Archive for December, 2009
BFFs
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
Lily Allen – The Fear
Lily Allen – Not Fair
Honest cute lyrics about boys, drugs and txt msgs. sort of mike skinner with a skirt. cheers.
Emiliana Torrini – Unemployed in summertime
Emiliana Torrini – Me and Armini (album version)
another down to earth beautiful girl – with a talent in the sky, iceland’s emiliana torrini.
Forget about bjork and sigur ros – this is simple, lovable, and still scandinaviously amazing.
M.I.A – Galang
srilanka london america brazil – some of the funkiest world music beats and bitz around this decade.
Quality Pop superstardom however was owned elswhere -
Gwen Stefani – Serious
in 05′ “no doubt”’s gwen goes solo and releases the love angel music baby album, in which pretty much every track had chart crushing single potential.
the Gossip – Heavy Cross
Spotted – new woman pop icon on the block, Beth Dito, working with Rick Rubin. These guys might be around for a long time.
Amy winehouse – Back to Black
Front woman of the whole bluesy soul retro movement of the decade, alongside duffy and earlier joss stone. Winehouse however had the mark ronson, the addiction and the scandals to go along – (and the song “rehab” ) - spanning one of the sad/ackword/funny websites of the decade – www.whenwillamywinehousedie.com
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Flowers in the Ghetto
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Israel’s mainstream music scene this decade sucked quite bad – there were some good songs of course, but in general with pour connection to any trends in the rest of the world.
The only mainstream israeli artists that seem to be able make the cut here are these:
Efrat Gosh – Tamid Kshe ata Ba
Efrat Gosh – Paam Bachaim
Not everyone has to be a singer-songwriter. sometimes, an excellent singer is just fine.
Both of these are from her debut, written mostly by Yoni Bloch and Barak Feldman.
Paam Bachaim is an Amir Lev cover – I think this cover makes it one of the best israeli songs ever.
Idan Richel – Medabrim Besheket
From his debut. In a TV interview, Raichel said his best reward would be that his songs will be credited in the future as “composer: traditional (amami)”
Crossover between world music and israeli mainstream, some think it’s too mainstream, i think it’s done with rare talent. He combines mellow pop with ethiopian/african influences, gaining international success as ‘world music’ as well.
Ehud banai – Blues Cnaani
Oldie but Goodie – still the best folk around, a rare song dedicated to meir ariel of course.
Notable mentions go to Amir Benayoun and Dikla for making quality arabic music, Assaf Amdurski and Ivri Lider, for musically producing current sounding stuff, Dana intl, and the Pik sis for trying to do fashionable quality pop and Eviatar, Rona, and some others for writing a few pop-rock jems.
The only fine pop to really make it into mainstream, while still being trendy and cool, is Emily Karpel, so here is the vid for Tipa:
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Grammar School
Saturday, December 12th, 2009
Morrisey – Irish Blood English Heart
coz moz lyrics are still in top form, even tho he lives in los-angeles. just try changing the country names…
Razorlight – America
Loathing for American superficiality has never been so simple. from their good self-titled album.
Idlewild – American English
Some more loathing. This time from Scotland.
Coldplay – Don’t Panic
All contracted in American dreams are Coldplay, their success and mediocrity make us sick, but their sometimes exceptional songwriting, along with their trademark pianos made us cave in.
Snow patrol – Shut your eyes
for the Irish
Placebo – Days before you came
European poprock make-up trio with excellent drums-guitar action.
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
for the Scottish
Panic! at the Disco – Northern Downpour
Americans which put emo/glam rock on the map against their wish.
Evanescence – My Immortal
Occasionally, metal gives you diabetes instead of cat tails. this is as AmeriKitsch as it gets, and for us that’s just f.i.n.e.
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Guitar Heroes
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
John Frusciante – Going Inside
Ex R.H.Chilli.Peps guitarist got out of the H, and into making a new album every couple of months. This is from the excellent “to record only water for ten days”.
Twilight Singers – Anne Mae
Ex Afgan Whigs frontman greg dooley formed the twilight singers for a more sophisticated serving of those same heart wrenching tunes. even galgalz caved in infront of “king only”.
The Breeders – Overglazed
Ex Pixies bassist kim dill and co, didnt have their last splash yet.
Grandaddy (The Sophtware Slump) – Miner at the Dial-a-View
The Indie Dears
Blonde Redhead – In Particular
American rock trio.
White Stripes – Fell In Love With a Girl
Married, Divorced or Brother & Sister? Who know, Who cares. Tight cool rock tunes, this one with one of the best videos of the decade by one and only Michel Gondry.
Cold War Kids – We Used To Vacation
Bunch of kids doing good rock good.
PJ Harvey – Good Fortune
PJ Harvey – Shame
In the 90’s it was all sorrow, 2000’s stories from the city found pj in love and in a good mood, and with an excellent album, she continued to be successful all along the decade, later releasing Shame.
Andrew bird – Skin is my
American talented musician and song-writer combining violin, whistling, guitars, mandolins to produce experimental melodies.
Nick Cave – No More Shall We Part
Prince of Down Under Pianos, no more shall we part was a great album, cheers ups nicks.
Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
Fleet foxes are one of the only bands in the last years that delivered a full, complete and cohesive album.
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the Kids are Alright
Friday, December 4th, 2009
MGMT – Time to pretend
Oracular, Spectacular. New fresh retro and moving all in the same time.
YeahYeahYeahs – Maps
true, karen o’ and co supplied some of the best ass shaking tracks of the decade, with heart throbbing beats n’ guitars, still, this ballad is one that stand out above the rest.
Bloc Party – Kreutzberg
true, bloc party supplied some of the best head smashing tracks of the decade, with heart throbbing guitars n’ beats, still this ballad is one that stand out above the rest.
Death Cab for Cutie -A movie script ending
From “The photo album”, original american pop rock with lyrics worth listening to.
This is before talented Ben formed The Postal Service, another gem of this decade.
TV on the Radio – Staring at the Sun
Another gang from Brooklyn doing indie-rock/jazz/electro combinations.
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