Big Pharma & Julia Farty Pooper - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu_Z0JH1k2w
Hot Wax are turning out brilliant tunes at an incredible rate. Touring with Royal Blood. Worth your time and money.
I am a really big fan of Amigo The Devil and his new song ‘The cannibal within’, really seems to hit upon the self destructive tendencies we all have . Excellent stuff.
Chicago: Fighting the Urge to eat.
Pop punk par excellence.
The Streets have released a new album and I dislike it as much now as I disliked their music 20 years ago. I used to think it was the type of music that I don't like, but have subsequently found myself enjoying others doing similar stuff, but better (in my ears at least). I'm grateful to find that it's not the style of music that I dislike, but the artist himself. Perhaps there's a message there telling me to not be such a cunt.
Whatever.
First album is good. Ducks.
This is ace.
I like the effort they have gone to with the skirting board. They can come and do our toilet.
Definitely a euphemism.
"Each Day Gives and Each Day Takes Innit". The Streets.
Jarring and awful. Every time I hear it come on the Radio I have to turn off. "Innit". He's 44; it just sounds ludicrous. That's the problem with being groundbreaking (which he was at the time even though I didn't like it) at a young age. If you carry on you just sound like a twat, especially when the music he makes has been taken to new levels by other younger artists. There's a particularly horrible bit where he actually sings, and it sounds like he's put the autotuner on max; think Cher in "I Believe".
His music is no longer groundbreaking, it is derivative and sounds ridiculous coming from a 44 year old, in the way that Tim Westwood always sounded ridiculous.
I lasted three lines before turning it off.
Shipping Steel is possibly the best song ever written.
Spent an hour or so listening to Taylor Swift, because although I've heard songs here and there I've never actually listened to her music.
It's fine. It's perfectly listenable, easily forgettable pop music. She seems like a really nice person, but I'm not sure I understand why she is such a global phenomenon.
- Good pop songs will always work.
- Songs about her relationships, so feels a bit soap opera-era.
- Quite a pretty young lady.
Were you equally unsure about why Madonna was popular is the 80s?
No, I was very sure of why I liked Madonna in the 80s. I'm not convinced that Taylor is appealing to the same demographic or in the same way.
Point is Madonna crossed over - it wasn’t just about horny teenage boys. My 12 year old niece loves Taylor Swift in a similar way that plenty of girls at my school loved Madonna.
