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Story filed Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
Here's the video for 'The Loving Kind'. It's not perfect but it's better than some of the utter rubbish Girls Aloud have thrown at the pop channels over the last six years. This is probably an 8/10 sort of video.
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Story filed Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
 Christmas is a great excuse to make terrible records. So is charity. And so are collaborations. And when you combine the three, you know you're in for something extra-specially bad.
Anyway, the new Killers / Elton John / Neil Tennant charity Christmas song, 'Joseph, Better You Than Me', is not really up there with any of the respective artists' best work. There are two good bits, though: the "you're a maker, a creator, not just somebody's dad" bit, and the other bit where Elton does the whole "the desert is a hell of a place to find Heaven" portion.
Well it's all for a good cause 'etc'. Visit http://red.msn.com/ to hear it. WARNING: A U2 song will automatically start playing when the page loads.
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Story filed Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
Amazon's new MP3 service is knocking out top albums for three pounds. THREE POUNDS. We presume this is a loss-leading launch offer - it's clearly unsustainable in the long run, and the last thing anyone needs right now is for music to be devalued any further - but Jesus Christ. THREE QUID. 7Digital still offer the best quality and value, of course, but THREE POUNDS. (Three pounds!)
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Story filed Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
2006: Appeared on Australian Idol, then signed to Sony.
2007: Released a shit album of songs she sang on Australian Idol, then joined sometimes-brilliant Australian girlband Young Divas.
2008: Left Young Divas, then recorded and released 'Been Waiting', which is the second best Australian pop album of 2008 (behind Cut Copy's) and is an electronic R&B extravaganza which will sit very comfortably in your iTunes library somewhere alongside Rihanna, Jordin Sparks, Lady Ga Ga and 'that sort of thing'. It's properly good - have a listen to clips over at Australian iTunes (where Lady Ga Ga's 'Poker Face' is Number One, fact fans).
2009: We don't know yet - we're not psychic are we.
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Story filed Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
If only there was some sort of sign. Something. A clue. A subtle hint. Anything.
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Story filed Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
The clip for La Roux's 'Quicksand' is a gorgeous and stylish video and it's got A GIANT PINEAPPLE IN IT.
EDIT: Click here to watch it (we can't embed it but it's worth clicking the link).
How amazing? So amazing you want to see it about 100 times all in one go. 'Et voila':
More pineapples in videos for 2009, please.
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Story filed Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
You can listen to 'The Fear' in the YouTubular box above. She was on Scott Mills' show yesterday being generally amusing. Did you hear it? It was good.
Also here is a picture of Lily looking quite pretty.
A Media Studies Graduate (2:1, since you ask) writes: She is 'in the spotlight' because you see her life is 'in the spotlight' these days (ie she is famous).
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Story filed Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
A gentleman called Tommy Sparks has got a single coming out in 2009. It is billed as 'disco punk' (FYI it is neither disco or punk) and it's called 'I'm A Rope'. This is all boring. What is interesting is that the video purports to feature 16 people being hypnotized into believing that Tommy Sparks is brilliant. And that, readers, is what they call an open goal.
We suspect the hypnotizer business is made up rubbish, although we shared this thought with A Man At The Record
Label and his reply was "I swear on my life it is true!! We totally
hypnotized everyone. I promise you!! It was totally insane!!! It is so
funny people keep coming in my office saying you are lying that never
happened. I promise you. It is real."
Either way, it's a great video.
Incidentally we like 'I'm A Rope' but we have a CD on our desk featuring various tracks by Tommy and they're better and poppier than 'I'm A Rope'. It's hardly Same Difference but it's all very second-coming-of-Ali-Love - we suppose for the purposes of introducing him to 'tastemakers' it has been decided to hold those back for the time being.
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Story filed Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
 Bryn Christopher's first single 'The Quest' was brilliant (AS WE STATED VERY CLEARLY, IN CASE ANYBODY IS IN ANY DOUBT ABOUT THAT).
His second single was a bit shit, as we also stated.
Then came his album, which had some very good bits in it, although someone somewhere clearly forgot to put a third single on it because his next release - today's Song Of The Day, 'Fearless' - isn't actually on the album.
That's right, viewers, it's a Brand New Song. Fire up the CD presses for a 'deluxe edition' etc etc.
Let's have a listen.
In case you can't play that clip or are deaf, what we have here is a song which starts off like a 2009 reimagining of 'Unfinished Sympathy' then explodes into a Very Big Chorus full of wailing and warbling. We would like to know the name of the lady doing 'BV's on this song - she is amazing.
The lyrics are probably about something incredibly important but we haven't listened to them properly yet so if they turn out to be about killing kids don't hold it against us.
SPARE BRYN CHRISTOPHER HEADLINES KEPT ASIDE FOR FUTURE USE
» Bryn There, Done That.
» Since U Bryn Gone.
»
Wheelie Bryn.
» I'm Bryn The Mood For Dancing.
» Gordon Bryn Is The Prime Minister.
» The Brynner Takes It All.
» Bryn In Your Diet Keeps You Regular.
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Story filed Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
Literally incredible.
CDs FROM THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS THIS IS BETTER THAN
1. Kevin Rudolf's album (which is actually quite good in parts).
2. The Take That album (which is also actually quite good - 'quite good' in the sense of 'properly amazing' - in parts).
3. Moto Boy's lovely Christmas EP.
4. The shortlisted tracks for Girls Aloud's rarities CD.
5. The Fray's new single.
6. Britney's 'Circus'.
(The Girls Aloud thing is a joke by the way - 'LOL'.)
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