Song Blog

SNOW PATROL/ Warmer Climate

2012-01-19T22:42:00.002+11:00

There is just some kind of X factor about this song....but I can't quite put my finger on it...it seems mundane and boring but it still lures...I guess I just feel pissed that they left it off the Aussie version of the album :P

COLDPLAY/Every Teardrop is a Waterfall

2012-01-16T22:52:00.003+11:00

I guess I must live under a rock! LOL...I only just heard this song for the first time while at a video store...it was one you recognise as an instant hit. Ie immediate gratification to the masses but no long term appreciation...definitely not the most interesting or innovative music experience...but considering all the niche stuff I've been posting I thought I'd post a reprieve of mass generic...

Cos seeing as I've only heard it less than 2 times still, I'm still enjoying it...just! lol

Arvo Pärt/Fratres for Cello and Piano

2012-01-11T16:52:00.001+11:00

I can listen to this over and over. No wonder he is so spiritual...music like this definitely is of DIVINE inspiration!!! What a gifted genius ^^!

Sufjan Stevens/Enchanting Ghost

2012-01-06T22:13:00.001+11:00

Sufjan sound circa 2010, I like the way his music has developed...

Sufjan Stevens/The Avalanche

2012-01-06T22:06:00.001+11:00

Confrontation between Jupiter and Pluto, Chevrolet Avalanches...lol gotta love a verbose muso!

DECODER RING/More Than Scarlet

2012-01-01T14:27:00.004+11:00

I like the lack of words...

I think this song captures perfectly the atmosphere of a hermit in a cave secluded high up on a mountain where the clouds look like fluffy pillows you could almost jump into...

May 2012 be instilled with a calm, stability and peace that previous years have lacked...2010 was chaos instigating change 2011 was about transition and 2012 is the year for forward progress and growth! :)

Mbira of Zimbabwe...

2011-12-29T00:44:00.003+11:00

Okay I want to play THIS instrument!!!! When next you find yourself in Zimbabwe please get me one!!! :)

The XX/VCR

2011-12-26T18:11:00.002+11:00

A bit of chilled out music needed after the post Christmas (especially eating!) FRENZY...

Hermit hides in Cave *:)*

FEIST/How My Heart Behaves

2011-12-21T11:01:00.002+11:00

I've grown up enough to appreciate the fact that even if I am incredibly atypical especially in how my heart behaves e.g a.k.a emotional minimalism ;) it is still a just as valid and fantastic way of being...I just wish everybody else could be comfortable enough in their own skin to be able to deal with us gorgeously fantabulous "anti-norms" being the unique beings we are...but anyway
I live this live and "raw" version
Probably the stand out song on the album THE REMINDER.

CESARIA EVORA/Petits Pays

2011-12-20T02:10:00.001+11:00

R.I.P (17.12.11) a beautiful voice from the beautiful Cabo Verde...

WASHINGTON/ Lover/Soldier

2011-12-16T20:19:00.002+11:00

I LOOOOOVE this song off the album of "I believe you, Liar"...here is a great live singer and piano only "unplugged" version I guess...one of those rare artists that are still impressive minus all the fancy mixing and backup band album editions get loaded with ;) Enjoy...

WASHINGTON/Plastic Bag

2011-12-16T20:09:00.002+11:00

I just got the international version of Megan Washington's "I believe you liar"...on it there is a song that doesn't exist on the local album..."Plastic Bag"- <3 it!!!

♪ I don't believe in making plans
I carry my life in a plastic bag ♪

JOY DIVISION/Disorder

2011-12-02T00:55:00.002+11:00

Just saw the JOY DIVISION documentary made in 2007 I think...very affecting I can't sleep now. Wow talk about HSP!

Anyway yeah there is just something really...about the story of Ian Curtis that really gets me on some deep level...and there is just something so...hypnotizing about the music...

so anyway too bad about the lame visual clip but the sound quality is good at least. Here's a song I like and I feel that that's the effect I feel on my emotions after watching the documentary.

The National/Bitters and Absolut

2011-11-30T13:30:00.007+11:00

LOL I think it's more of a whisky on the rocks kind of song. Anyway I'm kinda obsessed with this album at the moment...for some reason it has some kind of alluring pull that their later more well known polished albums don't have...or maybe I just love everything they do and I'm still in honeymoon period with this album as it only came in the post a couple of days ago!

♫if i were a spy inside the world inside your head...

And yeah I really should upload at least the pics I got when I saw them live recently...Of course I wrote a blurb too but my goldfish memory has forgotten what it is about and I doubt I can find it again in my mass of papers...it was probably scribbled all over the festival program which in all likelihood I've already thrown out...awww sorry fans!

RADIOHEAD/House of Cards

2011-11-22T20:39:00.002+11:00

Okay so this is THAT ALBUM that people love so much...not particularly "interesting" or "challenging" but very easy listening and insidiuously...addictive, lol.

It just came in the mail a short time ago and I think I'm on at least round 6 so far...the good thing is despite not being particularly "interesting" or "challenging" listening it is not something that you get sick of quickly...

so perhaps the right mix of "just right".

Anyway this is not necessarily the best or my most favourite song off this album but it's really hard to know...yet...I guess I just like the mellow-stoned feel of this song...it suits my post dinner food coma ;)

Welcome to the Southern Hemisphere...

