Monthly Archives: December 2013

My iPod #196: Maxïmo Park – The Coast Is Always Changing

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“The Coast Is Always Changing” is a track from Maxïmo Park’s first album “A Certain Trigger” which was released in 2005. The eighth track on that album if I remember correctly.

It was a single too. Their very very very first single. Like even before “Apply Some Pressure“. I didn’t know this song existed until the video played on MTV2, and that was way after the album had been released anyway.

One thing that irks me about this song, and others on “Trigger”, is that it sounds a lot different from “Apply Some Pressure”, “Graffiti” and “Going Missing”. Has anyone else noticed this apart from me? In terms of production this song, “I Want You to Stay” and “Signal and Sign” for example sound really rough. A bit like demo recordings. Whereas the former three sound really polished. I don’t know if that’s just me. Maybe it is.

I do like this song though, however different it sounds to the other singles.

My iPod #195: Hot Club de Paris – Clockwork Toy

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Hot Club de Paris is a band that you have probably never heard of before.

Well, I will take you back to 2007 when MTV Rocks was called MTV2. I still don’t quite understand why it changed, but that’s not the point. The point is, videos by the band were played on this channel. “Clockwork Toy” was one of them.

“Clockwork Toy” was the last single to be released from the trio’s first album “Drop It ’til It Pops”. That was the last time I heard anything by them. I haven’t bothered to listen to anything else that was released after that. My bad. I wasn’t very interested in them.

But the three songs of theirs (including this) I do know are good enough.

My iPod #194: Coldplay – Clocks

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What a day it has been. Two words. Anchorman 2. A must-watch. See it as soon as you can. One of the best movies out this year. Seriously, you guys. No more can be said on fantastically funny and bizarre this film is.

Today’s song is “Clocks” by Coldplay, the third single from the group’s second album “A Rush of Blood to the Head”. It almost didn’t make it onto the album due to time restraints and could have been released on “X&Y“, but they managed to record it very quickly and it now stands the test of time as track number five on their 2002 release.

This contains a notable piano melody which repeats throughout most of the song. You have heard it before. I must have heard it in an advertisement before I knew what the song was called or who performed it. If you didn’t know where it came from, you know now.

My iPod #193: Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood

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Hi everybody.

Just came back from my presentation evening where all my former colleagues and I received our A-Level certificates. It was really nice. I was dreading going to my old school – just because, well…. it’s kinda crappy. But seeing all my friends and catching up was cool. All in all, a good night was had.

That is why today’s post has come quite later than usual. It’s “Clint Eastwood” by Gorillaz, their first…. let’s say ‘proper’ single ever. You may also know it as the ‘Sunshine in a Bag’ song? Ring a bell?

I can barely remember actually being five/six and seeing this on the TV. Just about. But it’s one of those tracks you’ve heard in an advert, or one which your friends mentions in passing and you instantly know what they are talking about.

The music video did leave me confused on whether Noodle was a boy or a girl. I later found out that she was indeed female, but I do not know how her design in this video was meant to show that.

The track also features Del the Funky Homosapien, the rapper with the song in Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3. He and Damon Albarn collaborated quite a bit during the early years of the last decade.

My iPod #192: Eminem – Cleanin’ Out My Closet

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“Cleanin’ Out My Closet” was the bitter, and brutally blunt second single from “The Eminem Show” after the humorous chart-topper “Without Me” in 2002.

Up until the album’s release Eminem’s previous albums contained lyrics alluding to his mother’s incompetence as a parent and his crappy childhood, but this track is the culmination – basically a direct verbal attack at her. Do not worry though, it’s all for justifiable reasons which he makes very clear in the song.

He has now apologised for the song, and has confirmed that he won’t perform it at shows and cringes when it comes on the radio.

Every rapper really loves their mum.