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 am starting 2008 off in style buy throwing on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks and spinning it a few times before I call it a night...this is the ONLY record I want to start the year with...i need a good 2008, so 2008 needs a good opening soundtrack.
'Ghetto Blaster' is one of THE most original and infectious records of the year! It probably would have cracked my top 20 list if I would have known that it existed before this morning...i haven't stopped listening to it yet.
He amazingly mixes traditional Hebrew music with elements from hip hop, pop, and rock in effortless fashion...it's sort of hard to put into words, just listen to these too tracks and let me know what you think...
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, so the story goes. OK, I may have paraphrased it just a bit, but only to bolster my case. There has just been such great string of UK female singer/songwriters lately turning their angst into great, hook-laden pop songs.
The one that is currently getting played into the ground at my place is the Kate Nash tune 'We Get On'...i love me some bitterness and anger in song form! The entire LP is excellent as well, 'Made Of Bricks.'
I think we have an early contender for 2008's 'Album Title Of The Year' award. The actual record itself is pretty darn good too. This is Dan Bejar's(New Pornographers, Destroyer) new project. 'St. Angela' and 'Through The Imposture' are the standout tracks to me...after the initial listen anyway...good, good stuff here.
You wouldn't think a white Irish guy could pull off covering a Bill Withers classic AND a club anthem from Blacksteet in the same song...and you would be wrong. It works ...really well even!
...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
