Free Downloads And Streams, Pop Heaven / Pop Hell
Yurr we are then, the obligatory end-of-year thingywing. As anyone who’s ever asked me for my all-time favourite song/album will know, I’m not very good at ranking things. It blows my mind that anyone can definitively say what their favourite song is.
So rather than do a Top 100 and whatnot, I’ve compiled a Spotify playlist of the best music of 2010.
Forwarding Fodder, I Thought You Were Dead!
What blackmail material Norwegian show Gylne Tider (“Golden Times”) has over every slightly past-it celebrity on the planet is unclear. But it must be approximately as powerful as an Atomic Wikileak.
Behold, as familiar faces from yesterdecade mime to “Let it Be” and “We Are The World” in order to help promote the show.The former has better production values, but the latter fulfils one of my dearest childhood dreams: that of seeing ex-England goalkeeper Peter Shilton miming to Willie Nelson, closely followed by ex-Germany striker Karl-Heinz Rummenigge miming to Al Jarreau.
To be honest I’d given up hope of this ever happening.
Digital Love/Hate/Indifference, Hip-Hop Isn't Dead
With tiresome Facebook recommendations and retweets polluting your eyeholes on the daily, it’s always refreshing to find an artist who uses social media in the right way. Of course, it’s usually those looking for a break that do so, because I suppose the big stars have factories full of fingers to update their Twitter feeds and so on.
Baltimore rapper E-Dubble is doing it right, but the chances are - if the quality of his Freestyle Friday series is owt to go by - he may soon be outsourcing his updates.
In a rare matching-up of mine and the music blogosphere’s music awareness, the weekend saw this collaboration between Deadmau5 and Neon Hitch - “I Can’t Behave Myself” - take up residence in the part of my brain marked “////AS GOOD AS BISCUITS//;;;O9IUIAOI”.
Old Mouseheed softens his manglesome production considerably and - as on last year’s masterful “I Remember” - replaces the headfarks with a killer melody and on-the-money female vocal. This time it’s from Ke$ha’s pal and soon-to-be-popstar Neon Hitch.
BREAKING NEWS: Big Dog D-Cam has just passed a ruling that will, if you claim not to like this song, automatically SLASH your already piddling brain capacity by a further 38%.
Deadmau5 & Neon Hitch – I Can’t Behave Myself by PlaylistU.com
[via Winnie Cooper]
When a band with a name like Dinosaur Pile-Up - who make songs what go RRRR, and tend to lark about in music videos like the one at the end of this very post - comes along, you sort of want to skip over and arks them a bunch of slightly silly, slightly fatuous interview questions.
You don’t really expect them to talk honestly about what a TOTAL BUM it is to get lumped in with a “scene”, or how they worry about selling records because they’ve just been evicted and are having to “bunk up” together (erk!).
Nevertheless, this is what happened when totally unbiased superfan Robyn Wilder twirled a strand of hair, cocked her head to one side, and breathlessly interrogated Dinosaur Pile-Up’s singer, Matt Bigland.
Hello Dinosaur Pile-Up! Where are you right now, and what are you doing?
In the van driving from Nottingham to Cambridge. The guys are watching a film, we’ve been going through the Scanners trilogy - even though two and three are terrible. But the first one is ACE.
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