What Becomes of The Brokenhearted- Jimmy Ruffin Just a great song, and a question still unanswered. a little philosophical food for thought
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The Beatles – All You Need Is Love The intro to this one qualifies it for the Gallic theme of the week.
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Kraftwerk – Tour de France Un peu français, ein bisschen deutsch and entirely appropriate. I’m not what you would call a connoisseur of Kraftwerk but I dig this.
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The Libertines – France The theme continues, though it is now countrywide as Strasbourg references in pop music seem to be minimal. The hidden track on the self titled album, but this version off of Legs XI with its intro vaudevillian intro from Pete is even better than that bonus tune.
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The Rakes – Strasbourg Celebrating some good news, definitely a theme to this week. Plus it is a good tune from a band that had some real potential too bad they didn’t stick around to quite “get there”.
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Everything Everything – MY KZ UR BF From this week’s Later With Jools Holland, dreamy, spacey indie-pop proving that Manchester still has plenty to offer in the music department. One city should not be allowed so much indie-rock talent. http://www.myspace.com/everythingeverythinguk
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Carl Barat – Run With the Boys In the months leading up to the release of Barât’s first solo effort everyone’s mind was focused on the long-awaited Libertines reunion, everyone it seems but the man himself if the first single off his soon to be released album is any indication. Not a complete departure from…
Leeds Festival 2010: Festival Day (Part III)
Due to the lack of consistent internet connection in the days immediately preceding the festival I was not able to download the schedule, but I (wrongly) assumed that there would be large, clearly visible schedules on sight. This lead to me missing a number of my top bands to see as a wandered from stage…
Leeds Festival 2010: Landed in Leeds (Part II)
Arriving two days before the official start of the festival I was in time for the last night of the Leeds Festival Fringe. I caught a gig at Carpe Diem on the bill were: Audit Control, New York Alcoholic Anxiety Attack and Secret Circuit. Audit Control were my favourite performance of the night. NYAAA were…
Leeds Festival 2010: Leeds bound (Part I)
As may or may not be apparent from some of the previous posts I spent 3 months in Stockholm Sweden. I was an intern at the fantastic ACE Electoral Knowledge Network . I finished my internship early in August, but I was not quite ready to go home. I had some time to kill as…
A Shot in the Dark 