Love's All You Need in the World to Succeed

Mmkay, so I haven't posted anything in a while. Now gorge yourself on new music I'm in love with.

- The Rapture - W.A.Y.U.H. - it's weird to even hear something new from them. I thought they died. A long time ago. The effort it must have taken to create Echoes could probably be called suicidal. This new shit is, basically, bananas. It's the same rabid cowbell DFA disco, super caffinated this round.

- Uffie - Ready to Uff- I've heard a few other Uffie songs, and none of them even come close to this giant sequin covered beast of a song. Uffie raps in the same so-lame-its-not way Peaches does. Super kitchsky. And it's all nicely sliced up into confetti by the stop-go synth and breaks.

- The Presets - Are You the One - Like the Faint. Kinda. Gothy and dancey with monotone vocals like that, but much more intense, less mopey. Extremely bouncy. Maybe, if Junior Senior were a little less gay and about sixty times more goth, their music would sound like this. Down Down Down is another jolt of goth dance euphoria by the Presets.

- LL Cool J ft. Jennifer Lopez - Control Myself - I was home sick one day and heard this song on MTV. Even in my medicated stupor, i knew it was love. LL Cool J doesn't mess around and still sticks to rapping (talking?) like it's 1999, and even Jennifer Lopez can't mess up the very Berlin super plucky synth line in the back. I can even forgive the atrocious "zuh-zuh-zuh-zuh" last verse or whatever. It actually makes fucking sense, y'know?

- My Chemical Romance - The The End (RNR Cheryl Remix) - If all emo sounds like this, then slit my writsts and get me a myspace. I don't even know how I found this remix. Or why I listened to it. But that does not matter. What does matter is that the energy in this song is obscene. It's like a five year old ate a few pounds of raw sugar, then started jumping up and down on his bed screaming "FUCK YOU!"

Plus the Knife's album Silent Shout. Geez, is that good. And the Yeah Yeah Yeah's new album. I'd probably love whatever shit they put out though.

I also just discovered www.last.fm. It's perfect for music junkies such as myself. It makes charts of the music you listen to and lets you network with other people who listen to the same stuff.

My weekly top artists:


Nifty, kina sorta

New Terrifying Radiohead!

It's been five years, or uh, a little more than a third of my life, if you want to look at it that way, since Radiohead released their last album. (Unless you count Com Lag... but I think they only pressed 100 of those. In Japan.)

I heard last year that they were recording a new album, and it was going to be released sometime 'in the near future' (secret record label code for NEVER). I thought maybe it was going to be a Chinese Democracy kind of drawn out let down. Radiohead's 5-record contract with Columbia was finished, and they all have wives and kids and all that hoary adult stuff. I cried. Just a little. Inside.

Fotunately though, they've been keeping up a blog, god bless them, that's cleared up all my questions with insights like:

"today, myself, i was struggling, feels like we been trapped for a long time.in la la land. very frustrating. and under pressure now its so slow.enough to drive anyone loopy. im supposed to be positive>>smiling faces for the outside. well im fucking tearing my hair out.too much at once.furiously writing, working out parts. cracking up.not much time left. unshure about everything.im not supposed to put any of this here. so thats why i am."

Super.

But then I read a bit of an interview they've just done with NME. BEHOLD!

Thom Yorke on the new album:

"It's about that anonymous fear thing, sitting in traffic, thinking, 'I'm sure I'm supposed to be doing something else'. Interestingly enough it's similar to 'OK Computer' in a way. It's much more terrifying. But 'OK Computer' was terrifying too -some of the lyrics were."

Then he says: "Listening back on things we are doing and looking through the lyrics and stuff it feels like we are finally getting somewhere."

I think my feelings about this are best expressed through the following picture: