Moloko - Fun For Me from Do You Like My Tight Sweater? (1995) /trip-house-jazz/((“I dreamt that I was dreaming, I was wired to a clock,tickled by the minute hand tick tock tick tock…fe fi fo fun for me, fun for me”I am indeed obsessed with Moloko lately, because they are mighty fine. This is […]
Moloko - Forever More from Statues (2003) /house-pop-jazz/((“And if I drown in this sea of devotion/Just a stone left unturned/My need is deep/Wide endless oceans/Feel it furious/The fire burns on”The beginning is the best part—The growling bassline, the strong saunter in the rhythm, and Roisin’s byoootiful voice—and once you get to the crazy-like horniness at […]
I was watching No Maps For These Territories with William Gibson (thanks to the generous christmas contribution of my brother) and he (William Gibson) attempted to define happiness. He said he estimated that it was a state where you don’t anticipate the future, and you don’t concern yourself with the past, but you live […]
The Flaming Lips - A Change At Christmas (say it isn’t so) from Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell EP (2003) /indie pop/((Have a merry christmas, everyone! wishing good cheer enough to go all around. Peace, happiness, and love. Except Tommy.. nothin’ good there.))
Wilco - Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway(again) from Summer Teeth (1999) /indie pop/((We’ll find a way regardless/To make some sense out of this mess/Well it’s a test but I believe/A kiss is all we needI was inexplicibly really really happy there for a little bit, and this sunny, shiny, sparkly song met my happy feelings half way and gave […]
A wide selection of honest to God downright awesome hiphop from most of my favourite hip hop purveyors.
the more guitar and voice side of things, with some variance of course.
Devlins - Waiting from Six Feet Under OST (2002) /rock/((waiting in a daydream/waiting in the slipstream/waiting. Waiting for an ideal, a low deal, a no deal.It used to strongly remind me of another song, I can no longer remember which. But I quite enjoy this song. It’s rather simple, but lovely. And […]
Well exams are over. Shipped off to some deserted spit of land to wither away. I’m back at home, in London, with its fresher air and friendly friends. But that’s all old news. I’ve been kept busy doing a variety of activities, and I have learned many things. The Matadors […]
Talib Kweli - Get By from Quality (2002) /hip hop/((This morning I woke up feeling brand new. I jumped up. feeling my highs and my lows, and my soul, and my goals: just to stop smoking, and stop drinking. Well I’ve been thinkin, I got my reasons just to get by. Just to […]