Interviews with Mark E. Smith from The Fall are nearly always really terrible, especially video ones but this weird geeky dude from the U S of A has actually managed to do a really great interview with MES. It's in 4 parts all of which are embedded below to save your lazy asses from going to vbs.tv and searching for them.
Here are some great MES moments from the interview:
- on the Manchester bombing "I wrote a song about that...a year before it happened"
- on why he doesn't like football anymore "it's a bit like a Red Hot Chilli Peppers show"
- on the interview "I can't believe this fucking rubbish"
- on Bob Dylan "The Emperor of Grease"
- on Hitler "balls"
- on Talking Heads "they're the enemy"
- on Jack Black "what a fucking twat he is"
- on his nieces and nephews "when I walk in the room they hide behind the couch"
- on Pop Idol "I'm sorry"
- on Courtney Love "no wonder Kurt shot himself"
- on the interviewer "you should clean your teeth"
- on English musicians "they just want to play golf"
19/11/2007
Mark E. Smith - video interview
12/11/2007
07/11/2007
Stephin Merritt - A Man of a Million Faces
Stephin Merritt is one of the great loves of my life, he has produced consistently incredible music for over 15 years. As well has his own name he has recorded under the monikers The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, Future Bible Heroes and The Gothic Archies, all of which are awesome (leave FBH till last though! :-s). People throw the word 'genius' around willy-nillily, I'm not one of those idiots, I reserve the term for dudes that kick some serious ass, if you like to listen to the saddest, catchiest, most perfectly formed pop songs on earth then Stephin is gonna open a can of whoop-ass on yo ass. Seriously, this guy is a genius, his music is a work of genius; when I met my girlfriend I made her a compilation of his music and labelled the cd "Stephin Merritt: Gay Genius", she listened to it and told me that she cried her eyes out all the way through and refuses to listen to him and always insists that I turn him off, thats the kind of genius we are dealing with!
He recently recorded a song called 'A Man of a Million Faces' in two days for NPR, from their site: "The challenge: Write and record a song — in two days. (We provide the studio and the inspiration.)". Go to NPR's website now to watch a 10 minute video of Stephin writing and recording the song from start to end, yessssssss.
To make sure your ears don't feel left out here's an MP3 for y'all too, back in my deepest, darkest, most disgusting pit of depression I cried more tears to this song that you have had hot dinners, get a box of tissues now y'hear?
MP3: The Magnetic Fields - Busby Berkeley Dreams
03/11/2007
Julian Cope Krautrock Top 50 - downloads
Featured in the book as an appendix, is a review list of Cope’s personal top 50 Krautrock albums. Now thanks to xxxxxxx over at SFRP, here's all 50 albums. Most of the following contain artwork and all have been ripped at 192 or higher. Grab 'em while stocks last..." Follow this link: TOP 50 to download each and every one of the albums featured in his list! You can find more info on the records here.
Jens Lekman + Liars = lift music
There's something special about hearing great bands stripping their music down, especially when it is Liars and they are playing Be Quiet M. Heart Attack in a lift. They should make their album like this, I'd sell my hat for a Liars album where they just bash walls and play electric guitars without plugging them in! Pop over to blogotheque.net to watch the video...
...also singing in a lift for your pleasure is Jens Lekman with his uke, complete with a couple of ladies on strings, Jens would be great even if he was just scraping a plastic spoon against a polystyrene cup, he's the man! Get over to 3voor12.vpro.nl to watch him play A Higher Power and an awesome version of Do You Remember the Riots?
Going down?
