Dec 11, 2011, 5:56am
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2001 on selle postituse järjekorranumber. Järgmine tuhat jälle alustatud. Läbi aegade pikim paus kahe postituse vahel saab ka lõpetatud praeguseks. Ei julge veel lubada tavapärase sageduse taastumist, aga midagi nüüd ikka aeg-ajalt tuleb ja rassime ikka edasi blogi viienda sünnipäevani välja ning sealr edasi ka. Kuna siinkirjutaja rassib veel viimaseid jõupingutusi aasta albumite valimisega (see nimekiri läheb küll ühte paberväljaandese, aga eks ma annan siin ka teada), vaatan vahelduse mõttes ajas tagasi. Minu viimaste DJ-settide üks tõsisemaid hitte on see olnud ka muide. Lõpulähedane lugu. The Wannadies - You & Me Song [...]
Life at the moment is hectic for Pearl and the Puppets frontwoman, Katie Sutherland, as her career has seemed to explode in recent months after a change of management. She is currently recording her debut album, and is gigging across the UK to promote it and we at Crack in the Road managed to catch her before her performance in Dundee headlining Abertay University's freshers week. As usual, the Dundee crowd was sub-par (see my other reviews in Dundee, its all the same) which is miles away from the crowds she has performed in front of [...]
After self-pity comes bitterness; here are three prime musical examples, especially recommended if you like your Swedes bitter. And trust me, if you've ever been dumped (as I'm sure most of us will have at one time or another) you'll not hear a more staisfying, or indeed better, bitter song all year than Lucky You . Let the catharsis commence. The Wannadies - Lucky You mp3 Hello Saferide - Last Bitter Song mp3 The Bear Quartet - What's Your Virtue? mp3
In het kader van mijn stage zat ik afgelopen donderdag aan tafel met de Zweedse schone Amanda Jenssen. Haar platenmaatschappij Sony had een bloggerslunch georganiseerd waar ik samen met een collega de bloggers voor had geregeld. Natuurlijk eet ik dan zelf ook mee. Amanda werd in 2007 tweede bij de plaatselijke Idols en heeft sindsdien in Zweden al een paar hits op haar naam staan. Ze vindt het tijd (of eigenlijk vind haar label het tijd, heb ik het idee) om Europa te gaan veroveren met haar 'Gangster-Jazz', zoals ze het zelf noemt. Denk hierbij aan Caro Emerald [...]
Neil Hannon siger den 31 maj, måske, farvel til sin OBE, når Divine Comedy udsender deres tiende album, "Bang Goes the Knighthood". Albummet, hvis cover uden sammenligning er det mindst selvhøjtidelige Divine Comedy cover til dato, indeholder 12 numre, blandt andet The Perfect Banker , Assume the Perpendicular og en næsten garanteret fremtidig Frekvens favorit, At The Indie Disco . For pokker, den namedropper både Morrissey, Pixies og Wannadies! Netop At The Indie Disco er singleforløberen og udkommer på mandag. Den kan dog smuglyttes ved et [...]
There's been a conspicuous lack of a) Swedish acts and b) quirky cover versions featured on this blog recently. So here are some Swedish acts performing quirky cover versions. Now I can't say fairer than that. (Damned speech impediment!) The featured songs were originally made famous by: Depeche Mode, Bonnie Tyler and Lady Saw. Oh alright, so I've never heard of that last one either. But if you've ever wondered what an all-female a cappella choir tackling a Jamaican dancehall number would sound like (and I'd be astonished if you hadn't, frankly), here's your chance to find [...]
I'm not a fan of end-of-year lists or end-of-decade lists or, really, any lists in general. However, my contract with the Music Blogger's Union stipulates that I'm required to go through the same motions that every other music blogger goes through at this time of year. So yeah, there's gonna be an album of the year post and an album of the decade post and maybe a song of the year post and all that other garbage. It might be spread out over a couple days or I might just lump it all into one big post just to get [...]
The Wannadies - You And Me Song (Lounge Version)
Big Country Inwards appears on The Crossing Modern English A Viable Commercial appears on Mesh & Lace The Sound The Fire appears on From The Lion's Mouth The Wannadies [...]
Swedish indie classic ahoy! It's The Wannadies' 1990 gem My Home Town ... And here's Min Hemstad , a Swedish language cover of the very same song from Annika 'Hello Saferide' Norlin's other project Säkert (which, thanks to having known and liked the Wannadies' version for years, now becomes the first Säkert song I've ever understood the lyrics to!) The Wannadies - My Home Town mp3 The Säkert version of the song can be found on the new Razzia Records [...]
