Desire Avenue

Posted: **Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:49 pm**

Well, here too I begin this now classical thread indeed

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Now playing "Absolutely Freak Out (Zap your mind)" by Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Psychedelism of the weirdest side by those mad japanese whose leader/guitar hero could give complex to Jimi Hendrix and Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine) together.

And the title is quite appropriate for what happened to us. Indeed, zap your mind... and mine too

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Posted: **Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:54 pm**

Today I listened to the wonderful album "Revolution in Me" by Siobhan Donaghy. She used to be in the Sugababes and did the leadvocals on their hitsingle "Overload". During the promotion of the album she has left the band.

In 2004 she released her debut soloalbum. I love it very much.
It still has a poppy-sound but with more sharp edges. Be sure to hear songs like "Overrated" and "Twist of Fate"

Posted: **Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:58 pm**

Here I am. But who am I?! Here's a clue;

This is how i always look!

Anyway, it's been a minimal-ambient-house-all-the-way-day so far - System 358's 'Chessa' followed by Loscil 'Triple Point'. Spacey, with just a deep kick drum to propel things forward. Sometimes.

Posted: **Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:16 pm**

I heard one track from "Chessa" the other day and it sounded pretty upbeat for 12k! I might check it out....

Posted: **Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:22 pm**

Hello ~Michael

Now playing "a grand don't come for free" by The Streets. Funny stuff; I'm absolutely not into hip hop, but I've never heard something at the same so UN-groovy in that genre and yet totally pleasant.

Posted: **Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:25 pm**

Yeah, the Streets are pretty easy to digest because he isn't doing rapid-fire rapping as much as he is telling/speaking a narrative.

Posted: **Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:30 pm**

Silents wrote:I heard one track from "Chessa" the other day and it sounded pretty upbeat for 12k! I might check it out....

i can always rely on you to know what i'm talking about ~michael!

'chessa' actually has some... wait for it... beats.

not many, and hardly groovy, but it's something. also there are some samples of classical instruments in there too. i kinda like 'force' (yer man's previous effort) more, but i think 'chessa' is going to make sense in the summer. it has a more summery feel.

Posted: **Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:59 pm**

I guess this is hell freezing over - CQD closing, 12k releasing a summery record. What's next? Stina asking us over to her backyard for hamburgers?

Posted: **Fri Feb 04, 2005 12:04 am**

what, didn't you get your invite in the post. boy, i can smell that steak from here!

let me qualify my last statement about 'chessa' - it starts of kinda bleak, a little like pan sonic lite, before thawing out half way through and getting summery. but this is all very relative terminology!

Posted: **Fri Feb 04, 2005 1:46 am**

Today driving home from Utrecht to Dordrecht, I listened to Nikka Costa. (Everybody got their something) Not really spectacular, but will do in the car. Wondering if she ever released a cd afterwards. Before that album. she actually did, I think she was 11 or so.. I have this old compilation album with a track of her and a picture on it, where she looks very young. Have to locate that album to listen more carefull to the particular track.

Posted: **Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:01 pm**

For the Frenchies among us, or maybe wider, I'm listening with some effort a promo copy of "Intraveineuse" by Shane Cough, electro-punk, they call that, from France but sung in English. Hard, tough and everything but near unbearable so much they want to sound like dunno... shit, can't remember their name, an awful band who got huge success with some bad shouting and heavy guitars, I dislike them so much I can't remember their name... Ah, finally : Linkin' Park

: puke!!!

Posted: **Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:16 pm**

Linkin' Park - a band for kids caught in the place of Suburbia, suffering from teenage Angst. Loud just for the sake of it.

Posted: **Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:19 pm**

Burn Linkin' Park

Posted: **Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:33 pm**

Spookrijder wrote:For the Frenchies among us, or maybe wider, I'm listening with some effort a promo copy of "Intraveineuse" by Shane Cough, electro-punk, they call that, from France but sung in English. Hard, tough and everything but near unbearable so much they want to sound like dunno... shit, can't remember their name, an awful band who got huge success with some bad shouting and heavy guitars, I dislike them so much I can't remember their name... Ah, finally : Linkin' Park : puke!!!

Heard a good song from Shane Cough some years ago on a compilation... but been very deceived by their 1st one. So no surprise to me about the 2nd.

Posted: **Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:29 pm**

i am still listening to that nOUVELLE vAGUE...Bossa Nova chill-out covers of 12 punk songs. one song is standing out for me in particular....it's got rather personal significance for me but of course, may apply to the old boards which we all have some affection for...

(Tuxedomoon)

In a Manner of speaking
I just want to say
That I could never forget the way
You told me everything
By saying nothing

In a manner of speaking
I don't understand
How love in silence becomes reprimand
But the way that i feel about you
Is beyond words

Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
Ohohohoh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything

In a manner of speaking
Semantics won't do
In this life that we live we only make do
And the way that we feel
Might have to be sacrified

So in a manner of speaking
I just want to say
That just like you I should find a way
To tell you everything
By saying nothing.

Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
Ohohohoh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything

Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
Ohohohoh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything[/b][/i]

Desire Avenue

Soundtracks of our life 1

Soundtracks of our life 1