit</i></a>, is volatile and speaks of despair and suicide. Yet Stories also features downbeat, willowy tracks like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyix3xdRd3Y"><i>Horses in My Dreams</i></a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ML8CAK_SE"><i>One Line</i></a>, and upbeat, hopeful entries like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LORGWrKw60&feature=fvst"><i>You Said Something</i></a>, demonstrating Harvey's diversity. Some detractors said the lead single <i>Good Fortune</i> (below) was too much like mainstream pop for Harvey. I think the song, with its effortless hook and syllable repeating, is one of her best works.<br />
"I want absolute beauty," Harvey told <i><a href="http://www.qthemusic.com/">Q</a></i> in 2001. "I want this album to sing and fly and be full of reverb and lush layers of melody. I want it to be my beautiful, sumptuous, lovely piece of work."<br />
Most critics declared the album a beautiful piece of work. Harvey finally won the Mercury Prize for <i>Stories</i>, beating out Gorillaz and Radiohead and becoming the first female solo artist to win the award.<br />
I had always thought the ominous song <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO9tA8-kbk8"><i>This Mess We're In</i></a>, a duet with Radiohead's Thom Yorke, sounded as if it were written about the attacks of 9/11. Yet the album was released before 2001, so obviously it is not a commentary on the tragedy. Oddly, the Mercury Prize winner was announced on 9/11. Harvey was in Washington DC and witnessed the attack on the Pentagon from her hotel room.<br />
Accepting the prize via phone, Harvey said "It has been a very surreal day. All I can say is thank you very much, I am absolutely stunned."<br />
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<i>Good Fortune</i><br />
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<b style="color: red;">UH HUH HER</b> (2004)<br />
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Although less popular than <i>Stories</i>, <i>Uh Huh Her</i> was generally well received by critics. The gloss of Stories is gone but <i>Uh Huh Her</i> is not a total throwback to the low-fi days of <i>Rid of Me</i>. The album opener <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxG6LUlXyVI"><i>The Life and Death of Mr. Badmouth</i></a> grabs the listener with a catchy stripped down, rock hook. Much of the album is sparse but this scarcity is usually successful. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy5HbStNoj4"><i>The Desperate Kingdom of Love</i></a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyfmv6kNE3k"><i>Pocket Knife</i></a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLOG2wxg3Q&ob=av2e"><i>Shame </i></a>are three such examples. However some songs, like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgW7UJu1-Ys"><i>Cat on the Wall</i></a> and one track that is simply over one minute of seagulls, sound meagre and appear to lack effort. Harvey played virtually all of the instruments heard on <i>Uh Huh Her</i> and produced the album solo.<br />
"I was looking for distressed, debased sounds," Harvey told <a href="http://www.tracksmag.com/"><i>Tracks</i></a> magazine. "So all of the guitars are either tuned so low that it's hard to detect what notes they're playing or they're baritone guitars or they're played through the shittiest amps I could find."<br />
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The Letter</i><br />
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<b style="color: red;">WHITE CHALK</b> (2007)<br />
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Although I wrote a review of this album in 2007, I strained to recall any of its songs while reminiscing for this post. I described it at the time as "so soft it's fucking talcum powder." <i>White Chalk</i> is PJ's piano album. Harvey learned the piano specifically for this album and while the music is softer, the themes remain as hard and eerie as ever. <br />
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<i>When Under Ether</i><br />
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<b style="color: red;">LET ENGLAND SHAKE</b> (2011)<br />
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<i> <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/let-england-shake/id418242898">Let England Shake</a></i> could be summed up as a anti-war concept album, yet the genre of this record isn't as easy to pinpoint. With autoharp, xylophones and the organ all making appearances, <i>England </i>sounds like PJ Harvey but broader and more layered than her other albums.<br />
"I was really enjoying this different, enormous, wide breadth of sound that the autoharp gives. It's quite a delicate sound, but it's also like having an entire orchestra at your fingertips," Harvey told <i>Bridport News </i>earlier this year. "I began by writing quite a lot on the autoharp, and then slowly as time went by, my writing started moving into experimenting with different guitars, and using different sound applications, ones that I had never really experimented with."<br />
Harvey once again pushes her voice to new heights, not unlike on <i>White Chalk</i>, but her soprano sounds better and more fitting on this album than it did on her previous effort.<br />
After seeing Seamus Murphy's <a href="http://adarknessvisible.com/"><i>A Darkness Visible</i></a>, she contacted the filmmaker "to speak to him more about his experiences being there in Afghanistan" and their collaboration gave birth to short films as music videos for the songs of <i>Let England Shake</i>.<br />
At times the album is mordib; at other times it's symphonic. <i>Let England Shake</i>'s complexity makes it one of Harvey's most well thought out collections. <br />
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<i>Let England Shake</i><br />
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<i>The Last Living Rose</i><br />
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<i>The Words That Maketh Murder</i><br />
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<i>The Glorious Land</i><br />
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class="blogger-post-footer">- BT</div>Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636433607672519945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798884893501604264.post-67452319481083528592011-09-30T06:49:00.001-04:002011-09-29T22:52:22.581-04:00LISTEN TO FEIST'S NEW ALBUM METALS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVBL_yBnlpD7D8dUxsuBh2iurUeyBkTmXU9IJMNSzOGe2HM6XbyUbkYu2Gk0vsUcAKyrsv1m8wrPeOZthxMxfFD_wierWvkV6n-YGn9AkezYaURSo2tfio4SZDXoouqAcZ21zHzw4nphR/s1600/feist-metals_article_story_main.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVBL_yBnlpD7D8dUxsuBh2iurUeyBkTmXU9IJMNSzOGe2HM6XbyUbkYu2Gk0vsUcAKyrsv1m8wrPeOZthxMxfFD_wierWvkV6n-YGn9AkezYaURSo2tfio4SZDXoouqAcZ21zHzw4nphR/s1600/feist-metals_article_story_main.jpg" /></a></div> Leslie <a 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You can sign up to listen to <i>Metals</i> below, courtesy of <a href="http://listentofiest.com/">listentofeist.com</a>. Entering your email is required.<br />
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Hailing from Amherst, Nova Scotia, Feist began her career as a member of Canadian <a href="http://allearsblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/supergroups-as-high-school-cliques.html">super group</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl3PyTqsc5c">Broken Social Scene</a>. Her breakthrough as a solo artist came in the form of 2004's <i>Let It Die</i>. Then in 2007 Feist released <i>The Reminder</i> which netted the songstress several Juno Awards and four Grammy nominations. After <i>The Reminder</i>'s massive success Feist admitted in an interview with <i><a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/8678-feist/">Pitchfork</a></i> that it was difficult to get back into the creative mindset.<br />
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"I said I'd stop for a year, which was inconceivable to me and everyone around me. It seemed like so long. But then, after that year, I looked up and I still hadn't gotten my land legs back at all. I needed another year. By then, everyone had calmed and receded back into the wallpaper. I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write."<br />
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Feist fans will be delighted she broke through those creative roadblocks. <i>Metals </i>is jazzier than its predecessor yet retains Feist's signature silky pop sounds. The first single <i>How Come You Never Go There </i>(below)<i> </i>may not catch on like<i> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA7ycePZujY">1234</a></i> but the track is infectious and leaves the listener willing to go anywhere with <i>Metals</i>.<br />
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<i>How Come You Never Go There</i><br />
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