The world is fucked

I've been feeling rather nineties lately, I guess it won't be long before I get bored enough to do a nineties compilation podcast. Somewhere last week, somehow the name My Vitriol popped into my head, and I ended up checking out their videos again. Even though chronologically they're more a noughties band, I guess you could situate a band with some Foo Fighters riffs and shoegaze influences in the nineties and get away with it. This London-based band released FineLines in 2001, and played some big gigs, although they arguably weren't the right band at the right time, battling the forces of nu-metal. I always feel that the singer of this band is like a Brian Molko that isn't butt-ugly.

Anyway, the singles are still good, Moodswings being my favourite, and Always: your way being the most succesful. According to Wikipedia, they went on hiatus at their peak, and are now back to recording records and playing shows. Good for them!





Speaking of Brian Molko, does anyone even remember the follow-up single to their breakthrough single, "Nancy Boy"? It was called Bruise Pristine, and even though it's hardly their best single ever, it showcases what the primordial Placebo was all about. Mainly teenage angst I'm guessing. Check it.




Staying firmly in the nineties, I think most people of my age still have fond memories of the Troublegum record by Irish band Therapy? . Biggest bum-out regarding this band is that they'll always be remembered by Diane, even though that song illustrates their good choice in cover songs (Huskur Du and Joy Division), it doesn't really illustrate the impact their debut album had on the adolescent mid-nineties generation. They released a string of follow-up records but most of their fanbase had moved on, although they're still rocking and playing smaller festivals around Europe. They toured with Helmet once, and only recently, I've come to notice the similarity in some of their use of start-stop riffs. "Stop it you're killing me" and "Femtex" below. "Masturbation saved my life" is a pretty funny opening line.





And closing off the nineties chapter for now, the debut single by Garbage. Garbage will always be Butch Vig's band, even though their choice for Scottish Shirley Manson as frontwoman turned out to be a good one. Clearly still struggling with the rock and roll pose in the video for "Vow" though. Best Garbage single ever, "I think I'm paranoid" coming in as a close second.




Closing off, I forgot about the new Balthazar single when discussing the new singles from Belgian bands in my previous post. I quite like the new track by these local (relocated to Ghent) hipsters (sound quality is mediocre):

Shut up, Narcissus

A plethora of Belgian artist came over to the Studio Brussel radio station to play their new singles this week, ranging from more of the same (Mintzkov) to pretty godawful (Fixkes) stuff.

One new local single we do support here at the IASSP HQ, is the new one from The Black Box Revelation:



Sounds like someone slipped these youngsters a T Rex cd or something. These lads have gusto, and they can make a pretty standard riff and straightforward lyrics into a song that is worth listening to.


Random nineties video of the week:



Funniest video of the month:

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So, Lily Allen is taking a kiddie break, but the new Maria Timm sounds a little Allen-esque. Can't find a video, think the song is called "Why don't you run along?".

Been rockin':

City and Colour
Great Lake Swimmers
American Nightmare
Customs

Noone likes to take a test, sometimes you know more is less

It was a really long wait for the new Editors single, can't get into it:




Stubru chose this



over this



to be the next hotshot. DOES NOT COMPUTE!


Ever heard the disco-Feist? Good stuff!



Still arguably the best thread on the internetz (SFW): Click

Remix of the last few weeks and moderate hype song in Belgium was legally downloadable for free for one day, too bad you missed it. Everyone loves this, works pretty much anywhere:



I hated the Florence & The Machine-version of "You got the love", but The XX however still succeeded in doing a pretty good remix of it:

Green Wing

Green Wing is a atypical British hospital series, that ignores all the medical (I've been growing bored with the third House MD season anyway) stuff and just focuses on the very weird and quirky medical staff. Think Arrested Development-crazy. Also atypical is the episode length (three quarters) and the composition of the episodes, which consist of short dialogue settings, interspersed with sped up/slowed down edit of the cast members going about their business. This is apparently (Lazzi is a stage technique to fill up the time lost when changing backdrops and props when moving from one scene to the next. The fact that it is sped up and slowed down here gives it an extra comical effect, while at the same time giving a slightly unnerving, unsettling feel that can make the episodes kind of hard to watch.

In other British comedy news, BBC2 is rerunning "I'm Alan Partridge"-series Sunday nights around midnight.



This series is set around a failed tv and radio-host that tries to get his career back on track. The main character (played by Steve Coogan) looks like the perfect cross between Mark Uytterhoeven en Martin Heylen.

Both recommended.

2010

vampire weekend meets feist meets aaliyah meets joanna newsom meets ...

great track, excellent vocal performance.

like the lama and the huskies, kakzakken do not want.