The Waitress Song - Seth Sentry

Go. Listen to this song. It was in the Triple J Hottest 100 this year and it's just great. Listen to the lyrics. Faaaantastic.

Asleep - The Smiths

My damn go again, apparently. THE TIME; IT FLIES.

Um hey okay so there's nothing in my life but Holden Street these days so I've nicked this song from The Play You All Should See (Because It's Fucking Amazing.) They use this at the end, and it will punch you in the heart with "oh no", if you see it, WHICH YOU SHOULD. (Heroin(e) For Breakfast, you guys. It's on all the freaking time, including 4pm Sunday. DO IT. DO ITTTTTT.)

So the song's by the Smiths and it's about suicide (a Venn diagram is necessary here re: the Smith's catalogue.) Pretty piano, the main guy's droning yet weirdly pretty voice, an incredibly depressing overriding theme. What is not to like? The Smiths, is what. Cheer the fuck up, you guys. Shit.

(It was this or the song from the start, but I can't remember that on account of the Onstage Action being Somewhat Distracting. Come see it. I swear to god.)

Edit: A link might be useful. Y'know, if you're into that.

Hometown Glory - Adele

Adele is British, she has a pretty voice and she is great.
This song is about London, so just shut up and listen to it because I love it.

Hometown Glory

Hey Ya (Acoustic Cover) - Matt Weddle / Ted Buckland

This cover of Hey Ya is possibly one of the most bizzarly wonderful songs ever. The original song was kinda rubbish and performed by a ridiculously dressed Outkast (jesus christ, the dude just makes me so angry, just look at him. what a pretentious git) but yeah.
It is so good, in fact, that it's been used *twice* in Scrubs! Once in the episode where the Janitor and Lady get married and then in My Finale (I think that's what it's called. whatever the last episode of the good seasons was called). Check them both out if you haven't heard them. They're both pretty great. Personally I enjoy the one that Ted sings.

Lewis Takes His Shirt Off - Owen Pallett

Oh shit, it's my go.

This isn't at all my discovery and I don't know a damn thing about the artist other than that the lyrics to this are quite lovely and strange and there's something about a dude with an electric violin that is pleasing.

Here y'go. The film clip itself is worth watching, too, if only for the moment where you can see him decide to keep playing.

Hawaii - Meiko

This song is pretty and I enjoy it, and so should you.
Meiko only as one album, but she self released it in 2007, and then re-released it after she was signed in conjunction with her own label... which is pretty awesome in my world, so yay her.

GO!

La Ritournelle - Sebastien Tellier

OH MY, I ALMOST FORGOT D:

Better be speedy or it will be someone elses day! But check out this song. It is basically beautiful in all ways. The video is kinda cool too.

HELLO - MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - MOWGLI'S ROAD

HELLO

I DECIDED TO POST ON THE MUSIC BLOG. HEY - I'VE GOT LOTS GOING ON~

ANYWAYS

Heard this song on the radio, Shazam'd it, couldn't get it out of my head, et cetera, et cetera ad nauseum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwfCjYv7gVQ

You've probably all heard it before, enjoyed it months ago and hate it now, and now want to cause me pain due to my posting it and extended absence from MBLOG, but there you go.

See you tonight!

Invisible Drumkit - Rowan Atkinson

In honour of tomorrow night being the official opening of the Adelaide Fringe (GET PSYCHED LADIES AND GENTLEMEN), I've decided to stretch the definition of 'music' a little and link you all to this, because damned if I have any new music to share with you people.

Rowan Atkinson is the coolest guy ever and y'all should just, recognize.

Fidelity, On the Radio, Samson - Regina Spektor

This is Regina Spektor. She was born in Russia.
She is great and you are not.

Samson is my fave because it's pretty, the other two are boppy and fun.
The end.

Fidelity
On the Radio
Samson

Dublin Blues - Guy Clark

Ok! So my song for today is written by this Guy (!! I'm on fire!) whose album was bought by my father a good ten or so years ago and I've enjoyed quite a bit ever since. Guy Clark focuses on acoustic guitar and vocals although he sometimes incorporates violin (I think?) and a bit of drums when he feels like it. A good country album!

Lyrics are pretty rad too. Check them and the youtube clip out after the break.

They Both Reached For The Gun - Chicago

As much as I want to link more German a capella barbershop quintet music, Not Everybody Enjoys That Shit, so I'm gonna not and say I did.

Instead, Chicago! Which none of you saw.

To understand my life for the last 24 hours, listen to just that part of the song that goes from 2:45 to the end on eternal repeat whilst walking up and down stairs, searching for people you know only by name to ask them questions they are too busy to answer.

(The show was pretty amazing, you guys.)

Where'd you come from? Mississippi!

Cosy in the Rocket, Tiger, My Friend, The Only Thing I Ever Wanted and Chapter - Psapp

Psapp is an experimental electronica band from England, it has a silent p and everything. They use toys as instruments in their songs, like toy guitars, flutes and a chicken called Brunhilda, which is pretty cool. Plus, they like to throw toy cats that they make into the audience at their concerts, and who doesn't like getting free handmade toy cats?

