PETER, BJORN & JOHN NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT After an average instrumental album, this will be seen as the first real PB&J album since the great "Writer's Block". Of course, everybody knew that they wouldn't make another "Young Folks". In a way, I'm glad they didn't - though "Young Folks" was an awesome song with ridiculously catchy hooks, it became so overplayed, so overcommercialised, and this
WAVVES SO BORED The blogs I've seen that have been hyping up Wavves have all had different things to say. Noise pop, surf rock, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine. Of course, anything that is compared to My Bloody Valentine at all is worth checking out in my book. If "So Bored" does bring MBV to mind, it's the MBV that brought out the "You Made Me Realise" EP, and "Isn't Anything", and it
HEARTSREVOLUTION ULTRAVIOLENCE Two words will probably come to mind when listening to "Ultraviolence": 1. Crystal 2. Castles They're an electronic duo. One boy. One girl. Distorted vocals. But strangely that's most of the similarities they share. I think that, if it wasn't for the use of distorted vocals in this song, Heartsrevolution would only of had half as many comparisons to Crystal
LATE OF THE PIER FANTASY BLACK CHANNEL Late Of The Pier have been around since 2001 but nobody ever really paid any attention to them. Well, until 2007, when they released their debut single, "Space And The Woods". And then in 2008 they released this much-anticipated album in the UK. And now "Fantasy Black Channel" is being released in the US too. One noticeable thing about F.B.C. is that it
HER SPACE HOLIDAY XOXO, PANDA & THE NEW KID REVIVAL Whereas Her Space Holiday, aka Marc Bianchi, used to specialise in indietronic music about how upsetting the world was, his latest album, 2008's "XOXO, Panda & The New Kid Revival", focuses on more folky, twee songs. "XOXO..." isn't a bad record. It's just that the majority of it is overshadowed by either a lack of anything interesting, or the
BEYONCE - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) + Remixes Here's Beyonce's much-loved single, "Single Ladies", with some pretty cool remixes too. My favourite remix is probably the We Love Musik one - although it doesn't sound as polished as the other two it has a lot of different ideas. Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) (Brad Walsh Remix)
Here is the Made-Up Blog #43 Ultimate-Blog-Album-List-of-20 08! We looked at as many blogs' best of lists as possible, and created this: the ultimate list. If anybody has any arguments, you shouldn't have! After all, it was chosen by YOU! ----- 1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 2. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 3. TV On The Radio - Dear Science 4. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago 5. Portishead -
Here is the Made-Up Blog #43 Ultimate-Blog-Album-List-of-20 08! We looked at as many blogs' best of lists as possible, and created this: the ultimate list. If anybody has any arguments, you shouldn't have! After all, it was chosen by YOU! ----- 1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 2. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 3. TV On The Radio - Dear Science 4. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago 5. Portishead -
25. SHE & HIM - Volume One24. ELBOW - The Seldom Seen Kid23. SIGUR ROS - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust22. GRAND ARCHIVES - The Grand Archives21. The HOLD STEADY - Stay Positive20. GUILLEMOTS - Red19. CSS - Donkey18. TV ON THE RADIO - Dear Science17. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular16. CRYSTAL CASTLES - Crystal Castles15. ELLE MILANO - Acres Of Dead Space Cadets14. FORWARD, RUSSIA! - Life
These are the first five albums in my countdown of my favourite albums of 2008. I might've written a bit much and rambled a bit too, but that's because I never had the chance to review these records in the first place.#25: SHE & HIM - Volume OneShe & Him, the collaboration between actress Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, is one that I never thought I would really be all that interested in. Then,
