I never cry. It's not that I don't want to cry, it's just that I never actually cry. I probably have enough to cry about
QUIET, EMO CHILD
but I never actually cry. Yesterday, I had a very long and taxing day in thebigtown. Meetings with men wearing glasses, fat men with glasses. Awake at 5am, train train train, tube, waitwaitwait, meeting, tubetube EAT, meeting, meeting, and I feel molested.
So, music. When I feel molested there is music. So I thought I would share my post-having-been-paedo'd playlist. It's a hotchpotch, like the mash-up mind fucks of the glasses men. So listen, like/find/buy them even though I blatantly didn't.
I would actually upload the MP3s if I knew how to.
Computers were made for 1950s wet dreams, not actual now-now-now.
Here goes nothing:
THE GLITCH MOB- DRIVE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT
I was actually pulsing, physically pulsing to this tune around Westfield. I saw Pete Burns sitting outside a café looking like shit. Actual shit. Like his name should be Pete Burns Unit and not Pete Burns. I'm claiming that observation as original, by the way, even though it really really really isn't. And he looked at me, fag in claw, confused. The power of music. Listen. And pulse.
THE NATIONAL- FAKE EMPIRE
I resisted listening to The National for a long time. They just look like tools wearing jumpers their grandparents died in. He stole his voice from that bloke from the Editors. And I feel odd about tender 'sweeping' songs. However, Fake Empire is soft enough to avoid the shit stick of over-production that fucks up a lot of their other stuff.
STARS- YOUR EX-LOVER IS DEAD
I listened to the opening lines of this manymany times yesterday, but mainly in Bristol Temple Meads from 20:00 to 20:55, (when there is nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire) feeling at once like a complete twat for being so indulgent but thinking FuckWhateverIDon'tGiveAShit because I fucking earned that indulgence. It's a sweet song. I like it. Live through this, and you won't look back.
WYE OAK- I HOPE YOU DIE
This was on the playlist...OK. Backtrack. This wasn't like an official playlist that I organized. This is just what I was listening to that is now a playlist in retrospect. ER this song, good. It's a song to daydream to. And to sit not looking anyone in the eye even though all I want to do is look everyone in the eye in the busy tube. It's a good song for all that.
ALELA DIANE- THE RIFLE
Just a nice woman-with-voice-and-guitar singing a song and playing her guitar. With a beautiful tone.
AU REVOIR SIMONE- ORGANIZED SCENERY
I love Au Revoir Simone. They are angels. Well, they're three gawky girls with pretty voices. I saw them in Union Chapel in London last year and they were angels then. Listen to all of their music, please. Organized Scenery is a little bit dancey (but not really LET'S GET FUCKED ON MEPHADRONE dancey) and I skipped.
BROKEN BELLS- MONGREL HEART
NEW MUSIC. Broken Bells are kind of moody, a bit droney...but in a good way. Listen to their first album which is out now. Available on iTunes, probably amazon and...well...ThePirateBay.
POMPLAMOOSE- DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING
As in Girl With Scary Eyes and perhaps kookytooforced voice singing Aerosmith with xylophones plonking in the background. A Youtube semi-sensation, this cover works better than most.
ALPHABEAT- HOLE IN MY HEART (THE SOUND OF ARROWS REMIX)
OK so I love Alphabeat. I hated them when they came on an hour late at the Park Stage without apology, but I have forgiven them. Plus the fooooking Sound of Arrows remixed Hole in My Heart to make it amazing. Anything that the Sound of Arrows turns into the musical equivalent of a Pet Shop Boys cum shot on Grace Jones' face. LUSH.LUSH.LUSH. I actually sung this out loud in Notting Hill Gate station, people didn't stand around me. LUSH.LUSH.LUSH.
You can barely hear the vocals on this, it's low impact and beautifully catchy in a THIS IS NOT KYLIE, MORE JOY DIVISION/WELL, REALLY THE XX/ WELL, REALLY HURTS kind of way. Whatever. It's not on Youtube, so I might load it onto Youtube. We'll see, we'll see.
BE CRAZY
A
LITTLE BIT CRAZY
JUST NOT ALL THAT CRAZY OR THEY'LL CART YOU AWAY
AND
D ANCE TO DEPRESSING
LIKE NOT THAT DEPRESSING THAT THEY'LL CART YOU AWAY
MUSIC
SO
BE NORMAL. OK?
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