Here is some music what they made.
Cosy in the Rocket with a wanky slideshow
Tiger, My Friend with some awesome toy animal sounds
The Only Thing I Ever Wanted which is all around awesome
Chapter I just like it?

Gato Lopez - SKA-P

SKA-P (pronounced: skah-peh), have been my favourite Spanish band for a long long time! This is perhaps my favourite song by them, simply because it would be the most amazing song to see live ever!

Imagine a couple of thousand crazy spainiards rocking out to this! It would... oh god. It would just be fantastic.

Link!

Nür Für Dich - Wise Guys

As much as I had decided to just keep on posting everything from the Repo soundtrack, I decided instead to be marginally less of a jerk and offer a song all in German, in honour of how I'm studying French now. No, it doesn't make sense, but you guys? Neither does French.

Anyway, this is Nür Für Dich, which means "Only For You", and I suspect the Wise Guys of being a German comedy band, which is hilarious in its own kind of way. I'm going to be honest. This pretty much only rules if you speak German. Otherwise, it's a mildly confusing a capella number with occasionally recognizable words like "Bridget Jones" and "jogging".

Here is the song, with lyrics in German. They're seriously amazing.

And here is an equally hilarious Australian song, albeit on a different theme, for those of you who do not want to tolerate any German bullshit right now.

That's all from the Second Language Racism Dept. for this week I guess?

Night of the Dancing Flame, Ramalama (bang bang) and Ruby Blue - Róisín Murphy

Hmmmm... here are three songs that are nice and pretty great. They are by Róisín Murphy who is also pretty great, she used to be part of a band called Moloko which was pretty great too.

Enjoy them.

Night of the Dancing Flame
Ramalama (bang bang)
Ruby Blue

Anyways - Callahan

New music first - with Nelson nine-one-ni- no wait.

ANYWAYS (ha ha!), this is another of my discoveries-with-the-help-of-genius from some song by MCS.
It is kinda generic-pop/rock-y I guess but I still enjoy it. Almost certainly in part because of the lyrics which are fantastic.

I gather that this is a reasonably unknown band as they don't have a Wikipedia page and all the info I could get was from their MySpace. Apparently they're from the US and on their MySpace page they claim to be "the next big thing"! Well, you never know! I like them!

Check it out!

Baby, it's alright; darling, it's okay
I never loved you anyways
We all have our reasons
At best, all you needed to understand
Is sometimes fate needs a helping hand

The sweet's not as sweet without the bitterness of you

Faaantastic.


BONUS: Robbie Williams in a rabbit suit trying to sing a song with srsface. Comedy gold.
Check out the singing cabbages! Also frogs!

Zydrate Anatomy - Repo! The Genetic Opera

What do you mean, it's easy to tell when I have a new obsession because I don't shut the fuck up about it in any medium or at any time? That's a horrible thing to say to me out of the blue like that.

Repo is a rock opera by a dude called Terrance Zdunich (he's the guy who sings the song I'm gonna link, check his shit out) in which for a complicated set of reasons (they're not that complicated) organ repossessions are legal. As one can imagine, shit goes down. Took me a while to pick a damn song from this, because they're all ridiculously glorious, except for the ones Shiloh has on her own, but we'll forgive her because every movie/TV show/musical/rock opera needs a Boring Character and she does it pretty well. This one's badass because a) Terrance Zdunich and b) guitars and c) that high-pitched "I CAN'T FEEL NOTHIN' AT ALL" chorus and d) Paris Hilton...?

It's kickass, anyway.

She needs a little help with the agony.

Breakin' Up - Rilo Kiley

Woah Osc and Nels, way to completely forget about the music blog
good going guys (lol, alliteration is fun)

Aaaaanyway. This song makes me happy, does that make me a bad person?
It's a song about feeling good after breaking up and it's so boppy and bright and fun that it makes me happy... yeah it's great, it makes me happy so fuck you.

I couldn't find a proper music video, or even just the song with a slideshow or whatever, so here is a fan made music video. The acting is a bit silly, and kind of misses the point of the song a little bit (at least how I interpreted the song meaning), but the dancing is good, it makes me laugh...

Enjoy!

Paper Planes - The Da Vincis

So my post has magically disappeared! Oh well, not rewriting it.
Basically: M.I.A is bad aside from this one song. This band has done an awesome cover. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COv1XhPNImc

Fire - Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Motherfucking Springsteen. Do not even act like modern "rock" has anything to add to what this man did before you were born.

Get around it.

Ellipse - Imogen Heap (Album)

Am I pulling a Nels and recommending an entire album? Yes I am

BECAUSE you guys, Imogen Heap is fabulous and this album is fabulous and I couldn't pick just one song

This is Imogen Heap's latest album, it was released last year and every single song has something great about it and every single song just makes me happy...

IDK it's pretty

anyway, have some songs on youtube and then go get the album okay
Canvas (has a pretty great video), Aha! (song meaning guys, there's a message), The Fire (pretty piano!), Wait It Out (just really really pretty), 2-1 (again, really really pretty)

bonus: one of my absolute favourite Imogen Heap songs, not from Ellipse, Glittering Clouds