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I’m starting a new thing to make this blog a little bit more interesting… I’m gonna call it “Songs on Sunday”, and I’ll basically be posting a song every Sunday that I’ve newly discovered or that has recently been released for you all to enjoy.
Songs on Sunday #001: Thee Mighty Caesars - Lie Detector
So, first up, is Thee Mighty Caesars performing “Lie Detector” in costume. I’ve just discovered how brilliant Billy Childish is and after perusing YouTube for a while, this is one of my favourites. Dead simple, short, fun and catchy garage punk while dressed as the powerful Roman emperor. Also, bonus points to the drummer for drumming in full Roman gear, cloak n all.
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Songs on Sunday #002: Wugazi - Slow Like That
So, this is off the new Fugazi and Wu-Tang Clan mash-up released back in July, named Wugazi - 13 Chambers. I don’t normally like this sort of stuff (songs should be left alone once they’re done!), but this is obviously created with such care and affection, and as a result it’s turned out ace. The majority of the songs just combine well-known tracks from each artist to great effect, but this is different, and is one of my favourites of the album. It takes its vocals from Ghostface Killer’s “Back Like That” (feat. Ne-Yo). Which is a pretty standard R&B song on it’s own, nothing worth shouting about. But this throws Fugazi’s excellent “Slo Crostic” from “Instrument” into the mix which just suddenly brings it to life and the chorus jumps out at you, begging to be sung. Absolutely brilliant.
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Songs on Sunday #003: Neil Young - Don’t Let It Bring You Down
So this is off Neil Young’s “After The Gold Rush” which I recently bought. I knew a few of the songs, but hadn’t heard this one, and it’s becoming a favourite. I was looking for a live version and found this one. He amusingly wanders over to the audience at the start and “introduces” his guitar to them. It’s all a bit light-hearted as he tunes his guitar and begins the introductory chords. Then he sings the opening line and his awesome voice changes the mood to something much more powerful, that contrast just makes it for me. A great live version.
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Songs on Sunday #004: St. Vincent - Surgeon
So I completely forgot to do this yesterday. Anyway, I decided to choose a track that St Vincent have recently offered for free from their website, from their new album which is out on 12th September. I was a bit of a latecomer to St Vincent. Why? I cannot say, I blame other music out there distracting me. “Surgeon” is a fantastic track. Even in this live version it’s made so much better by watching Annie Clark’s fingers just waft by the guitar neck as the most amazingly fast melody comes out, and effortlessly, she sings along. She is one of the most talented and beautiful people in music today. Anyone fancy getting tickets to see her at the Brudenell on 16th November? It’s not as fancy as the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art of course… but it’s a mere tenner!
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Songs on Sunday #005: Wild Flag - Romance
I was going to stop doing this as I got a bit bored of Tumblr and ignored it for a while (Call me a traditionalist who likes the days of blog posts that took more effort than seeing a vaguely funny/interesting image and clicking reblog). But then during this week I decided I still wanted to do it, so I’m doing two songs today to make up for it! The first is Wild Flag’s second single which came out a couple of months ago. When I first heard the name Wild Flag I thought it was a tribute act to the so-trendy-right-now Californian hardcore band and didn’t pay much attention. Then I heard who was in it, realised I was mistaken and checked them out. Listening to the album you can tell this isn’t just some side project to take up time in between real projects, this is the real fucking deal. And Romance is an absolute stomper. You can obviously hear bits of each member’s former band in there, but together they’re creating a genuinely innovative and unique sound. I also love how Carrie Brownstein is the boss in this video, anyone that can pull off a kick while playing guitar parts deserves to be the boss of all bosses. I’m going to see them in December and it’s going to be excellent.
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Songs on Sunday #006: Hella - Headless
So this is the first song off “Tripper” the new album from Hella. Their last LP, “There’s no 666 in Outer Space” saw the band increase its number to 5 and every song on the album featured vocals, unlike earlier Hella albums. Tripper is the band moving back to an instrumental duo, and it does sound like their earlier albums but with some really fresh sounds on a few of the songs. This one, “Headless”, doesn’t give the listener much chance to settle in, especially if you haven’t heard Hella before. But there’s reward in sticking with Hella songs, especially from this new album, the stripped down sound works really well and now they’ve experimented with side projects and adding new musicians, their return to a duo must feel fresh for them and I think it shows, this is a great album with this tune and “Psycho Bro” being my favourites.
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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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