Musak! And Yuletide (eep!)

[hackthis_archive]

Today I am working on my yuletide story. Finally. I have 500 words 716!. Only 284 to go. Or something.

You all seemed real keen on last week's Friday Five of Awesome, so in honor of me slogging through my story I'm presenting the Thursday Five of Awesome and Yuletide Power!, you know, for motivational purposes.

1. Tricky 'Black Steel' -- In the mid-90's there was this AWESOME music movement in the UK called trip-hop. Featuring groups like Massive Attack (Protection or Blue Lines depending on who you ask) and Portishead (Dummy), trip-hop was the sort of music that God would produce if he was making a soundtrack for sex. That's a little blasphemous innit? And yet, it's true. Ask anybody hanging around London, Bristol, Brighton or any of the US scene and they'd agree. Tricky's Maxinquaye is seen as the third album of the Massive, Portishead trinity and with good reason. This particular song is a cover of Public Enemy's 'Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos' and uh, just yeah.

2. Midlake 'Roscoe' -- I've had this song for about a year now, and everytime I play it I have to replay four or five times. A song about fixing houses and being born in another time, I defy you not to listen to it twice in a row. The video is very fitting for the song.

3. Elbow 'Something in the Air' -- I was informed this week that Elbow will have a new album out sometime in the new year. There are no fucking words for how happy this makes me. I really hope this song will be on there. A beautiful song about hoping for something better and getting yourself together because the revolution is coming dammit! And it's not on your TV.

4. Guillemots 'Sao Paolo' -- An eleven minute song about love lost, love hated and wanting a lawyer so you can sue the ass off of somebody. Anybody. I can't do it justice by talking about it, you just have to listen.

5. Run DMC 'My Adidas' -- This is classic rap. This is classic old skool. It's fucking RUN DMC! And they're talking about their trainers. Who doesn't talk about their trainers? Really?

Five songs (plus some extras)

Comments

[antheia.livejournal.com]

I remember going to see The Fifth Element and being the only person in my group saying, "Shit, man, is that Tricky? It totally is!"

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

OMG! The first time I saw that I was like The Fuck?! Tricky and Goldie in the same movie?! Oh, this shit ROCKS!

[antheia.livejournal.com]

And Eve, the only model I gave a damn about at that point. Because she had a fucking DRAGON tattooed on her HEAD.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

OMG! Dude! I remember when Eve was the shizz! Are we old or something?

[antheia.livejournal.com]

She was so fucking awesome. We might be. Shit.

[copracat]

I adore Sao Paolo. Adore.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

The whole album is absolutely sublime, but Sao Paolo is just beautiful. At first I thought it was two songs in one, but then you realize it has to be that long to make the whole thing work.

[lazulus]

Have you listened to Guy Garvey on 6Music on the BBC?

Sadly, I doubt very much that Something in the Air will make it on to the new album. They recorded it for an album of cover versions of No.1 hits - it was the best thing on that CD.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Who are they covering? Also, I have tried *repeatedly* to listen to Guy's show, but for some reason my computer HATES realmedia and I can't stream it. *is v v v sad*

[lazulus]

Thunderclap Newman - forever to be known as the ultimate one-hit wonder. And because I am sad, here is the original version and here is a version by Tom Petty. Elbow does it best, though. :)

That sucks about Guy's show. I am assuming you are on a Mac otherwise the Windows Media Player option works - I use that at work as the computers there hate Real Player as well. Oh, technology, whyfore are you so annoying? :(

[raucousraven.livejournal.com]

Eeeelbooooooow. Thank you for the presents!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome!

[fruce.livejournal.com]

Ditto on the Elbow yay-ing. I'm downloading this, thank you!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I very much like your icon also.

[vic-ramsey.livejournal.com]

This - Guillemots 'Sao Paolo' - is pretty fantastic. Thanks.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

\O/

[notworthy.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I love Tricky a lot, I need to go look for my cds. Downloading this, with many thank yous.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

You are most welcome. Also, your icon is hysterical.

[vylit.livejournal.com]

Black Steel! Classic rap! There are days when I think my entire f-list likes one rapper (Eminem) and then you post, and I want to KISS YOUR CHEEKS.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I like Em, don't get me wrong. He's got a good flow, but he's not Biggie. Or Tip at the height of Tribe Called Quest. He's not Doug E Fresh or Mos or Talib -- or Mos and Talib together! He's not anywhere near all that brilliance, but you know, he's not bad either. Most people just assume rap is all bling and bitches and hoes and guns, like they assume all country is all shot guns and somebody ran over my dog, so they miss out on the Dixie Chicks and Lyle Lovett or the alt country awesome that is Whiskeytown or Wilco. [/soap box]