If there were an official list of bands that it’s cool to hate, U2 would surely be #1 (possibly tied with Coldplay). They may be the biggest band in the world™, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no surer way…
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
#shfl11: Brass Construction – Happy People
Well, #shfl11 finally seems to be doing what I’d hoped it would: introducing me to music I have never encountered before, despite it being on my iPod. Today, Happy People by Brass Construction, which is certainly the worst band name…
Tagged with: #shfl11, 70s, Brass Construction, disco, Earth Wind & Fire, funk, Kool & The Gang, remix, samples, soul, The Gap Band
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
#shfl11: Jim Hendrix Experience – Gypsy Eyes
It seems quite apt that after James Brown, the next artists I should find as part of #shfl11 is Jim Hendrix. In many ways he’s been as influential as Brown, and is certainly as close to my heart as The…
Tagged with: #shfl11, 60s, cover version, Jim Hendrix, psychedelia, rock, the beatles
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Posted in Music
#shfl11: James Brown – Soul Power Pt. 1
Well, after the obscurity of yesterday’s #shfl11 entry comes a song that I know very well, and love even more. James Brown was, arguably, one of the two or three most influential musicians of the last 50 years, if not…
#shfl11: Husky Rescue – Sleep Tight Tiger
So, for the first time since starting #shfl11, clicking shuffle on my iPod brought up a track that I’ve never listened to, by a band I’ve never heard of, off an album (The Art Of Chill 4, compiled by The…
#shfl11: Break Reform – Fractures (U-Neek Dub)
Around 11 years ago I returned from a great year in Australia, though when I got back to the UK I was very happy to be able to find great music without having to wait for a Gilles Peterson tape…
#shfl11: The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows
It’s quite apt that the latest track to pop up on my iPod as part of my plan to listen to, and write about, a random song every day in 2011 (I missed this weekend as I was travelling), is…
Tagged with: #shfl11, 60s, psychedlia, Revolver, rock, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the beatles, The Chemical Brothers
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Posted in Music
#shfl11: Small Faces – Lazy Sunday
When you stop to think about it, it’s amazing that The Beatles ever broke America: whilst their music was, and is, quite obviously brilliant, it’s also, often, very, very British. And parochial, eccentric British rock is something our former colonial…
#shfl11: Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent
When the Arctic Monkeys released Favourite Worst Nightmare, the album Fluorescent Adolescent is taken from, they were known not only as the band who had taken Hear’Say’s crown for the fastest selling British début (notching up 360,000 sales in a…
#shfl11: Radiohead – How To Disappear Completely
Whilst Kid A, the album that How To Disappear Completely is taken from, may have been named by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone & The Times as the best album of the noughties, I’d guess that for those of us who aren’t…
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