2 posts tagged “lilly allen”
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Thanks to Bookishly Fabulous for pointing out that Ben Sollee was recently on NPR's "All Things Considered" (July 5, 2008).
It would be seem that Sollee is looking for a fight with Kanye West, who recently disappointed fans at Bonnaroo for being two hours late (performed at 4:30 am). He made national/internet news by blogging about the venue's inability to setup the lighting and Pearl Jam was already an hour late.
This "open letter" song to Kanye West basically tells off West that "you don't need a light show, just good flow".
You can read more about Ben Sollee on our previous W♥M articles.
Other interesting music news: Facebook's a hotbed of celebrity gossips. Lilly Allen and The Chemical Brothers' Ed Simon are back together. Apparently they both changed their facebook status to "in a relationship" and immediately thousand of fans wrote to congratulate them.
Björk seems to be canceling a few concerts, citing throat ailment. I'm not sure why that's so closely followed by the media, but Ex-Whitesnake guitarist is dead. Does anyone even know his name?
The outrageous headline of "Kylie Minogue Saves Fan from Suicide" makes it sound as if Minogue was there on the rooftop talking that person down. The truth is, the fan was listening to his iPod and her song came on and he suddenly didn't want to stab himself. (Lame, right?)
Also, some idiot stole the headstone to Joy Division's Ian Curtis' grave. I hope his ghost haunts him.
The sad news of the collector's mentality of the CD box sets are on its death bed (hint: maybe it's because it's too expensive). The Yahoo story (written by Ed Christman) paints a picture that "Boxed-set sales have fallen off the cliff; they went from something to nothing".
Even at price slashed to about $29.99 (from the regular $49.98), sales continues to decline. At the end of the article, they mentioned that the limited-edition box for Nine Inch Nails' "Ghosts I-IV," ($300) sold really well.
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Lets say we measure the album's greatness by the extra distance it propels me on my daily jog. A month ago Midasuno got me an extra 2 miles further that I normally ran. Panic Prevention? 0.2 miles. Hey, at least it's not in the minus numbers. 1/10 is far too harsh though.
Jamie T, and more importantly Panic Prevention, sounds like a mash up between the Camden drink and drug garage rock of The Libertines, the homemade indie rock of New York's antifolk finest The Moldy Peaches, with a little bit of english pub-rap favourites The Streets and a smattering of Goldie Lookin Chain's arcade beats. All critically applauded bands on their own, but together sound a little like the cover art to the right looks. Lyrics wise it's not much better, centering around the should-have-grown-out-of-it-by-now but all too common subjects of drink, drug, sex, crime a few comical insults and nowt gets much deeper than that. With most tracks either separated by, or including over them, miscellaneous ramblings by Jamie T and co. arguing and otherwise making a nuisance of themselves, the whole album sounds like the result of a teenage boy just messing around in their bedroom with a few mates. Though for all I know, this could well be true.
That's not to say there's not good songs on the album, and any fan of Pete Dougherty should feel right at home regardless. The almost grime-like Calm Down Dearest and Fozzy Bear & Lily Allen inspired Rawhide are two of the best though neither are particularly representative of the rest of the album. Radio favourite Sheila would likely have been included in the post if it weren't for that very fact; you've prolly already heard it 50 times.
So instead I've attached one of the best tracks on the album, So Lonely Was The Ballad. If you like it, you should definitely track down aforementioned indie-pop Rawhide featuring Lily Allen on chorus and backing vocals. Then again, you could just track down some original Lilly Allen tracks, or better yet just stick with The Libertines, lord knows everyone else does. Done? Yes Lily, I'm done.
- Christopher ( pepsi_max2k )
