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My Favourites of 2011
Haven’t used this in a while, nevertheless, it seems like a fitting place to say that I finally finished my “Favourites of 2011” Spotify playlist the other day. Give it a listen ‘n’ tha’.
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Blocker For Coinslot (Split 10" EP)
Hey y’all. The band I play in, Year of Birds are releasing a split 10” with The Rebel on Ack! Ack! Ack! Records in December, listen to it on our Bandcamp and enjoy!
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Songs on Sunday #008: R.E.M. - E-Bow The Letter
So this week I thought I’d dedicate it to R.E.M.’s 31 year career which has recently come to a close. And what a career it’s been. How many bands have been as successful as they have, yet made innovative songs such as this brilliant haunting one with the excellent Patti Smith? I mean, this got to NUMBER 4 on the UK chart. That’s one hell of an achievement for a song so unique when the charts were dominated by the likes of the Spice Girls and brit-pop. Plus, it wasn’t like they were rich kids selected by a TV show, these guys started off like most creative 80s bands, touring in an old van, living on a food allowance of $2 a day. A true indie band and a band worth celebrating.
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Songs on
SundaySomeday #007: Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin - FameI’m lagging, I know. Hopefully to make up for this post’s lateness is an absolute corker of a track (discovered through oneweekoneband’s coverage of Segall). Ty Segall with Mikal Cronin doing the most haunting and all out noise-fest cover of David Bowie’s Fame. They’ve also done a pretty brilliant breakneck-speed garage cover of Sufragette City, which despite the psychedelic solo at the end I thought didn’t quite match the power of this. Enjoy.
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