Living through a decade really helps when you're looking for music during it. The list of artists I want to include isn't endless, but it doesn't end here. So had I the time or patience I could easily have done another episode, but well I don't. To all those great artists out there that I missed, you know who you are, keep on loving yourself. Now just because I lived through it, doesn't mean I got to know all the music along the way. In fact had it been left purely up to me my knowledge would undoubtedly be limited [...]
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Last week, I made my first purchase of an actual CD in its box for 2007. In 2006, I didn't buy very many actual CDs, but instead downloaded quite a few from iTunes. But this was such a great album, I had to have it in my hands. The Good, The Bad, and The Queen are a musical supergroup, consisting of former Blur frontman Damon Albarn, former Verve guitarist Simon Tong, former Clash bassist Paul Simonen, Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, and producer extraordinaire Danger Mouse. Their debut self-titled album was released in the US in [...]
Blondes week is over. Non-fiction week begins! I Do Not Outwardly Share This Affliction by Andrew Zornoza My grandfather died in August of 2005. I flew right out there (to Spain) because in that country the body can be interred for no more than two days. I have heard it is the same in Italy. My grandfather was a Brigadier General in the Spanish Air Force. He looked tremendously like Picasso, though his stare had [...]
Oooh this is a bit special. At least I think it is. But then, I think I may have mentioned my love of The Verve before. Though I don't think I've ever mentioned that 'A Northern Soul' is one of my most favourite ever albums. But it is. If I were the kind of person to make such grand claims, I'd probably say something about it changing my life. But I'm not, so I won't. All I'll say is that if you don't own it, go buy it . It'll change [...]
Apologies for a couple things: *Brief absence at the end of last week - a lot of travelling around meant severely little time to upload tracks/fill you in on musings. *Lack of a Toussaint update. My interview was postponed due to scheduling conflicts. I don't think I need to tell you who's the busier of us two. It will come soon enough, hopefully. *My promise 2 weeks ago that this blog wouldn't go all "World Wide of Sports" on you. It just turned out that January's been pretty prevalent for yours truly in the [...]
I've been shoveling snow all afternoon and holy moley -- it is tough. Gratifying and good hard work, but I have an oozing blister on my thumb and I think my arms and legs may actually fall off. We're going out for (several) margaritas after my hours of no-joking slave labor, then over to some friends' house to ring in 2007. Last year I posted up a New Year's mix , and I was listening to it while assembling [...]
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I first heard of The Verve around the same time most people in the US did: upon the release of 1997's Urban Hymns . The album was a space rock masterpiece that both launched The Verve into public consciousness and simultaneously spelled the end of the band. The first song on the album, Bitter Sweet Symphony, is probably the only song that the band is really remembered for, and it still gets decent airplay on radio stations. However, since the band chose to use a sample from a Rolling Stones song and the holders of the [...]
The first studio release from The Verve (way before Richard Ashcroft went solo, started sampling Curtis Mayfield, and volunteering at youth centers in a drunken haze) was the self-titled EP in 1992 (on Hut Records ). It's a swirly, ethereal bit of Brit-rock shoegaze history. There are five songs on this EP, which clocks in at a lengthy 31 minutes (thanks to songs like the ten-minute opus "Feel"). Four of the 5 songs [...]
For today's monday morning b-side, we have Richard Ashcroft's solo acoustic demo of The Verve classic "The Drugs Don't Work," from 1997 single of the same name. It's always interesting to hear a demo and see where a song started, and how it changed between its initial creation and the finished product. That's especially true for this, a standout track from one of the great albums of the 90s. Most of the main elements are there, though the lyrics did some evolving between this and the album version. [...]
Well, it looks like we in Central Florida are in the direct path of Ernesto which is officially a Tropical Storm. The weather dudes are predicting a max. of 50 mile/hr winds and a ton of rain. Thankfully, it isn't a hurricane but if you have lived in Florida then you know it is better to be on the safe side and be prepared. The hurricane season down here extends all the way thru the end of October, early November so this is probably just a start. Let's hope I don't get washed out and swept away... [...]
Sometimes it's nice to come back to music that's familiar to you. I've been listening to so much new music lately that I think i needed a nice break this weekend. So i decided to stay up all night and make a little mix, and as you can see it's very Britpop influenced. Eh, who am I kidding it's completely Britpop. There's stuff here from bands who aren't exactly british but I still consider it Britpop anyways. At one point this is all I would ever listen to, a [...]
The weather god's are not on my side. At approximately 9:17am, the heavens opened and a torrential downpour signalled the beginning of my festival experience. Thankfully, the sky has cleared slightly, sunlight has been sighted and maybe, just maybe V2006 won't be a complete washout. But I daren't tempt fate by talking about it anymore, suffice to say, I'll not be here this weekend as I venture into the depths of Weston Park for music and mud. So please, keep your fingers, toes and anything else crossed in hope that [...]
Girl Talk's Night Ripper , this summer's hot blogness, has inspired many conversations between us music geeks. When I got the CD, I grabbed my pad and paper and started scribbling down every sample that I thought I recognized, however challenging it was. So then I e-mailed Heather of I Am Fuel, You Are Friends and after talking about a collaborative post lo and behold she sent me the wiki link to a list of samples and it made our [...]
PauseRecord. Play. Stop. PauseRecord. This was my life. Monday to Thursday. From 10 to midnight. The graveyeard shift. For around two years. Fingers teetered expectantly, purposefully over the record button. Waiting. Anticipating. Hoping to time it perfectly between a song ending and Mark Radcliffe introducing that night's live band. Sometimes I got it spot on. Sometimes I cut in too late.
Not that he'd be tempted to get anything out of proportion or anything, but Richard Ashcroft has suggested the end of The Verve was akin to somebody dying of cancer . He was grumbling about fans who think he was better when he was in The Verve rather than indulging his increasingly overblown solo stuff ("fans who resent him breaking up the Verve"): "I have no time for those kind of people. People die of cancer, shit happens, a band's a band. You feel stupid when people won't let go - it makes it [...]
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