Ah, Lou Reed. This is when Lou was bleached blonde and giving great interviews to the Australian press about how he didn’t take drugs but spent all his money on them. I wish he was still like this. Drugs were good for you, Lou.
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And, “Half the time you don’t understand the words…it’s just a beat.” Such wise words spoken from the young lady in the following clip that features holy rollers playing the same old rock tunes backwards and freaking out about the “hidden satanic messages” buried within. The main guy doing all this detective work says he used to listen to the radio. I imagine he used to drink a lot of PBR and eat pickled pigs’ feet as well. Dig it.
If you’re curious to hear (most) of the songs I picked for the current Pink Floyd Deep Cuts piece, then head on over to Sniff The Tip and listen to your ears’ content. That is all. Happy weekend to you all.
The first two entries to my Covers thread involved more recent acts covering older songs (I say more recent, even though both of those bands, Simply Red and the Pet Shop Boys, debuted in 1986), but this time, we’re going the other way. I want old prog to cover the new prog.
Rush made an EP a couple years ago called Feedback. On that EP, they covered songs that made them want to form a band in the first place. Bands like the Who, Blue Cheer, Buffalo Springfield, that kind of thing. To this Rush fan, that is a complete waste of time. I don’t want to hear Rush covering songs that are beneath their abilities: I want to hear them covering “Welcome to the Jungle,” “Silent Lucidity” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (don’t laugh, they’d knock it out of the fucking park), you know?
Well, here is their chance. Muse is Radiohead + Queen, if we’re using “music math,” which means that there are at least two or three songs in their catalog that would fit Rush like an old pair of jeans. Tell me that Alex wouldn’t salivate at the thought of playing the guitar line to “Stockholm Syndrome” (it’d remind him of “The Spirit of Radio”), while Neil bashes his drums to high heaven and Geddy gets to justify playing both bass and keys in a song again. Come on, you know he misses it so.
Watch the vid, and tell me that Rush doesn’t fucking love this song.
Earlier this year, I thought I’d try out Last.FM, which claims to learn what you like by tracking your listening preferences (in iTunes) and uses that information to provide a list of recommended artists. So I downloaded the iTunes plug-in – called the “iScrobbler” – and cued up my “Best of 02-06” playlist (as I was mainly interested in finding new new music).
After a night of recording my tastes, Last.FM provided a series of recommendations, from “popular” to “obscure.” Two of the top recommendations – Belle & Sebastian and the Kooks – jumped out at me, so I gave B&S’ The Life Pursuit and the Kooks’ Inside In/Inside Out a few listens. The result? Both albums are on my Top 10 list for 2006.
Damn computers.
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