They released a new song, titled, “Stood A Chance”, and it’s absolutely phenomenal. It’s refreshing and new, upbeat and powerful. It’s like it was made for warmer weather, driving with all the windows down and it being bright and sunny.
I decided to get smart and leave “Best Songs Of 2014” as an essentially list of faves by release date and add another list of just clear up the top ten, maybe top 20 by the end of the year songs in order of preference. Welcome to yet another list!
Armando is 33 can he sustain this implied Casanova role? Yup. This guy owns his genre. The ugly mans sex god, the hispanic hottie who is so dangerously unattractive it hurts.. and you just wont care.
Two years ago, I got to spend two hours just below Greg Dulli’s nose, when the Afghan Whigs reunited and played their first West Coast gig in thirteen years at Bootsy Bellows on the Sunset Strip, and I didn’t complain a bit!
The kiss of conformity being allowing yourself to guest on Saturday Night Live, and I am not sure if that was the right move for them. I tend to think they would have been better off in their quiet nitch. The quest for success has watered down many an act and I fear Bastille will face that fate.
Seahaven released a new song called “Flesh”, and I had serious mixed feelings on it until about the fifth listen.
It’s so positive, and his classic, iconic wavery voice is incredibly prominent and I love it. “There are hundreds of ways to get through the day, there are hundreds of ways, so just find one.” He’s releasing a solo record on May 20th, and it’s going to follow this more country-tinged direction.
David Letterman spent this week having acts perform Beatles tunes in honor of their US landing anniversary. Unfortunately this is not a tribute it is a horrible nightmare that even the mute button couldn’t cure
There’s also no denying that the band is a quartet of extremely good-looking boys, so that’s a plus and probably is the reason for their increasing fan base. It’s obviously big-budget, and has an expansive feel.
Personally, I’m shocked. A good U2 song. Wow. If the rest is this good it will be their best album since All That You Can’t Leave Behind. Maybe Rolling Stone can give it 6 stars out of 5. Damn, there goes the obituary till another day.
Anthony’s voice is the best it’s ever been. It’s warm and lovely, and feels like a hug. That’s one thing I’ve always loved about Bayside- no matter how hard and heavy their music gets, Anthony’s voice resolves it and leaves it just a bit softer. It’s so unique and hard to pull off, but they do it perfectly.
Feel free to like it or hate it, it’s not Elliott’s, it’s something else and I certainly can’t speak for him. But I am not someone who could get outraged for this sort of ‘blasphemy’.
His voice is obnoxious even when he just speaks, and there’s absolutely no redemption. It sounds like he’s a 14 year old prepubescent kid in his basement who just got comfortable enough to swear to himself and is trying to sound cool. It’s awkward and unnatural, and I can’t stand it.
It almost has the same feel as something written by Explosions In The Sky. Though Explosions is entirely instrumental, it puts the focus on musicianship in the same way Nothing does. It’s entrancing and is an aural sedative.
Youth Lagoon and his spacey sound were quite perfect for this, and this young guy never ceases to amaze me! His vocals, which start the track, have never been weirder or more emotional
They can really appeal to fans of every genre; the vocals are stunning, the musicianship is fascinating and impressive, and the overall sound is pleasant and anything but boring. An older song of theirs, “Reverie”, is an absolute masterpiece.
just listening to this warm melancholic chorus brings me back years ago, these ooooooos are definitively very Sea Change, the tone is just a bit more upbeat. And if this had escaped you, the rainbow in Beck’s face is there to remind you about the cover art of ‘Sea Change’
“Piñatas, baseball bats, silly hats, weird antics- it’s whimsical and hilarious. Then once they involve silly string and water balloons, it’s a whole other story. It’s clear that they were just being themselves and enjoying being doofy with one another.”
“And my feelings are at the mercy of my chemical imbalances and I’m trapped inside the torture of living with bipolar disorder.” He really puts the whole ‘mental illness’ bit into an understandable and relatable light. Even the average joe who doesn’t really know much about depression or anything of the sort can get a grip on it.
In a minute and a half, you’re sucked in and need more. The lyrics are creative, too. “It may not be the best idea to sit outside his flat or chain yourself to his front door or steal his dear old cat; he may have loved him more than you, but there’s no time for that. And do not spend all day waiting for him on Facebook chat.”
“They’re raw and strong and feel so pure, which is hard to find. Put together, this was all it took to get me hooked on the band. Then the group vocals came in. That’s when I knew there was something special about these guys; usually group vocals sound lame or stupid, but these are great.
“The tune “You’re Invited” is weird and almost feels creepy. The vocals are odd and choppy and mirror the techno feel that is unlike anything he’s ever done before. “My mind is playing tricks on you” has an MGMTesque vibe and it begs the question, “what the heck even happened.”…He’s so fleeting and flighty that his ambiguity can’t even be mistaken for ignorance or innocence.”
