Holidays are great

Hello, it seems I have resorted to being some sort of half arsed one post a month establishment. Oh well.

Recently I have been enjoying the "fight pop" sounds of the crazily named Dananananaykroyd. You've probably heard of their first hit Totally Bone, then their little break and the bit of struggle releasing their new EP Sissy Hits (if not; google it up, lazy). They sound a bit like Johnny Foreigner with less words and a bit less franticly changing pace, but then the added element of Foals-esque, rhythm indused guitar acrobatics, if that makes any sense at all.

I have also been re-realising my love for These New Puritans, Liars and Sonic Youth and what a lovely re-realising it is.

Totally Bone - Dananananaykroyd
Swords Of Truth - These New Puritans
Mr. Your on Fire Mr - Liars
Tunic (Song for Karen) - Sonic Youth

Ps Ive decided Im going to get this badman Jaguar, hooray for 0% interest!

Universal as happy birthday

Are there any songs that absolutely no one hates?

I'm sure there must be at least 10. They'd have to be catchy enough for your mum to like but slightly odd/ eclectic for "real" music listeners to like.

Possible ideas..

Wrap It Up - Whitey
Its on new GTA so at least half the world's population have heard it. It has a nice BEAT, it's CATCHY. Possible universally liked song?

Hummingbird - Born Ruffians
That song off that advert. It's got the essential amount of CATCHY, but is his voice too much for urban listeners??

CONCLUSION
The #1 song must be from a mobile phone/car advert.

PS Is there a song that no one in the world likes? A song so disgusting that every man, woman and child has agreed to never listen to.

Possible contender --> Chapels - Genghis Tron
Although it may be saved through what is known as COMICAL VALUE.

Ladyhawke

No more school, no more tests!

I hope I haven't failed and have to end up working in an office or a fast food establishment

But more importantly ..

Ladyhawke (L)

Paris Is Burning - Ladyhawke

Buy the crazy £3 single bundle thing here

Ps Have you seen the new Pure Groove website?? It's rly user friendly and kl looking, I bet the postage is still mega high though.

A few things

BTW I'm sorry that this is so shit.

The first song is for all you kids who walk so much that you consider yrself a "WALKING MACHINE"

Walking Machine (SebastiAn Remix) - Revl9n

OR are you more of a MOTOR ??

Motor - SebastiAn

Lykke Li enjoys a WALK

I'm Good, I'm Gone (Metronomy Remix) - Lykke Li

Whereas little Gary is a CAR man

Cars - Gary Numan

GRUM just wants a nightDRIVE with you

Nightdrive With You (GRUM's New Wave Remix) - Anoraak

Happy Bday STM

Spot The Monster has officially been going for a year WTFOMG. This allows me the privilege of using the term "per annum" among others, oh yes. This year I'm going to try not to write the majority of the posts in one month and generally try to make the time in between each of your facebook browsing sessions more enjoyable. Fucking Dance has also recently celebrated a year of posts and about 10000 x more views, Jamila you're a pro. To celebrate here's some songs.

The Shoes - Knock Out (woah)
Late Of The Pier - Space and the Woods (Toxic Avenger Remix)
Primary 1 - Outside
The Mystery Jets - The Boy Who Ran Away (Riton Re-Dub)
Justice - DVNO (Justice Remix)
Saint Pauli - I Need Riddimmm

PS. The Ed Rec Vol 3 track listing has been announced yessss..

1. Mr. Oizo - Yes
2. Busy P - To Protect And Entertain (Feat. Murs)
3. Mr. Flash - Over The Top
4. SebastiAn - Dog
5. Uffie - Robot Oeuf
6. Justice - Stress (Auto Remix)
7. Mr. Oizo - Minuteman’s pulse
8. DJ Mehdi - Pocket Piano
9. Krazy Baldhead - No Cow, No Pow
10. DSL - Find Me In The World
11. Feadz - Back It Up (feat. Spank Rock)
12. So Me - Decalcomania

Etiquette

Yes, it's the moment you've all been waiting for... my film studies project is finished! This could be a historical moment of trend setting. I predict by next year all the coolest music blogs will include homework posts regularly, you heard it here first kids. I'm the dirty goof on the bike, please be as offensive as you like with your comments.

Competition alert --> 10 points if you know the main song and 100 points if you can rack your brains and work out where the cowbelly loop at the start comes from.

PS. This festival has quite a nice line-up and price. My favourite song at the moment is below this very sentence, golly French girls are lovely.

France Gall - Laisse Tomber Les Filles

26 days later

I thought I'd better write something on here before everyone totally gives up on this and goes back to reading decent music journalism.

So for the return post I'm just going to hand to you a load of songs that reach 'badman' status.

First up is GRUM with an absolute beast of a song that goes by the name of Go Back. This follows the Ed Banger blueprint to the fine details, but is so implausibly crazy that I'm sure anyone will ignore the fact it's a bandwagon stowaway.

GRUM - Go Back

The Whip's album 'X Marks Destination' came out on Monday and I can officially say it's good. The album has quite a lot of variation between songs, from the Crystal Castlesque 'Divebomb', to the 80s New Wave sounding gliding synths and static drums of 'Sirens'.

The Whip - Divebomb

Also out on Monday was Does It Offend You, Yeah's debut 'You Have No Idea What You Are Getting Yourself Into'. Despite having a very silly name this is a truly essential album that you must own and usually I don't enforce purchases so much, but for this I'll make an exception. Influenced by their live shows, this album is pretty heavy on guitars, which came as quite a surprise after the almost 100% electronic 'We Are Rockstars' and 'Battle Royal'. This change has lead to the creation of fantastic album centrepieces 'With A Heavy Heart (I Regret To Inform You)' and 'Doomed Now'

Does It Offend You, Yeah? - With A Heavy Heart (I Regret To Inform You)

After ditching the old man, Mystery Jets have created a super album and have rightfully gained a barrage of fans. The Shoes have remixed Young Love, their current single with a guest appearance from Laura Marling. It's a pretty standard example of remixing by numbers, but works well; introducing some lovely upbeat snares, hand claps and synth wibbles.

Mystery Jets - Young Love (The Shoes Remix)

Next up is a song sent by the nice PR lady. The song in question is 'I Love You' by Merok signed Esser. My opinion is split on this one. They described it as being like 'a 30's gramophone hot-wired by Blur in their glorious Popscene days with a healthy injection of full-on fuzzed-up bass", which although sounding funny is actually quite accurate. I can see this becoming one of them 'summer anthems' that get annoying quite quickly, but for now I like it, I think.

Esser - I Love You

PS. If you liked Flight Of The Conchords, Jermaine is in Eagle vs Shark, which I'm about to watch, he's also filming Gentlemen Broncos, in which "a teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist." Cue funny scenes.