onsdag den 24. november 2010

Chromeo

Chromeo: Hot Mess


Den fantastiske nordamerikanske duo Chromeo har netop sluppet videoen til deres nyeste single Hot Mess, igen en fin spøjs video fra deres side, i typisk Chromeo stil. Man er på ingen måde i tvivl hvem man lytter til når man ligger øre til deres nyeste plade Business Casual, De har helt deres egen lyd, med go gamle 90'er synths overalt i lydbilledet, det er bare herligt at det hele ikke er alt for alvorligt.


fredag den 12. november 2010

20 år med Being boring

Pet Shop Boys: Being boring

I dag d. 12. november er en milepæl i musik historien, det er nemlig i dag 20 år siden Pet Shop Boys udgav singlen Being boirng, som for mig og formodentlig også langt største delen af deres fans, er det ultimative pop nummer. Hit-mæssigt var den dog en skuffelse, kun en 20 plades i UK blev det til, og det er faktisk deres 4. dårligste placering overhoved af en officiel single udgivelse i hjemlandet, men det rør ikke ved at det er et helt igennem fantastisk track, fra den ligeså fantastiske Lp Behaviour.



"I came across a cache of old photos

and invitations to teenage parties
'Dress in white' one said with quotations
from someone's wife, a famous writer
in the nineteen-twenties
When you're young you find inspiration
in anyone who's ever gone
and opened up a closing door
She said we were never feeling bored

'cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to find for ourselves
and we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought then thought make amends
And we were never holding back or worried that
time would come to an end

When I went I left from the station
with a haversack and some trepidation
Someone said if you're not careful
you'll have nothing left and nothing to care for
in the nineteen-seventies
But I sat back and looking forward
my shoes were high and I had scored
I'd bolted through a closing door
and I would never find myself feeling bored

'cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to find for ourselves
and we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought then thought make amends
And we were never holding back or worried that
time would come to an end
We were always hoping that, looking back
you could always rely on a friend

Now I sit with different faces
in rented rooms and foreign places
All the people I was kissing
some are here and some are missing
in the nineteen-nineties
I never dreamt that I would get to be
the creature that I always meant to be
but I thought in spite of dreams
you'd be sitting somewhere here with me

'cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to find for ourselves
and we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought then thought make amends
And we were never holding back or worried that
time would come to an end
We were always hoping that, looking back
you could always rely on a friend

And we were never being boring
We were never being bored
'cause we were never being boring
We were never being bored"

tirsdag den 9. november 2010

West End Grum

Pet Shop Boys: West End girls (Grum Remix)

Mine absolut største favoritter Pet Shop Boys er blevet remixet af selveste Grum aka. Graeme Shepherd, min noget nær ynglings kunstner for tiden. For det er jo i disse dage 25 år siden Pet Shop Boys gik nummer Et i hele verden med West End girls, og i den anledning har tidens i mine øjne hotteste remixer/producer begået et fantastisk mix af den gamle klassiker. Remixet udkommer i forbindelse med singlen Together den 29. november.