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e.g.l. progress
27 Ağu 2008, 16:23
e.g.l. stands for "ever growing list of things i want to listen to more carefully" and this is what I've accomplished so far in that regard.
Mind you I am no music critic.
- Beirut
I've listened to Nantes and loved it, it sounds old and a bit "klezmery" and of course I am big sucker for accordion. But so far other songs I've found by them aren't quite as good, on the exeption of maybe Jacques Brel's cover Le Moribond, but i am biased towards loving covers and even more if they are Jacques Brel's covers.
If you liked Nantes too you will love this.
- Keiji Hano
listened to "rolling on the time and tide spreading the colour of red" i didn't know the first things about him so i think i was expecting pop, but turned out to be jazz and it was a really good surprise. It is nothing particulary daring, but it is very interesting. You can listen to it here.
- Maurice Fulton
he is well known for his remixes of the like of Hot Chip... I used to get very excited every time I found a remix of a song I liked, but party music is getting tired, at least to me, so I am going to come back to this later, maybe on a friday evening.
- Strange Overtones
Maybe I am an idiot who can't appreciate the work of geniuses. I mean it is a a really really good track, the beginning of the song is quite promising, but then the chorus mmmm... I was expecting something mind blowing, a life changing song, like
St. Elmo's Fire or Sugar on My Tongue. I a gonna give it another spin, maybe I'll realize I am a fool.
-En Ventura
There is a lot of talk about how every good band in Mexico is just copying from someone foreign, I haven't quite made my mind up on that as a general rule, but it might be true for En Ventura. Their songs are interesting to some extent, to me the highlight of their En Ventura EP isLos Granjeros del Amor for its folky quality, silly lyrics and the many instruments yo get to hear. Nice, but I won't be putting this on my ipod despite their ep's cover being so dammed cute.
- Jean Dubuffet
You probably need to drop some acid to get into this, or maybe you need some highly evolved artistic sense of which I am, of course, lacking. I still think he is one of the driving forces behind contemporary aesthetics... blablabla... etc etc etc ... but musically not for me.
-Glass Candy
listened to it. didn't like it at all. there are too many screaming girls out there and I only like a few of them. don't let the last.fm gods fool you it is nothing like the Chromatics.
- Cut Copy
i liked cut copy, it is fun, it is enjoyable. but ever since interpol there have been way too many bands trying to sound just like new order. and don't get me wrong that is a highly commendable ambition, after all new order is one of the best things to ever come out of britain (but i am no authority i would put harry potter in that same list).
but did musicians in the past (like Pet Shop Boys, Karftwerk or New Order) really did set the standard so high that no one has ever top it, or at least dared to part away from it?
Mind you I am no music critic.
- Beirut
I've listened to Nantes and loved it, it sounds old and a bit "klezmery" and of course I am big sucker for accordion. But so far other songs I've found by them aren't quite as good, on the exeption of maybe Jacques Brel's cover Le Moribond, but i am biased towards loving covers and even more if they are Jacques Brel's covers.
If you liked Nantes too you will love this.
- Keiji Hano
listened to "rolling on the time and tide spreading the colour of red" i didn't know the first things about him so i think i was expecting pop, but turned out to be jazz and it was a really good surprise. It is nothing particulary daring, but it is very interesting. You can listen to it here.
- Maurice Fulton
he is well known for his remixes of the like of Hot Chip... I used to get very excited every time I found a remix of a song I liked, but party music is getting tired, at least to me, so I am going to come back to this later, maybe on a friday evening.
- Strange Overtones
Maybe I am an idiot who can't appreciate the work of geniuses. I mean it is a a really really good track, the beginning of the song is quite promising, but then the chorus mmmm... I was expecting something mind blowing, a life changing song, like
St. Elmo's Fire or Sugar on My Tongue. I a gonna give it another spin, maybe I'll realize I am a fool.-En Ventura
There is a lot of talk about how every good band in Mexico is just copying from someone foreign, I haven't quite made my mind up on that as a general rule, but it might be true for En Ventura. Their songs are interesting to some extent, to me the highlight of their En Ventura EP is
Los Granjeros del Amor for its folky quality, silly lyrics and the many instruments yo get to hear. Nice, but I won't be putting this on my ipod despite their ep's cover being so dammed cute.- Jean Dubuffet
You probably need to drop some acid to get into this, or maybe you need some highly evolved artistic sense of which I am, of course, lacking. I still think he is one of the driving forces behind contemporary aesthetics... blablabla... etc etc etc ... but musically not for me.
-Glass Candy
listened to it. didn't like it at all. there are too many screaming girls out there and I only like a few of them. don't let the last.fm gods fool you it is nothing like the Chromatics.
- Cut Copy
i liked cut copy, it is fun, it is enjoyable. but ever since interpol there have been way too many bands trying to sound just like new order. and don't get me wrong that is a highly commendable ambition, after all new order is one of the best things to ever come out of britain (but i am no authority i would put harry potter in that same list).
but did musicians in the past (like Pet Shop Boys, Karftwerk or New Order) really did set the standard so high that no one has ever top it, or at least dared to part away from it?
