I kind of feel like award ceremonies are getting less and less relevant. The good music is rarely awarded and the performers are often boring, not that great or downright talentless. But at this year's Grammy Awards, Radiohead, a band that is indeed real and talented, performed. I can't say anything about the other acts there on the night or the award-giving itself since I haven't seen it, but I think I can safely say that Radiohead must have been brilliant.
The person who got the idea of doing '15 Step' with a marching band should be awarded something. Now I just can't wait for the awards to be shown on Danish television with proper sound quality - the videos on YouTube haven't exactly got crystal clear sound... or, well, hadn't. They've been taken down now, another reason why I hope it won't be long before it's shown on TV overhere.
Okay, I admit. I have yet to really get into and discover the music of Talking Heads, but in the last two weeks or so I've had a bit of a love affair with their song 'This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)'. There's an old live version of it here, featuring some very fine lamp dancing.
I've mentioned Florence And The Machine, probably one of the most hyped bands for 2009, before. Lots of people seem to have only just heard of her now while I started listening to her in March-April last year, back when her Last.fm description said 'Born in a military tank in Ukraine, Florence eats nothing but tobacco. Rumours have it that she is to be adopted by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.' I searched and searched all over to try and find more of her demos (at this point she hadn't released anything yet), and though I did find some I never managed to get hold of 'Donkey Kosh, 'My Boy Builds Coffins' and 'Ye Old Hope'. It annoyed me quite a lot, because I knew they existed and had been available. Eventually I got to hear both 'Donkey Kosh' and 'My Boy Builds Coffins' and buy them as live mp3s legally.
A few days ago I finally got to hear 'Yo Old Hope' (which is apparently really called 'Tear Out My Tongue') and now it's probably my favourite track of hers. The lyrics are dark and brutal and Florence's vocal is as great as ever. Apparently she wrote it with Johnny Borrell from Razorlight, which is making it surprising that it's such a good song.
The person who got the idea of doing '15 Step' with a marching band should be awarded something. Now I just can't wait for the awards to be shown on Danish television with proper sound quality - the videos on YouTube haven't exactly got crystal clear sound... or, well, hadn't. They've been taken down now, another reason why I hope it won't be long before it's shown on TV overhere.
Okay, I admit. I have yet to really get into and discover the music of Talking Heads, but in the last two weeks or so I've had a bit of a love affair with their song 'This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)'. There's an old live version of it here, featuring some very fine lamp dancing.
I've mentioned Florence And The Machine, probably one of the most hyped bands for 2009, before. Lots of people seem to have only just heard of her now while I started listening to her in March-April last year, back when her Last.fm description said 'Born in a military tank in Ukraine, Florence eats nothing but tobacco. Rumours have it that she is to be adopted by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.' I searched and searched all over to try and find more of her demos (at this point she hadn't released anything yet), and though I did find some I never managed to get hold of 'Donkey Kosh, 'My Boy Builds Coffins' and 'Ye Old Hope'. It annoyed me quite a lot, because I knew they existed and had been available. Eventually I got to hear both 'Donkey Kosh' and 'My Boy Builds Coffins' and buy them as live mp3s legally.
A few days ago I finally got to hear 'Yo Old Hope' (which is apparently really called 'Tear Out My Tongue') and now it's probably my favourite track of hers. The lyrics are dark and brutal and Florence's vocal is as great as ever. Apparently she wrote it with Johnny Borrell from Razorlight, which is making it surprising that it's such a good song.
You can listen to it at the end of this radio programme:
http://mediaweb.musicradio.com/player/default.asp?s=59&e=77335
I've gotten addicted to listening to music while showering and my favourite thing to listen to is an alternative radio programme called 'Det Elektriske Barometer'. It's not really the programme that usually makes me dance but last Sunday they played Animal Collective's 'My Girls' and I just couldn't help myself. I hadn't heard it before but right away it's brilliance was clear and I danced goofily around in the shower cabinet. My favourite track of 2009 yet, that's for sure. Now I just need to listen to 'Merriweather Post Pavilion' a bit more.
http://mediaweb.musicradio.com/player/default.asp?s=59&e=77335
I've gotten addicted to listening to music while showering and my favourite thing to listen to is an alternative radio programme called 'Det Elektriske Barometer'. It's not really the programme that usually makes me dance but last Sunday they played Animal Collective's 'My Girls' and I just couldn't help myself. I hadn't heard it before but right away it's brilliance was clear and I danced goofily around in the shower cabinet. My favourite track of 2009 yet, that's for sure. Now I just need to listen to 'Merriweather Post Pavilion' a bit more.
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