Random Thing

Marie put this on her blog, which she copied from Dave's blog. The idea is to list the next ten records played by your mp3 player/computer jukebox or whatever when it's on random. I'm bored at work so here goes…

Go Tell The World - Joy Zipper

I heart the Joy Zipper. They are one of my favourites, and this is one of the standout tracks on their latest album The Heartlight Set.

Goodnight - Idlewild

I still haven't worked out if I'm disappointed with the last Idlewild album. I listened to it the other day after a breather of a couple of months and it sounded good, some of it great, yet I couldn't quite place my finger on what was wrong with it. Maybe it was the fact that a lot of it is good rather than great which has left me less enthusiastic than I should be. Then again, I've noticed that a couple of bands I used to adore and eulogise about at every available opportunity have sort of diminished in my eyes lately. Is this a blip or am I moving on?
Anyway, this is a good track off the last album, one that sounds better if you're drunk and melancholy. I'm at work so I'm not drunk. Roddy Woomble's voice is like warm sombre treacle when he's not screaming about SHAPES!

(Drawing) Rings Around The World - The Super Furry Animals

I'm listening to the new album by the Super Furry Animals now. I love them. This song is off the album of the same name and is one of the more straightforward moments from the SFA (right, indie berks!). Still, it's rather good and did have a great video. This band is almost definitely in my top 3 British bands. Did I tell you that I love them?

Walk Into The Sea - Low

I'd always kind of ignored Low until I found myself with a couple of their albums on my mp3 player. This is off their latest opus, which I must say is rather smashing.
Living on the coast as a child, I have walked into the sea on numerous occasions. I grew up next to the Irish Sea, which is grey, cold and full of dead things. On a holiday to Aberdeen as a child I was encouraged to wade into the North Sea. It was so cold that that I can still remember the shock my body felt all those years ago. All my internal organs screamed 'oh my God, we're going to die!' and the blood was removed from the extremities. There's something strangely foreboding about the North Sea. It looks like it wants to kill you. And will one day if it gets the chance.
I've yet to walk into an ocean.

Grounds For Divorce - Wolf Parade

Heh, I love the singer's voice. It's odd. I've been enjoying the EP that this track is off. For some reason this track keeps on reminding me of Big Country. That doesn't seem quite right, and I can't place my finger on what it is that reminds me of the Scottish funsters (funsters is actually rather inappropriate). It certainly isn't the vocals, and as I can't remember the last time I listened to Big Country (probably whilst watching the sweetly charming Restless Natives which was soundtracked by the band). I own no Big Country albums. I'm thinking it might be the use of the drums. Not all of them, just the snare drum or something.

The Lake - The Cooper Temple Clause

I adored the first album by TCTC (right kids!). It was lyrically quite dark, yet musically exciting. What more could you want? This track seems to be about drowning in a lake, maybe Lake Metaphorical bordering the Forest Of Analogy. Or maybe it's just about drowning in a lake. It seems to be cold though, so maybe it's not actually a lake but the North Sea.
That's the second nautically themed song. Mark that down in your scorebook.
The second TCTC (kids! lay on five!) album was rubbish.

Your Love Is Mine - Holly Golightly

My dad is a big fan of country and western music. He was quite indiscriminate in his tastes, from the traditional nonsense of Hank Williams or Dolly Parton, through Mr. Cash, Emmylou Harris and out to some bobbins like The Dixie Chicks. He rather enjoys the C&W (right grandpa!) versions of AC/DC records. Anyway, occasionally some of the stuff he'd play (and wake me up with) would sound a bit like this. I've only listened to this album a few times, it seems to be a mish-mash of C&W, sixties pop and bits of indie served in a Nancy Sinatra sauce.

The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders - Sufjan Stevens

However much I'm enjoying Come On…, I don't think this is one of my favourite tracks. I don't mind it, but I think the piano reminds me too much of the Charlie Brown TV show. I feel it should be soundtracking Lucy saying something mean to Charlie Brown, who would then say something droll and cheerless to make everyone feel sorry for the big loser.
I used to read all the Charlie Brown books as a kid and used to love them for some reason. I never found them funny, but I think I could identify with their two-dimensional characters. All children are two-dimensional. They are idiots!
Does anyone find Charlie Brown (I'm not calling it fucking Peanuts) cartoons funny? Who are these people?
Bar from a few forward-thinking people, I believe that comedy was invented in a lab somewhere, sometime around 1988. In the years before 1988 people laughed at any old shit. Have you ever watched a Carry On film? Shit. Have you ever listened to The Goons? Fucking shit.
Actually, I believe the audiences seen wetting themselves at Peter Sellers doing a funny voice, or Spike Milligan being racist, weren't actually laughing, but showing the characteristics of dying through consumption. People don't die from consumption anymore, and are unaware that one of the symptoms was laughing like you were being tickled by a furry octopus.
In Victorian times the most common causes of death were consumption, becoming stuck in a chimney and imperialism.
Consumption was finally cured in 1980 by the use of drainpipe jeans.
(when did TB get rebranded anyway? Did it have a new logo designed at high cost by a bunch of marketing twats?)

Victorian Ice - British Sea Power

Oooh, I like this record. As the lyrics themselves say, It is 'totally wicked, and equally ace'. It makes you want to sway your head and tap your foot. This is a sign of approval for music, yet not for sad films. If you admire a sad film then you shouldn't be tapping your foot and swaying your head. That is just weird, and for a film like Schindler's List, rather inappropriate. You sick fuck.

Karen - The National

Ah, what a beautiful way to finish. I can't stop listening to this whole album, it's gracefully majestic. The lyrics to 'Karen' are rather crude and may be unsuitable for minors. Unless you're one of those bohemian parents who doesn't mind their children listening to or watching filth. I knew a kid called Terry who was allowed to read porno mags in front of his mum. That's not right. I'd feign sleep or ignorance if I was watching TV with my parents and some rutting happened. Jesus, I felt uncomfortable seeing adverts for sanitary towels round my parents. There's no way that I'd get out Razzle whilst having fish fingers and chips.in front of Grange Hill.
Anyway, this is a boss song by a great band.