VELVET SOHO - Jesus Stole My Girlfriend
We are going to send shockwaves throughout the entire music industry here: Grunge was complete rubbish. There. I've said it! Sure, Nirvana released a few good songs (via ransacking the Pixies back catalogue), but it was nothing special.
This is what this is. Greasy Grunge. Like if the Smashing Pumpkins were Australian, were young again and had the ability to grow some hair, were a bit more shouty and started covering Ugly Kid Joe records! Sounds awful doesn't it? The initial reaction to this was, as you can imagine, one of amusement - laughing at the silly looking band...but then the chorus kicked in and by the end you've decided to grow your hair and never use shampoo again. Good stuff, with added grease!
PLAN B - Prayin'
Electric Banana are still in shock about how everything has gone right for Plan B in 2010! It just seems like yesterday when we were listening to his debut and soiling ourselves with fear at the sweary and jagged acoustic hip-hop sounds that was like GBH on both his guitar and on our poor little eardrums.
The third single is full testifying soul preacher mode - like a weird Aretha Franklin, delivering a sharply double-edged song that works perfectly as both uplifting gospel-driven Northern soul anthem and bleak - but still with added bite. The song is about being in prison, so many of our readers will be able to associate themselves with the lyrics. You bunch of thieving yobbos!!!
MARINA & THE DIAMONDS - Oh No!
Oh no! The pop minx returns to haunt Electric Banana with a horrible memory - as some of our eagle-eyed readers would have noticed that when she first broke on the scene we were calling her 'Maria' for the first couple of months. FAIL! However, with our professional reputation now in tatters, MARINA returns with a decent single and her name spelled correctly.
The track adopts the same quirky opposition to the mainstream pop scene (that bizzarely reminds us of Aqua's Barbie Girl) that marks so much of Marina's material, with an added hip/hoppy angle - which is a bit like Katie Perry, only not quite as good.
KATIE MELUA - A Happy Place
Young Katie Melua here is very visually exciting. But in the past she has ruined this by making the kind of music that your mother is more likely to listen to, i.e. dull. However, this is slightly better than we had anticipated - in a Kate Bush/1980s-sque type of way.
A Happy Place, the latest single, is further evidence of her new less-dull direction â€" an alt-pop offering that finds the singer expressing her dismay at the pressures of the 21st Century over striking strings, synths and military-style percussion - she certainly isn't getting melua (mellower) with age! It is almost enough for us to forgive her for writing this with sodding Guy Chambers. The git.
AMY MACDONALD - The Pretty Face
Amy Macdonald's new single is about modern day 'celebrities' who become famous, mainly only because of their looks (Paris Hilton - the famous face of the cannabis brand) being a fine example.
This sounds like a very soft Radio 2 pop version of The Liberines' Time For Heroes, but obviously sung by a Scottish girl. Macdonald has actually got a pretty face, but this song sadly isn't going to get her on the cover of any magazines. Awwww. Why? Amy's biggest inspiration are Travis, so you know this is highly unlikely to soundtrack a riot. Plus, you don't really want ugly people on magazines do you?
TOM JONES - Did Trouble Me/Strange Things
Whats new pussycat? Well, old duffer Tom Jones continues in his ambition to appear in the lead role of a remake of 'Santa Claus: The Movie'. Have you seen him? The Welshman is a right silver fox nowadays! We admire that. Electric Banana fully supports his refusal to use Just For Men products. Bravo.
Did Trouble Me is a contemplative strum, stripped back Jones vocal over some lovely banjo licks that sound as if Mumford & Sons have caught the attention of Mr Jones. Did we just half- praise a Tom sodding Jones song? Yep. Strange Things is a decent souly Dylan-esque offering. We still flatly refuse to throw our knickers at him...which he can only be very thankful for!
SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA feat PHARRELL WILLIAMS
- One
This is already one of the year's biggest club tunes - apparently - but we really have no idea if this is true. Swedish House Mafia (what type of name is that?) finally get around to releasing the dancey floor-filler One (Your Name), featuring vocals from The Neptunes/N.E.R.D (and NOT a female tennis star) Pharrell Williams.
The track is very heavy on the Ibiza style elements that have most Electric Banana readers piling for the exits...but there is thankfully something a little more to stop us from turning it off before the song has ended.
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