Darwin Deez – Bad Day

I love La Blogotheque’s little “Take Away Shows”. A sort of unplugged videos of songs. And I love Darwin Deez. And today Darwin Deez’s newsletter told me they they had made a Take Away Show! Whoho! It’s like a birthday!

 

Sunday Nostalgia: New Order – True Faith

With the Bad Lieutenant contest announced last week, this weekends nostalgia must obviously be New Order. And the it’s obviously True Faith. One of the most unique, weirdest and greatest music videos ever.

 

She & Him – In the Sun

I kinda liked She & Him’s first album, but just kinda. One reason was the fantastically innovative title. “She & Him”. Aha. “Volume 1″. Oh really? That melds with the music wich also lacks imagination. Plus, I resent Zooey Deschanel for being multi-talented and good looking. It’s unfair.

Their new single “In the Sun” isn’t breaking any rules either. But it’s damn catchy, and the video is really cute, so I’m prepared to change my mind.

 

Make a video contest: Bad Lieutenant – Twist of Fate

Yesterday Bad Lieutenant announced a video contest for their new single Twist of Fate. Cool idea, cheap, gets fans involved, etc. And if you now go “Who the F is Bad Lieutenant” then it’s Bernad Sumners new band. And yeah, they are great, because they sound like New Order, but unfortunately without Peter Hooks basslines. So, it’s New Order on the cheap, and a good substitution of you, as me, suffer from New Order abstinence symptoms. Some songs even have Stephen Morris on drums.

So to make some advertising for the video contest I’ll put up Bad Lieutenants previous video “Sink or Swim”, even though it frankly sucks. It’s such a boring video. So close your eyes and listen to the song, which is as catchy as always.

 

This is the most awesome video ever (double feature)

Yeah, I know. You’ve already seen it. Just a couple of weeks old, and it has 9 million views. Doesn’t matter. See it again. The song is great, and the video beyond awesome, and there is more detail to discover everytime you see it.

OK Go wins again, with “This Too Shall Pass”.

But maybe, just maybe you haven’t seen THIS version:

Also awesome.

 

Phoenix on a tour bus – Lisztomania

If you ever doubted that Phoenix was great band, check out this version of Lisztomania and One Time too Many, done on a tour bus in Paris. So you get nice scenery in the background too. They get off at the Eiffel tower. Still playing.

 

Sunday Nostalgia: Enya – Orinoco flow

Wow, it seemed so fresh back in 1988. The lush layered massive sound, the paint-effect on the video adding a nice high culture feel to the video.

Of course, Enya has since made loads of songs sounding exactly the same but without being catchy. But this song it still great and the video still beautiful.

 

JET – Seventeen

I’m not a big JET fan. I find their rock nice background music. Good for working too, radio friendly, elevator rock. But I like the vibe of their latest video, Seventeen. It’s feel good pub-rock. They have people in bunny suits on the stage. The guys of JET just seems like a group of people you would love to have a beer with. Or in other words, they seem very Australian.

 

This album is gonna be huge: Darwin Deez

I’ve been a big fan of Darwin Deez since September, when I heard the song “Radar Detector”. I quickly grabbed all the Darwin Deez mp3′s I could find, and have been playing the religiously ever since. And on April 12th, the debut album arrives (which I obviously have pre-ordered). And if the songs available online is anything to go by, this is an album full of the most catchy pop ever. And the lyrics are funny too.

Darwin Deez makes me feel fanatical like a teenager again, and I even screamed YES! and made a victory gesture when I saw that they are playing in Paris April 20th (just a few blocks away from my place, in fact). I’m dragging both family and friend there. I don’t know, maybe Darwin Deez sucks live, but I’m going to be at the front, singing along anyway.

You and I go shopping
and find exactly what we’re looking for
You and I go shopping
and fall asleep inside a mattress store.

Yeah.

 

Brian Eno in The Observer

Brian Eno has always been an inspiration for me musically. I’m happy to see that he is able to take the end of the record industry as it is without conservatism and arguing for harder laws on copyright.

I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn’t last, and now it’s running out. I don’t particularly care that it is and like the way things are going.

The article is well worth reading in it’s whole. I agree on many things, including ABBA. It’s great that I agree with a genius like Brian Eno. It makes me feel really smart.