2011-11-04T23:23:00.006+11:00

Here are a bunch of songs by the New Zealand band "Goldenhorse"...to me the sound epitomizes The Southern hemisphere...definitely there it has a special something that you won't hear out of The North...It's almost like our mild balmy weather, wide open space or laid back summer culture are infused into the music... It's weird but as we've hit Summer...the cultured festival season here I'm getting back into indulging film and music interests in a very big way...lol just need to keep to a budget I think(!) hehe

BJORK/Virus

2011-11-04T23:03:00.005+11:00

lol i LOVE it!!! This is off Bjork's latest album Biophilia...i really love how this album is all about the natural world...and yes, I am particularly amused that there is a song all about a virus...it is so refreshing after the overdone theme of love and unrequited love. It's like...get some originality! THANK YOU Bjork!! :)

It really is amazing actually how the instrumentalism of this song really does convey that sense of the "organic"- the chaos yet order of an organism...alive!

Bjork | Virus | Biophilia from Edeenarys Bjarkason on Vimeo.

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE/Marching Bands of Manhattan

2011-11-01T19:02:00.003+11:00

I'm not sure why but this song resonates lately...not sure if it's the mood or the fact that I have extremely itchy feet to hopefully try life in a geography where more cultured and educated intellectuals exist...and yes Manhattan would be in the shortlist...definitely!!!

So I have to counsel my itchy feet and restless soul with PATIENCE right now...good things come to those who can wait...

SONNY & CHER/I got you babe

2011-10-30T18:02:00.006+11:00

There are some songs that are just...classic...like this one :) I think the last time I remember seeing it on a tv show was probably that classic I grew up with THE WONDER YEARS :)

Anyway I thought this clip was pretty cool...it was just astounding to realise...wow, Cher was actually once young!!

Anyway this was just the closing song on the final episode of the most recent season of MAD MEN...reminded me that life can just change drastically in a split second...I think we often get so bogged down in daily drudgery and routines we often forget to remember life's possibilities :)

WESTLAKE/Penguin Ballet

2011-10-29T22:15:00.002+11:00

Really love this! And his music composition in general...Can't believe he's an AUSSIE composer!!! WOW!

THE NATIONAL/Conversation 16

2011-10-26T01:24:00.003+11:00

Wow when I first posted this- my FAVOURITE song ON REPEAT over and over and over all through 2010, the album HIGH VIOLET was somewhat new so there were no decent audiovisuals available...so here I post it again...in HD!!!

"I think the kids are in trouble..." yep that would be right! LOL

THE NATIONAL/Beautiful Head

2011-10-26T01:04:00.003+11:00

Wow...tonight I found my passion for music again with a vengeance...just spent ages listening to music online...maybe cos I had fresh internet quota, lol...

so okay all their songs are awesome but tonight I liked this lesser known track possibly because I like the title hehe... Can't believe they're coming to Oz AGAIN! coool, happy days :)

Rachael Yamagata/Elephants

2011-10-22T10:32:00.004+11:00

Wow...AMAZING VOICE- literally she had me within the opening 3 words of the first song I ever heard by her Reason Why!!!

Anyway out of the few songs I have sampled I prefer this one

I am *impressed*...cool, it's been ages since my last discovery- possibly cos of my very limited download- crappy and expensive internet in regional Australia...Yes, I live in a regional backwater! But hey as long as I can still find vaste expanses of empty wasteland and desolate spaces of natural beauty, then that's consolation enough for me...I mean I think society went along much better in the days before all the social problems and corruptions that the internet has brought the world...haha who's the crabby grandma...lol

COLDPLAY/Politik

2011-09-21T20:42:00.006+10:00

Open up your Eeeeeeeyes!!!

What can I say? I encounter alot of ignorant people...I often feel frustrated. This song seems to embody my feeling perfectly. Plus, it's a great song :)

CUT COPY/Going Nowhere

2011-09-07T16:31:00.004+10:00

wow how one changes! There would have been a time just a short time ago when the thought of GOING NOWHERE would have bothered me akin to an utter nightmare. Now it feels like a sense of...peace and quiet :D! I guess it really is about whether you are focused on enjoying each moment by moment or whether you are always so far ahead planning out your entire life that you overlook the present totally!

INXS/Need you tonight

2011-08-28T18:13:00.002+10:00

this one is for you...wherever in the world you are...I dreamt about you last night...weird and random I know, lol.

QUEEN/Crazy Little Thing Called Love

2011-08-24T17:25:00.003+10:00

hehe people are so boring, so generic. They think so...unoriginally.

People all think I'm all loved up and shacked up with a dude....NO WAY...Cramp my style indeed LOL!

But yeah I AM in love...what a first!!!...with God!! Feel very blessed ^^...even people around me are wondering and starting to think "I want some of that too"...I keep revealing "the secret" but they either don't take me seriously or they think it's too hard and lose interest...thereby sabotaging themselves from getting it for themselves too!

TRY HARDER I say. It's probably the only healthy thing which is not just a one time wonder transient high...more like a very *magical* and exciting journey...

NEW ORDER/True Faith

2011-08-22T12:38:00.003+10:00

This is to celebrate the term :)

How FUNNY is this clip btw...absolutely hilarious, LOVE the face slapping opening...80s clips are DA BOMB!!!!

SONNY ROLLINS/Oleo & Valse Hot

2011-07-25T17:40:00.003+10:00

It's been a long while since I was able to hold a glass of red with my jazz! It's been a long time period since I've listened to Sonny...long time overdue! Not sure why jazz appeals to some...and saxes...maybe it's the ability of the sax to be moody and broody set against the unpredictable chaos that jazz can sometimes sound like...I guess that is a bit like how I feel today!

