Upsetting The Apple Tart III

1. B Fleishcmann - Guided By Beats
The start sounds like a German Oral tape. What is the man talking about? Where did he eventually find his misplaced schnitzel? Trace the man's life story to demonstrate how he ended up living in a Youth Hostel? Who says the Germans got no soul (Hai Siamak!). Woops, he's Austrian apparently. Who says the Austrians can't get down? This is a gorgeous little ditty. I remember seeing Mr Fleishcmann play in the Sugar Club with the boy wonder who purchased all the vinyl he could at the end of the gig. I'd never seen a man dance to hardware before.

2. Mice Parade | Focus on the Rollercoaster
From Canuckistan. I know de nada about them except for this song and their fine album art.

3. Emily Jane White | Wild Tigers I Have Known
Nice piano song. I see she's described as a "dark folk" artist. Aint most folk dark? From the blogs.


4. Superchunk | Untied
Perfect guitar music from Chapel Hill NC. The only band I've ever left the country to see. Oh... before he reminds me.... Redlad discovered these.

5. Sparks | Good Morning
This song manages to be very funny while dealing with the socially important phenomenon of post one night stand awkwardness. Reminds me of Dieter, Peter and Skeeter in a small St Kitts hotel room getting crazy with the after sun lotion. Contains the killer half rhyme : "......While I fix you breakfast | I hope it's just your laugh that is infectious" Amazingly, these guys have been around since 1970. "The band's long career has seen them successfully adopt many different musical genres; including glam pop, power pop, electronic dance music, mainstream pop and most recently chamber pop." Ahh chamber pop for the veeeesh. They Might Be Giants cite them as a major influence.

6. Spank Rock vs Burial | Bumpangel
A mashup of Burial and Spank Rock. The marathon table tennis session continues. The bit in the middle is a quick tutorial on table tennis technique from a female world champeen. The tip for long term, sustainable supremacy over your predominantly Asian (mostly Korean) opponents is to "keep that shit nasty"

7. Frightened Rabbit - Fast Blood
"And the fast blood, fast blood, hurricanes through me and then rips my roof away". Still rockin' the suburbs. I found out a wee bit late that these guys are supporting Modest Mouse for their Dublin and Galway gigs. Coulda been a dealbreaker and got me to buy a ticket.

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8. Autamata - Fragments
Foggy Notions CD. Try not bopping your head to this one. Many's the nervo was banished by closing my eyes, high in the sky, planes trains and semi camas.

9. Ernesto Djedje | Zadie Bobo
From a great compilation of African music which Chocatini Dupree sent this year. Reminds me of Orchestra Boabab, a good thing indeed. Nice horns throughout. His dad was called Wolof apparently and Ernesto died young. Chocolate Rain anyone?

10. Seabear | I Sing I Swim
A song for bathtime. From last year's blogs. From Reykjavik Iceland. Apparently it's not cold in seabearia. They've very cleverly collated a bunch of random wannabes armed with badly tuned acoustic guitars doing abysmal youtube cover versions of their songs. This is one of the more.... in tune versions of this song (watch out for the Octave Change of No Return)



11. Wait. Think. Fast | Look Alive
Described as Melodramatic. From the blogs.

12. Songs Ohia | I've Been Riding With The Ghost
"I been runnin outta things I dint even know i'd been usin'"

13. Wait. Think. Fast | Clear Our Name
When the music comes from the blogs, the songs tumble down the bit slide and get streamed into your head unidentified and you end up liking 2 songs from the same band without knowing it's the same band. This happened with these.

14. Daniel Johnston | Fish
From buck, a fellow traveller on the long and winding road to nurb town.


15 The Reindeer Section | I'll Be Here When You Wake
Flute reminds me of another Scottish supergroup (The Delgadoes). From bhicipáid "The Reindeer Section arose - according to Lightbody - out of a chance get-together of musicians at a Lou Barlow gig in Glasgow in 2001, at which Lightbody drunkenly laid down the challenge to others to "make an album together", to which everyone said "yeah yeah". Lightbody "went home and next day wrote the album" and later convinced Johnny Davis of Bright Star to fund a recording session and release the proposed album. The group met over three days of rehearsal and ten days of recording to produce the first album."


16. Phoenix | Long Distance Call
The only French representatives. From the blogs. Where the French get their idea of cool :


17. Lungfish | Instrument
First song on Rainbows from Atoms. A Dischord band.

18. Camper Van Beethoven | Take The Skinheads Bowling
"All you ever wanted was to write a song as perfect as Take The Skinheads Bowling but of course you never did. "


19. Dakota Oak Trio | Brownie and Sonnie
This one seems to predate the internet. Draws a complete blank. From a compilation club, from the postman.


20. Zita Swoon | Where's My Love?
This lad has progressed a bit since I last checked in with him. Stef Kamil Carlens the old bass player from dEUS. I love his heavily accented Belgian vocals and he's a quirky great songwriter (See Worse Case Scenario or this (I've never seen a music video with subtitles before)). Here he is on the left hand side.

21, Mas Y Mas | You Can't Play Without Ice
This is a nightmare vision of my children's teenage years. Overdosing on Ice, Electroclash and Rock n Roll. From the blogs. Joe Dolan would turn in his grave.



22. Toasted Heretic | Black Contact Lenses
Easy on the flange there Julian.

23. This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb | Trains and CopsI'm hearing Larry Gogan's voice saying "Folk Punk from Pensacola Florida".
II and I to come when I get the time. I'll be posting these out next week aswell.
I can't wait. And you shouldn't either.