Having previously extolled the amazingness of Veronica Falls on this very blog, my love craze has reached fever pitch on the eve of seeing them live with the amazing Vivian Girls and Blue on Blue. Their Beachy Head with it’s moaning, crashing guitars and sweet chirping vocals, has all the trade marks of the place itself – a scenic spot with the highest recorded numbers of suicides in the world (a lot of which is due to ’since records began’ as the Golden gate bridge is a strong modern contender for the title).
It has me swooning for my days as the only goth in the village as a teenager in Eastbourne. I used to take visits to Beachy Head and sit on the donated dedication benches, scribbling in my diaries every piece of thought minutiae that popped into my head. It’s only now as a grown up that I can appreciate how amazing Eastbourne is in a way – in fact, I may do a guide to the best spots in Eastbourne for people interested in a cheap day trip; but in the meantime enjoy V. Falls dedication to it’s most famous landmark!
I’ve been trying to find some alternative music to post after my GAGA-frenzy but I’ve been completely distracted by all the amazing new pop music that’s come out! If you don’t love the pop, firstly you’re dead inside and secondly, don’t download these as they’re totally pop-alicious!
My favourite by miles is Hole in the head which from what I understand is just a bonus track – WHY!? I think that it’s better than most of the tracks on the new album. My least favourite is J-lo’s new offering which I find pleasant to listen to but doesn’t get my pulse racing – but the fact that she labours over the PART TIME LOVER lyric lols me inside. Notable mentions also go out to Timbaland’s “What I like is a lady who can hold her liquor/What I like is a man making more than 6 figures” and Shontelle’s “El, eye, licky, see, kay, licky why?“.
I’ve always loved the hits of Lady Saw (the first Lady of Dancehall – her full title) but it was only the other day I was Spotifying her and came across this amazing oddity.
I’m completely addicted to it’s bizarre lo-fi production and her amazing chanting vocal and have been incoherently trying to sing it in my head for days.
Obviously, because it’s dancehall and I’m the king of the dweebs, I don’t have a clue what’s she’s saying except for a smattering of words and phrases (stand outs include “just a little boy” and then something about little boys having big trees which might be rude(?), “dark dreamy eyes”, and of course “Got a Strange feeling” – if anyone can find me the full lyrics, it’d make me very happy).
I’m coincidentally obsessed with both of these classics at the moment – I think when twinned together, the Dee Dee Sharp sounds super filthy! I think I’ll try playing both together at the next Unskinny Bop and see what happens – scenes of unparalleled dancing insanity no doubt!! Haha!
I never really ‘got’ the whole faux-insanity of Gaga. I saw her interviewed a few times around the explosion of hype following ‘Just Dance’ and just thought she came across like a try-hard twat. You know the kind of douche you see wandering around the Old Blue Last with a fucking Tesco bag over their face or something, spitting baked beans out on stage to a show tune and calling it ‘art’.
Anyway, one night of J-Creep singing Poker Face at me over and over again got me thinking; this song is utter pop perfection, it feels a little bit wrong but I can no longer resist. And my god I need more! Next thing I know Bad Romance has surfaced and us Creeps all lapped it up immediately, so bizarre and nonsensical and catchy, kind of like Poker Face’s fucked up, Rasputin-loving darker twin. So what if it sounds similar? There could be ten Poker Face copycat tracks released in the next few months and I would love each and every one of them like they were my first born.
So today the video for the track was finally unleashed online and I’m quite hysterical about it. Like I’m sitting in an office right now dreaming of prising my eyes apart with matchsticks, dyeing my hair ginge-pink and running away to join the Haus Of Gaga.
It feels like when I first saw Madonna’s Human Nature video. So bold and strange and dark and sexy, I can’t take my eyes off it. I don’t want to go through some lame analysis of each Gaga ‘look’ – I could you know, at length – but I’ll just say this: Marilyn Manson’s Mechanical Animals in an über-glam mental asylum. She’s thrown down the gauntlet with this one. Is there another pop star out there right now who could come up with something as mind-blowingly awesome as this? I doubt it.
London based Trailer Trash Tracys are another girl-fronted band with the trashed lo-fi sound which I LOVE! Playing lots of cool gigs coming up – check.it.out.
On a blog, someone described these as ‘post-punk buzz-thump’ which I love, and with my inability to describe genres I’ll just use that! It’s everything I loved about 90s band Jonathan Fire*eater (who I posted below!)
OLD SKOOL. I discovered these and a lot of other great bands on the Deceptive Fifty compilation released back in 1998 (more info here) and was reminded of them when I heard Eddy Current Suppression Ring. Drunken yells and trashy instrumentation along with interesting lyrics. LOVES ITS.
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