DAVID BYRNE/Glass Concrete Stone

2011-07-25T00:36:00.002+10:00

David Byrne?...I'm now a FAN!

Thanks, "Dirty Pretty Things"!

BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD/Hot Dusty Roads

2011-07-21T14:35:00.002+10:00

I'm dreaming of Hot Dusty Roads...but all I have at the moment is a very sopping wet & flooded driveway...

am I REALLY in the driest drought stricken continent?!!!

REGINA SPEKTOR/Ode to Divorce

2011-06-05T18:20:00.001+10:00

I really like his song. Have been listening to a lot of Regina lately. I just got a new fence so I have been indulging in playing music LOUD and continuously :)

TEARS FOR FEARS/Everybody wants to rule the world

2011-05-31T01:09:00.003+10:00

Yay thanks buddy.

What a great classic from my childhood...the 80s...a time when the world still made sense and didn't seem so crazy.

I'm really feeling myself getting lost in the "modern world"...

Won't dwell on the past but just reminisce and cherish the good ol' days! cheers to the 80s!!!

SIGUR ROS/Med Sud I Eyrum

2011-05-20T22:16:00.003+10:00

If my life were a piece of music....Sigur Ros would be spot on...Nostalgia, Melancholy, Hope and Redemption...always, the Phoenix Rising from the Ashes!

Beautiful ICELAND... the one country in Europe I've always been drawn to and wanted to visit (to all my European friends puzzlement!)

REGINA SPEKTOR/Dance Anthem of the 80's

2011-04-30T22:33:00.007+10:00

LOL I was walking down the street in the Big Festy City (filled with odours d'puke, piss, cig smoke, smog and BOOZE) and I couldn't help but think how appropriate this song was... however contrary to the title it seems to also very much apply to the current era! LOL

There's a meat market down the street
The boys and girls watch each other eat
The boys and the girls watch each other eat
When they really just wanna watch each other

Sleep
They want to watch, to watch each other
Sleep, sleep, sleep
Sleep
They want to watch, to watch each other
Sleep, sleep, sleep

HILLTOP HOODS/the nosebleed section

2011-04-28T00:05:00.003+10:00

Sheeeesh! how the hell did I miss such a COOL SONG?? right in my own backyard? LOL, it took a DUTCHMEN the other side of the world for me to actually listen to this band for the very first time! Slooooow.

Anyway I like em. Very Beastie Boys, maybe even cooler but maybe a bit too long winded and repetitive...

But yeah...*catchy* :)

too bad it ain't spring. but yeah cheers up these wet and cold autumn doldrums :P

HILLSONG/Forever Reign

2011-04-21T00:20:00.004+10:00

LOL when did IIIII become a HILLSONG groupie?!!

(HILLSONG is like the huge rock concert version of christian church home grown in Oz...not for the faint hearted or crowd-a-phobic, lol!)

Anyway no unfair bias...it's a good song! Well at least my favourite on the album "A Beautiful Exchange" which my friend sent me...boy am I ever lucky these days...always getting sent PRESENTS!!! ; )

So anyway since it's coming to that most important time of year...I wanted to post an appropriately themed song...I have included lyrics so you can sing along...

You are good, you are good
When there's nothing good in me
You are love, you are love
On display for all to see
You are light, you are light
When the darkness closes in
You are hope, you are hope
You have covered all my sin

You are peace, you are peace
When my fear is crippling
You are true, you are true
Even in my wondering
You are joy, you are joy
You're the reason that I sing
You are life, you are life
In you death has lost its sting

Chorus:
Oh, I'm running to your arms
I'm running to your arms
The riches of your love
Will always be enough
Nothing compares to your embrace
Light of the world forever reign

You are more, you are more
Than my words will ever say
You are Lord, you are Lord
All creation will proclaim
You are here, you are here
In your prescence I'm made whole
You are God, you are God
Of all else I'm letting go

Chorus:
Oh, I'm running to your arms
I'm running to your arms
The riches of your love
Will always be enough
Nothing comares to your embrace
Light of the world forever reign

Chorus:
I'm running to your arms
I'm running to your arms
The riches of your love
Will always be enough
Nothing compares to your embrace
Light of the world forever reign

My heart will sing no other name
Jesus, Jesus
My heart will sing no other name
Jesus, Jesus
My heart will sing no other name
Jesus, Jesus
My heart will sing no other name
Jesus, Jesus

Chorus:
Oh, I'm running to your arms
I'm running to your arms
The riches of your love
Will always be enough
Nothing compares to your embrace
Light of the world forever reign

Chorus:
I'm running to your arms
I'm running to your arms
The riches of your love
Will always be enough
Nothing compares to your embrace
Light of the world forever reign

COLDPLAY/Viva La Vida

2011-04-10T21:52:00.004+10:00

Okay so I'm still undecided about whether I like this musically as a song or not- I think just I am a sucker for anything that has a cello or string underlay.

In terms of the video though WOW this has got to be the WORST TACKIEST UNCREATIVE music video for a really mainstream song!

I think at 70 million? hits this probably takes the cake by a few zillion for the most commercial clip I have ever posted on here...LOL

Here is the daggy video and catchy but so so song:

actually once you change the clip the song just improves immeasurably! but I'm too lazy to repost...

