There are bands and artists that have seen better times. Their glory days – when they could do no wrong and an appreciative general public, not just hardcore fans, lapped up their every song – are far behind them. Still, they soldier on as music industry survivors. Are they still worth listening to? Or have [...]
READ MOREJune, 2011
Album review: Radiohead ‘The King of Limbs’
Obligation, complication Routines and schedules Drug and kill you Kill you – Little by Little, Radiohead The release of The King of Limbs may have ended Radiohead’s tenure as the ball achingly hip band of modern times. The hipsters – whose balls surely must ache from those skinny tight jeans they favour – have generally decreed [...]
READ MORENo.1 Superhits! (week ending 27 June 2011)
Remember when you used to care about who was number 1? Relive those glory days each week right here on earworm where the Australian and one other random country’s best-selling song (this week: Russia!) is aired. Australia #1: Adele ‘Someone Like You’ Hooray! Nothing against LMFAO but after ten weeks they’ve finally been knocked off the top [...]
READ MOREearworm weekend open thread: 24-26 June
It’s Friday! Same deal as last week. Which song has lodged itself in your mind this week? It can be something old, something new, something covered or even something blues. Leave the YouTube link for the best song you heard this week in the comments section and it will be added to this post to build an earworm [...]
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Classic album? The Beach Boys ‘Pet Sounds’
I keep looking for a place to fit in where I can speak my mind I’ve been trying hard to find the people that I won’t leave behind They say, I got brains but they ain’t doing me no good I wish they could – I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times, The Beach Boys [...]
READ MORENo.1 Superhits! (week ending 20 June 2011)
Remember when you used to care about who was number 1? Relive those glory days each week right here on earworm where the Australian and one other random country’s best-selling song (this week: France) is aired. (Was hoping Greece would have a suitably anarchic track as their number 1 song this week but it’s Just Can’t [...]
READ MOREearworm weekend open thread: 17-19 June
It’s Friday! Which song has lodged itself in your mind this week? It can be something old, something new, something covered or even something blues. Here’s the deal. Leave the YouTube link for the best song you heard this week in the comments section and it will be added to this post to build an [...]
READ MOREIs House’s house of blues a blue?
This is weird. Dr Gregory House from TV show House has released an album of blues songs. Yep. Blues. Actor Hugh Laurie, former comedy sparring partner of Stephen Fry, has taken his faux American accent a stage further and has got the blues on an album entitled — in a possible pre-emptive strike against any [...]
READ MOREClassic album? #1: The Beach Boys ‘Pet Sounds’
I have a confession to make: I like listening to new music. Music that’s been released recently. There’s so much of it. Some may argue too much. As a result I haven’t really got around to sitting down and listening, really listening, to many of the ‘classics’ — those albums, mostly from the 1960s and [...]
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Album review: Death Cab For Cutie ‘Codes and Keys’
‘Cos when you find yourself a villain in the story you have written it’s plain to see that sometimes the best intentions are in need of redemptions Would you agree? If so, please show me – You Are A Tourist, Death Cab For Cutie Teenage angst has paid off well for Death Cab For Cutie singer-lyricist [...]
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