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Another year, another 12 months of music. Much like last year I’ve had my head in clouds discovering old music from artists of years gone by and I honestly thought I’d struggle to include any ‘new’ albums from this year. While the list consists of bands I’ve loved for a while and their new releases, there are a few new artists in there that I really enjoy in 2011.
Download:
Eleven Songs … 2011
Tracklisting:
1. The Rose With The Broken Neck by Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi
taken from Rome
2. TNT for Two by Pajama Club
taken from Pajama Club
3. Little by Little by Radiohead
taken from The King of Limbs
4. Work by The Bewitched Hands
taken from Birds & Drums
5. Serve the People by Handsome Furs
taken from Sound Kapital
6. Futura by Battles
taken from Gloss Drop
7. Dangerous (CSS remix) by Faker
taken from How Did We Not Get Loved?
8. Hot Air by Adalita
taken from Adalita
9. Lucky Now by Ryan Adams
taken from Ashes & Fire
10. Black Treacle by Arctic Monkeys
taken from Suck It and See
11. To Your Door by Jebediah
taken from Kosciuszko
Song of the week: Smashing Pumpkins - Today (Broadway Rehearsal Demo) from Siamese Dream Reissues.
The Smashing Pumpkins released their reissues of Gish and Siamese Dream, totally remastered and extra songs. We are still waiting for the vinyl and CD versions to arrive but this is a digital version we’ve got our hands on.
While listening to some of the interviews with Billy to promote this and then listening to the demo of Today I had an amazing realization.
“a single guitar intro and can change the entire feel of a song”
Listen to the demo and what you have is a version of Today that would have been released by most of the ‘grunge’ bands in the 90’s. It’s good, but it’s fuzzy and doesn’t have that hook to make a hit. The softness and beauty the Pumpkins added with that simple guitar hook played throughout is really what makes them special, especially to me.
So here it is, a look back to 1992.
Song of the week: Portishead - Wandering Star
Well this week has to go Portishead, a band I’d looked forward to seeing and experience live for years and finally got too. One song that stood out was Wandering Star, it was really special to see Beth sit down in the dim light of the stage and just sing to that repetitive bass line.
It was a pretty haunting show, as Bree said to me “This is the music of nightmares”. The setting of the Belviour was amazing, the night sky and the trees were great … the cold breeze not so much. This song was never a real stand out for me on Dummy, but seeing it live was awesome and unexpected.
(Decided to include it from the Melody Nelson collection rather than Dummy)
