Band: R.E.M.
Album: GREEN / their sixth LP
Released: November 1988
Artwork: it’s not green at all
Music: supreme score!
Three highlights…
– POP SONG 89 –
– STAND –
– ORANGE CRUSH –
Album in full…
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
3 June 2019
London‘s up and coming trio JUNKY LOVE just dropped their fourth, ill-omened single.
‘NOWHERE TO GO’ “is about self medicating and substance abuse. As anxiety and mental health issues reign over our sanity, many of us seek to numb that pain away. A marriage of drugs and alcohol is often the painkiller we fall in love with.”
‘Nowhere To Go‘ has a foreboding and menacing edge from the very start. Pushed by a doom loaded bass riff this revealing mid-tempo contemplation about medication and substance abuse moves viciously like a mean serpent and has that electrical Black Rebel Motorcycle Club guitar intensity when the blustery chorus kicks in. “I never wanna fall in
love with the devil again” promises singer/bassist Axel Loughrey at one point, but you
get the bizarre feeling that the evil temptation is still lurking around the corner. The
overall ominous and enmeshing tension accentuates the confused state of mind that’s
in play here. Catch the entangled fever below…
JUNKY LOVE: Facebook
Knockouts from the past…
3 June 2019
Today 42 years ago, on 3 June 1977 amidst the punk explosion BOB MARLEY and his WAILERS released their ninth studio album, the highly triumphant EXODUS, recorded in London as Marley has left Jamaica after gunmen tried to kill him a year before in his native country. The LP made Marley a global star as it received gold certifications in the US, UK and Canada.
ALL MUSIC wrote: “Thematically, ‘Exodus’ represented a subtle but significant shift for Marley, while he continued to speak out against political corruption and for freedom and equality for Third World people, his lyrics dealt less with specifics and more with generalities and the need for peace and love ‘Exodus’ was recorded at a time when Bob Marley was learning about the unexpected costs of international stardom, but it hadn’t yet sapped his creative strengths, and this is one of the finest albums in his stellar catalog.”
One of his most famous songs ever ‘ONE LOVE/PEOPLE GET READY’ was one of the singles that helped to make EXODUS a huge success. Still a great song, still a great message given the sad reality of our nowadays severely divided world…
BOB MARLEY: Facebook – Website
The album…
The secret of the imperishable Keef Richards…
Brand new sonic impulses…
2 June 2019
Sometimes a sparkly pop band from Denmark comes around, like this vibrant one from Copenhagen named SILQUE, with a twinkling track that infiltrates your unsuspecting head before you even are aware of it and sometimes such an elevating humdinger stays there for a very long time and it keeps on spinning all over again and you know what, you really don’t mind at all because its sparkling vibe and uplifting spirit makes you gleeful and frolicsome and therefore you don’t want that frisky feeling go away, on the contrary, you want to enjoy its punchy attractiveness on repeat because it puts a big smile on your rapturous face and that is why you decided to listen to ‘SOMETIMES WHEN I LOOK AT YOU IT FEELS LIKE BEING PUNCHED IN THE FACE (BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I REALLY LIKE THAT)’ time and again because you really like this thriving tune that you all out there can savor too by streaming it right here…
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SILQUE: Facebook
Relaxing reveries for the laziest day of the week…
2 June 2019
Band: PONYTAILS
Who: Harmonious five-piece band from Vancouver BC formed in 2016. After two EPs
the group is working now on their debut LP of which they shared debut single Just
Yours recently.
New Track: TOO LONG – A song inspired “by the experience of passing someone by
on the street that you once shared a life with. I feel like it’s close to something we’ve all
experienced, so it felt good to write about.”
Score: The chill out tonality of ‘Too Long’ turns your senses into a melancholic slow
motion mode, into a reposing state of mind. Glimmering guitars, pensive vocals and soothing harmonies create a nostalgic feel good atmosphere. Imagine Kurt Vile and Mac DeMarco joining forces for a laid-back session. The outcome would be as moody as you can experience here. Tune in below …
Weekly series of five rolling ripsnorters to go completely bananas to this summer…
1. L.S.F. by Kasabian
(Album: Self-Titled Debut / 2004)
2. ‘Wrote For Luck’ by HAPPY MONDAYS
(Album: Bummed – 1988)
2. ‘Davey Crockett’ by HINDS
(A cover of a 1992 song by British band Thee Headcoatees)
4. ‘Cheer Up London’ by SLAVES
(Album: Are You Satisfied? / 2015)
5. ‘All Hail’ by PINS
( EP: Bad Thing / 2017)
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
1 June
It’s been a while since Californian wayward indie rockers THE PLEASURE ROUTINE made some noise. But now here they are with brand new biting piece. BLOODY NOSE. A track produced by Ricky Maymi (Brian Jonestown Massacre) & Tyler Green (Lumerians) and mixed by James Arparicio (Spiritualized, Grinderman).
It’s definitely not a love song. Its caustic, pungent and blood-curdling tone cuts as a razor sharp-edged Swiss knife and points rather in the direction of a bloody confrontation
with a bad guy called Johnny. Feel the explosive tension right here…
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THE PLEASURE ROUTINE: Facebook
Knockouts from the past…
1 June 2019
Anti-war song GIVE PEACE A CHANGE was written by JOHN LENNON (but credited to Lennon–McCartney on the record) and recorded with his PLASTIC ONO BAND, including
his wife Yoko Ono and a bunch of famous friends in Montreal, Canada 50 years ago today, on 1 June 1969 and peaked at #2 in the United Kingdom an at #14 in America.
Of course we know by now that most of the world leaders back then, now and in between never heard the song and if they did they classified it as hippie crap while they kept the multi-billion dollars war machine business going. Damn them ALL, but it certainly won’t stop me to play this positive mantra once again and again and again…
A one-two-three-four! (2)
Ev’rybody’s talking ’bout
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Hit it
C’mon, ev’rybody’s talking about
Ministers, sinisters, banisters and canisters
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Popeyes and bye-bye, bye-byes
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Let me tell you now
Ev’rybody’s talking ’bout
Revolution, evolution, masturbation, flagellation, regulation, integrations
Meditations, United Nations, congratulations
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Ev’rybody’s talking ’bout
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary, Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna, Hare, Hare Krishna
All we are saying is give peace a chance (x 10)
