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End of The Year Music Review - for the expansion of your musical muscle

Here's a link to some of the songs below so you can listen while you read! Have fun, open your mind and indulge in some Grade A UK genius. http://www.playlist.com/node/22390341


1. AaRon : U-turn (Lili)

Possibly one of the finest musicians out of France in a very long time, and that's saying a lot because i love France. This track makes me feel like i'm back in the womb, carefree, but slightly melancholic due to AaRon's sweetly haunting vocals. I'd imagine this is what crawling through blue cotten candy in slow motion would sound like if it were music.



2. Elisa : Eppure Sentire

I first heard this song preformed acoustically by a friend my mates and i were visiting in Berkeley. We'd just got home from a party and at once were introduced to the pretty euphoric sounds of a pair of beautiful voices and a guitar. This song is perfectly suited for that. I love simplicity in music as much as i love the loud and the dramatic. Sweet harmonies and the purity of raw, untouched by post-production vocals = loveliness in my book.



3. Muse : Starlight

I love music that sounds like this. Like kid crayon drawings and rock and roll mixed together with long-winded vocals and a nice beat. Anyone who can think of rhyming Black holes with revelations and make it make sense gets a gold star from me.
So there is more coming out of Oxford than just worn-out academics.
i like that.



4. Thirteen Senses : Contact

OH GOD. this is an edgy comercial's dream song.
Love this band. the perfect mix of sensuality, glitter, and masculinity.

5. Into the Fire
mystical vocals and a steady lulling beat. I'm pretty sure Grey's Anatomy has used this at some point or will... as much as i roll my eyes at that show, they've nailed themselves one great musical director. so cheers to them and cheers to these dandy lads.


6. The Boy Least Likey : Apple Wagon

Honestly, i have no real clue what this song is about, but i like it that way. This is play-skool tunes on a pinch of crack and a shit load of prozac. I'm going to play this CD for my babies.
furry animal puppets, fairy dust, a bazooka, and a xylaphone = pure slightly naughty feel-happy musical harmony.

7. Be Gentle With Me
Best line: "I'm happy because i'm stupid"



8. The Futerheads : Hounds of Love

a wonderfully playful cover of Kate Bush's original, this one is modern and like evil pixie vomit. (for any of you who don't know, Kate Bush was fun stuff in the 80's across the pond). I don't exactly know where Sutherland is, but the accent is brash and crispy and nice to listen to.

9. Decent Days and Nights
LOVE this one. remeniscent of Queen and rock-musicals. drama drama


10. Guillemots : Trains to Brazil

Don't let Fyfe Dangerfield's all over vocal's fool you, this bloke's got PERFECT pitch. but, like really. i'm a fan of his incredible range and unique sound. i like how this song has tumpets. who used trumpets anymore? i don't know.

11. Annie Let's Not Wait
This band is all about combining strange sounds together in a sort of hodgepodge of noise and rhythm.
Also great: Made-up Lovesong #43


12. Kaiser Chiefs : Oh My God

Any band that scraps their US tour coz they're just TOO EXCITED to reocord a third album is bad-arse.
very 70's new wave/punk rock/i'm on drugs sounding.

I'm pretty sure Mark Ronson thought he was uber cool getting Lily Allen to cover this one, pompous wanker. (If you don't know who Mark Ronson is either, don't worry yourself).


13. Kate Havenvik : Grace

i bet she wrote this knowing it would instantly be used in every melodramatic hospital TV show on the planet.
it's like if Imogen Heap and Emiliana Torrini had a love child.

If you're really down and want to imagine yourself in a poignant movie scene listen to this one.



14. Koop : Come To Me

This electronic jazz duo hails from, one of my favourites, Sweden. The band consists of Magnus Zingmark and Oscar Simonsson...yes that's right MEN, who apparently like to dress as women and sound like them too.
all the power to them, for like, 10 years i though some old more ethinc jazz woman was behind this one. just goes to show me.



15. Leona Lewis : Bleeding Love

YAY! Leona. you can't not like her, even if she did spring from X Factor. she's GOOD and doesn't realise it and that's what makes her special. I'm going to admit this once, i was pretty sure that she was saying "Camille" the whole time and i was like, wow...that's pretty cool. And now i've figured that she isn't just pleasing me, but is in fact, saying something else completely initelligable to me.

