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We take a short break from revision to bring to you the following video:
Great song with a pretty neat atypical skateboard video.
A came across Scout Niblett’s song Kiss on a Too Pure Radio Sampler yesterday and I like it a lot. It’s even got a really neat music video. So do check it out:
Some of you may remember part I of this highly successful series on great ways to waste your time online. Today’s topic:
Music
Obviously thanks to the web you can listen to thousands of different radio stations. Nevertheless I’ll only list a few things of interest.
fm4, which has always been my favourite radio station, has created a platform for bands to present their material. To be specific that platform is for Austrian bands as fm4 is an Austrian radio station. Nonetheless there’s a lot of great music by unsigned bands to check out in the Soundpark. Also they host the protest song contest every year and you can listen to the finalists here. At any rate, it’s always a good idea to tune in to fm4 as they play great music all day long.
Another great place for music is npr. I especially like their live in concert series. I’ve listened to quite a few great concerts so far, for example Regina Spektor, Okkervil River, Nellie McKay and the New Pornographers. Another great thing on npr is Project Song, which seems to be a very recent show on which they give an artist 48 hours, a range of topics to choose from and a studio and document the resulting song. So far they’ve only had Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields, but it’s a fun video to watch.
Now I don’t remember if I ever pointed out that I’m a great admirer of Henry Rollins‘ work, especially of his talking shows, and for some time now he’s also hosted his own radio show called Harmony in my Head. You can download past shows from the Rollins archive. I’ve listened to quite a few of his shows and I’m sure his ecclectic taste in music will beat up anyone elses ecclectic taste in music.
Another radio show I’ve enjoyed listening to is Zoe’s show. Her taste in music is apparently so awesome that the Beastie Boys let her open for them @ the Greek in LA. Unfortunately she doesn’t seem to be doing shows regularly, but whenever she does a show I’ll usually gladly listen to it.
I think this should be enough to keep you from getting anything productive done for quite some time. If you ever get really desperate just tune in to ICradio, we’ve started putting more recent music on the out of hours sustain system so you might even enjoy some of the music.
I’ll end this post by linking to Public Enemy’s video for their latest single ‘Harder Than You Think’ because it’s clearly a brilliant song
I’ve never been much of a Killers fan but I’ve got to say that their latest song is pretty damn awesome. Of course it helps that it features Lou Reed.
Simply brilliant. I keep listening to it over and over again.
As I played plenty of newer song on Tuesday’s show I figured I’d post some of the videos of the songs I played.
Jamie T – Calm Down Dearest
Great song, very low budget video (at least it looks that way).
Grinderman – No Pussy Blues
I didn’t know Nick Cave had a side project. This and the next song are ideal for the upcoming Valentine’s Day.
Gym Class Heroes – Cupid’s Chokehold
What a song title.
Lily Allen – Alfie
The video is very much pop, just like the song (though the lyrics aren’t).
The Maccabees – First Love
The song’s all right, but the video is really neat.
The Fray – How to save a Life
Very cute.
The Feeling – Rosé
Even cuter.
The Noisettes – Sister Rosetta
Who said girls can’t rock?
The Brakes – Hold me in the River
For plenty more asskicking.
Built to Spill – Conventional Wisdom
An epic video by a great band.
These should be enough videos to keep you busy for a few minutes. I shall leave you with this great quote by Stephen Colbert:
I’ve always been a big fan of beauty. Sure you can’t judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book.
Some people have their random Fridays where they post 10 random songs to their blog or what have you, I instead shall have utterly non-random posts about music videos (and they shall not necessarily occur on Saturdays).
I’ll begin with Jarvis. That wasn’t the plan at all, but the video to don’t let him waste your time is simply hilarious. In terms of songs I would have preferred to give you running the world but the video is nowhere as funny, though I really like the lyrics (which is why I really gave you the links to both videos). The first time I’ve heard the song was when he played at fm4 = 12. What can I say, I still think fm4 is the best radio-station in the entire world (hey someone’s got to be number one).
Next, I’ll give you Mika with Grace Kelly. It’s a classic pop song. It’s so good millions of people will hate it by the time radio takes it off their A-playlist. One reason why I chose this song is this little interview nugget; this is what Mika said about the song: “It was a fuck-off song to the music company that I was working with at the time, it is where the line ’shall I bend over, shall I look older, just to be put on your shelf’ comes from. I was so angry. That company had every resource except a soul.” This reminded me of other artists who didn’t seem to make it until they decided to no longer create a product that should sell and instead focused on creating art that they cared about, in a sense telling the industry to fuck off. The most notorious example being Chuck Palahniuk who got rejected several times for earlier works of fiction as they were found to be too disturbing, even though he had held himself back. So eventually he decided to really give them a disturbing story, Fight Club, full well expecting it to be rejected. In a sense it was meant as his last fuck-off to the industry (though in a sense I’m just paraphrasing from an interview I can’t find anymore).
But I’m not going to give you the old do what you love and the money will follow speech. The one thing I believe played a more important role in these artists becoming successful as they created what they wanted to was specificity. When you create art as a product you’re inclined to make love to the entire world, simultaneously trying to please everybody while not offending anybody and Kurt Vonnegut already pointed out that is unlikely to work.
Anyway, I’d better get back to what this post was supposedly about and so I give you Pop Levi with Sugar Assault Me Now. This song rocks and it is no surprise it made it to 4th place in this week’s fm4 editorial charts.
I’ll end this post by giving you a link to Rote Raupe where you can find music videos by German and Austrian bands. I like their reason for uploading these videos; they point out that since MTV & co. prefer to broadcast ring-tone commercials and the like there should be another platform where people get to actually see music videos. They shall be thanked many times over.
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