Tom Tuena/Walking Your Way

2011-04-03T06:59:00.004+10:00

Well folks...cos it's Sunday and I'm wondering whether I can get myself out of bed to church, I thoughtI'd put up some praise & worship in the form of talented muso Tom Tuena who I was lucky to see for free by accident while I was travelling back in Jan.

Apart from Sufjan Stevens, not aware of any young musos in this generation that are openly Christian...and SO IN TOUCH WITH GOD! Anyway it was a great energy to be present for and was very inspiring for me on my own walk with God :)

So here is Tom with his original song that oozes faith and a living relationship with God...this version is from last October- it was a much better rendition by the time I saw it in Jan...or maybe cos Live is always eons better than crappy youtube recordings, lol.

Enjoy...

KATIE NOONAN/Special Ones

2011-01-19T18:28:00.005+11:00

wow this is a really fresh jazzy Katie Noonan Version - I like the George version too though.

Isn't it funny how you never really screamed at my face,
but your anger so unspoken and unchannelled permeates
my essence to the point where
I Don't want to see you hear you,
be anywhere near you,
you probably think I'm threatened by you
but your illusionary power doesn't threaten me
Actually I think it's kind of funny that you create
an illusion that is a mirror,
I don't appreciate you and I know that that surprises you
I suppose you see that those who follow their heart always win,
those with integrity have won the match before it's begun

So rather than being kicked around,
I'm going to kick you to the curb
So rather than being pushed around,
I'm going to push you away first
So rather than trying to protect you,
I'm going to cover my basses first
So rather than trying to open my heart,
I'm going to lock it with a key
So that only the special ones,
so that only the special ones,
can ever get through to me

Some can see beyond the barrier of threshold
whereas others can't see beyond their sculptured mould,
you could offer me nothing,
you could offer me nothing that I need
Do you think I'm asking too much?
A kind of respect and trust that shouldn't even be questioned,
how can I open my heart with dishonesty sitting next to me?
I've honoured your honour to the point of embarrassment,
but innocence in the hands of the guilt-free is kicked to,
is kicked to the curb I was ashamed of my innocence,
I was ashamed of my innocence but now with clarity I see
that your bullshit is just not worthy of me

I don't want to be angry....
This is not worthy of me and now with clarity
I see that I can walk away, I can walk away

Radiohead/ The National Anthem (in Paris) and in HD

2011-01-07T21:16:00.005+11:00

I love this song...dark and disturbing...lol exactly what the city is to me...and probably exactly why I put this disc in before 7am in the morning and turned the volume up in response to my inconsiderate druggy deranged loud singing at all hours neighbour. This song is antidotal in that way...so strange how even the lyrics totally reflect my sentiments re city living- hilarious!

Everyone
Everyone around here
Everyone is so near
What's going on?
What's going on?

Everyone
Everyone is so near
Everyone has got the fear
What's going on?
What's going on?

What's going on?
What's going on?
What's going on?

Nitin Sawhney ft./Spark

2010-12-29T22:21:00.004+11:00

I love the lyrics of this song...very...me.

...With a mouth full of stars I trip over my feet
You've blown me away, I can hardly speak
Stolen my silence, scattered my peace
I'm lost in the dark, mislaid my spark...

Who is the female vocalist though I wonder...I think I am too lazy to look properly.

THE SUNDAYS/Can't Be Sure

2010-11-17T18:27:00.000+11:00

Yann Tiersen/Comptine d'un autre été (Amelie)

2010-11-14T21:44:00.005+11:00

I remember being dead tired when I went to the cinema to see this and I think I even fell asleep! Now though seeing it for the 3rd or 4th time so many years later I feel it is strangely familiar...I think I've now reached the age where I see this film and I think....OMG that's ME! Anyway I love this piece...Cheers :)

FLEETWOOD MAC/Gypsy

2010-10-30T00:13:00.001+11:00

I was watching Knight Rider (LOL!) and this was a very familiar blast from the past!!! GREAT SONG...and classy clip too!

Regina Spektor/Eet

2010-10-14T18:18:00.001+11:00

My favourite song on "Far"...

Washington a.k.a Megan Washington

2010-10-04T13:46:00.007+11:00

*excited* :-D!

Washington a.k.a Megan Washington is the best female voice I've heard out of this country since Katie Noonan! :) Very happy to realise there is a depth of talent to the music scene- not always particularly evident to me in my hokey city cos I'm too old for raucous big music festivals now-damn just missed seeing her...lol

Thanks to my mate Jonno for keeping me up to date with talent on the local Oz music scene...

ISHMAEL

WITH PAUL GRABOWSKY

UNDERGROUND

BED OF NAILS

you can here more here.

The Presets/If I Know You

2010-09-27T20:01:00.004+10:00

In another life I think I would be a great music exec.

I was sitting in a hotel this week when I heard this TUNE. I liked it so much I had to know what it was so with the help of the hotel person we "hound dogged" it on his Iphone...

found out it was this song...the clip is cool too...like Billy Elliot on speed! In any case I finally managed to find a copy for purchase and then realised that it was the 2008 ARIA album of the year...like I said, I'd be a great music exec...

Hello Little Cousin! (Music out of NZ) Goldenhorse X3 + Opshop

2010-09-17T23:22:00.000+10:00

I noticed this VOICE by accident while listening to She will have her way (The songs of Neil and Tim Finn) album.

