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My iPod #356: Razorlight – Fall, Fall, Fall

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Here it is. The climactic finisher to Razorlight’s debut “Up All Night”. Excuse the video, it appears to be the only one on YouTube which has the song on there. “Razorlight – Fall, Fall, Fall” as a search entry brings up nothing.

And I lie. It’s not very climactic at all. A long piano interlude from the end of “To the Sea” strikes its final chord at the same time just as the guitar of “Fall, Fall, Fall” fades in. There aren’t any other instruments in this, only one guitar, a few “aah-ahh-ahh” backing harmonies and the wailing sounds of Johnny Borrell’s voice. Whether or not that’s enough to make you listen to this song, I’m not very sure.

The track ends on a rather weak note too, after a few utterances of the last line it all fades out on an unresolved chord and fades to silence. That’s probably meant to symbolise something, what it is is something that I fail to see. It’s a good thing I got the re-released “Up All Night”, where instead the album finishes with “Somewhere Else” – a much better way to finish the album off.

Still, I like the song. It’s alright. It’s not one that I’ve memorised and know all the words too, but it does the job nonetheless.

My iPod #355: Cloud Nothings – Fall In

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After hearing Cloud Nothings for the first time via their most recent album released earlier this year, I was interested in what other stuff the band did. Originally Cloud Nothings was a one man band made of main member Dylan Baldi performing power-pop, happy-go-lucky songs. But I didn’t listen to those. Instead I went straight to “Attack on Memory“, the first album where he expressed his anger and raw feelings into his music, this time with three other people, in order to make us and himself forget about that past.

That’s the album “Fall In” is on. Lyrically, I am not sure what I can say about it. Sure, there are lyrics in it but whether there is real meaning behind them is debatable. Baldi has stated that he doesn’t care for lyrics, and normally writes them the day before recording, which more or less means that the music is the important thing to take note on in this case.

Musically, it’s very fast. And loud. Cloud Nothings has a superb drummer if you didn’t know. Seems to hit them harder and at a more furious pace than any other band I’ve heard of late. It’s the same on this track too. Would think the guy has an extra limb or something. The music during the choruses confuses me a bit too. I can’t count along to it. It sounds like the vocals and guitars are going at a completely different time to the drums. It’s all in 4/4 though, listen to the drums closely enough and you’ll be able to get it soon enough.

Sorry for the late post too, caught got up in some reading.

My iPod #354: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Fall Away

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The track “Fall Away” is on indie rock master Stephen Malkmus’ and his Jicks album “Mirror Traffic“, his band’s fifth album from 2011. The track is very light to the ear with soft guitars, heavenly vocal harmonies for the choruses but is backed up with a bass drum that really packs a punch with over-ear headphones.

As it’s not a single, I can’t say that there’s much of a back story behind the song. It seems to be another one of those ones about being on the road and performing on tour, and the time that a band isn’t touring and is instead writing and rehearsing new songs in the studio that ‘no one else can hear’. The second verse seems to elaborate on this topic, using wordplay and metaphors that could only ever be written and sung by Malkmus.

This is a very good song to listen to when travelling or sleeping, just my opinion.

My iPod #353: Arctic Monkeys – Fake Tales of San Francisco

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Let me just specify that the “Fake Tales of San Francisco” that I regularly listen to that is the version on Arctic Monkeys’ first EP “Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys”, an EP that is apparently very rare and released before the band had a record deal. The version of the song on that is basically the same as the one on the band’s debut album, except for a change of words in one particular line, but I generally prefer this version. It was the first song I heard by Arctic Monkeys when its video played on MTV2, it was good new music (in 2005) which was nice to see, but I don’t think I expect them to achieve the great success that was coming their way very soon. A few months later, I think.

The song is Alex Turner observing all these things going on around him, possibly at a gig he is attending, but the emphasis of the track is on the band who chat shit and tell stories that are very hard to believe. Alex is not having any of it, and coins phrases that are probably used on a daily basis by many other people who find themselves in the same situation. How many of you have always wanted to call someone out on their bullshit by saying something along the lines of “You’re not from New York City, you’re from Rotherham”. Some very clever lyrics on this track that’s for sure.

Seems to me that Turner would like to be from New York City with that accent he’s got on nowadays. “AM”‘s alright, but I’ll stick with the band’s early material.

My iPod #352: Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees

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Sorry for the late post. I don’t feel well today. I wasn’t sure whether this would come out. The probability that this won’t be a very good read is high. But I will still do it instead of saving it for tomorrow, just because I feel that it is my duty.

So this is “Fake Plastic Trees”, a song and single from “The Bends” – Radiohead’s second album. A nice thing about this one is that it isn’t like any other single I’ve heard before. It’s slow-paced, contains weird futuristic keyboard sounds and is, for the most part, very subdued. That is until about halfway through when a note sung by Thom Yorke transforms into a snarl, the rest of the band come in, a guitar solo buried in the mix arrives a little late which results in a section which reminds me of the elevator breaking through the ceiling at the end of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. That section ends almost as soon as it starts, and goes quiet again. Thom sings the last few lines, the keyboards fade out…. a glorious song is over.