HONOURABLE MENTIONSBE YOUR OWN PET - Get AwkwardBLITZEN TRAPPER - FurrBON IVER - For Emma, Forever AgoFLEET FOXES - Fleet FoxesThe GASLIGHT ANTHEM - The '59 SoundHOT CHIP - Made In The DarkM83 - Saturdays=YouthThe METROS - More Money Less GriefNEON NEON - Stainless StyleNO AGE - NounsWOLF PARADE - At Mount ZoomerDISAPPOINTING ALBUMSThese are not the albums I think were the worst albums of the
Before we start the top ten countdown, here's a few songs that might've made it onto the list if I'd heard them in time: The GASLIGHT ANTHEM - The '59 Sound, The HOLD STEADY - Sequestered In Memphis, M83 - Graveyard Girl, SHE & HIM - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here.#10: DAN LeSAC vs SCROOBIUS PIP - Letter To God From ManGreat song from a largely disappointing album. Any song that samples Radiohead
#20: BE YOUR OWN PET - BeckyI'm sure most people know the story to this song - this and a few others were removed from Be Your Own Pet's US release of "Get Awkward" (their second, and final, studio album) for being too violent. Which was a shame because it was the best song on the album. Then they realised how good it was, and released these songs as an EP. And everyone,well, a lot of people,
#30: NEON NEON - I Told Her On Alderaan An unexpected collaboration between producer Boom Bip and Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys gave us Neon Neon, who produced one of the most quirky (and consistent) albums of 2008. "I Told Her On Alderaan" was the obvious choice for being included in this list though; I would even go as far as to say it's my favourite of any Gruff Rhys song (Super
So, we at Made-Up Blog #43 have finally finished our "best of" lists. This will be a compilation of our favourite songs, with only one rule: ONE SONG PER ARTIST ONLY! (This was to make sure it wasn't completely dominated by my favourite artists). The albums list will follow soon, along with, hopefully, the Ultimate Blog Albums Of 2008 List, in which we will try to compile the favourite albums of
PORTISHEAD - The Rip As with the Cut Copy album (which I'm loving more and more everyday), I was a little late to follow the hype surrounding Portishead's third album, the inventively named "Third". On the whole, I'm not as impressed as I thought I'd be judging by the tons of good reviews and inclusions in "best of" album lists. There was one track, however, that I loved. Though for everyone
CUT COPY - Feel The Love OK, OK, so I'm pretty late to start jumping on the bandwagon of people praising Cut Copy's latest album, "In Ghost Colours", but better late than never right? I had listened to Cut Copy before, mainly "Time Stands Still" from their debut album, but though I liked it it never really grabbed me."Feel The Love", on the other hand, really stood out for me. From its laid back
100 BEST TRACKS OF 2008 So, Pitchfork, have completed their 2008 best tracks list. It's a bit of a mixed bag, in my opinion, there's a lot of great songs up there but also some quite odd choices. But then again, maybe that's a good thing? Nothing interesting in a list of predictable songs. Here's the top ten: 10: Estelle featuring Kanye West - American Boy 9: Portishead - Machine Gun 8: Air
LILY ALLEN - The Fear So, a new Lily Allen song! Always worth a look. And this song is no exception. "The Fear" is slightly different from anything from her debut album, and it seems that Lily has grown up a bit. Yep, actually grown up! Well, for the chorus (which oddly includes some kind of synthesised panpipes). Fortunately, she's still kept her tongue-in-cheek cynicism for the verses to mock
CHRISTIAN FALK featuring Robyn - Dream On Christian Falk? Who's he? Well, according to Wikipedia, he's a "Swedish music producer". So now you know!Well, whoever he is, he's made a great song with Robyn (this is probably my favourite song out of anything Robyn's done). And it has a clever video to boot.ENJOY! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v= ypQtJ8z6q5o
Made-Up Blog #43
The Shins: “September” (b-side of “Simple Song” 7”)
St. Vincent - 'Cheerleader'
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as In Paris (Explicit)
OK Go - Needing/Getting - Official Video
Ladyhawke - Black White & Blue
Childish Gambino - "Heartbeat" (Official Music Video)
James Blake – Live Album
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