Today's listening started with Can:
Tago Mago, then School Of Seven Bells:
Alpinisms, and ended with Grouper:
Cover The Windows And The Walls Originally posted by Alex S:
some are wonderful, with some beautiful orchestral parts; others are pretty difficult to endure
thanks for the Gabriel Scratch My Back review Alex S, I emailed it to a friend as I knew that he was interested in hearing this particular album, turns out he’s already bought it and pretty much agrees with you, though he feels that there isn’t enough variation, and although it’s a seriously ‘down’ album he’s really enjoying it.
The Brits 2010
- well this is a music thread afterall!
The Brits Awards has been on TV for at least 300 years now, it was fun in the dark early days when there were hardly any music awards shows, but now it’s often just pants and who really cares about it anyway apart from the big suits. Its not unlike CH4’s Big Brother in being a media curse that you try to avoid hearing about, but the Brits is like attempting to fend off a cold while you stand naked and neck deep in a muddy pond as some very ill people constantly sneeze all over you, eventually you will succumb.
I caught some of it last night when I got home, well, 3 minutes of it, Lady Gaga (who I quite like) looking like she was wearing a large whipped ice-cream on her head, and you could argue that Madonna spawned female artists such as Ms Gaga, but Lady G is oh so ‘art school’ in a way that Madge can only ever dream about being.
I turned on Sky News this morning expecting to hear about more world disaster and economic downturn and was instantly ‘updated’ on ‘the’ music event of the year, I had to down my cornflakes whilst also consuming Sir Robbie Williams latest award for Services To All Humankind, he’s finally gotten over his feigned embarrassment at always being nominated and always winning every music prize on the planet. As I listened to him swaggering through “Let Me Entertain You” I thought to myself surely its only a matter of time till Sir Robbie gets awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his music, he surely deserves it.
Apparently this year’s show was as predictable, ahem, sorry, the official tag line is ‘as controversial as ever’, (will we ever forgive Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood blundering aimlessly onstage). Last night we had the usual celebrity fraudster tactics, such as Liam Gallagher pretending to look for a fight, and pretending to ignore the very existence and importance of his fiendishly smarter brother Noel as he thanked only the other band members for helping make Oasis the greatest band in the world forever! and even Sir Robbie officially stated that Oasis deserved to Live Forever.
Liam, as the whole world must know by now, threw his mic’ (or his award?) into the crowd, rock and roll has really downsized in these times of recession, in years past the appropriate stance would have been to throw a big TV from out of a hotel window.
Lily Allen also pretended that she didn’t want to get noticed, or have to conceal her disappointment at not winning, so her tactic instead was to wear a big bright orange wig, a disguise allegedly, and babble enthusiastically on actually receiving her award, but in reality its no competition again this year for any of our female artists, as poor old Amy Winehoose is still lost somewhere in Rehab...