“This is much more calm than I imagined, and it’s fantastic. Now, we’ve heard the band pour their heart out in slow tunes like “Honeybee”, but never before like this. Even the guitars sound sad. The violin mixed in creates a swirling sound of encompassing warmth, like a hug. “
The Dead Weather is one of Jack White’s diverse musical projects and fans can rejoice because the band will release a series of new singles preceding an upcoming album set up for 2015,… Wait, 2015? Who do they think they are? the Star Wars trilogy?
heavy Southern guitars and a sort of spaghetti-via-the-bayous western atmosphere before a duel in the sun or in the mud. You can still hear the Black Lips’ signature drunken multi-vocal harmonies and at the end the song sound very much like one of their good old tunes
“The guitars are tight and clean, which leaves wiggle room for David, the singer, to really experiment and it totally works out. It’s not just the music itself that’s great, it’s the lyrics too. “I stopped searching for the answers. I’ve learned my lesson ’cause time is just a rhetorical question and I came out with a bang,” is just so well written.”
Boston hasn’t done anything but exist on the fringe since then, as far as I am concerned. Of course, there are those die hard mullet wearing nobs who will shout that this band rules but they are the same truck driving red necks who do the oil changes at Jiffy Lube.
From that twangy Southern intro to the the vocal strain (and I do mean of strain) of Lisa Conway makes you want Christmas to never come. Not so you can revel in this tune a little longer-but in hopes that this would never have been created.
The crowning achievement of Morrissey’s career? Maybe not, but if anything puts you at the pinnacle of pop perfection that anything would be David Bowie covering your song and for Morrissey, called into the Imperial Studio for a listening party with Bowie, Morrissey had that moment
“It packs the classic poppunk punch along with a hint of that teenage angst innocence that is so hard to find in songs that are mixed and autotuned and manipulated.
“It’s an apology, a desperate plea, but it’s also a kick in the face. It’s so eloquent and a statement of not giving up but realising a weakness.”
Who the hell wrote this slab of crap? I would rather consume an entire fruit cake than subject myself to this one more time. The nostalgia cannot make up for the absolute horror of the song. The lame conversation is so scripted its embarrassing. Ladies- enough, go botox or something.
Since life has no meaning, since it all boils down to “and what if I do? and what if i don’t?”, why fight the dream that everything matters including, and especially, me?
Needless to say Jesus has cancelled his birthday, Santa has called it a day and I’m going to pretend I never heard this. But seriously folks, this is one of the worse Christmas songs ever.. far worse than even Dominick The Donkey.
Bosco Delrey is currently touring in Europe where he is enjoying a real success, and in a recent interview, he admitted he wanted to forget about his American or electronic roots and go for a more naked music with real instruments. Curiously, he is on Diplo’s Mad Decent dance label
Really, this is an amazingly lame little track, who exactly is he singing for? It is so generic it could be for really any one and it is so unspecified it seems like a general complaint about nothing. The song itself isn’t fully formed: it doesn’t coalesce in your ear.
As for the chorus, the first time I heard it, I realised that this band was more than they appear and they’re meant to be taken seriously. “All they had to do was speak my name, to calm the lion, make him tame. Were you as wild as they say?”
Still, it should break huge for her it hooks hard and Colbie doesn’t oversing it, which is a miracle, because it begs to be oversung, instead she allows her falsetto on the bridge to signify deep emotion.
The Diana in question seems to be using Diana Spencer as a reference for a person’s more general breakdown and the song does what “Story Of My Life” fails to, it is touching but it also moves.
Beside the synth swirls, the electronic bouncy beats, the handclaps and the strings (lots of them), the main attraction is Rostron’s voice, loud, operatic, deep and androgynous to the point you wonder about the gender or even the nature of the person producing such a sound
It is a catchy smart lyric and a catchy smart song. It will be huge in the UK and I don’t see why it shouldn’t crack the charts here. Plus Lily, you are movie star ugly. Where the actress takes off her glasses and her hair and suddenly becomes Kate Middleton.
Starts with an oom pah pah before evolving into an off base tunefulness and a psychedelic calliope of sound whirling round John’s self-abasement and regret.
Lorde sings it pretty well, she isn’t a twenty something, she doesn’t see it as a life sentence but a deadened teen cool moodiness, the swingin party here is a mood not a rope swingin
” The simplicity of it is stark and lovely, allowing Howard’s haunting voice to come and dance atop it. If you’d never heard the original, there’s no way you would’ve thought this was some stupid pop song previously”
With the recent passing of Lou it stands as a tribute and more than a tribute, it is like Phil took an old black and white picture from the 1920s and gave it color and life.
“This performance in particular, the connection him and the bassist Chris make is stunning- the two share a name, and obviously a flawless sense of rhythm. “
Christofer Drew had the girlies in his pocket. They hung on his every word. That folksy kid with the heart of gold and posi attitude. But then he grew up and like most other kid to adult transitions it didn’t go so good.
Written for a guy we here at rock nyc are familiar with, Rufus Wainwright, it parries axioms like “if you scratch a lover you’ll surely fine a foe”, which, really, you wanna tattoo go for that. Even the title has a wistful sense of hard earned lessons learned and there is always in Linda, certainly nobody does wistful like the great singer.
Gaga’s voice, doing its best Christina Aguilera impression, and Kelly’s autotuned moaning and crooning vocals will probably please the fans, and I am sure that the tune is going to be fine (even big) in dance clubs all over the planet, but the song is totally unoriginal like the supposedly sexy lyrics ‘Do what you want with my body’?
Nobody can really guess what’s going on there, but it sure doesn’t seem too pleasant, it’s unsettling even though we don’t know whether she is the victim or the threat… the music navigates between the obscure and these uplifting choruses ‘You never held it at the right angle’
