"Love to make music to"

Sunday, November 23, 2008

house society / got to get into the glitterati

First, two tracks united by their common interest in conformity...

1. a. Punks Jump Up
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Its almost as if Kitsune Maison wanted their compilation albums to spell out conformity with big overt people-letters.
I first heard this song while listening to Triple JJJ while jogging (vertically, not horizontally) in Metung, a small town on the Gippsland Lakes whose main attraction is its long lakeside boardwalk. Anyhow, just in case the taste of conformity doesn't overpower thee at a first listen, check out the film clip for this on youtube, and remember, "We're all individuals!"

1. b. Radiohead

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From the album Hail to the Thief
This album was recently slagged off in uncertain terms by a Year 9 in the school "Newspaper" ("All the news that fits we print"), in a FITFUL attempt to mock Thom Yorke on the basis that his voice is too whiney. Well don't bother left-clicking this little blue link below and selecting "Download with BitComet" if thats the extent of your Radiohead appreciation; a fantastic band whose masterful song Talk Show Host is the perfect theme to Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet. But that's another song, this is Sit Down, Stand Up (Snakes and Ladders)

Secondly, two tracks straight out of post-punk heaven...

2. a. Gang of Four


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Yeah that's right, my music's SO alternative that photobucket doesn't even have properly sized jpg. files of the album covers, or in the case of The Dance, an album cover at all

A great song (redundant description, I'm not going to be wasting my time forcing something like ABC's Murderer of Love on you) from one of my favourite bands. Appearing on what's been described as "the best debut British album of all time" - Entertainment - Damaged Goods is typical of a band which defined the post-punk genre in the wake of Ian Curtis' death (although Postcard Records' Orange Juice - whose lead singer Edwyn Collins had a breakout 90's solo hit with Never Met A Girl Like You Before - tried to fill the Curtis-void with slightly happier tunes).

"Heated couplings in the sun / or is that untrue?"

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2. b. The Dance

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I've had to settle for a completely unrelated picture of Kerouac, deal with it.

Found this on Myspace somewhere; everyone I've played it to has uniformly hated it...



Finally, two much more laidback songs...

3.a. Neil Young


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I just swallowed my second harmonica, he mumbled.

Out on the Weekend is definitely not one of the more well-known tracks off the album Harvest, but its one of my favourites. It was good to hear it crackling away last night when I pulled out an old vinyl copy; maybe it just sounded good in comparison with Old Man because the latter's been played so many times that the grooves are all worn out, who knows...

Going to see him and Hot Chip (other bands will be there too, they're the only ones that matter to me) on the 26th of January at the Big Day Out, can't wait.

3.b. Gabor Szabo


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Looking like Zappa with no hair, Gabor's working at Dixons with Iggy Pop

First saw this over at http://www.artdecade.blogspot.com/, one of the best music blogs on the web (not just because it borrows from a David Bowie track for its title). If you're familiar with the film Spartacus this song, the most romantic I know, will already be familiar to you, but if not then use it to charm the jazz-guitar-with-strings-pants off some Eastern European (to test their nationality, first ask them to pronounce "Szabo").