It’s been a fairly interesting week. Monday night classes were cancelled due to predicted inclement weather. Everyone was hoping that school on tuesday would be cancelled, but the weather didn’t end up coming, so school was on for Tuesday morning. Midmorning, it started snowing like mad, the thickest fluffiest assault of white […]
Underworld - Mmm… Skyscraper I Love You from Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1994) /house/((“will you be my big plaything my ninjapower my numbercruncher…and i see elvis and i hear god on the phone”Dark, moody, pulsing, rhythmic, catchy house done like only Underworld can. This one is a swooping, cracked out epic, and it’s a beautiful thing.))
Elbow - Grace Under Pressure from Cast of Thousands (2004) /britpop/((“Grace under pressure, cooling palm across my brow, eyes of an angel, lay me down.”A simple chord progression and short lyrical phrase repeated an infinitum as the music beneath builds and builds until a chorus of rowdy concert goers finish things off. Kind of […]
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - The Triumph of Our Tired Eyes from Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward (2001) /post rock/((“The soldiers with their specialists, And the pigs with their guns cannot stop the lost ones and the desparate ones and the driven ones. So come […]
So on Saturday night I went to Hamilton’s Underground club for the first time. Some people I was with expressed that they felt the club was pretty bad, but I liked it well enough. Not the classiest of places, but fittingly dingy for its name. I was standing at the side of […]
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band with Choir - American Motor Over Smoldered Field from This Is Our Punk-Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing (2003) /post rock/((Really quite lovely. Give it your attention and it will reward you. Sombre, austere, swelling, grandiose, poetic. And very wonderful to see performed live.)) […]
I was going to write a nice detailed entry all about how my insulin pump broke and I had to go on a quest to find insulin that led me to the emergency room at the McMaster hospital and a doctor who reminded me an aweful lot of Eugene Levy (who actually went to McMaster), […]
Doves - Satellites from The Last Broadcast (2002) /britrock/((“I want you to notice/my anger’s all but done/and all I’ve known is madness”Lovely Gospelly kinda vibe. Very uplifting song, whatever it’s about. Makes you wanna fly. And the almost obligatory breakdown and subsequent buildup around 4:10 is quite awesome.))
Amon Tobin - Four Ton Mantis from Supermodified (2000) /turntablist drum’n’bass/((Exhibit A: Amon Tobin doing his thing, and doing it well. JaZZ samples from the 40s, stampedes of cymbals and snares, a kickin’ rhythm, all dissected and reassembled for your own enjoyment. Not the most easily digestible music, but if you’re lucky, one day […]
Well, my schedule of musical consumption is filling out quite nicely, despite the fact that I missed the Matadors last weekend.. if I’d known they were playing I definitely would have capitalized on my free ride home opportunity. Pah! BUT. So far we’ve got:
Sat, Jan 24: The Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra and Tra-la-la […]