Monday, December 14, 2009
“Ég verð undir þér og ég skal dansa bara og aðeins fyrir þig | Ég skal syngja bara ef þú temur mig.
Ég verð undir þér og ég skal dansa bara ef þú hemur mig | Ég skal syngja bara fyrir þig.”
I guess if there’s one thing that separates my blog from others, it’s my slight obsession with [...]
Saturday, December 12, 2009
“Take it easy on the young man
They ain’t got nothin’ in the world these days
I said they ain’t got nothin’!
They got sweet fuck-all!”
The first track off the renowned Live at Leeds — the opening notes of what could possibly be the greatest live rock album of all time. And yes, that means that I’d take [...]
Thursday, December 10, 2009
“I love the way she is looking at me | like I was a fruit hanging in her tree
the way she moves her hips | the way she wets her lips
I love the way that girl is looking at me”
Rockin’ straight out of 101 Reykjavík, Mugison desperately needs to break the North-American market. Like the Icelandic language, [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
“I’m curious to know exactly how you are
I keep my distance but that distance is too far
It reassures me just to know that you’re okay
But I don’t want you to go on needing me this way”
Lately I’ve been finding great material for TBTV on soundtracks. In a sense, the soundtrack functions a lot like a [...]
“Saturday afternoon | Yellow clouds rising in the noon
Acid incense and ballons | Saturday afternoon
People dancing everywhere | Loudly shouting I don’t care”
August 17th, 1969. Picture waking up in (or somewhere near) your tent at Woodstock. In my experience, most live tracks don’t convey much about their setting: you might get the echo of a music hall [...]
“Yodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodo
yodeadodoyodeadodoyo-bab-baaaaa
Ahhhhhh-aaahhhh-aaaaaa-aaaaAAA!
Ohhhhhh-ooohhh-oooooo-oooOOO!”
“Hocus Pocus” by Focus. I’m misheard more often than not when I reference this song: “Hocus Pocus bifocals?” The confusion doesn’t end at the title — be prepared to listen to “Hocus Pocus” for a second time, it’s unlike anything you’ve ever heard. The genre is progressive rock, but don’t expect to hear any extraterrestrial [...]
