This week I have mostly been listening to ... Jet

This is a track from Jet's latest and third album, Shaka Rock. It's been out a couple of months but I have yet to pick it up. I've been listening to the first 2 albums this week and they are just nice rock n roll records. Remind me of the Stones. Anyway this is a good track with a cool wolf boy video. I'll no doubt try to pick up the new album in the January sales.



And you can't mention the word 'Jet' without thinking of this great track from Macca's post Beatle's band; Wings. "Jet! OooohWooooOoooh!" Enjoy!

This week I have mostly been listening to... The Drums, The Big Pink & The Blueskins

This tune by The Drums sort of reminds me of the Pixies and it's really catchy. I like it.



Speaking of catchy tunes, this next song 'Domino's' but The Big Pink is on some TV advert or other in the UK and it's just so damn catchy I find myself humming this all the time.



And speaking of advert tunes reminded me of this little beauty of a song by The Blueskins that featured on a Lynx deodorant advert some time ago and also in the appalling 'Dukes of Hazard' remake film a few years ago. Do not see that film, that annoying singer Jessica Simpsons shorts are seriously the best part about it, oh and this song... so enjoy!

Today I've mostly been listening to...The Datsuns - Harmonic Generator

Reading festival here I come!

A friend of mine has been extremely generous and offered me a free ticket to Reading Festival this weekend. You can see the line up above (click to enlarge). It's huge and there are loads of great bands. I am ecstatic to say the least. It starts today and I'll be off in a couple of hours to grab the train after I sort out a tent and a sleeping bag etc. I plan on getting wasted and seeing the Prodigy, Radiohead, Eagles of Death Metal, The Rakes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and many many more.

The weather here has been really nice for the past couple of weeks so I hope it stays that way to make the weekend even better. Have a great weekend guys whatever you are doing, and Ill see you on the other side

This week I've been mostly listening to.... Lady Luck by Richard Swift

Hey! Wait a minute Mr Postman!

No reviews of new comics today I'm afraid as the postman didn't deliver my new comics on Saturday like he normally does. Hopefully they will arrive today and I'll try to get some new comic book reviews up tomorrow, so be sure to check back. In the meantime, just sing a long to "Please Mr. Postman" by the Marvellettes (or Beatles for that matter, both good versions) for me to help him get his lazy arse over to my house with my stack!

Thanks guys.

Laters

This week I have mostly been listening to...Grinderman- No Pussy Blues

So Grinderman are a “side project” of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. I had borrowed this album of my mate ages ago (the album ‘Grinderman’ originally released in 2007) but I burnt it on to my iTunes and it was just one of them albums I never got round to listening to much. So I came across it last weekend again and had a flick through the tracks and immediately No Pussy Blues jumped out at me.

Its got this ferocious vocal delivery by Nick Cave and a relentless dirty fuzz bass line that is just awesome, and then the chorus kicks in and its loud and in your face and brutally fantastic.

The best part though, is the lyrics, and the way they are delivered with venom. We’ve all been there right? Where you really want some action but your wife/girlfriend/partner/whatever - just isn’t in the mood, and we are at a woman’s mercy when bedroom decisions are made. Am I right? We get some action when they choose to allow us to have some. Its all part of the game I guess. Anyway, I thought I’d share these great lyrics with and you can find them below, and a link to the video for the track can be found here.

If you like rock n roll and can relate to the frustrations of not getting any, this is the song for you. Check it (Ha, ha! Man, I just read that Chihuahua line…. Brilliant!) .

Artist: Grinderman
Song: No Pussy Blues

My face is finished
My body's gone
And I can't help but think
Standing up here in all this applause
And gazing down at all the young and the beautiful
With their questioning eyes
That I must above all things love myself
That I must above all things love myself
That I must above all things love myself

I saw a girl in the crowd
I went over, I shouted out
I asked if I could take her out
But she said that she didn't want to

I changed the sheets
I combed the hairs across my head
I sucked in my gut
And still she said
That she just didn't want to

I read her Elliot, I read her Yates
I tried my best to stay up late
I fixed the hinges on her gate
But still she just never wanted to

I bought her a dozen snow white doves
I did her dishes in rubber gloves
I called her Honeybee, I called her love
But she just still didn't want to
She just never wants to
DAMN!

I sent her every type of flower
I played her a guitar by the hour
I patted her revolting little Chihuahua
But still she just didn't want to

I wrote a song with a hundred lines
I picked a bunch of dandy lions
I walked her through the trembling pines
But she just even then didn't want to
She just never wants to

I thought I'd try another tact
I drank a litre of Cogniac
I threw her down upon her back
But she just laughed and said she just didn't want to

I thought I'd have another go
I called her Ma "Little Oh"
I felt like Marcel Marceau must feel
But she said she just never wanted to
She just didn't want to

I've got the No Pussy Blues
I've got the No Pussy Blues
I've got the No Pussy Blues!
DAMN!

No Pussy Blues
I've got the No Pussy Blues
I've got the No Pussy Blues
I've got the No Pussy Blues

DAMN!
DAMN!

This week I have been mostly listening to …. The Horrors - Primary Colours.

Primary Colours is the second album from UK band The Horrors released last May.

I first saw the band before they released their first album and when there was a big excitement about this band around East London ‘trendies’. This was the first and only gig I have walked out of because the playing was so bad. The noise was an unbearable mash of gothic organs and overbearingly deep bass with some screeching vocals chucked in. It was awful. Now a few years later a couple of my mates have been banging on about how good this new album is and what a change of direction they’ve taken. So after hearing the single ‘Who can say’ from the new album, and really liking it I gave the whole record a go and its good, very good in fact.

The single ‘Who can say’ is a good indication for what the rest of the record sounds like. It is a big change in direction for the band and draws inspiration very much from psychedelic 60’s bands. Its very lo-fi in parts and dare I say it a bit shoe-gazey in others. The organs are still there but used well for melodical effect. The rhythm section have also upped there game with fantastic drumming on the whole record and very nice no frills rootsy bass work. It’s without a doubt a musical growth from a band that has matured greatly between their two records. I think fans of 60’s psychedelic music, Velvet Underground & the Jesus and Mary Chain might like this. A surprisingly good record. Check it.