Dub

Heavily getting into Dub at the moment.

Playlist 2- Packing

I'm packing to go back to uni today. It's pretty damn stressful. Here is a playlist, nothing new again, just some well-worn songs:

http://open.spotify.com/user/oojimaflop/playlist/4BcW2DulSaR9fdKTSyrrmC

Packing

1. 3rd Planet- Modest Mouse
2. Love You Better- The Maccabees
3. You Know You're Right- Nirvana
4. The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret- Queens Of The Stone age
5. VCR- The XX
6. We Tigers- Animal Collective
7. Suffer For Fashion- of Montreal
8. Walking The Cow- Daniel Johnston
9. Exit Music (For A Film)- Radiohead

xx

Old slippers.

Isn't re-listening to an old album that you used to be semi-obsessed with just like slipping on a pair of knackered slippers?

Debate.

Sorry about the longish radio silence.

Only a short message.

Nirvana's You Know You're Right is one of the greatest songs ever. Discuss.

The XX

I'm not one for hype really, it seems to have the opposite effect on me. But even I couldn't ignore the hype surrounding The xx any longer. "same school as burial, Four Tet and Hot Chip"; "combines sensibilities of american R&B and British eighties alternative music"; "Yadda, Yadda, Yadda". Determined to hate them, I gave them a listen.

Wow.

Somewhat surprisingly, given the reviews I have read, the most immediate thing that hit me was the way the rhythm guitar works on their tracks, kind of slow and repetitive not indifferent to Interpol.

Then there is the way the Male and Female vocalists interchange their lines and melodies. check the final verse of Crystalised for a case in point http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pib8eYDSFEI

so yeah, this review has turned a bit shit. Still check them out, lovely.

I'm away for a week so see you same time next week dearies

xxx

Silver Jews

\CBA today.

Everyone go buy Silver Jews- American Water.

seriously do

kthxbyes

Last.fm

I love Last.fm in an anoraky-circlejerky kind of way.

I don't care that the owners of the site probably sell the details of my scrobbles to a giant advertising agency, in order for them to rigorously profile me and shove me into a niche demographic - all it takes is a cheeky day spent listening to 50's Gospel Music to change computer game and iPhone adverts into Stena stairlift ones.

I find this all of little matter when I get a small 5cm x 5cm table that details everything I have listened to since 2.34pm, 26th April 1982. I also like the way the artists you think you have been listening to often differ to those you have actually been listening to.

Here's mine: http://www.last.fm/user/oojimaflop, feel free to add me as a friend do we can both perve upon and judge each other's music tastes.

Chow! x

Or shall we laminate ourselves into a standard advertising position?

In fact stuff that, I have all the time in the world- I'm a frickin student afterall.

lets get this straight first of all, I don't have a list fetish, i just want to list my current top 5 bands as of September 09. Wonder how much this will differ at the end of the year.

1. Why?
2. Animal Collective (me and everyone else on the internet)
3. Jamie T
4. Deerhunter (again, me and everyone else on the internet)
5. cLOUDDEAD

Peace and toast xx

Daniel Johnston

Only time for a quick hello today.

Just bought tickets for Daniel Johnston gig in Bristol. Excited to say the least.

If you haven't heard him here is one of my favourite songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNXTh4A4uS0

Simply childlike and beautiful

byeeees x

Playlist 1 Standard fair.

I'll be featuring Spotify playlists made by me. Here is one I made for my cousin. All my playlists are made to be around 8-14 songs long, perfect "album" listening length. This one isn't particularly adventurous, all are well known, in some cases over-blogged, songs.

http://open.spotify.com/user/oojimaflop/playlist/1QXqegzqTlKZE6Ly7LG0Wq

Standard fair

1. Good Friday- Why?
2. Loser- Beck
3. Life's a Bitch- Nas
4. Float on- Modest Mouse
5. Damaged Goods- Gang of Four
6. Obstacle 1- Interpol
7. Glasgow Mega-Snake- Mogwai
8. Back To School (Mini-Maggit)- Deftones
9. Never Stops- Deerhunter
10. Brothersport- Animal Collective

ingest and enjoy.
x

Leeds Festival 09

So over the weekend I made my third annual visit to the better half of the eponymous Reading and Leeds Weekend.

I won't start a dull, plodding review of every band I saw, instead I'll pick out my high and lowpoints.

High Points

1. Radiohead. The light show was astonishing. The sound was pitch perfect(although don't tell the 'fans' over at http://www.ateaseweb.com/ this, live music is for the people who are there, not for a bunch of grey eyed sofa-masturbaters to pick apart every note of from the comfort of their living room wank-den.). To be honest I had slipped out of love with this band after a dissapointing gig at Victoria Park, London, last year. I am now back in love.
   
2. Jamie T. In a way that cannot be properly described, Jamie T's music encapsulates truly what it is to be young, lost and drunk in the UK in the early 21st century. His live show does this justice. Energy, Intelligence, joy and all from a guy who looks like he once mugged you at the bus stop.
   
3. Rumours and stories. Hearing from a friend's friend who was working on first aid about a girl who got stuck half way in the long drop toilets whilst trying to retrieve her purse.
   
4. Vampire Weekend. The sun was shining and this is sunny music, played particularly well. Also the new songs sounded catchy and fun.
   
5. Them Crooked Vultures. So yeah, I am probably boasting but there are three reasons why, despite me knowing none of their songs, Them Crooked Vultures were one of the highlights. Firstly, there was the excitement of seeing the gap in the programme and speculating whilst running, as to who the secret band could be. Secondly there was the atmosphere, the crowd chanting Dave Grohl's name and thirdly there was the sheer tightness of the band, all three principal members are masters of their instruments. I am excited to hear more.
6. More beer than is even right.
7. Gallows. Frank Carter is a prick, yet in the best possible way. I want to shake his hand for being such an utter prick or knight him for services to prickhood. His anger during his gigs is immense, mainly for its lack of direction. The kind of anger a little yorkshire terrier has. This, plus the skill and musical arrangements behind Carter's lyrics and the pure unbridled violence of the crowd makes Gallows a must-see band.

Low points (no bands, just things that pissed me off)

1. A certain type of person, of a certain age, of a certain gender, doing certain things. When i was eighteen and attending my first Festival, I don't recall taking any joy in circle jerking over a massive forest fire built up of deck chairs, tents, gas canisters and tins of baked beans. N.B. to anyone who is 17/18/, Male and a complete Idiot. Your stunts aren't hilarious, and they especially won't get you laid with anyone other than a girl so fucked that she can't tell the difference a hot dog and your flacid tiny cock.
2. The sound. Some of the bands; Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Passion Pit, and The Maccabees being cases in point, sounded like their music was being engineered by a particularly attention defecited, unintelligent four year old and played through 12 pairs of wet socks that had been stretched over the face of the speakers. Eugh.
3. Throwing up a lot. 'Nuff said really.

Peace and Hotcakes xx

Our Name.

"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit"

Hunter S. Thompson, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.