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My iPod #360: Kanye West – Family Business

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“Family Business” is exactly about what it says in the title. It’s Kanye West’s tribute to his family, dead and alive, a particular verse is for a cousin who was incarcerated at the time. But overall, the track is a general salute to those who helped him grow and get where he was back in 2004, or whenever he recorded this track.

It’s probably one of the sweetest tracks Kanye has ever done, not just in terms of quality but to listen to it is very delightful. A cute piano sample starts it all off, with child vocals used during the choir break (which itself is a reference to Rain, Rain, Go Away) and the outro…. It’s a great song to hear if you’re with the people you love.

I love my family, so this is the perfect song.

My iPod #359: Weezer – Falling for You

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It’s good to hear that people are liking Weezer’s new album. Or at least they feel like it’s the best the band has done in many years. But we all know that Weezer were so much better. There are those that completely disregard Weezer’s work after “Pinkerton“, that’s how offended they’ve been. I am not one of those people. Though I have to agree that the band’s second album is the last jaw-dropping thing the band have done.

“Falling for You” has many amazing moments in itself. Too many to describe. Anything I could say has already been written, and it’s a much better read. Have fun with it. In general, there are goosebumps-a-plenty when listening to it.

It is in this track, after eight songs where the narrator has no idea why he’s so shitty when it comes to relationships, that an actual relationship finally begins – only for it to end in the next and last track.

My iPod #358: Billy Talent – Fallen Leaves

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Ahh. Billy Talent II. What a great album. When it comes to Billy Talent, for me their first two albums can’t be beaten. “Billy Talent III” and “Dead Silence” are cool, but they don’t have that oomph that really came across in the opening couple of the Billy Talent trilogy. Just don’t ask me to choose between the two because I seriously can’t.

I’ve known “Fallen Leaves” before it was even a single. Ha. I honestly can’t remember the first time I heard it. It may have been when the then-new album was on the band’s MySpace profile or whatever. But I’ve listened to it for almost ten years now, and it always sounds as brilliant as when I heard it the first time. It’s not even my favourite on the album, which is saying something.

“Fallen Leaves” came to be one of Billy Talent’s most popular tracks, being released as a single in late 2006 and receiving its own video where the band stumble across a gang of freaks. I still don’t quite get the video; it’s quite weird. But there is a very funny part where Ian looks very very surprised when the four discover a lady a some very large assets.

“Fallen Leaves” will appear on Billy Talent’s greatest hits compilation “Hits“, which is to be released soon. Here are the group’s thoughts on that particular song:

My iPod #357: Franz Ferdinand – The Fallen

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Don’t worry, I am still here. Just been very busy this weekend so I had to hold this off for a while. To make up for it, this is the first of four so here goes nothin’…

I can’t put the official video of “The Fallen” on here. Although the song is of a reasonable length – just under four minutes – the version in the video cuts out the second verse about ‘drinking to the devil and death to the doctors’. Quite strange. Is that supposed to be a censor or something because this is the twenty-first century and everything.

It is not that big of a deal, anyway. “The Fallen” starts Franz Ferdinand’s second album off, a long note in the key of C blares out for a few seconds before the guitar comes in and begins the main riff. The song contains many references to the New Testament of the Bible. The Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, the water into wine stuff. It’s all in there. Alex Kapranos likes that stuff. I have a feeling he has done that sort of writing in another Franz Ferdinand song, but what it is fails to come to me at this moment in time.

Anyway, “The Fallen” is alllright. Probably not my favourite from “You Could Have It…” only because I’ve heard it so many times due its single release. It has to be one of those times when it just randomly appears on the iPod when I really appreciate just how good it is.