June 2010 Archives

This video goes a year back in 2009 for Oren Lavie's single 'Her Morning Elegance'. Since everything's going stop motion nowadays, I thought I'd show it to you guys if you happened to miss it from last year. It's not as elaborate as Coldplay's 'Strawberry Swing' video, but it's equally fascinating to watch and so much more charming. With a sleepwalking red-headed beauty accompanied by Oren Lavie's enchanting music - what's not to love?

They're also selling off the 2096 photos that make up the video - so if you want to have part of the video hanging up on your wall, you can check out the photo gallery here.

This isn't an EBTG post, sorry to disappoint, though it was that song that inspired me to make up this week's list. As an alumni of the Long Distance Relationships club, I have compiled many-a-song to my list of tunes to soothe the weary heart. A particular song that was on heavy play was Everything But the Girl's 'Missing' (also because, prior to the LDR club, I was a recovering pining-for-a-lost-love addict). I haven't added a song since, as it's been that long since I've needed one for my longing heart, but with my natural pre-disposition to sappiness and me being left alone while my bedside companion's away for three week vacation, it kind of got me to reminiscing. It got me to thinking about those type of songs that conveyed that feeling of yearning and missing. They may not be as dancey as EBTG, but in their own indie way, it'll be like how the deserts miss the rain all over again.

1. Coconut Records - West Coast

Yes, it's Max Fischer, only instead of directing, he's singing now. This song  reminds me of The O.C. - just because it's called West Coast and  it's Jason Schwartzman that's singing (who, by the way, was the drummer of Phantom Planet). Speaking of The O.C., I actually kind of miss it. It was a pretty good show. Also, you don't get a lot of Seth Cohen characters on TV nowadays. Honestly, I think we need more proponents of the geeky is sexy movement - the freaks are taking over with their sparkling pale complexion and and fanged teeth.

Just because I seldom post new music news and I still haven't gotten to my emails to set up a Q and A for Fresh from the Post - here's something that's sort of Fresh from the Post: OK Go's new video :)

Going back to their roots of accompanying their songs with offbeat choreography, with End Love, they make use of stop motion and time lapse to give this video a bit of an edge. Also, they get a new band member in the form of a loyal goose. Their new video premiered at Bonaroo last Saturday and now it's on YouTube for your embedding convenience. You can also download it off their site at www.okgo.net and, maybe keep mum about this, but I think they're giving away a free iPad too.

It's been a while, so I thought I shouldn't put this off any further. Yes, it's List Addicts Fridays once again, and today's theme is 'covers'. In the history of List Addicts, I have never made a covers post before, mainly because a lot of other blogs do. They even have weekly posts about it. Heck, some even dedicate a whole blog to covers. But hey, since mine's not a regular thing, this week's list is special - my own take of favorite covers from indie bands that have perked up my ears at one point or another. The idea actually came from watching Glee this week - a TV show that's based its success in witty writing and wonderfully executed song covers. One of their earliest hits was their rendition of Journey's Don't Stop Believin' which at first listen, I thought they were covering Petra Haden's cover of the Journey song. And with this, my list begins...

1. Petra Haden - Don't Stop Believin'

This one comes from the excellent 2007 all-covers album Guilt By Association . I came upon it checking out The Concretes cover of Take That's Back for Good, but found loving this track a whole lot more. A purely a cappella version, it brings a nice creative twist to the song (especially with that bit of Wilson Phillips inserted at the end).

They held a music video contest for songs in the album, and the video entry for this song was my favorite. The equally quirky music video told a love story between a sunny side up egg and a calculator, with tinkerbell in drag lip synching to the song. The video didn't win the main prize, but it made the song all the more unforgettable - undeniably a notch up from the Glee version if you ask me.

Our video of the week comes from Grovesnor, who's also known as Hot Chip drummer Rob Smoughton. As Grovesnor, he describes himself as a troubadour who looks like a teacher but sings like Usher.

Dan, plays out like a nice rom-com from a few years back that you missed out seeing, with music that  sounds like it came for the era of 80's adult contemporary smooth rock (whatever the heck that is). Somehow, the music sort of reminds me of Steely Dan - just because it's named Dan and Steely Dan is also the sort of thing that you might probably find on an adult contemporary smooth rock radio station.

Gerald from the Peep Show does a cameo, as well as Smithy from Gavin and Stacy.

As a plus, we've also got a few downloads available from Grovesnor's debut album Soft Return after the jump - 

Is it that time of the month already? No, but it is time for your Album Art + Lyric of the Day recap. Trust me, this'll be nice.

As always, you can click through to find out more about the artists we've featured on Lyric of the Day. There's also the lyric roundup after the jump ;)

Just to let you guys know that I am still here, here's a neato video that went viral a few months back. A video for all you art geeks out there - if you don't know if you're an art geek or not, if you can name more than half of these parodied famous artworks along with the names of who painted them, there's definitley no doubt about where your geeky side leans to. Otherwise, enjoy our Video of the Week: 70 Million by Hold Your Horses!