And that's how I discovered GOLDENHORSE with that characteristic Aussie daggy pop sound big in the late 80s/90s that I LOVE...she is EXACTLY like a young NZ version of Angie Hart, complete with the quirk. Definitely going to go get an album...

Three songs I really like:
GOLDENHORSE/JUMP INTO THE SUN

GOLDENHORSE/OUT OF THE MOON

GOLDENHORSE/WAKE UP BROTHER

Somone actually suggested that New Zealand is SO my kind of country...so it was pretty cool when looking at Goldhorse clips, discovering another New Zealand band...OPSHOP-lol this is unexpected from me but I thought they were worth a clip too :)

OPSHOP/WAITING NOW

She will have her way...The songs of Neil and Tim Finn

2010-09-17T23:10:00.003+10:00

I really like Clare Bowditch's rendition of that beautiful classic

FALL AT YOUR FEET

But I still like Tim Finn doing PERSUASION himself.

Sigur Ros/Gobbledigook

2010-09-12T23:29:00.002+10:00

This is my favourite song this weekend...Gosh I love the Icelandic people...talk abourt great attire! And what is it about their unique environment that produces such great music?

I would love to be Icelandic...especially if I could be as cute as Bjork (lol) but heck I'd take any part of Scandinavia I think -being able to speak in their cool sounding tongues alone would be worth it :)

KATE MILLER-HEIDKE/Caught in the Crowd

2010-08-29T23:40:00.006+10:00

I like this song...acoustic version.

And the clip as well...cute :) Love the fun clips.

Oh and I like this one too: God's Gift to Women (acoustic)...LOL one person comes to mind for BOTH of these songs ;) P.S Why don't you just subscribe to her Youtube Channel?

KATE MILLER-HEIDKE/Supergirl

2010-08-29T00:43:00.006+10:00

I'm loving Kate Miller-Heidke's Curiouser album. Best Aussie Music discovery for me in aaaages.

Anyway, how narcissistic is this...I'm dedicating this song to Meeeeeee! HAHA. Ok, All Scorp girls actually, just cos we're too...cool :)

whole song:

Shame this one got cut off!

THE NATIONAL/about today

2010-08-18T01:13:00.005+10:00

My dearest TF,

I miss you...

Sigur Ros/Gong

2010-08-07T21:40:00.004+10:00

This is the perfect Saturn Return/Mid Life Crisis song....sublime! Without the visuals this song says to me...chaos & despair, upheaval, drama, redemption, transcendence, it's "The Chariot" and 555....but also the culmination of a cycle and rebirth all in one!

this clip is one of the better ones with all important decent sound quality - I think the "nature" theme of the clip taps in well to the 'essence' of this song...especially the Winter...cold, barren...monochromatic...

it's also a nice juxtaposition of ideas to me: the insignificance and smallness of the human compared to the vast power of the natural world. Sorry I'm not in the most lucid or well expressed mode today- but hopefully you get some morsel of the idea I'm trying to express but can't seem to! :-p

THE CRANBERRIES/Linger

2010-08-01T13:30:00.004+10:00

I was unpacking and filing all my precious babies into their specially made shelf (with much content)when I came across this old disc...and listening to this 15 years past it's prime...WOW I still love this song as much as ever! It's definitely in the hall of "Mscherrylane's All Time Classics!"

This song on repeat got me through much of my angsty teen years and hate-hate relationship with being forced to attend an anal-obsessive high school. It's been nice to be reunited...even more so, strangely I don't remember ever having seen the original video clip...and I'm actually nicely impressed- love the monochromatic shades and that seeking spotlight...wow reminds me of my film days studying "Metropolis"! LOL, I remember one of my classmates proffering that the spotlight on the woman was her being "metaphorically raped". I remember thinking at the time: "What a load of crap! What ARE all these film students ON!"

But I'm glad to say over the years, my mind has expanded exponentially out of being so literal and straightforward and...limited, since then. Cheers to ever expanding conscientious potentials...

THE NATIONAL/Conversation 16

2010-07-12T21:06:00.004+10:00

Hehe still deeply and happily ensconced in this album :D

Conversation 16 has to be the stand out song on the High Violet album for me...by a nose...from other favourites notably Sorrow, Terrible Love and of course Runaway.

Anycase enjoy....the picture's pretty bad but the sound on this clip is fantastic! Best Cannibal Love song ever, lol.

THE NATIONAL/Runaway

2010-07-11T20:50:00.005+10:00

Finally got my stereo setup and all my cds transported and have been enjoying THE NATIONAL's latest album High Violet....this song in particular makes particularly good musing/time out music cos it's so mellow...
So carpet kinda sucks acoustics wise compared to the luxurious sound afforded by floorboards (now completely muted sound) but hey, glad to have my music!

BABYBIRD/ You're Gorgeous

2010-06-01T23:31:00.002+10:00

Reminiscing...this song I discovered by accident...very much reminds me of that great coming of Age series THE WONDER YEARS.

Sobred

2010-06-01T22:22:00.004+10:00

The two songs today that resonated: THE NATIONAL's "Apartment Story"

so worry not
all things are well
we’ll be alright
we have our looks and perfume

(fab acoustic version with just matt and aaron.)

and also KD Lang's "Simple"....that is pure..."essence" in a song, what can I say "Beauty in Simplicity!" All too hard to find these days :( KD is really some kind of angel...you can so easily imagine her flanked on either side by gigantic fluffy white wings!

Clips as follows...

It was a Bipolar-y kind of day...

