Music That I Like

Saturday, November 28, 2009

One-minute reviews - 12: MV + EE, Butcher Birds, Hawnay Troof, Junior Boys

Actually, I'm a little out of practice right now, and these reviews are running closer to 90 seconds from the moment I first listen to the music to when I type the final word but...One-minute-and-a-half reviews doesn't really have the same ring to it, does it?

Absolutely no feedback whatsoever from the last crop of four. Undaunted, the bloodied and ignored critic battles on...

My Last FM Top 20 (week 13)

Bit of a strange chart, this one. I've been trying to put my iTunes library in some sort of order, and think it might have got skewed cos of that. Whatever. Can't deny I adore everything and everyone in it. No work on, so nothing present cos of that.

And so it continues... I was tempted to make this installment Brisbane-centric but realised it would lose me the three friends I have left remaining.

I don't see anyone else stepping up to the plate and taking this challenge.
I don't see any web editors lining up to syndicate this series either.

One-minute reviews - 8: Bo Ningen, Lonelady, To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie, Tap Tap

Anyone can write about music, sure.
But can you write about music when the clock's ticking down, you know nothing about the artist in question and you've never heard the album before?

And you only had a minute to start with.

Life is complicated, but brief. Why spend longer writing than someone will spend reading your words? Or indeed, listening to the music? Bring on the One-Minute Review!

These are the songs that got left off my other seven Christmas compilations. Oddly, I think this might be my favourite one of all...

Loene Carmen vs Betty Davis

I've been meaning to write about this awesome Light In The Attic reissue for some time. Still haven't got round to it. So I thought I'd welcome in a guest blogger, Sydney's own Loene Carmen, to talk about it. The following is reprinted, with permission, from her MySpace blog, with a note from the lady herself that Betty Davis' fourth album was actually recorded at a "studio in the country", not at Muscle Shoals as stated below.

ET Recommends - 41: The Tielman Brothers

Damn, but this is just about the greatest pair of videos I've seen today. No, wait. This week. No, wait. This month. Etc. Etc. The Tielman Brothers! They're like the Dutch Indonesian rockabilly Monks! From 1960.

My Last FM Top 20 (week 12)

Ah but my entire being has been destroyed by the immaculate compilation A John Waters Christmas - in particular, the uber-cutsie 'Santa Claus Is A Black Man' by Akim & The Teddy Vann Production Company - and I can barely function right now, but damn it. Here it is anyway. Hope you can dig it. (The R means I was listening to it for work-related reasons, and clicking on the hypertext will take you through to the review - usually.)