Built to Spill covering M.I.A.s “Paper Planes” (itself a cover of, or at least inspired by “Straight to Hell” by the Clash.
Then, just ’cause it was on the same YouTube page, Elliott Smith covering my favorite Built to Spill song.
I haven’t let the kids put Robyn on their iPods yet because I’m not done liking it and as soon as they can listen to her whenever they want without going through me, it will get overplayed and I’ll be tired of it. They did it to me with Little Boots and I haven’t quite forgiven them yet.
Body Talk Pt. 1 is a nice, though very short, collection of poppy electro numbers which inhabit a rather darker, more sparse, landscape than her one-time peers Christina and Brittany. Her plans to release two more records in September and December make up for the shortness of this first release since I her 2005 record that I didn’t know anything about. So there you go, Tim: music reviewer.
Who is Little Boots? I’m glad you asked: http://fiercefamily.com/blog/2010/05/06/little-boots-meddle/
Back in 1982, when I saw the movie “Summer Lovers” at Paul Swangard’s house, there were two songs that I determined, at the time, to be awesome. “Ça plane pour moi” was one, and “Just Can’t Get Enough” from Depeche Mode’s first record (before Vince Clarke left to form Yazoo) was the other. That one of these totally awesome songs has turned out to be a cynical media fabrication does, I admit, sadden me ever so slightly. Fortunately,though, it’s also the one that turns out to actually be a crappy song.
Apparently Plastic Bertrand (who is not actually Plastic Bertrand anyway) did not really sing “Ça plane pour moi.” Shocking. Nor did he sing any of the songs on “his” four albums. Wait…he had albums?
I wanted to put both videos in here, but Depeche Mode is now also a cynical media fabrication and doesn’t allow embedding the video. Instead, here is the original video for “Don’t Go” by Yazoo. It sounds a lot like it could have been on that first Depeche Mode record. It’s impressive, really, that they survived the departure of Clarke who wrote nearly all the songs on that first DM record.
This Pitchform article has all the gory details about the Plastic Bertrand affair.
Ça plane pour moi (English Translation)
“Wham! Bam! my cat Splash
lies on my bed with his tongue puffed out
by drinking all my whisky.
As for me, not enough sleep, drained, persecuted,
I had to sleep in the gutter
where I had a flash
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
in four coloursAllez-oop! One morning
a darling came to my home,
a cellophane puppet with Chinese hair,
a plaster, a hangover,
drank my beer in a large rubber glass
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
like an Indian in his iglooThis works for me, this works for me
This works for me me me me me
This work for me
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
This works for meAllez-oop! The chick***, what a gas!
what a vibration!
to be sent on the door mat
filed, ruined, drained, filled
You are the King of the divan!
she says to me in passing
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
I am the King of the divanThis works for me, this works for me
This works for me me me me me
This workss for me
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
This works for meAllez-oop! Don’t mind, don’t worry
Don’t affect me
It’s not today
that the sky will fall on my head
and I’ll be without glue
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
This life’s for meAllez-oop! my chick has gone away,
flew away, finally had enough, to break
the sink, the bar, leaving me alone
like a complete jerk
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
I’ve put my foot in itThis works for me, this works for me
This works for me me me me me
This workss for me
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
This works for me
This workss for me, this works for me
This works for me me me me me”
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I’m trying to fix something on my blog, so here’s another video immediately on the heels of the last. Stick around…there will likely be another shortly. Lightning Dust is a side project of some folks from Black Mountain, whom I’ve not heard.
I played this for the kids and they liked it. I bought the record and they haven’t stopped listening to it for weeks and weeks. Oh, and I like it too. She also made an iPhone app that is pretty cool. A song loops and responds to the motion of the iPhone. Shake it around and the song gets upbeat. Hold it still and the beat drops out and it gets very mellow and atmospheric. All the while, the app samples sounds from around you to include in the music. Never the same thing twice. Neat!
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One or another member of the Finn family has been informing my pop sensibilities since I bought Waiata by “Split Enz” in 1981 after seeing the video for “One Step Ahead.”
I wasn’t a huge Crowded House fan, but they had some really great songs that I still love today.
Now, here comes Liam, Neil’s son to carry on with a bit of a different take on pop from his dad and uncle.
I’m in love with Imelda May. The band is amazing and this song in particular is on seriously high replay on my headphones. In short, it’s just totally kick-ass rockabilly from Dublin by way of London.
On a related note, I highly recommend the show this video is taken from. It’s been on forever but I lost track of it for a few years. Later…With Jools Holland is on Ovation TV, seemingly, every fifteen minutes.
Emily Haines and James shaw who are also a part of Broken Social Scene.
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