2010-05-22T00:23:00.004+10:00

Not that I have BP but I find fire energy based people tend to be quite manic in this way they are up and down at both extremes of a continuum and can be all in the space of a short time- wow makes us fireys sound so damn scary!

So anyway I thought it was funnily reflected in the lyrics of two favourite great songs I listened to back to back.

THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT- THE SMITHS

Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
And they're young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Anymore

Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people and I
Want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please don't drop me home
Because it's not my home, it's their
Home, and I'm welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last
(But then a strange fear gripped me and I
Just couldn't ask)

Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one, da ...
Oh, I haven't got one

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Oh, There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out

MINT CAR - THE CURE

The sun is up
I'm so happy I could scream!
And there's nowhere else in the world I'd rather be
Than here with you
It's perfect
It's all I ever wanted
I almost can't believe that it's for real

I really don't think it gets any better than this
Vanilla smile
And a gorgeous strawberry kiss!
Birds sing we swing
Clouds drift by and everything is like a dream
It's everything I wished

Never guessed it got this good
Wondered if it ever would
Really didn't think it could
Do it again?
I know we should!!!

The sun is up
I'm so fizzy I could burst!
You wet through and me headfirst
Into this is perfect
It's all I ever wanted
Ow! it feels so big it almost hurts!

Never guessed it got this good
Wondered if it ever would
Really didn't think it could
Do it some more?
I know we should!!!

Say it will always be like this
The two of us together
It will always be like this
Forever and ever and ever...

Never guessed it got this good
Wondered if it ever would
Really didn't think it could
Do it all the time?
I know that we should!!!

LIOR/This Old Love

2010-05-19T21:56:00.003+10:00

Really connect with everything about this song lately...

PONYO - Credits (English)

2010-05-09T10:08:00.004+10:00

I LOVE this movie- my favourite kids movie music since THE LITTLE MERMAID!

I loved it so much I even cared to record the lyrics(how I heard them) to sing along^^...lol, a forever kid!!!

Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo
Fishy in the Sea
Tiny little Fishy who could you really be?
Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo
Magic Set You Free
O She's a little Girl
With a round tummy.

Tip Tippy Toe
Jump Jump and Hop
Now that I've got my legs
I cannot stop
Pat Patty Pat
Waving Hello
Come and hold hands with me
Dancing we go

My feet are skipping my heart too
Happy Happy are we all
Maybe I might love you
Maybe I might love you
So Hold on Tight and Hold me Close
You're My Hero...

Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo
Fishy in the Sea
Tiny little Fishy who could you really be?
Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo
Magic Set You Free
O pretty little girl will you swim back to me?

KD Lang/ Hallelujah

2010-05-03T15:26:00.003+10:00

Whenever I hear this beautiful lady singing this song I think to myself: "THERE IS GOD"... and Angels!!! ^^

THE NATIONAL/High Violet

2010-04-26T01:22:00.002+10:00

You can preview their soon to be released album here.

I wish they'd come back to Oz soon. Seeing them live at Angel Place is still one of my most special musical moments ever -definitely the best indoor gig I have ever witnessed in this country!!!!

I guess I'll have to catch them when I'm in the Northern Hemisphere...here's hoping!

Katie Noonan & The Captains/Emperor's Box @ 505

2010-04-26T01:10:00.005+10:00

This song as well as "Page One" sound so amazing live, but unfortunately that really doesn't come through in this particular clip. Oh well, will be getting the CD ^^ Caught Katie Noonan performing her new stuff at the Art Gallery recently....really, really good stuff!

Mumford & Sons/Little Lion Man

2010-04-26T00:57:00.005+10:00

Occasionally a not particularly amazing but catchy song comes along where it seems like everybody likes it and you can't help but get on the bandwagon ;)

JOY DIVISION/Disorder

2010-04-22T16:53:00.001+10:00

This is my new favourite for the moment, possibly cos I have been in such a state of hectic chaos myself! LOL

MILES DAVIS/Summertime

2010-03-19T17:44:00.002+11:00

This is a great track (with a leisurely glass of wine) with alfresco meal preferably just to unwind and relax after a tiring day...it's ironic that planning a huge holiday globetrot is actually quite stressful and hard work on the brain!

MOBY/Rushing

2010-03-18T23:09:00.002+11:00

wow, can you believe the hugely successful PLAY album is over 10 years old??!!!

Someone feels old!

Anyway this one is short and sweet- my favourite bit comes in at 1:20.

Enjoy :)

A-HA/Take On Me

2010-03-16T08:11:00.002+11:00

Sorry I couldn't help it lapsing into my favourite...classic 80s!

p.s I love how the youtube poster felt a need for a disclaimer: "I'm a true rocker but I love this song and no, it's not gay." lol.

ARVO PART/Spiegel im Spiegel

2010-02-28T20:25:00.004+11:00

Thanks to my cultured photographer net friend VZ my world has been enlightened with the music of Arvo Part...loooove *swoons* lol

Please enjoy :)

p.s a fantastic interview with Arvo by Bjork(how cute is her accent!)

THE TRIFFIDS/Trick of the Light

2010-02-25T23:38:00.004+11:00

I love this tune or maybe it is cos I am in the mood to unleash my inner 40 something year old, lol.

In any case I love the melodies and lyricism from bands such as THE TRIFFIDS...I also love that poetry and sense of Nostalgia that seems to all pervade their music.

