Well Kev and Co.,
It's fairly quiet from the new sound front...(a pun?) But i do have a few new bands for you to look at. I just got back from DC yesterday; I was visiting a friend who happened to have two tickets to "The Fray"...a popular band that most of you old fogies probably don't know much about. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't!! There's a little talent there especially heard in two songs "cable car" and "how to save a life" the latter of which is the theme song to Grey's Anatomy...a show most of the readers will know VERY little about...and rightly so (you miss out on everything...even the bullets)!
Much to my surprise, however, in constitution hall that night hailing from England was a newer band known as the Feeling...think beatles with more metal and more mettle!...Okay so they don't have quite the reputation the beatles acquired, but the lead singer has more energy than a dog that chewed up a box of tripple threat power bars then downed his master's 6 pack of AMP. He jumped off a 6 foot amp while kicking the drummers symbol as he hit a power cord, a feat not performed in "The daughter's of the american revolution" ballroom since that night george W. got a lil angry at Bono. He plays guitar like a fiend live but is rather passive sounding on CD. Special songs include "never be lonely" and "Rose" pronounced "Rosé"...yes the wine...and i dunno anything about it! (it's delicious :) It is perhaps the best love song about an alcoholic beverage ever created...and yes i'm including irish songs...shiver.
But this is all not really in your listening realm, perhaps if you get an itunes music card as a gift for christmas or birthday check some of these songs out. Now for a CD actually worth its weight in silicon. "Catching without arms" by Dredg. If you can't find something on this album for you check your pulse. Number one on my long list of amicable tracks is "sangrial"...its a pretty pretty song, well sang rial well! Instrumentation, let's see, they remind me of an RPWL in their ability to find odd sounds that somehow never made it into music's mainstream. Where did they find someone to play that goofy indian instrument anyway!? The problems with this band include annoying filler material such as children laughing for 20 seconds and the like. The lead singer has a strange voice, but don't let that deter you from this band, it is good in its own way. It is still more normal than any of Peter Gabriel's pre-pubescent years (before someone finally kissed that frog and gave us good music! [may have been phil collins?? I'm sure one of you
knows!!])
But before I lose an uncle slandering some all time classics i feel i should tell you that Yes has made a return to my life here at the "greasy pole", my living quarters, as well as Jethro Tull; Furthermore, it wasn't I who let loose those two giants, but both of my roommates who performed that dirty deed for which i will be in there debt "tout le temps".
I think I'm starting to understand your "island music" selections, but don't for a minute think i'd CRASH THERE!
À bientôt,
Trevor
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