thanks to the wonders of amazon and getting the urge to blow some dollar on tunes after a long hiatus, i have recently (after the first 3 discs of a swelling tidal wave arrived..)
* Rediscovered Terrorvision. Damn they're good. Unexpectedly so. (Got Shaving Peaches for about £1.50 plus postage, as i wasn't convinced it would be any cop. It sure as hell is! Well, except for the NON remixed version of tequila hehe). "How to Make Friends and Influence People" is an even better album (and in transit)
* Updated my old tape of Therapy?'s Infernal Love to duper digital CD (& of course, mp3..). It's clearer, less distorted 'n' all, but somehow I think it sounded better on the cassette. There's something slightly more metal about that format than anything digital, that makes it feel thrashier... Still a ruddy fine album anyway. (Ditto Troublegum)
* Took a chance on seeing if The Rasmus' previous (non uk released) album "Into" (containing the tune that first introduced me to them) would be any better than Dead Letters. Think it's about neck and neck... the tunes don't seem as "quality" (if thats really the right word to use
) but there's a whole lot less tiresome hey-look-we're-goths-now-yeah pretension going on and a less X-treme euro indie pop vibe instead. Doesn't bring the whole disc up to the summertime headbop standard of F-f-f-falling (Into's somehow award-winning standout track), but its more listenable and less fake-whiney at least.
As for what other music i'm currently into..... i'll have to see what the postman drops off next!
alternative answer...
M J Hibbett and the Validators --- they're playing The Bull somewhere in Moseley tonight, which conceptually is close to me. However I have no clue where that is and am too late to find out, as until I realised the mistake this afternoon, I was actually thinking of a pub just off the A38, in Aston. Which is bloody miles away from Moseley.
Spray. Alternately cheeky and mock-noir transatlantic electropoppers spun off from the cuban boys.
The Magic Numbers. Folksy gentle lovelyness (if an acquired taste)
Smile.DK - like Scooter but they make their own tunes, are two scandinavian girls, and aren't suicidally annoying. So not actually like scooter at all.
oh yeah... the magic numbers... worth checking out if you fancy a chilled out rock-folky kind of vibe with no pretencious BS in it. Singing isn't so hot but it does evoke a kind of Eaglesy, Fleetwood Mac flavour --- and therefore is best listened to whilst rolling through the countryside or on a long motorway trip rather than sat at a desk or in your living room. They're playing the Edinburgh fringe at some point too, if you're going.
What night were you there?