One of my favourite bands that I dont feature too often round here are The Wannadies , a fabulous pop outfit who hailed from Skelleftea , a small town in northern Sweden. Formed in 1988, they sadly announced their break-up earlier this year (some six years after they last released any material), but looking on the bright side, we have been left behind a small but damn near perfect back catalogue of seven studio albums. But where the band [...]
It's been an extremely long week (so long, in fact, that it became two weeks), and I'm still feeling a little crabby because I came down with a cold last weekend in the midst of a heatwave in a house with no air conditioning. A few days later, I ended up with some extremely vomitous backpain (if this is me at 26, I may as well call it quits at 30). I'm also just feeling bogged down with work, so I'm going to do a cheer up mix. Frankly, I despise people who tell me to cheer up or smile [...]
The Wannadies - Someone Somewhere The Opening Acts
Both of the songs for today's chapter of my 1000 Minutes project were featured on soundtracks in the late nineties, and are the only exposure I've had to the artists. While that may be a poor reflection on me as a music lover, it's really more of a reflection on the amount of money I had in 1996 and 1998, when I was 17/19 – which is to say, not much at all. 45. David Garza – Slave (mp3) from This Euphoria (3:23) [Time Remaining: 758:51] [...]
Artery Music Genre: Country / Indie / Folk From: Iceland The Devil's inbox is bombarded each day with emails from young bands, starving artists, PR companies, record labels, Nigerians with an offer that sounds too good to be true and companies who can apparently guarantee an erection that lasts all night! But amongst the detritus of the information super highway there's usually one jewel that makes it all worthwhile. Icelandic musical collective (bands [...]
A bar in Spain has come up with an unusual marketing plan for these recessionary times. Customers at the Casa Pocho bar in Cullera, southern Spain, are encouraged to come in for a drink and to insult the staff while they're at it. Free drinks will be given to patrons who can come up with novel or humorous ways of verbally abusing the bar staff. To be frank, I experience this every time I go to The Abbey Bar in Galbally , Co Limerick. The customers are often quite explicit and forthright in their criticisms and demands [...]
Par Lagerkvist Låt min skugga försvinna i din. Låt mig förlora mig självunder de stora träden. De som själva förlorar sin krona i skymningen, överlämnar sig åt himmelen och natten. Let my shadow disappear into yours. Let me lose myself under the tall trees, that themselves lose their crowns in the twilight, surrendering themselves to the sky and the night. mp3 : The Wannadies - The Beast Cures The Lover Cheers adam x TODAY'S [...]
Today's first three covers are dancefloor fillers, songs guaranteed to bring mayhem in your local Indie Disco night. It's Northern Lite 's cover of QOTSA Go With The Flow backed up with Cyanna 's Like Fire (originally by The Dubrovniks ) and The Wannadies ' take on the Violent Femmes classic Blister In The Sun . The last track is the perfect way to end a party, ie. send people home relaxed, chilled out and with a smile upon their faces. It's The Killers ' signature [...]
Today's first three covers are dancefloor fillers, songs guaranteed to bring mayhem in your local Indie Disco night. It's Northern Lite 's cover of QOTSA Go With The Flow backed up with Cyanna 's Like Fire (originally by The Dubrovniks ) and The Wannadies ' take on the Violent Femmes classic Blister In The Sun . The last track is the perfect way to end a party, ie. send people home relaxed, chilled out and with a smile upon their faces. It's The Killers ' signature [...]
I suspect you'd assumed it had already happened, but it turns out that The Wannadies hadn't actually split up before today. Today they did, though . It perhaps says a lot about how far the tide of fashion had swept by them that the news was broken exclusively by, erm, Teletext.
Crack In The Road
Too Much Apple Pie
Duurt Lang
Frekvens
The Opening Acts
Goldkicks
THE VINYL VILLAIN
Condemned to Rock 'N Roll
Tympanogram
The Devil Has The Best Tuna
A Town Full of Losers
Bynar's Indie Disco
No Rock And Roll Fun
Out This Week 2/14
Diplo - "Climax" (MP3 Stream)
Jackback Feat. David Guetta & Nicky Romero – Wild One Two
Skrillex Uses Satanic and Homosexual Influence to Win Grammys
