Another lovely little tune from the Manic Street Preachers.
To Repel Ghosts / Manic Street Preachers (2004)
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Tag Archives: Music
moonmoons / Anna Meredith (2019)
moonmoons by Anna Meredith is a distinctly more-ish mix of swooping strings and synths.
Linkspam: Bop Spotter
Bop Spotter is an interesting little curio; take an Android phone, set it to run Shazam on a loop, and then hide it somewhere (in this case San Franciscos’s Mission district) with a solar panel attached and suddenly you have the the culture-tasting equivalent of ShotSpotter, generating the unique soundtrack to a particular location. San Franciscos’s Mission is, of course, a very particular environment with a distinct feel too it, so it’d be interesting to see how it would contrast with other locations around the world – though I do suspect that most would end in the brief bang of a controlled explosion.
I Am the Antichrist to You / Kishi Bashi & Nu Deco Ensemble (2020)
New Slang / The Shins (2001)
In spite of turning up on the Garden State Soundtrack, I remain rather taken with the New Slang.
Stupid Girl / Garbage (1996)
It had been a while since I’d properly listened to any Garbage and I’d forgotten just how catchy some of their early work was. Fortunately, Stupid Girl happened to show up during some of my weekly Top of the Pops viewing and prodded enough tired memories to the surface that I now know what I’ll be listening to this afternoon.
Last Christmas / James Dean Bradfield (1996)
James Dean Bradfield (of the Manic Street Preachers) with a really nice stripped down cover of Wham!’s Last Christmas on TFI Friday in December 1996.
Walking In The Air (Analog Synthesizer Cover)
Look Mum No Computer’s analog synth cover of Walking in the Air from The Snowman.
Harrowdown Hill / Thom York (2006)
Thom York’s catchy 2006 polemic on the Iraq War and the death of Doctor David Kelly. For a music video that first premiered on a mainstream commercial TV station, Harrowdown Hill turns out to be bloody difficult to find in any quality better than ‘potato’. Indeed, the version above – while still not proper HD and occasionally raked by compression artefacts – appears to be the best one currently available and its hidden away on director Chel White’s Vimeo page! The version on XL Recordings YouTube page? Just a squidgy mush!
Dr Who on Holiday / Green Day, The Timelords, Dean Gray et. al. (2005)
I’ve managed to become rather obsessed with this Holiday / Doctorin’ the Tardis / Other Bits and Bobs mashup from the mid 00s. It’s pulled from the American Edit mashup album and the whole thing comes together far better than it has any right too…