Palindromian Homesick Blues - Wierd Al does Bob Dylan
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bob
Sounds like Dylan, looks like Dylan, makes about as much sense as some of his lyrics ;-)
The real thing
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bob
Sounds like Dylan, looks like Dylan, makes about as much sense as some of his lyrics ;-)
The real thing
the newly added ones on Atila The Stockbroker's music myspace
especailly Guy Fawkes' table, and his small act (in the grand scheme of things) of bravery of putting up his memories of his father who fought, alongside his version of the Green Fields Of France, for today Remberance Sunday.
plus a anti fascist song dedicated to AFA backing up his thoughts on his main blog
"I would have been a conscientious objector, but I would have fought Hitler, no doubt of that.
The Second World War had to be fought - although if the spineless capitalist governments had not stood by and let the fascists destroy Spain, giving the fascists the message that they could get away with anything, perhaps it would not have happened - or at least not on that scale."
http://www.myspace.com/attilastockbroker
Guy Fawkes' table
"Aneurin Bevan, your party is dead
And the time for a new one is nigh
Will the last person Left please turn out the lights?
New Labour, just fuck off and die."
first impressions of first listen - written track by track.
I'm liking it so far - first track is surprisingly upbeat sort of electrofunk pop - well for Radiohead, track two is very Paranoid Android/|There There with a bit of the "flan in the face, flan in the face" (I think) bits of Hail to the Thief.
Nude is beautiful - sounds almost exactly like it dates from around Fake Plastic Trees
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi - D&B and lovely piano ripples. beautiful floating vocals full of yearning. Perfect Radiohead - total synthesis of their highest points from all periods mostly without being deriative of them.
At least up to around 4mintutes followed by more D&B and spacey doomyness, wondering into both No Surprises and How To Disappear And Never Be Found territory.
All I Need - more dark floaty glitch/pop has a bit of a Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight vibe to it. Beautiful sounding yet disturbing lyrics, obsessive love song? This is wonderful - best song so far. Very falling asleep listening to Peel or VPRO.
Faust Arp - kinda appropriate that the first lines to this are "Wakey wakey rise and shine. Has Thom's familiar paranoia rush of words from the few albums but quieter, mellower and near classical music, instead of jerky histerical delivery and electonica. A return to words drifting across space. Feels too short.
Reckoner - sudden sharp shock after the previous track. sounds like a machine assembly system attacking your brain, first fighting then strangely becoming a rhythmic accompaniment to the melodic tune and vocals. Oddly U2 like (but in a good way) reminds me of The Hands That Built America - Exit Music For A Film & Sail To The Moon too.
House Of Cards - harder but at the same time soft echoing.
oh god this is beautiful - like angel voices. Could do without the reminder of bloody Texas "I don't want a lover" from the line "I don't want to be your friend, I just want to be your lover". Nicely fluffy.
Is this a metaphor for the collapse of capitalist society or just stealing somebody from a house, 2 cars, kids, high salary husband, relationship/freeing them from that existence.
Jigsaw Falling Into Place - Bends/Ok Computer territory only with paranoiac electronic glitchy beats. Feels like a panic attack again, near the end, like whole chunks of the last three albums + Paranoid Android
Videotape - another tender ballad, (with lo key glitch/pop touches) but the vocals sound distorted just like as if on the watched and rewatched recording of Thom's life. Simultaneously warm and disturbing. Hypnotic music loop. Thom sounds hopeful yet mournful Could be depressing - narrator planning suicide? or very uplifting - not scared of death because he's been truly alive - "no matter what happens now, shan't be afraid because I know today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen"
or is it just another hoax?
Looks genuine - emails belong to waste.
Album appears to be called In Rainbows - could be an outakes round up rather than a proper album - apparently some tracks are alt titles of songs they did live and never released.
It's available in two formats - Discbox: for £40 (sets are made to order)
"THIS CONSISTS OF THE NEW ALBUM, IN RAINBOWS, ON CD AND ON 2 X 12 INCH HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL RECORDS.
A SECOND, ENHANCED CD CONTAINS MORE NEW SONGS, ALONG WITH DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND ARTWORK. THE DISCBOX ALSO INCLUDES ARTWORK AND LYRIC BOOKLETS.
ALL ARE ENCASED IN A HARDBACK BOOK AND SLIPCASE." and also includes free download version.
or digital download of the basic album for however much you want to pay for it!
http://www.inrainbows.com
make your own Red Guitar mugs - all you need is a computer, printer and some sticky backed plastic
http://www.redguitars.co.uk/freestuff.ht
" The American edition of Power Corruption & Lies, released later, featured "Blue Monday" and its B-side "The Beach" as extra tracks."(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Order#P
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from the albums page - "Certain versions of the album, including the US release, feature "Blue Monday" after "5 8 6"* and "The Beach" after "Leave Me Alone". Some copies list "Your Silent Face" and "Ecstasy" under their working titles, "KW1" (which stands for The Kraftwerk one), and "Only the Lonely", respectively. 'Ultraviolence' when debuted live was originally called 'Who Killed My Father?' and 'Leave Me Alone' as 'Only the Lonely'. The guitar line in the latter song was recycled from the melody played on the melodica on a previous release, 'Hurt'.
The 24 January 2000 CD re-release features just seven tracks, in a different order to previous versions. 'Ultraviolence' is omitted from these versions."
re issue tracklisting - (also on amazon)
*according to a review on amazon the recording of 5 8 6 accidentally led to Blue Monday
just got managed to get decent sound out of these speakers, turned them up & and repeated the realy_truely_hearing_Blue_monday_for_onl
just reexperianced the full on imennesness of being attacked/shot down by the "machine gun drums"
and started having flashbacks to the colours of the video
first time was while playing Factory songs and toasting Tony Wilson
stuck on alternative 80s - fucked arround with winamp presets to get it to sound perfect turned the sound up to a rediculusly stupid level (fucked my ears for a week and my computer speakers have barely been the same since)
followed by finding the video on youtube - then seeing the pattens on somebodys shirt in the middle of tescos) that looked like those colours bleeding (plus triggering memories of the recorded dream seqrences in Until the end of the world) and the duh duh dududada beats starting up in my head as I walked down the aisle.
Your silent face has just come on - triggering the reaction in the title
how the fuck did I forget this track, this is the tune that I've been trying to remember for years every time I heard another song that sound a bit like it (can't remember what that was now), that was always just out of reach .
this is so warm and beautiful and sounds strangly organic
Sound formed in a vacuum
May seem a waste of time
It's always been just the same
No hearing or breathing
No movement no lyrics
Just nothing
The sign that leads the way
The path we can not take
You've caught me at a bad time
So why don't you piss off