From the opening chords of ‘Audience’ you know exactly what Cold War Kids are all about. Nathan Willet’s vocal style, at times sounding Jeff Buckley-like, manages to draw you into their stories.
Each song is beautifully written. It’s simplistic in it’s complexity.
These are five songs which need to be heard, not only by Cold War Kids fans, but by any music lover with an appreciation for the blues and wants to hear one of it’s modern translations.
I saved this song until last because I wasn’t sure what I was going to say.
I must have written this in my head a thousand times, with a thousand different ideas.
About how it was the first muse song I ever loved.
About how it had taken me through so much heartbreak. Continue reading 15 – Muse Unintended (135)
Hot coffee on a brisk Sunday morning
Glossy magazines in the bath
Lying in bed at night solving the world’s problems
Warm afternoons, chilling after a hard days work
A glass of white wine on my balcony
Lying on the grass at Big Day Out, waiting for The Violent Femmes to play Continue reading 17 Zero 7 – Out of Town (132)
Okay I believe you, is part of the magic that is Deja Entendu.
It’s one of those albums that is incredibly difficult to not listen to in sequence, must like most of Brand New’s albums.
The only reason that okay I believe you stands on it’s own is that it was on one of my boys mix tapes that he made me. I now own all 4 albums, and have seen them live (twice actually – but the first time I didn’t know who they were. I made a lot of musical mistakes at that time of my life.)
I have cried to this song, I have been angry to this song, I have reflected to this song, I have looked into my boy’s eyes and felt so much love, this song has been with me through every single facet of emotion. And I am finding it incredibly difficult to write about.
Continue reading 7 Brand New – Okay I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Doesn’t (159)
Song number 2 from Zero 7 in my top 20.
This song is two things. A great intro hook and quirky ‘I love you’ lyrics.
The hook just spirals around in my head, nauseatingly, dizzyingly, trying to take me away to a different world, a world back before I had ever said I love you let alone felt what I now know love to be.
It is distracting. It tries to intoxicate you, and then its vocals draws you in fancy a big house, some kids and a horse, I can not quite but nearly guarantee a divorce. I think that I love you, I think that I do. So go on mister, make Miss me Mrs you.
Continue reading 6 – Zero 7 – Distractions (164)
I never really liked this song much, but because it was the most popular for a while, so I put it on a lot of party playlists. But surely not enough to get it to 132.
I don’t remember ever listening to it on repeat.
There are certainly better songs on the album.
I certainly would not have listened to it 3 times less than Unintended.
So I’m baffled as to why it’s here.
And I can’t think of a reason.
After hearing (read dancing my life away) this song live at Southbound, I was reminded how much I love it.
From the Patty Smith quip, to the sun drenched, french girls , it’s just so damn catchy!
And some great Dr Seuss rhyming. Continue reading 20 The Rapture – Whoo? Alright – Yeah… Uh Huh (132)
i think i’ve already talked about birds of tokyo, but this song does mean something else to me.
(yeh silversun pickups supported them – what’s with that??!)
Continue reading 8. Birds of Tokyo – Desperate (148)
Now that the weather’s getting hotter, it’s turning into beer garden and salad weather. But on a week day night the beer garden is a little more tricky, but the salads aren’t.
This was my version of all-in pasta salad.
It’s all-in because it’s pretty much using up everything I had in my cupboards the day before going food shopping.
But to its credit it turned out beautifully. (if I was to use this ‘recipe’ again, the only thing I would do differently is have some spinach leaves on hand – that would just add something even better)
Continue reading all-in pasta salad
Woke up surprisingly chipper.
Well my mates thought I’d be a lot worse, but I still maintain it was those two smokes that hit me. After not smoking for over a year, two smokes is enough. And I don’t get a hangover from smoking.
There was no one in the morning that we really wanted to see, so most of the boys went into Busso, and my boy, marnie, and I went in search of shade.
We wandered around rather aimlessly. Went to the Little Creatures tent for some pizza and listened to a bit of Pond who I like (in moderation, and in the right mood).
Then went into the Paper stage for what ended up being most of the day. Continue reading Southbound Monday
polka-dots & sparkles 