Not that it matters to any of you but both myself and fellow WBDF blogger Chris are in an insanely trendy soccer team known as the Funboys F.C. Up until this point we had been coasting undefeated and up until tonight we were yet to experience the pains of defeat. As you may have guessed, up until tonight means we lost (2-1). What's worse, we lost to poor opposition.
Now, defeat was a pill easily swallowed during my footballing days as I played against some of the players who now call the NRL home. But soccer was my unchained melody, my special place and defeat was no so easy. As sure as it is 2:22 in the morning and I cannot get defeat off my mind, it got me thinking... What is a random mixtape I could make which would be so pointless and non related to one another that I would be so perplexed by the ridiculousness, I would not remember the fact that I (the left footer) was open down the right side all day with the goal favouring my deadly left foot yet all those right footed putz'es couldnt get the ball to me. I'm not cut you are. So I thought in the process of me randomly listening away, you could get some music to download, enjoy and purchase for yourselves (yeh you better).
Here is what I come up with.
Mp3: Peaches - Downtown
This song is so everything that contrasts to what is Peaches. "Downtown" is slick, in parts laissez-faire, clean and easily digestable. Yet that which is Peaches is met with contradiction and unadmitted excitement. I am unsure how she does it, but she does... and I like.
Mp3: Xui Xui - Buzz Saw (This song is a mess but so am I Remix)
Chris describes Xui Xui best but I'll try to put my own slant on it (no racism intended). Clearly this song is the ideal track to avoid the thought of defeat. It is like a lobotomy, it literally erases all other thoughts from your mind and you dont know what to think, what to do. I thought to myself do I keep listening or are they commanding to turn it off. While i love this song unconditionally, sometimes I dont know if listening to all of it was a morbid privilege which should have been bestowed upon to me. What I mean is, this song is a mess and SO AM I!
Mp3: Regina Spektor - Fidelity
Ok Ok, Here comes the Sun followed by Fidelity. I am going a bit soft here arent I? Well the song following this only backs that assumption up more and I dont care. Let us call this one of those times where you take a break from the dancefloor, hope to snag one of those comfy by always used make out lounges at Candy's Apartment and you sit back and enjoy the thoughts revolving through your own head, free from whatever is going on around you. While I love the beauty that is in this song, nothing will ever compare in my mind to Regina Spektor playing this song with just a piano on Conan O'Brien's Late Night Show. It even blew Conan away and when an artist can hold my attention through the TV with a 70+ channel foxtel remote in my hand, I say I dont care if Stereogum blogged about you, I am not going to let their horrifically stale opinions put me off the fact you are amazing. Yeh take that Technorati, I hope stereogums reads this. Might give him some tips on how to be less of a music hoare. Oww sure I'll blog about an S Club 7 reunion said Stereogum as he choked on $100 bills.
Mp3: Surfjan Stevens - The predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us
Finally, I get what 100000000000000000000000000000 million bloggers have been saying. Surfjan is breathtakingly good!!! I was so down hearted that I just couldn't get what the heck made this guy so reverred and special. But I have seen the light, and the light makes me float a few inches off the ground everytime i hear this song. It wussy, light, fluffy, poofy, non masculine, any negative buzz word you can think of, but I love it and so will you. Or else your too gay to even be gay.
Mp3: Cirque Du Soleil - Zydeko (i hope this works).
Told you it was random. But if you are aware of the latest Cirque Du Soleil to come out in the US, I'm sure you could 6 degree me from this travelling circus to The Beatles. While i am unsure if it is due to my witnessing of a performance by this outfit that entrenches the magical, universal songs into my heart, but this music makes me feel like I have just gone and experienced every pocket of musical culture Europe has to offer. And without getting over political, In a day an age now where cockbags like Greenday rule the airwaves, sometimes you need nothing more than to have an experience like Cirque Du Soleil take you away. Rather than worrying about paying your bills, be more envious of the fact your not able to move like a mystical creature or juggle 4 balls at once while singing a song. I say more circus and less war.
In other exciting news, congrats must go to Sydney Blog favourites Young & The Restless for taking out this year's Triple J Unearthed Competition. It is no small feet to achieve and they fought off some very stiff competition. We all know the great heights other bands have gone onto from winning this competition and I have no doubts that a similar rise is destined and deserved for Young & The Restless. Jerry from Who the Hell must be feeling like a very proud parent now and he has every right to, well done mate! It is just yet another indication of the sublime tastes which Sydney Bloggers possess.
Head over to the Young & The Restless Triple J Unearthed Page to download the mp3s which sent them all the way to the top. It is no secret that these lovely lads and lasses have got the exact sound that Australia and the world are foaming at the mouth for and while I will admit for me it certainly wasn't love at first sight, once the love was there, it was there (vague or what).
2 comments:
i definetly agree about regina spektor, she is very refreshing and that phrasing in the chorus is superb.
and bravo to y+r, deserving unearthed winners. those kids are doing great things and they prove that punk rock and variations thereof will never die, no matter how many people try to kill it and say its gone.
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