Give me whistling, hand-claps or la-la-las and I'm hooked.
The latest song I just can't get out of my head:
Young Folks
Guess what? They're Swedish (like We're From Barcelona). Maybe I should just move there. While we're on the subject of Swedish music, may I direct you to the original version of 'Heartbeats' by The Knife? The cover version by Jose Gonzalez (also Swedish! or partly, anyway) is pretty popular due to a Sony commercial but the original is definitely best.
Heartbeats
The band consists of a brother and sister who tend only to be photographed in bizarre masks. The photo on their Wikipedia entry will make you fall in love. I can't stop listening to their song 'Pass This On'.
While I'm plugging music, I owe a long-overdue mention to Bed is Rude, the one-man band of a former soccer teammate. The only time I'd ever heard him sing he was screeching along to Axl Rose, so I was blown away by his gentle pop sensibility on 'A Certain Age' and 'Get Social'. Did I mention he sings and plays all the instruments? And has a full-time day job? Amazing.
Anyway, what are you listening to lately?
posted by Laura @ 6:27 PM
8 Comments:
You, my dear, need to listen to this:
http://www.asobiseksu.com/. M recently played it for me on a drive and all I could think was, wow, La would love this CD.
I ran into Operator Please on gootube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_fIVialLDs. I think they're pretty good considering how young they are.
Apart from Asobi Seksu, who you really need to check out, I've also recently discovered Cassettes Won't Listen, Head Like a Kite and Smoosh. I think I'm late catching the boat on Smoosh, but they're like 13 and totally cool. I think all those sites have samples of their music, or you can search them on 3hive, which I also recommend as a great source of finding new stuff.
Also, The Knife is pretty cool. Love that song. Definitely better than the cover.
Yaay! Responses!
Chelsea and Matej, you are absolutely right, I LOVE Asobi Seksu, thanks for the introduction! :)
And it's funny you mention Smoosh, Matej, cos Jeff and I were talking about them last night after watching some Operator Please on Rob's suggestion. Smoosh are so cute - I want to adopt them.
I'll definitely check out the other bands too. Keep the suggestions coming, everyone! This is fun.
only thing better than the knife, is the knife remixed by ratatat.
and maybe slayer, seriously.
although your brit-pop weakened ears may like the stylings of menomena better.
and start counting the days til april 17th, for the new avril album, again seriously!
wait..you havent heard the song d2 wrote about me?
Long Blondes
Hey Ricky - yes, I have heard Albertian Soccer Star, and it rocks! Your soccer mojo has been forever immortalised in song ...
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