Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.
- Lester Bangs
I spent WAY too much time on public transportation this past weekend commuting back and forth from our local Community Festival. The upside of this, as always, are those hidden corners of my music collection where the forgotten songs hide. Luckily, the shuffle mode on my mp3 player enjoys outing them.
This song is a great exampe. A gorgeous song off of the first Veils record 'The Runaway Found', released back in 2004.
London based band The Veils have been writing and recording some of my favorite rainy day music for years now. I especially loved 2006's 'Nux Vomica.' Front man and songwriter Finn Andrews has the most perfectly dramatic voice to sing the sort of anthemic tunes of heartbreak and angst that dot the landscape of Veils records.
The band has a brand new record coming out in April entitled 'Sun Gangs'...here is a track off of the record.
I guess I will take advantage of my new address here in cyber space and promote some of my favorite bands/songs that I haven't had the chance to share in awhile.
The Veils are an incredible band originally from New Zealand...i think they are based out of the UK now...their latest album is called Nux Vomica, out on Rough Trade records, and it is brilliant.
...or my email is anyway! Hey, it's me Blair...the Certain Songs staff of one. I just do this for the love of the music and am in no way trying to rip anybody off, so if you are an artist or a record label and you are not happy that I am promoting your music, or you want me to take a song down, just shoot me an email and I will most definitely oblige.
And please support the artists I post here in whatever way you can if you do download a song...go to a show, buy some merch, buy an album...these songs are the soundtrack to my life and I just love to share them. But I can only do that if the insanely talented artist responsible for said songs are able to eat.
I also love hearing new stuff...so any submissions can also be sent to my email, I will try my bestest to listen to everything and get back to you all...peace,love,rock n' roll.
csmusicblog@gmail.com
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I guess you're old enough to know. Kids out on the east coast. Roughly twenty years old. Got coaxed out by a certain perfect ratio. Of warm beer to the summer smoke. And the meat loaf to the billy joel. Certain songs they get so scratched into our souls.
She goes low on the seats when she gets high in her car. She looks shallow but shes neck deep in the steamy dreams of the guys along the harbor bars. She's pulling out her shirttails and jacking up her socks. Stern and stoned and confident, coming up towards the jukebox. Born into the only songs that everybody finally sings along. B-1 is for the good girls. It's only the good die young. C-9 is for the making eyes. It's paradise by the dashboard light. D4 is for the lovers. B12 is for the speeders. And the hard drugs are for the bartenders and the kitchen workers and the bartender's friends. And they're playing it again. Ellen Foley gives us hope. Certain songs they get scratched into our souls.
I guess you're old enough to know. Kids out on the west coast are taking off their clothes. Screwing in the surf and going out to shows. They get high and ride around in gtos. I guess you're old enough to know. CERTAIN SONGS THEY GET SCRATCHED INTO OUR SOULS. - The Hold Steady
