Hey guys. If anyone particularly wanted to see what I had to say about Bitter:Sweet and Kris Kristofferson by now, your luck's out! I've had an awful lot of non-interwebz stuff catch up with me and raise a bit of a ruckus lately, so haven't really had the time or mental energy to write anything fitting about them for this thread. From Monday onwards things are definitely gonna clear up though, and since it's been far too long since I last stuck an album post in this 'ere thread, you can expect something like that around about then.
In the mean time, here's a random video to make up for lost time;
And now for a couple of epic choonz...
Artist: Midnight Oil
Tuneage: Read About It
Another one of those artists I may as well flag up with every 5th post here - they're just that immense. If you missed it, I got most of the overblown fanboy worshipping over and done with
here...I think. I don't really read back on the posts I make here y'see
Whatever it was I said, I'm pretty sure I didn't call that Oils album my favourite - that'd be between this and two or three others beside it. I'm sure I also said way back when that along with fellow Sydney...ers the Celibate Rifles, the Oils here were far and away the most consistently decent band to emerge from the Australian punk/garage scene of the late 70s. I'd probably ranks these guys above the former though - as generally good as their albums are, the Rifles basically sound the same on each one. The Oils had a way of shaking up the formula a bit, basically.
Anyway, this one's from the magnificent 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 album of 1983, and it's one where you can sense a kinda bridge between the band's loud, punk-centric roots and the more commercially-aimed pop stylings of, say, Diesel and Dust. This here was the song that brought 10-1 to my attention and, subsequently, was responsible for my getting reacquainted with them about 5-odd years after first hearing Beds Are Burning and casting it off with a resounding meh. Not only home to one of the most typically student-lefty lyrics I've ever heard, but also one of the best riffs too.
Artist: Graham Coxon
Tuneage: Bittersweet Bundle Of Misery
Here's another one that takes me waaaaaay back. I'll just get a bit more comfy in my rocking chair, wait for my mug of cocoa to cool down a bit before I get right down to the real nitty-gritty...
I remember hearing this in...what was it, 2004? 2005? Whenever it came out. Anyway, I was still smarting from a) Blur's splitting up and b) the notion that a miserable piece of junk that sounded so clanky and robotic it might as well not have been recorded by warm-blooded mammals (Think Tank) was to be the last album that Blur would release. It was the sad end of an era for me. Being the spunky, red-blooded 90s kid that I am, Blur and Oasis were basically my musical education as I grew up...barring the kinda stuff I'd here my parents listening to, but that's a different story for a different time.
Anyway, there was this song here that made its way onto the airwaves back when I was only just forming what would become my current musical taste and, needless to say, I remember just falling in love with this thing. Although you could say it's a pretty damn cynical song about a character being pissed off with his high maintenance girlfriend, this song just seemed to me to ooze the kind of joy and colour that I loved in the Blur sound of old, and was missing from the awful Think Tank and their half-good self-titled album (13 was the only album where that sound worked for me, but again, different story, different time).
And so I hunted down the album this song belonged to - Happiness In Magazines. Although it was met with the kind of universal praise every Christopher Nolan film seems to get these days, I didn't really like it so much when I first heard it. It was good, yeah, but songs like People Of Earth and Freaking Out just annoyed me. Bear in mind though that that was 6 or 7 years ago, and that I haven't listened to this album since. In fact, I was only reminded about it when a flatmate had this very song on the go while we were playing FIFA 2011 (which I totally beat him at by the way
).
And...yeah, that's it I guess. Check back for mor albumness later in the coming week, as all that's definitely in the pipeline.