It’s the weekend! Something a little different this week on the earworm open thread. Crikey cinema blogger Luke Buckmaster has been having a most amusing Neil Young-like snafu over at Cinetology so it’s timely for earworm to take a movie moment. Which song has made a movie for you? You know the ones. That all too [...]
READ MOREJuly, 2011
Album review: Beastie Boys ‘Hot Sauce Committee Part Two’
Now I can feel it in my bloodstream see it in the eyes People lining up with their own demise They have the man-made troubles to monetise Corporate violence we can’t reply – Say It, Beastie Boys Remember the Beastie Boys? Those three dudes from New York with a collective “we just make shit up [...]
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No.1 Superhits! (week ending 25 July 2011)
It’s that time of the week again – they’re number 1 so why try harder? 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: South Korea!) is aired. Australia #1: Adele ‘Someone Like You’ [...]
READ MOREearworm weekend open thread: 22-24 July
It’s the weekend! This is your moment! Which song has been soundtracking your life this week/weekend? Leave the YouTube link for the song in the comments section and it will magically (eventually!) appear in this post to build an earworm soundtrack for the weekend. Or, alternatively, nominate a song by mentioning @crikey_earworm on the Twitter. Last chance to [...]
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Album review: The Horrors ‘Skying’
Seems so far behind See yourself in the places you’ve been Some other time in endless blue Reflections look so good You’re never certain of anything unless you go in – Endless Blue, The Horrors Did you spend the 1980s mooching around in an overlong trenchcoat with nobody understanding you or who you were going [...]
READ MOREIs this Rebecca Black’s moment?…
…or has she already had it? Here’s an earworm EXCLUSIVE!!* Rebecca Black, of Friday, Friday, Friday fame has released another song. Can you contain your giddy excitement?! This is like that time Radiohead released a surprise album…but better. Analysing the lyrics it seems like Rebecca Black may be trying to convey the fact that this [...]
READ MORENo.1 Superhits! (week ending 18 July 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: Japan!) is aired. Australia #1: Adele ‘Someone Like You’ Fourth week at no.1 for Adele. Here’s a fan-made video that’s clocked up 1 million-plus [...]
READ MOREearworm weekend open thread: 15-17 July
It’s the weekend! Which song has been soundtracking your life this week/weekend? Leave the YouTube link for the song in the comments section and it will — eventually –magically appear in this post to build an earworm soundtrack for the weekend. Or, alternatively, nominate a song by mentioning @crikey_earworm on the Twitter. You can listen to June’s earworm [...]
READ MOREHottest 100 Australian Albums Of All Time (until next time)
Triple J has polled listeners to find out which albums are the Hottest 100 Australian Albums Of All Time. Music should be without borders but it’s understandable that since triple J is part of our ABC it’s always keen to promote Australian music. Categorising music by nationality isn’t ideal though and people who turn up [...]
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Album review: Arctic Monkeys ‘Suck It And See’
Don’t take it so personally You’re not the only one that time has got it in for honey That’s where you’re wrong – That’s Where You’re Wrong, Arctic Monkeys Back in 2006, the teenage Arctic Monkeys wedged the five-track Who The F*ck Are Arctic Monkeys EP in between their Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am Not [...]
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