41 posts tagged “pepsi_max2k”

- Chris-se olen minä!-topher.

Well I may have been living in a musical hole lately but one thing just struck me; regardless of the Hip, Rock, Synth, Electro or just Cheesy prefixes, there's a hell of a lot of British Pop acts around right now, and they appear to be taking over the charts left right and center. Well, inbetween Jacko that is.

Almost Top of the Pops right now is young 'un La Roux. Here she is trying to recreate the 80s pop sound again, in a suitably VCR quality vid of her Glastonbury appearance not too long ago.

Then there's BBC's Sound Of 2009 postergirl Little Boots, who gets my vote for best Glasto outfit. The hairdo ain't bad either. What? The music?! Erm... you decide. EDIT: Well that didn't last long. Well done BBC, ruining the promotion of artists once more... Here's the promo then: I passed on chart darlings The Ting Tings until I heard Mrs Ting speak. Jesus she sounds more of a northern lass than I do. Which isn't quite right... But anyways, I promised to post some so here they are in all their delay pedal glory:

And I better post this before I feck it up so... more to come in a few mins.
Ooook... and resume. Lily Allen. Love her or, more likely, hate her, Pop's current front woman can hardly be ignored. So hear you go. I'd post some of her Glasto appearance but I think we've had enought of 5 Kbps video for one post... So here's the official vid for "The Fear".
You didn't think I'd get through a post without writing about one person you've never heard of, did you? Well thanks to the BBC's current video-article on the UK Club Pop scene - today it's Dan Black and his current single that should probably be harrassing the charts much more than it is right now. It's not like it's the wrong genre or anything...

And how can I leave without a nod to yet another decent band to come out of sleepy University town Aberystwyth - The Hot Puppies. Luckily these lot were around while I was doing my degree, so I actually got to see these lot play for once. I'm sure I've posted about them here before but can't find the video so... And I've no idea what they're doing now, but Wikipedia suggest... I hate to be rude but... much Sleeper-esque inbreeding going on ;o) Oh those dirty dirty puppies. Anyways, I'm not sure they're not quite as poppy as the above but what can you do? And I swear I've posted this vid before... where is it? Vu? You didn't steal it again did you? Update: I forget the Noisettes' current gift to the advertising gods - Don't Upset The Rhythm.

So that's it. Is the UK pop scene back to full force? Or just a pop in the pan? In true DiS style... Discuss. Below. Somewhere. If you can find the button...

- Christpopher

It's that time of year again... Glastonbury! Unless they've already been done, I might get some Ting Tings up, but for now I'm gonna complain about the Glasto organizer's plug pulling on N*E*R*D's set. I mean geez, 25 minutes late? That's two hours early compared to any gigs I've been to. It's not like the whole thing ain't gonna run late anyway, is it? Just get Lilly Allen and Lady Gaga to stop flashing their bits and changing costumes and you'll free up 25 minutes easy. But alas, two thirds through their set and N*E*R*D, having arrived just a little late for their slot, had their lead vocals cut and that was that, only the BBC highlights remain.

Even if you've not heard of N*E*R*D (that's "No one Ever Really Dies"), you'll likely know of founding member R&B producer Pharrell Williams. N*E*R*D are a collaborative effor between Pharell, Chad Hugo, Shay Haley and whoever they manage to drag in to band duties, and are pretty much the only band I've ever known to try and combine R&B style lyrics in to Hip-Hop / Rock tunes whilst trying to pass themselves off as an Indie / Rock band in the likes of metal mag Kerrang!. If it was anyone other than Pharell, I'm sure it'd crash and burn, and they've deffinately got their fair share of critics (especially for the lyrics), but the result is at least one extremely catchy album - Fly or Die - from which I've included the track Breakout but you really should check out the rest if you've not already.

- Chris"f*ck glas"topher

Unrelated to the late, great Mclusky is this lady, Angela McCluskey from an altogether different school of Amy Winehouse, Duffy and a zillion other white female soul singers. I knew nothing of her until a few minutes ago when I googled to find out who did the lovely 30 second ditty on a new Wilkinson Sword Quattro women's bikini razer advert. Obviously I was only googling this purely for the music... erm... So turns out this miss Angela apparently wrote the song "Your Style" purely for the advert, chances are 30 seconds is all there is of it. Alas... Still, here's another of her songs that lasts a little longer.

- Chris"just spent how much on video games?!?"topher.

Update: From a YouTube posting:
painintheass66: "hi ...there is no name for the song..its just a 30 second piece written specially for the commercial...its not available..but i hear they want us to do a longer version...which i would love to try...
ps im the singer...angela mccluskey....wicked commercial innit xx "

Clearly you're all the worst bunch of britpop fans ever. No one got it? Well... I guess no one listened anyway... Well to understand this post, go listen to the the Crimea track I posted yesterday, then tell me the intro isn't right off this...

Ok, maybe it's not, but seriously, if I had time to mix the two together I would, and it would so sound as good as that santiriani thing yesterday. Speaking of which, Soup, that Cat Stevens vid is classic. If you wanna know what the hell I'm talking about, read the comments for my last post. Anyway, while I'm on a Blur binge, I can't resist. I even remember watching this one live on TOTP back in 95. Where were you when britpop pwnd the world? I was in a christian summer camp. No shit.

And here's another classic from the tube, as I'm past trying to get this place to play nice with any other embeds... M.O.P.'s Ante Up plus plush toys equals epic lulz.

- Christopher.

Ok, another cheap shot at posting Crimea stuff... but there's some real music here too :o) The BBC just let on that Coldplay aren't so great. Go figure. Apparently they plagurised a Joe Satiani track. Who? Never mind, the below video explains it all. I'd post full tracks but Vox editing clearly still sucks and it's already decided to kill my entire post once today so I ain't pushing it...

On a similar theme, here's a track by the band I love to spam, The Crimea. It's a re-recorded version of their track Baby Boom, and along with sounding a whole lotdifferent from the original, it sounded a whole lot like something else I'd heard. Took me an entire day to figure it out though; after considering Morrissey, Sleeper, Echobelly, and figuring it had to be something brit pop, I even thought about asking that fountain of all musialknowledge Vu. No need though as I got it eventually. Guesses in the comments please, answer tomorrow ;o)

- Christopher

EDIT 12/13/08 VU: That first video was removed due to "a copyright claim by EMI Music".  Ironic because the video is about infringing on copyrighted works.  I don't think it should've been removed because it's fair-use with only excerpts of the chords.