OK - the outburst on the Telethon was understandable. The “[white people aren't] allowed to use slang until it is at least a year old” thing could have been a jokey commentary on how long it takes us crackers to “get on down” and such. But... third strike?
Seriously? Kele Okereke shouldn't be in Bloc Party? Should The Go! Team drop Ninja and her rapping because the rest of them aren't black?
People should make the music they want to, not worry about whether it's the right music for their skin colour.
Archive for September of 2005
Someone muzzle Kanye West
September 23, 2005Bottle Rocket
September 22, 2005
Video for The Go! Team's infectious Bottle Rocket, out on the 26th of this month (256k WMV - also in 56k and as 256k and 56k Realmeedja).
Mercury Prize
September 08, 2005
I'm in two minds over the whole Antony and the Johnsons winning the Mercury Music Prize thing. On the one hand, it's not a popularity contest. On the other, is an album of largely vocal - and retro - songs really the best current music in the UK (notwithstanding that Antony has not lived in the UK since he he was six)?
I'd have been made up if Bloc Party had won - I certainly felt Silent Alarm was much better than the Kaiser Chiefs' Employment, the favourite; there's about four standout songs on that, whereas Silent Alarm doesn't have a single bad song, even the slow one at the end. I must've had some inkling the judges were going for a retro vote though, since I guessed the poptastic harmonies of The Magic Numbers were going to get the nod, much as they pass me by.
I think, ultimately, the winner was picked as a “fuck-you” to the public: you're not cool enough to “get” this (though, apparently, sales of I Am a Bird Now are up 900% already - then again, that suggests very little were sold in the first place). It was amusing watching the coverage on BBC4 to see Radio 1's Jo Whiley interviewing some guy from the NME and both of them acting as if this was the sort of music they regularly covered (Jools Holland though I could well believe does - that man like absolutely everything).
I'm more interested now in checking out The Go! Team and Maxïmo Park though, so I guess the whole thing does help, regardless of who wins.
(you can watch a few of the performances on the BBC4 site)
I'd have been made up if Bloc Party had won - I certainly felt Silent Alarm was much better than the Kaiser Chiefs' Employment, the favourite; there's about four standout songs on that, whereas Silent Alarm doesn't have a single bad song, even the slow one at the end. I must've had some inkling the judges were going for a retro vote though, since I guessed the poptastic harmonies of The Magic Numbers were going to get the nod, much as they pass me by.
I think, ultimately, the winner was picked as a “fuck-you” to the public: you're not cool enough to “get” this (though, apparently, sales of I Am a Bird Now are up 900% already - then again, that suggests very little were sold in the first place). It was amusing watching the coverage on BBC4 to see Radio 1's Jo Whiley interviewing some guy from the NME and both of them acting as if this was the sort of music they regularly covered (Jools Holland though I could well believe does - that man like absolutely everything).
I'm more interested now in checking out The Go! Team and Maxïmo Park though, so I guess the whole thing does help, regardless of who wins.
(you can watch a few of the performances on the BBC4 site)
Willies
September 03, 2005
More pointless twaddle about the Goldfrapp CD. I was submitting the TRMs to MusicBrainz and happened to glance at the inside of the CD insert. After looking at that, what you can't see on the cover, but might guess from the full image if I hadn't cropped the top is that Alison Goldfrapp is standing in a forest of phalluses.
Two More Years
September 03, 2005
High bandwidth video (wmv) for the new Bloc Party single. Kind of a bland band playing in a studio thing. (also medium and low bandwidth versions)
Boobies
September 02, 2005
I picked up the new Goldfrapp album “Supernature” yesterday - the cover features Ms. Goldfrapp in a state of some dishabille:
However, there's an odd chunk taken out of the hand covering her breast. It doesn't seem like the title would be unreadable if the missing part of anatomy was restored, so was the seductive curve of a boobie excised to prevent adolescents in the record store from frottering themselves to death - or was it something more sinister...
However, there's an odd chunk taken out of the hand covering her breast. It doesn't seem like the title would be unreadable if the missing part of anatomy was restored, so was the seductive curve of a boobie excised to prevent adolescents in the record store from frottering themselves to death - or was it something more sinister...