YEAH YEAH YEAHS!

Artwork for Is Is by Julian Gross from Liars.

I woke up today with the same mentality that I wouldn't find anything great on Hype.

But I was wrong.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are releasing a new EP next month.

I am so happy. I can't describe my happiness right now. Having not heard anything worth going crazy over for a while, Is Is is mind blowing.

Tracklist.

1) Rockers To Swallow
2) Down Boy
3) Kiss Kiss
4) Isis
5) 10x10

I recommend ALL the songs.

Of which i've heard 4 of the tracks before and have got their live recordings. Which are bad quality. Then I found the studio recorded ones on hype.

I love hype.

Frontseat View.

Just watched the movie Four Eyed Monster on Youtube a few days ago. For some stupid reason I like it. And I'm not going to watch it again cus I don't want to ruin that feeling.

The entire movie's uploaded on Youtube, so go watch it. Maybe you think they're trying too hard to be artsy, or it's all too hyped up or... whatever. But I like it.

No, I didn't just mention a movie for no apparent reason.

There's the music, of course. And they are obscure, some of them. Took me a while to track them down. Here are some songs.

National Eye - Bird And Sword

Gingerbread Patriots - Wax Lips And Hummingbirds

The Spinto Band - Oh Mandy

Loveninjas - Keep Your Love

The rest you could check them out of the movie's actual website, foureyedmonsters, and look up their names on myspace.

Four glittering eyes, two pink mouths, and eight limbs wrapped around itself taking up two seats on the subway.

I will blog again soon! Promise.

She's Happy Because She's Stupid

I haven't been very happy.

Nor have I been sad...

And all you want to do is download the songs. (I hope)

For best effects on the mind, listen to tunes at night.

Everything Absent or Distorted - The Exit Parade

Bella - Go

Frausdots - Soft Light

Goldspot - Timebomb

Guther -Afraid

And it's back to more games of FreeCell and mildly depressing music.

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Tracklist:
1. Don’t Make Me A Target
2. The Ghost Of You Lingers
3. You Got Yr Cherry Bomb
4. Don’t You Evah
5. Rhthm And Soul
6. Eddie’s Ragga
7. The Underdog
8. My Little Japanese Cigarette Case
9. Finer Feelings
10. Black Like Me

Spoon's sixth full-length studio album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is out July 10th on Merge.

Well, the album is great. However, I was kind of disappointed as I expected something more genius out of Britt Daniel. One thing about the album that I didn't quite like was the input of song "Ghost Of You Lingers". It definitely stands out among the other tracks, sounding completely different. Which is of course a bad thing because, in my opinion, an album has to sort of create a mood for the listener and the song is like a bump on the smooth road. But "Ghost Of You Lingers" on the other hand shows that Spoon is evolving and experimenting and not just creating the same shit over and over again.

So anyways, enjoy the tracks. Great album.

My Little Japanese Cigarette Case [This is so fucking good]

Ghost Of You Lingers

Don't you Evah

The Underdog

You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb

The Cure

Seriously? You don't know? Or do you?

The Cure doesn't need an introduction. They are legendary. Old band that formed in 1976.

"widely seen as one of the leading pioneers of the British alternative rock scene of the 1980s."
- Wikipedia.

The authors for this blog live in Singapore and The Cure are coming to perform in 2 months.

Hohoho. Get your tickets.

Boys Don't Cry (Fav)

Just Like Heaven

Friday I'm In Love

Close To Me

Lovesong

In Between Days

A Letter to Elise

Listened On.

Are you the type who just go to music blog after music blog, only to click on the great song link, and ignore everything else like the words of the post? I'm kinda guilty of that, sometimes. Unless the band's really great. I feel bad. They deserved to be read and loved.

So this is for those people. Barely any words. Just songs. For you. (Don't you feel loved?)

Psapp - Leaving In Coffins

This is my bus song. My spacing out song. My wake up song. It just makes me smile. Or maybe cus twinkling noises are my weakness. Psapp's kinda cute, making their music with toy instruments. It's toytronica. *guffaws* I mean, seriously. They said so.

Cake Bake Betty - Dear Mother

This song is an old one, and I hadn't been listening to it for a long time. Pretty voice. Spooky lyrics. Piano-driven. From Cake Bake Betty's last CD, Songs About Teeth. Me want.

The Lovermakers - Is It Alight

The Lovemakers make the catchiest things. I don't do sing-alongs. But damn. It's been my bathroom sing-along song for a month after the first few listens. *blush* It's good. If you like Is It Alright, you would like Set Me Free too, and if you like that too, hell just go buy the damn CD will you?

Lydia - December

And how can I miss the sad song of the week? It's angsty. The vocals are raspy with a bit of female vocals if you listened real close. It's just a typical song to brood to (or whatever sad kids do nowadays). And the length is just long enough for a brooding session.

And this is totally random, totally not indie.

The Muppets - Mahna Mahna

Uhh.. it's cute? You know you want to sing it. It's. Just. One. Freaking. Word. I got the song because they said Menomena got their name from this muppet song. If only Menomena makes songs this catchy. =) You can drive you friends crazy with it.

Mahna mahna doo doo doo doo doo mahna mahna doo doo doo doo...

Mellowz

Hell-oh itz be mee! Hokay I tried to find a pretty picture to rival those of the others. Ta-dah!



This week holds all the hardcore mugging type subject exam papers, ie my two remaining science papers and my case study business paper! This is, however, not the worst part. This week will also be the last week of IGCSE examinations for pretty much all my friends. :( They're like going to MUI NE. Which is a sandy beach funinthesun type place if you didn't know. And my everything-except-physical-and-racial twin keeps going, "Hey, you wanna go to mui ne? Oh wait no. You have pe next week! :D" :(((
Yes so. You can imagine I'm not exactly feeling cheerful and excited at the prospect of revising for my pe theory paper while my mates frolick and swim amongst the undeniably treacherous yet attractive sparkling waves of the open sea. And get bikini tans.

So, without further ado, I present to you (esteemed ladies and gentlemen dwelling in my mind) songs that reflect my mood! (mellow) :)

For starters there's Take A Walk On The Wild Side by the Velvet Underground. VU is/was, I must say, quite a mellow band. Or maybe by some strange chance I just have all their mellow stuff ><
On the mrt/subway/train home alone at night after some high-energy event? The Velvet Underground will ease you down gently.
They were also quite an influential band, tempering the sounds of the likes of Nirvana, the Dandy Warhols and Joy Division to name a few.

Next there's Back In The Wild by the Greenskeepers. You know that song playing on grey's anatomy when meredith has her hand stuck in a patient holding a bomb and they're trying to bring them to an OR that isn't near a gas line so the whole hospital won't explode? Slowly? This is that song, folks.

And then! There's We Drink On The Job by Earlimart! This song's abit faster (okay alot faster) than the others, but trust me, it's mellow all right. The basic riff is TWO NOTES. And yet the song still manages to be spiffingly gorgeous! Now THAT'S talent.

Following which is The District Sleeps Alone Tonight and This Place Is A Prison, both by the Postal Service. TPS music sounds quite conflicted to me. You have the usually-upbeat electronicky music laced with relaxed-sounding vocals. And somehow, it works. o_O Both songs are also from their album Give Up.
(btw listen to the whole of this place is a prison since the start is quite alot more depressing than the rest)

Okay I think I should get back to my revising. Byebye.