arms

I think that was my 9th since 2000. It was the best i've ever seen them, though nothing will compare to the wonder inspired the first time.

quietly suggesting you think it is going to be a load of old balls?

Mogwai. Then i wouldn't need the CD. Although if i put them in a box, and i could neither see nor hear them, then how would i know they were still there? Simple, it shall be a clear sided box, with little holes so they can breathe and i can hear them. Now that's box clever...

all a bit hagiographic

to write for pitchfork or something?

Brian Eno and U2 get back together and make another Passengers record. The first one is posessed of much more gorgeousness than any subsequent, and most previous, U2 efforts

i think i have spent more in fopp than any other shop. I'm guessing that somebody will come along and pick up the pieces, what with the name, the stock and the locations all being of signficant value.

on the music front, what with leonard cohen, godspeed you black emperor, broken social scene and so on

12 square inches...

I am neither a londoner nor a block party fan.

I don't buy the sensationalist aspect, the majority of music dabblers are not going to hear it, and if they do they will mostly hear it rather than listen to it. I also very much doubt that 2 years after the event any song is likely change anyone's opinion about what happened.

Is the anniversary so significant? To a non-londoner i wonder if it is much different to the Omagh bombing, without getting into the relative atrociousness, which we do not mark in any particular way.

Media whim is a dangerous thing, and the desire to court it hinted at here is objectionable, but the song itself does not appear sensationalist.

Mountains, molehills, storms and teacups.

surely the greatest misnoma of all

My sister brought back a goldenhorse album from New Zealand about 4 years ago (?), it certainly had some of these songs on it. It might have been called riverhead, certainly that's the only song thats particulary stuck with me.

of mr waits or of 1976?

thought he was going to have covered the wurzels song, bit like british sea power

thats an english bull terrier, not a pitbull. They are quite different.

Lilly Allen has just shot up in my estimation by having a bull terrier.

Should LOLs at Lilly be replaced by LILs?

although i do now want to go to one of her gigs.

Its hardly a unique thing to do now - see all those don't look back gigs - and i kind of like not knowing exactly which song is coming next. Can't imagine it was anything other than great fun all the same

detail

i've always wondered how these collaboration things worked. Now i know. What do they do when they want to uncollaborate?

oversight.

places like this, occasionally the broadsheets but i seem to take them less and less seriously. Haven't heard anything on the radio that has sounded interesting for ages, but i don't listen in the evenings so miss most of it. I used to read a lot of print media, esp word and uncut, which i enjoyed and was previously my most used avenue. Not so much now though, and i found i never listened to the free CDs much either - always more useful in theory than in practice. Also having a job means i have far less time to listen to music, so i'm buying less too. I only ever use myspace and youtube to check out things i have already read about/heard, and want to discover a wee bit more about. They are very useful for that.

you could sum this review up in the words 'not transcendant'. Some specifics would be nice for those who do actually like soft spoken accoustic acts. Instead i know a lot more about the reviewer than i do about the reviewee. That is what blogs are for, not reviews. As a little blog entry its quite nice though.

catfight between two parrots?

should we expect an orchestraless tra laa laa band to be found wandering through the musical hinterland too then? or perhaps just a series of laas (and a tra)?

u2>>>>>>>blur>>>>>>>>>>>oasis

i'm not quite sure what i learnt by reading that (raz likes hot women, drinks, free stuff?) but you obviously had fun. good for you.

that are likely to feature in the list proper
Interpol, Saul Williams, Bjork, Sigur Ros, Julie Andrews, possibly Nick Cave

Bands that are mentioned that should have made a timeless list
MBV, Spiritualized, Aphex twin, Belle and sebastian, charles dickens

bands i have never really listened to
blood brothers, les savy fav

but here are a few obvious ones

Grandaddy - the crystal lake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEHwkWyWD0Q
particularly for the gleefully dancing bear

Sigur Ros - Vaka (untitled 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbqMz7pGv5A
all their videos are great, but somehow this chimed more than the others, perhaps it was the timing of its realease? Plus it won some mtv music award which was just surreal

Johnny cash - hurt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go
it's an extraordinary bit of music, but even just looking at his face is enough

Avalanches - frontier psychiatrist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQGseV3vIwk
tee hee

coldcut - revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6KnJ0k_u7w
the lunatics are taking over the airwaves

Belle and sebastian - lazy line painter jane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUXNCTFEURE
captures something of the naive essence of their early magic. ok, obviously a bit older than 6, but the dvd came out in 2003 and i can't believe it was much seen before then.

