The first few seconds of any song is usually all you need before uttering "this is shit" or perhaps "this has the potential to not to be shit" what can be make or brake it the first line of the song, and here is a selection of some great opening lines from some indie music
Bonnie "Prince Billy" and Tortoise: Pancho
Pancho.. don't you like me no more?..
Hawksely Workman: Little Tragedies
You bought a gun, cos you though i wouldn't listen..
Shins: One By One All Day
"Howdy, lem," my grandpa said with his eyes closed..
The Postal Service: We Will Become Silhouettes
I've got a cupboard with cans of food, filtered water and pictures of you, and i'm not coming out until this is all over..
Malcolm Middleton: Autumn
Ah, Autumn, You fucking cunt
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Friday, 5 December 2008
Friday, 17 October 2008
Indie Randomness
Sometimes, you have to leave it up to fate to pick the music... Fate in this case is Last.fm's "American indie" music station.
First up was Cat's Blues by Palace Music (otherwise known as Bonnie "Prince" Billy"). As with all his work, it's that kind of nice mellow indie folk sound, but Mr. Billy's voice has a certain distinctiveness... He's no Sun Kil Moon, but he's still worth a listen.
Next, What a Wonderful Man by My Morning Jacket. It's kind of good luck that these guys came up, since I'll be seeing them with Seasick Steve in a few weeks. Weird rock sound, lots of distorted guitars, hardly Alternative Country as Last.fm describes them, but nice anyway. I think it's kind of what Deadstring Brothers would sound like if they got with Rory Gallagher.
Together Somehow. by Lousy Robot. Defiantly as last.fm describes them... "Happy, danceable Post-punk Pop a la The Kinks and The Jam." Now, this is the kind of music that the clubs these days should be playing. If they did, I'm sure I'd dance a lot more.
King Of Spain, Part Two by Galaxie 500. A lot more shoegazy (it's a word now), kind of what I imagine Sigur Rós being if they spoke English, and were from America, but were still somehow Scandinavian.
Finally, after quickly skipping over Smoosh for reasons that become very apparent after about 5 seconds into their song, up comes That's When I Reach For My Revolver by Mission of Burma. Old school post punk from the 1970's. Nothing entirely special, not to say it wasn't good. Perhaps worthy of some more research, but you do have to be in a certain mood (or certain decade) to listen to that type of music.
Indie pictures du jour... Bonnie "Prince" Billy by Pieter Morlion, Belgium's finest Indie photographer. Lousy Robot by Jack Moffett from Albuquerque and Galaxie 500 vinyl by Matt Locke aka "Matlock" who runs an awesome blog.
And so concludes our 15 minutes foray into the world of random indieness. Hope you had fun.
First up was Cat's Blues by Palace Music (otherwise known as Bonnie "Prince" Billy"). As with all his work, it's that kind of nice mellow indie folk sound, but Mr. Billy's voice has a certain distinctiveness... He's no Sun Kil Moon, but he's still worth a listen.
Next, What a Wonderful Man by My Morning Jacket. It's kind of good luck that these guys came up, since I'll be seeing them with Seasick Steve in a few weeks. Weird rock sound, lots of distorted guitars, hardly Alternative Country as Last.fm describes them, but nice anyway. I think it's kind of what Deadstring Brothers would sound like if they got with Rory Gallagher.
Together Somehow. by Lousy Robot. Defiantly as last.fm describes them... "Happy, danceable Post-punk Pop a la The Kinks and The Jam." Now, this is the kind of music that the clubs these days should be playing. If they did, I'm sure I'd dance a lot more.
King Of Spain, Part Two by Galaxie 500. A lot more shoegazy (it's a word now), kind of what I imagine Sigur Rós being if they spoke English, and were from America, but were still somehow Scandinavian.
Finally, after quickly skipping over Smoosh for reasons that become very apparent after about 5 seconds into their song, up comes That's When I Reach For My Revolver by Mission of Burma. Old school post punk from the 1970's. Nothing entirely special, not to say it wasn't good. Perhaps worthy of some more research, but you do have to be in a certain mood (or certain decade) to listen to that type of music.
Indie pictures du jour... Bonnie "Prince" Billy by Pieter Morlion, Belgium's finest Indie photographer. Lousy Robot by Jack Moffett from Albuquerque and Galaxie 500 vinyl by Matt Locke aka "Matlock" who runs an awesome blog.
And so concludes our 15 minutes foray into the world of random indieness. Hope you had fun.
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