Levitate Me

I haven't had a good music day in months.

Music days are when I trawl the internet, the depths of music television as in MTV2 when they have a good run and Q at the right time of day, and my general knowledge and see what I can come up with. Lots of trying things out on lastfm and myspace. Last time I did this was around Christmas and with the exception of a couple of albums most of those ones grew boring after a few listens. So once more I try and you are invited to come with because I am really fucking bored.

First thing I found out was The Last Shadow Puppets are not at all bad considering my indifference towards The Arctic Monkeys (and their first single is intolerable to me for reasons inappropriate for the internet). I would go so far as to say they are pretty good and I may admit I was attracted by the very large picture of the album cover in the window of Virgin. I can't say why exactly since the girl is not attractive herself but whatever. So yeah I've listened through the album once and I enjoyed it. Hurray for them.

I found Margot and the Nuclear So and So's after I read someone compare them to The Shins. The two aren't really that similar. I mean they are both kind of folky but not really, both have that sort of soft male vocal but the overall sound is nothing alike. Not bad though nothing new. In fact the vocals could be female and it would become very generic very fast I think but that might just the song I'm listening to now. They have a song called Paper Kitten Nightmare. I have not listened to it but I had an image of a cat dressed as a ghost using a paper bag. There's another song that goes Jen is bringing the drugs/she wants to get real fucked up but it's sung over this acoustic guitar all nicelike. I can't decide whether it's good or look I am singing bad things nicely! I'm leaning t'wards the latter. Oh god he just said love is like an inkless pen. In fact the more I listen the more I dislike which is a shame because the first track I listened to was pretty good. Bleh he's singing about getting drunk on cheap red wine in paper cups now. He does not sound like he has done these things. Moving on time!

To Goldfrapp! I never thought I'd be listening to Goldfrapp seriously. I mean she rides a gorram discoball horse. However she's kind of attractive in a trashy over the top kind of way but I never felt the urge to listen further than ooh la la. Their new album attracted me with the album cover again and is completely different. It's all acousticy and has some of these really gorgeous songs to play in the dark. Total surprise, very happy I am.

I read somewhere that Pixies fans can be split into two groups: Those who think breakfast consists of black coffee prefer Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim and Doolittle, and those who think breakfast should be cake prefer Bossanova and Trompe le Monde. Rarely do these ridiculous claims actually apply to me but I realised I only ever have coffee in the morning and the two albums I own are those I am supposed to like. Not to be categorised I immediately looked up the other two. They are pretty much what you would expect from the Pixies: freakin awesome although yes I concede I do prefer the original two. I guess he was right whoever he was?

Browsing through Lastfm I listened to T rex, The Sugarcubes, The Velvet Underground (who sing the I'm sticking to you/cause I'm made out of glue song, did not know that), a Roxy cover by Melissa Auf Der Maur and a Metallica cover by Bif Naked.

Did you know Scarlett Johansson made an album? Did you know she sings like a man? I want to like it but it is difficult. It's some sort of Tom Waits cover album. Hmmm.

Lastly I listened to Death Cab for Cutie which must be about my fifth attempt only this time I actually listened. There was a girl in my Spanish class, really great girl she taught us all some card game that I won but lost because she hadn't taught me how to declare that I'd won. One day she hadn't listened to any music made in her lifetime the next she had the tshirt, every album and had seen them live. All we ever heard was Death Cab this and Death Cab that and I couldn't go near them. Prompted to read the Metro article on them on the bus ride home prompted me to actually try and yes they are good. It helps that I can't really remember what she looks like. I mean considering I like The Postal Service at least I already knew I wouldn't hate his voice.

I lied they aren't last. I also listened to another Broken Social Scene album that I hadn't listened to before. It was also very good and I will keep going on about them until someone acknowledges this. I mean how can you not love a band that can write a song about blowjobs and make it so pretty?

Now I'm done.