I always end up coming back to this album, it’s the kind that you can come back to, and I love it so much. I love The Pixies and I’m always torn between Surfer Rosa and this one (despite Bossanova having Is She Weird on it) simply because I love the way they transition from their main hits (see Wave Of Mutilation, Debaser, Monkey Gone To Heaven) to a bunch of ‘other songs’ that sound just as good, if a bit less familiar because we’ve all sung along to them a little less. This album is a great album.
Today is a nineties day. This is a brilliant, brilliant album. My therapist recommended me it months ago and I regret waiting this long for it, really, because GOD, this is good. It’s upbeat and pretty and happy and even where the electric stuff kicks in it retains this nice acoustic feel and it’s all very casual and country and it makes efficient use of harmonicas and violins, it’s really lovely.
Believe it or not, when I was thirteen I was a huge Green Day fan. Well, a pre-American Idiot fan. This is an album that I basically grew up on, this and Warning as far as Green Day is concerned. Anyway, this album symbolises the peak of Green Day’s greatness before the decline.
It’s a good album, it has to be said. It’s angry and it’s dubbed punk rock and it’s aw shit what am I doing trying to review this I can’t review this I grew up with it and everyone’s heard it you know what it’s like and if you don’t you should click the below links to get it now.
This is a very deliberate album to follow Transatlantacism, the 2003 record. It’s an excellent blend of acoustic and less-so, and it’s all very sad and easy to listen to and it’s very, very lovely. I’d advise that you listen to it because I adore it so much, it’s a very meaningful album for me and it was probably one of the only albums that I’ve listened to since the age of 12 and still love.
It has this beautiful edge of sadness without even touching on the miserable, and it’s so consistent, there is no song to be singled out that lets them down.
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll
I dearly would love to make a cover of this song, because it’s brilliant. This is coming from me, and I can barely stand female vocalists, but Joan Jett’s got something special about her as far as I’m concerned. Maybe it’s that she has a mullet or something, but her voice doesn’t irritate me and she doesn’t try to alter it. It’s great.
Let’s face it, Conor Oberst is basically an indie sex icon. His fragile little self makes teenage girls all over the world quiver. Which probably makes half the fan base. But I don’t care, I do enjoy Bright Eyes and I enjoyed it before I knew who the frontman was (let’s face it, I don’t do my research as often as I should, I thought the guy who was singing was at least 45 before I looked it up).
This is a good album. It’s solid, it’s got the sentimentality that so many folksy albums do possess, and it’s relaxing. There are new melodies to uncover every time you listen and there’s so much good stuff in there. I’d advise that if you like metal, listen to this. It makes for a really interesting change and, well, you never know. I used to be a complete metal head and now I listen to so much more thanks to bands like this.
I know I’ve not posted lately, I’ve just been kinda lazy and busy. But here is some good music. After developing serious attraction to Damon Albarn I decided a few days ago that it would be good to get a feel for Blur as well as the Gorillaz, and when I forced myself to listen to it, I really enjoyed it. It’s sort of becoming part of me, in a crazy way.
This album, sadly, only ‘features’ Graham Coxon, in Battery In Your Leg. It’s clear that he’s missing for most of the album by the clear lack of GRAHAM. But nevertheless this is a great album; it really displays Blur’s creative spark and there are some catchy numbers on there.
This is such a great cover. It’s a completely different style, more acoustic. I’ll tell you now, I haven’t listened to the xx a lot, far less than the Gorillaz, but this is such a brilliant cover. It feels a bit more heartfelt than the original, and it’s recognisable, but a whole lot less sexy than the original song (unless you count the fact that a certain Mr. Albarn is singing it, which I totally do) and it’s a lot more mellow.
Even then, such a good cover, I can’t even describe it. The original song is good, but this cover is just frothing-at-the-mouth good.
I only started to listen to Radiohead in depth a couple of days ago, courtesy of Elizabeth (www.bornandraisedforthejob.tumblr.com) for telling me to listen to them for about three months. Anywho, from what I hear, these guys are fucking amazing. I’ve come across a few familiar tracks, presumably the more famous ones, whilst listening to this, and what really stuns me about Radiohead is not their songs (although that’s probably a great deal of it), it’s the care they take in making their lineups flow into each other. Each song is carefully crafted to fit both on its own, and to blend perfectly with the songs surrounding it on the album.
Before I go gushing about this band that I’ve only very recently had real experience of, I have to say - there’s a lot of intricacy; the melody is usually focused in the vocals, but when there’s focus on the background, it really goes all out to impress. You’ll find quirky drumbeats, dulcet guitars and piano tones.
Favourite tracks on this album are Just and My Iron Lung. For the most part, Radiohead isn’t exactly cheery listening, but it’s really, really great.
I'm Ishani, I'm 16. I listen to a lot of music, I want to be a composer and musician (essentially, the next Jonny Greenwood, like that'll ever happen), so I'll keep up with my attempts at writing about music here. It'll probably be a mixture of old and new, and every genre I can find something I like for.
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