16. Run (Snow Patrol Cover)
God, she's good.


17. Maximo Park : Apply Some Pressure

The way they sound recored and live are exactly the same and that's quite a feat.
Messy, loud and like pop rocks.
All fun and games listening to Maximo Park, a band that was formed when singer Paul Smith was discovered by the then-girlfriend of drummer Tom English in a pub while he was singing along to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition". Stories like that always make me smile.


18. Mystery Jets : You Can't Fool Me Dennis

:) Father and son and mates = Mystery Jets.
When you Dad can jam to music like this, he's pretty much the coolest Y-chromosome around.
Love this band too.
my personal favourite is The Boy Who Ran Away.
great great great vocal control!



19. Giorgia : Parlo Con Te

The Italian Kate Havenvik, but edgier and about a 1/6 happier.
another example of great control.
i like when people really know how to sing.

very simple, even if you don't know what she's saying, you can feel it, and that's what music is all about anyway.

20. Take That : Rule the World

I know you know this band.
let me refresh some memories: "Blah bleh bleh bleh bleh, la bleh blah bleh blah, WANT YOU BACK, WANT YOU BACK, WANT CHU back for good"
yep.
well they've made a pretty nice mini comback.
have a listen and judge for yourselves.

It's Sonnet Time!

He has never called me beautiful
Or held me longer than is concerning.
Accustomed to what might to some seem cruel,
His familiar distance keeps me yearning.
Speak at once my torn and battered friend;
It’s quite unnatural keeping you from song.
Those dewy suns speak truth while you defend
Flooding words your Keeper thinks are wrong.
In every touch with hands that cannot lie,
Or anxious leg that knows each step of mine;
Even ignored lips wish to reply
My call, and so I ask that you resign.
Dear Heart your loyal task has been in vain,
Know I his love, though it be not in name.

Apparently, I'm an arse

Your personality analysis based on this drawing:You are a suspicious person and have some paranoid tendencies.You think you are very intelligent.You have an evasive attitude in social relations.You frequently get anxious and have antisocial tendencies.

Attempt 1 to describe my friend

insanely artistic...

not the type of artistic that insinuates ‘bizarre’ or ‘special’ but the kind that only come around once in a while. The kind that makes you step back in awe. Kevin is an artist. Not like OCD me who must duplicate every insignificant detail of a photo onto paper, Kevin sees beauty and colour and light in his mind and transfers that onto any surface. That’s a true artist. It’s a talent I’ve always envied him for, seeing the world interperpectively and having the acute ability to express it to others however he wants. I realise I just made up the word ‘interperspectively’ and that it might be a slightly redundant compound, but I want to use it none the less.
Kevin and I have already decided that we’re going to have children. And they’re going to be hot.
I love names. And so does Kevin. And that’s probably why we’re friends.

Months can pass and Kevin and I can still function as if we’ve just seen each other without any second thought to why it took so long in the first place. I like that. Not that I like being apart, but knowing that nothing will falter or fade or weaken or break because of time.
Witty.
Kevin is witty.
I like witty. And that’s probably why we’re friends.
I’ve known Kevin since the first grade and I remember everything that made him who he was then and like to contrast it to everything he is now.
We lived on the same straight, opposite sides from each other. I think that’s fate.
And I think fate is why we’re friends.

Non m'importa niente

i just read through about 17 centuries of English Literature.
Well, with the exception of the 15th century ( apparently nothing of remote importance occured because Norton completely decides to not include it).
But, bloody ovaries on a biscuit, England has some mad history, yo.
too many Mary's and blokes naming their sons after themselves for my taste, but very entertaining lineage i must say.
God, i am such a nerd. William Shakespeare, bless him, was a cheeky bastard.
love Donne. a freak, a freak. eye balls on a necklace, love as an autopsy...clever monkey.
Sir Philip Sidney, poor cabbage. Love sick.

ugh. i'm full to the brim with English literature. there's hardly anything else i have room to talk about.
good thing i'm not socially obliged to make friends right now, i'd be screwed.
God bless finals week.
and God save the Queen.