REGINA SPEKTOR/Fidelity

2010-02-04T22:34:00.003+11:00

My mate said I'm like a doggie. I guess cause I am loyal as hell...not something commonly found in most human beings :p

KEANE

2010-01-28T00:21:00.004+11:00

I spent much of today listening to UNDER THE IRON SEA...nice album. I'm not sure why I left it to collect dust for so long.

Here were my two favourites for today

A BAD DREAM (actually most of my dreams lately have been so good I didn't want to get up, lol!)

THE FROG PRINCE (no, no Frogs or Princes either. Just random, very random, STUFF.)

REENA BHARDWAJ/Voice of An Angel

2010-01-17T21:03:00.011+11:00

She has no albums of her own yet, but you can hear her on Nitin Sawhney and Ministry of Sound Albums and on Indian films - I think she was discovered by Composer A.R Rahman, whose music most people have probably heard in the movie Slumdog Millionaire.

This song, MAUSAM is most easily accessible to the western ear...(very Bollywood sound.) And not to sound *dramatic* but this is the SOUNDTRACK to the rest of my life, starting today! :-D

And the one suited to those of us who really love and appreciate our world music :)

Reena has has her own site where you can have a good listen to her portfolio. *love* :D

EMILIANA TORRINI/ Sunny Road & Heartstopper

2010-01-17T20:29:00.003+11:00

Okay, so I'm a sucker for the Icelandic...

but you gotta admit this is a pretty cool animation...and her video clips are much more interesting than the average...

And this song is not too bad...but at the end of the day I am just a sucker for the voice...she actually reminds me of an Icelandic Sarah Blasko...lol.

Manu and the "Hang"

2010-01-13T13:20:00.003+11:00

LOL, almost sounds like a good name for a band!

Actually his name is Manu Delago and he plays the "Hang"...drum(?).

In any case the sound is quite mesmerizing-sample his work here. I love creative music :)

BLONDE REDHEAD/Top Ranking

2010-01-11T09:46:00.004+11:00

I've always been drawn to otherworldly and ethereal voices...maybe cos they are such a stark contrast to our impermanence and mortality.

The official video could have been so much better though....the distinctive model is Miranda July, who you might remember from Me and You and Everyone We Know.

RHCP/Under the Bridge

2010-01-08T13:19:00.004+11:00

Okay, every now and again I gotta curb my specific tastes and post a mainstream tune everyone knows...this was my favourite one from pub karaoke last night- if anything, the sedated sounds were a refreshing and much welcome change from some of that really intolerable super sugar-pumped happy pappy bopster crap!

Lost in the Music

2009-12-22T14:02:00.004+11:00

I am thoroughly enjoying being consumed and absorbed lately by...

My favourites right now:

SILAS THE MAGIC CAR : MEW

HEART SKIPPED A BEAT: THE XX

The XX/Blood Red Moon

2009-12-20T10:36:00.002+11:00

Electronic Minimalism? "Too cool for school"? I don't know how you call it but I like this sound anyway!

PET SHOP BOYS/ I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing

2009-12-16T22:06:00.002+11:00

How gay is this song and especially this version too(I much prefer the "Very" album version)...however it's most appropriate for the moment, lol!

BLONDE REDHEAD/Misery is a Butterfly

2009-11-27T14:04:00.002+11:00

I am having such a nice time refreshing my IPOD- need a changeover for the road!!!

Anycase I really like this song today- I find it interesting that the lead singer is Japanese...I always imagined her as Icelandic -with that voice! lol

WHAM/Wake me up before you go go!

2009-11-23T15:30:00.003+11:00

If Life is like a rollercoaster, I'm very glad to say I am at one of its peaks rather than its troughs. So maybe the clip that follows is classic "peak" music...ANYWAY.

The other day I was having coffee with a filmmaker and I glimpsed this keyring with some man on it.

Who is that? I asked.
George. She replied.

George? Who George?!! I asked.

Luckily she didn't take me for as ignorant as my question seemed and shoved the keyring closer to my eyeballs...

Ohhhhh...George MICHAEL GEORGE! I exclaimed.

I love George! She replied.

Yeah Me too!!!

And here is a karaoke friendly clip of my favourite WHAM song as a young child...Have fun singing along :)

VANESSA MAE/Night Flight

2009-11-22T08:49:00.006+11:00

I stopped trying to fish around for inspiration from others...humans are just....human, so I turn to nature, art and...MUSIC!

I particularly like Track 5 on Vanessa Mae's "Subject to Change" - Night Flight.

Of course there are some dubious moments, like when she talk-sings, but all in all I'd have to say her work is quite an agreeable style of electro-classic fusion.

I remember when my Sinophilic Classical Music Loving mate first gave me her music, I was rather dubious cos all I knew of her was that she seemed like a bit of an attention seeker and had "corrupted" classical music by needing to sexify it so...

In any case I am much less judgemental and rigid in how I think now...the girl has talent, who cares how she chooses to present herself and/or classical music!

Microwave Jenny

2009-11-16T22:52:00.005+11:00

Exciting! This is the best music out of oz I've heard in a while! Can't believe they're as yet unsigned- if I was a label I would so sign them...Tessa's voice speaks for itself...honestly reminds me of when I first heard Kate Ceberano....absolutely gorgeous! Hopefully they play some local shows soon :)

Check out their myspace or their webpage(my fav="mellow") and here's some youtube...

hmmm sometimes I think, I should be in the music business, I think my good taste in music ;) lends itself well to being able to pick the next big thing (well at least on the independent music scene!) I think this band is screaming for signing- can't believe they haven't been picked up yet!

