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.
I’m always having nerdy debates with the boy Creeps about vocals. They sit firmly on the lady side of the fence whereas I err more on the side of boys. It’s a beautiful thing really, as we were clearly made for each other as DJs.
So in the spirit of new boy stuff I thought I’d share with you some lovely music I’ve been listening to lately:
From ‘Why There Are Mountains’, the band’s totally excellent debut album. I’ve been listening to this record a LOT. It reminds of me Pavement but more exciting. It’s super scratchy, woozy, punchy wow.
Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t See Land
Me and the boys had a bit of a wobble over whether we should book Frightened Rabbit for GHOST SCHOOL once. I think they weren’t right for our night ultimately so we did A GOOD in not having them but that doesn’t stop me being totally swoons about them still. New album is on the way next year (YES) and ‘Swim Until You Can’t See Land’ is the delicious first taster from it.
Right so Royal Bangs are totally awesome and I don’t understand why more people haven’t cottoned on to this yet. ‘Let It Beep’ is their second album due in November and here is one of my favourite tracks from it performed live!
They’re playing The Fly Bar in London on 23rd November which is mega tiny so see you there?
They are the world’s first ever Yorkshire/Oklahoma based band and they’re a bit like a cult. Live shows have seen them asking the audience to chop off their hair and clothes throughout the set and paint them in emulsion, and they have also faked the death of one of their members complete with a real coffin and, erm, conducted an interview with god. Musically this track is a bit like The Beta Band meets The Big Pink and it’s taken from their ‘Yes!’ EP. Album on the way in 2010…
Finally a bit of electronic music, just to keep A-Creep happy! Baby Monster are a Eugene Oregon duo about to release their debut single ‘Ultra Violence and Beethoven’ on 50 Bones Records, which has put out stuff by The Virgins, Little Boots, We Have Band, Primary 1 and Creep favourites Mickey Gang.
After what seems like an eternity without any good pop music (feels like since Single Ladies!) three tracks have come out that I LOVE! I’ve posted them in order of their excellence, although I have to say the Sugababes track is 1,000 leagues below the Lady Gaga! The way I love it is purely love ‘em and leave ‘em.
I was SO excited infact that I created the logo below! I was thinking how amazing having a club called Monsters of Pop would be but then I found a foreign festival already has that name… maybe they wouldn’t mind! Anyway enough rambling!
(For those of you who HATE waiting for downloads from hosting sites and use FireFox, I can’t recommend this SkipScreen Add-On enough.)
Pre-Halloween horror movie references ABOUND! I’m absolutely in love with Willow’s Song although, I understand it may be a bit folksy for most – plus the song’s derived a lot of it’s magic and power from the above scene from Wicker Man. It’s still beautiful!
(Oh and those familiar with the Sneaker Pimps‘ first album may know this song as ‘How Do‘ – and those who think I’m a loser referencing the first Sneaker Pimps album can suck my left one – haha!).
CARRIE! One of the best horrors of all time is having a screening out our favourite queer venue of the moment, Dalston Superstore and we, The Creeps will be there – here’s a deets:
Second Chance Cinema presents a FREE screening of Brian De Palma’s ‘Carrie’ (1976) to welcome in Halloween on Wednesday, 28 October at the Dalston Superstore (117 Kingsland Road E8 not more than a few minutes walk from Dalston Junction in Hackney).
Free popcorn, free of attitude, prizes and very polysexual. Doors open at 7pm and the film starts at 8pm.
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