Thursday, August 18, 2005
Sound and Noise
American Indie is the only pop music currently being made worth listening to.
Punk is corporate, hip hop is disappearing into itself like a dog turning on its own tail, dance is dead, British Indie is a worse state than at the nadir of Britpop. Heavy metal is off the radar, except for greatest hits tours by very old men like the members of Motley Crue (who on their last tour, and on their last album (a Greatest Hits, naturally) covered 'Anarchy in the UK'- a moment of sublime horror that in itself signals the final end of 'punk' as a meaningful term when discussing music).
Even chart music, traditionally the last flicker of light in the search for surprising perfection, has miscarried. Where are the gulity delights even of Busted's 'Air Hostess' or Kylie's 'Slow' or Christina's 'Beautiful'? What do we have? The appropriately named James Blunt; The Kaiser Chiefs and Craig David and the Black Eyed Peas...
Compare with these destitute lands a country which produces a new Death Cab for Cutie album this month, a Tilly and the Wall tour this summer, the Mountain Goats' 'Sunset Tree' (album of the year already) in the spring, Bright Eyes, The Shins, Say Hi To Your Mom, Explosions in the Sky.
American Indie is the only music currently being made that, after listening to it, doesn't make you a slightly worse person than you were before you started. Thucydides said it first: 'They have the numbers, we the heights'...
Punk is corporate, hip hop is disappearing into itself like a dog turning on its own tail, dance is dead, British Indie is a worse state than at the nadir of Britpop. Heavy metal is off the radar, except for greatest hits tours by very old men like the members of Motley Crue (who on their last tour, and on their last album (a Greatest Hits, naturally) covered 'Anarchy in the UK'- a moment of sublime horror that in itself signals the final end of 'punk' as a meaningful term when discussing music).Even chart music, traditionally the last flicker of light in the search for surprising perfection, has miscarried. Where are the gulity delights even of Busted's 'Air Hostess' or Kylie's 'Slow' or Christina's 'Beautiful'? What do we have? The appropriately named James Blunt; The Kaiser Chiefs and Craig David and the Black Eyed Peas...Compare with these destitute lands a country which produces a new Death Cab for Cutie album this month, a Tilly and the Wall tour this summer, the Mountain Goats' 'Sunset Tree' (album of the year already) in the spring, Bright Eyes, The Shins, Say Hi To Your Mom, Explosions in the Sky.
American Indie is the only music currently being made that, after listening to it, doesn't make you a slightly worse person than you were before you started. Thucydides said it first: 'They have the numbers, we the heights'...
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Stop Scotsport Petition
The atrocities continue...Vote here to put an end to the suffering of innocent football fans of all denominations in the STV and Grampian regions.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Dancer!
UPDATED- Here are the highlights of the Falkirk game and a few more bits and pieces here... Also, view brief footage of Jamie Smith's ripper today against Rangers by clicking here.That feeling you have when you're thinking 'last bottle of beer, better make this one last', then you open the fridge and you've got one one more bottle.
Look at this... and turn the music up loud.
Tell me with a straight face you didn't shed a tear while watching that...
Otherwise- Nakamura did well, put in a devastating cross for Hartson's equaliser, and there will be updates as they arrive...
This is probably the greatest rock 'n' roll song of the last five years...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)