Don’t know too much about these NYC hipsters. I had heard some friends reference them glowingly in dispatches but never really encountered them until this song. It is completely infectious. Standard behaviour for me but I have been utterly unable to get this out of my head.
Also, the offbeat video is enjoyable.
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I really enjoyed this guy’s album I want you late last year. It sounds fresh, and this is probably my highlight. The album also contains a slight hint of something playfully kitsch which works really well.
Also, is it just me or does it sound a little like Joe Jackson’s Stepping Out features in this track somewhere?
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I thought this song was befitting of a cool, gray Sunday. I listened to this band a lot after discovering them at the start of last year. While their music can be a little morose (I suppose that’s what you expect from a concept album based on the story of a cancer patient) I find it enjoyable and soothing.
I also had a very entertaining evening about a year ago seeing these guys live in a candlelit church in Islington, a setting that very much enhanced the show.
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This is one of the best soul tunes I have heard in a while. While being quite short it is everything you would want, being joyous and dynamic. Also, I think this video suits the song well.
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I was always going to post Bjork sooner or later. I have an almost irrational affection for her music, which I find to be beautiful and mesmerising. This is from what is probably my favourite of her albums Homogenic.
In addition, this is a great video, fitting of Bjork’s idiosyncratic personality.
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Posting the Neil Young and Thin Lizzy tracks in the past few days reminded me of this. It has a similarly memorable guitar riff.
This song reminds me of a really old friend and being young and completely clueless while driving around in his car. Happy times!
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I discovered these guys quite recently. They are a funk/soul band from Melbourne, Australia. Have been really enjoying their album “4”. I imagine they would be fun live and I will be keeping my eyes open for a show in London in 2011.
This track caused me to become that crazy guy on the tube today. It came on my mp3 player and about half way through the song I realised I was singing along out loud with my eyes closed. Not a particularly proud moment. A good song though.
It is one of the very first soul songs I ever loved, before I even really knew what soul music was. I still like it as much today as the first time I heard it. I know it is a bit cheesy but there is just something about it I find utterly compelling.
“Baaby, baby, baby – take a goood look at my face. You’ll see my smi-ile looks out of place…”
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The sad news about Gary Moore over the weekend got me thinking about Thin Lizzy, with whom he sometimes played.
I hadn’t listened to this song in quite a while and to hear it fresh is pretty startling. It is full of vigour and expertly captures the feeling of being young and boisterous. Like no one in the world can touch you. Not to mention that guitar riff…
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This is an under-appreciated gem, an epic, taken from the album Zuma. I like it for two reasons in particular – It contains some amazing guitar riffs, probably some of my favourite ever. Secondly, I love the song’s imagery, wistful and poetic highlighted by a great opening:
He came dancing across the water with his galleons and guns. Looking for the new world and that palace in the sun. On the shore lay Montezuma with his coca leaves and pearls, in his halls he often wandered with the secrets of the worlds…
Wow!
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