The loss of a legend is always a bit of a downer, so let's pick things up with a Sunday Funday post that, upon reflection, I think the Disco King might well have approved of.
When Finger Eleven's 2007 record Them vs. You vs. Me came out, I wasn't the hugest fan of the bouncy first single "Paralyzer", even if I can relate to the lines about feeling out of place in dance clubs. But as I get older, maybe a little more open-minded, this one grows on me, and it's another one of those songs that never gets skipped on the radio, and indeed often gets a little more volume if I happen to hear it come on. David Bowie would of course insist that we put on our red shoes and dance our blues, so I say start with "Paralyzer" for dance music and go from there.
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Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Last Saturday: David Bowie - Bring Me the Disco King
They say that bad news comes in threes, so hopefully the music world is done losing talent for a while now. First Scott, then Lemmy, and now David; Ziggy has returned to the stardust whence he came. I'm sure by now you've all heard about the passing of David Bowie, so now it's my turn to pay a little Loud Noises tribute.
All the usual suspects from Bowie's career have likely been trotted out ad nauseum over the last 24 hours or so (and there are a lot of great songs to revisit) so I'm going with a haunting version of a personal favourite of mine. The track in question is "Bring Me the Disco King", originally recorded in the 90s but only finally released on 2003's Reality, but I'm going to direct your attention to the Danny Lohney remix that appears on the soundtrack to the first Underworld movie.
For one thing, David has figurative help from, among others, Maynard James Keenan on the Underworld version of "Disco King". But Bowie's tired melancholy is centre stage, especially at moments when the song is stark and stripped back. I used the word "haunting" above, and I'll use it again here, because this is a hauntingly beautiful version of a lesser-known Bowie song. Check it out, and raise a glass to the thin white duke.
All the usual suspects from Bowie's career have likely been trotted out ad nauseum over the last 24 hours or so (and there are a lot of great songs to revisit) so I'm going with a haunting version of a personal favourite of mine. The track in question is "Bring Me the Disco King", originally recorded in the 90s but only finally released on 2003's Reality, but I'm going to direct your attention to the Danny Lohney remix that appears on the soundtrack to the first Underworld movie.
For one thing, David has figurative help from, among others, Maynard James Keenan on the Underworld version of "Disco King". But Bowie's tired melancholy is centre stage, especially at moments when the song is stark and stripped back. I used the word "haunting" above, and I'll use it again here, because this is a hauntingly beautiful version of a lesser-known Bowie song. Check it out, and raise a glass to the thin white duke.
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Song of the Day: Finch - Worms of the Earth
Today's band has been rolling around in my head as an idea for Song of the Day for a while now, but I could never think of the right song to showcase them to those of you who might not know them. Today, however, it came to me.
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