Josh Pyke/When We Get There

2009-11-10T19:17:00.002+11:00

Opening tune off the movie "The Black Balloon" Good but Intense...I felt drained just watching it- I quite like this song though :)

Guess which Song?

2009-11-03T12:20:00.004+11:00

Lyrics: "I made a lot of mistakes, I made a lot of mistakes".

Song, artist?

Bjork/Venus as a Boy

2009-11-01T17:50:00.001+11:00

I can just imagine if I had been born a boy...I'm in that kind of "off with the fairies" daydreaming mode today...

This is my fav song off DEBUT - or, a toss up with PLAY DEAD.

Dave Matthews/One Sweet World

2009-10-30T17:31:00.002+11:00

I can't remember how I discovered Dave Matthews a while back...but I remember investigating his music further very much because of hearing this song...

Here is a nice live version...Enjoy! :)

BJORK/In the Musicals

2009-10-25T10:40:00.004+11:00

edit: here is a pretty cool dance video clip to the song

If you are a BJORK fan and do not own the album "Selmasongs" a.k.a Soundtrack for Lars Von Trier's "Dancer in the Dark"...YOU NEED TO GO AND BUY IT!!!

This little beauty has been hidden collecting dust on my shelf for a while cos I'd forgotten about it! But it is absolutely fantastic!

Unfortunately the sound in this clip cuts out half way...even more so why you should go buy the album for the song in full!

Anyway hopefully if I listen to this song enough I will get the *zing* I need to get through my mountains of work today...Yikes!

LAMB/Please

2009-10-24T21:35:00.003+11:00

I really like listening to this song today...for some reason.

BLONDE REDHEAD/My Impure Hair

2009-10-24T14:27:00.001+11:00

Live... Awesome!

LOL, the title reminds me of a certain someone who hasn't washed his hair for 7 weeks and is so proud of discovering hair's "self cleaning abilities" he keeps shoving his head in everyone's face inviting them to smell, touch....Gross!!

Cattle & Cane live acoustic (including Interview with Robert & Grant)

2009-10-17T14:06:00.003+11:00

I love this song. The lyrics, the imagery, so vivid...

I recall a schoolboy coming home
Through fields of cane
To a house of tin and timber
And in the sky
A rain of falling cinders
From time to time
The waste memory-wastes
I recall a boy in bigger pants
Like everyone
Just waiting for a chance
His father’s watch
He left it in the showers
From time to time
The waste memory-wastes
I recall a bigger brighter world
A world of books
And silent times in thought
And then the railroad
The railroad takes him home
Through fields of cattle
Through fields of cane
From time to time
The waste memory-wastes
The waste memory-wastes...

Further, longer, higher, older.

My Bloody Valentine/Soon

2009-10-17T13:30:00.001+11:00

SOON. :)

Sigur Ros: This is how I like to "cleanse"

2009-10-10T15:44:00.002+11:00

from society overload...

some of my favourite anti-social music, for today

GLOSOLI

(500) Days of Summer...The Soundtrack!

2009-09-22T22:28:00.008+10:00

This movie has a KICK ASS soundtrack...the first film in ages where the music was like candy to my brain!

Others that come to mind (if I remember correctly) are HIGH FIDELITY, GARDEN STATE and DONNIE DARKO...or maybe that's just my taste in music.

But (500) days of Summer...wow, not just a soundtrack...it really correlates with my musical taste!

It featured my favourite SMITHS song "there is a light that never goes out"^^

And a major surprise musical discovery for me was Carla Bruni...wow! The French First Lady is a respectable musician in her own right!!!

Other sound I really liked was:

Mumm-Raa

and of course Ms. Spektor

And...The Pixies song "Here comes your man"

apart from the familiar music, I was particularly amused by the Unknown Pleasures Joy Division t-shirt and the little send up snippet of Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal...eh, so nice to be able to have a film with so many "bits" I actually get...

I'm an 80s child after all.

2009-09-14T18:53:00.005+10:00

The only regret I have about being born in 1980 is that I missed being able to enjoy my favourite music era in its currency...

I received 2 CDs in the mail today...best of Depeche Mode and best of Joy Division.

*sigh....I looooooove it.

I think for me, perhaps MUSIC was the one biggest factor in my conditioning...perhaps that is why I have never been able to relate to people my own age...and why they completely do not know how to appreciate my music :p

Anyway I leave you with some Joy Division and some Depeche Mode...Enjoy!!! :)

LOVE WILL TEAR US APART (Joy Division)

SHAKE THE DISEASE (Depeche Mode)

SHE'S LOST CONTROL (Joy Division)

THE GO-BETWEENS/16 Lovers Lane

2009-09-07T09:32:00.003+10:00

As couples everywhere around me break up, bicker, turn their heads and close their eyes holding it together for the sake of the kids, valiantly staving off being another "D" statistic (at a rate to challenge the speed of light), I thought it fitting to feature songs from The Go-Betweens most accessible album: a whole album dedicated to the realities of Love- all the trials and tribulations of relationships...a glimmer of Hope but with a real sense of underlying futility...just like our exponentially skyrocketing divorce rates!

Thanks to WhackaWhacka for putting up so many songs so that the whole album can be enjoyed by all. (p.s check out his channel- some good stuff, including his own pieces- this one being my favourite!)