Not quite sure how "The Meeting Places" slipped under my radar (other than the fact that they showed up to the Shoegazers' party a decade or so late). I'm happy to see bands still working out muted, melodic pop songs on top of effects-laden, wall of sound guitars.
Something along these lines would really start to show the promise of multitouch. Working with your computer and having it NOT suck.
Great stuff from a Radiohead webcast. I would argue that few bands are, but they seem right at home covering Joy Division. (BTW, why does Thom Yorke seem drunk when he's presumably sober? Seriously, watch him at the end!) My favorite part of this video is the way Phil Selway just owns the drums on this song. I've always loved the drums on this song... amazing that Joy Division's first live recording of this song was early 1980 (almost immediately preceding Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis' suicide). Not saying that Stephen Morris was the first to use this fast-paced, hihat-driven beat that would eventually come to define so much of the music that followed, but it's amazing to me that a band with a percussive sound that went on to so heavily influence electronica and eventually be known most for music with dance-beat electronic drums is built on such a great nuts-and-bolts drummer as is Morris. Here he is rocking the same sound in middle age: No Mercy Shown!
I'm generally not a rabid fan of the fairly recent trend where an otherwise unknown string quartet releases an album containing their reworking of well-known pop tunes. I admire the skill and talent of the musicians and even though I can tap my foot along because I know the melody from the original, it always feels a bit counterfeit. "What do you mean? I always wear this monocle and top hat with my favorite morning coat!"
(RIP lala.com 5/31/10 – let's hope it's an early sign of iTunes' long delayed migration to the cloud).
Not particularly revelatory, I know.
Wouldn't it be cool to make an app this beautiful for daily use?
I didn't include the video because it looked like it would autoplay. And I can't have our readers exposed to autoviewing video. It's bad for the kids.
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