I'm still rather sad about the secret migration, it may not be as bad as i initially thought but they still managed to prune off most of the interesting bits. It was just not quite as good as it's 2 predecessors, hence the lack of critical enthusiasm.

They remain a wonderful band though

I don't know much about trivium apart from their name, is the book aimed at me?

I think metal could be described as a niche. Books about quite big metal bands 3 albums into their career as superstars on the other hand...they'll be writing competing encyclopedias about them in a couple of years. The books that is, not the bands.

talk about a niche market

and buy the bloody thing if you want it so much. the rest of us have to.

does this mean slacker punk (whatever it is) can never attain a rating higher than 7? Or were you feeling too lazy to add the red numbers?

how surprising

still around. Gloriously odd, and indeed oddly glorious

tis rather fun

i went to a fee paying school, knew there was something i must have been missing out on - bring on the music as a lifestyle accessory, hip hop here i come.

pitchfork reviewed the new rapture record today, are you going to publish that too?

i rather like the fact that DiSrecords is not heavily promoted here, it rather adds to the credibilty of the whole thing

an edit function for comments, hence this post

also a search function on the forum would be useful (unless i've just missed it?)

i generally prefer not to have to click through to another page unless i have to.

Sometimes a line or 2 under an album review would be helpful when it comes to the many bands i've never heard of, saves skimming through the ones of no interest. I appreciate that these are probably bloody irritating to write though.

I hate your logo at the top of the page, can't exactly remember what the old one looked like but it was certainly better.

Apart from that it's great, well written (the most important aspect) and generally entertaining

i've not heard the record, but that second last paragraph seems to be spot on.

The religious influence on U2 (particularly in the early 80s) made them far more complicated, as did the less than messaianic (and not at all ironic) content of achtung baby. This tension between the toungue in cheek show and prepostorous posturing coupled to serious, often doubt tempered music is one of the things that make them so compelling to me. They were also, at that time, doing things nobody had really done before. I see none of this in Razorlight other than the posture.

that nick cave best of had an anourmous effect on me when i was about 17.

The best of james was a fantastic album.

The trouble with most best ofs is that they feel compelled to reperesent later, lesser moments in a band's career, though its a great way to capture great singles mired in less than great albums, again so often bookending a career.

Generally i find the original albums so much more satisfying, though they do offer a great jumping off point sometimes.

perhaps?

i also pottered over to roskilde this year, and it was wonderful, though most irritating not to be able to take cans/water bottles into the festival area. It was interesting to compare it to glastonbury, the only other one i have been to, which is on a scale far beyond that of roskilde. I almost get more excited when the glaso line up is a bit shit, it means less headless chicken and more meandering, watching random jugglers/poets/people/commedians etc. Roskilde was mostly about the music, as i think many festivals are, and it gained something from that, but i really missed that whole other festival that exists within glastonbury where it is impossible to come away without seeing or doing something you have never done before.

"give me a song and i'll sing it like i mean it"
i.e. i have faux soul, i.e. i have no soul.

sadly the record company will be delighted with themselves.

Great live band (as in Great not great)
good records
insipid lyrics

they plough their own furrow and they're big, but take them away and how many other bands would be sucked into the resulting muse shaped hole? It might be supermassive, but it's not black. Simply - big but not important.

this is a bit shit, obviously the whole thing is rather more inter-related, and could be done a lot better but
No strokes - no libertines - no arctic monkeys
No radiohead - no coldplay - no keane - no kubb (getting some seriously diminishing returns here)
no belle & sebastian - no magic numbers
no mogwai - no explosions in the sky, no mono
and so on ad infinitum, but the obvious point being
no muse - no?

i almost prefer it when the glaso line up is shit, less time spent tiring one's self out bouncing from stage to stage and more time seeing the random stuff elsewhere

just be a generic thriller, surely? Plus everyone has read the book already which will rather scupper the tension. I fear i will end up seeing it anyway though.