Xmas, Radiohead, Frightened Rabbit, Meursault, New Year

There has been a severe lack of blogging recently thanks to work and illness but a Christmas dinner last night got some musical discussions and debate on the go which I’ll come back to.

Firstly, since I was ill I haven’t been listening to too much music other than the weekend that I had a huge Radiohead binge and watched at least ten hours of live videos on YouTube, which is easier than it sounds because there’s a lot of hour long live videos of Radiohead kicking about the net. One of the best is ‘Scotch Mist’ which was made for New Year’s Eve 2007 – It’s around 52 minutes long and contains ‘In Rainbows’ being played in  what looks like a wee house in the middle of nowhere. It’s well worth watching the full thing, but, probably not a good idea to post it here so to give you an idea of what it’s like why not have a view of ‘15 step’.

Back to the discussion/debate:

So, during the xmas festivities we were discussing the recent video posted where ‘Meursault’ and FR cover ‘Withered Hand’s’ ‘Red Candle Bulb’ and I asked if anyone had seen them cover another song by Withered Hand from the album ‘Good News’ which is also a cover, but, unfortunately I couldn’t remember its name. Nobody had seen it and it isn’t very well known that there is a cover on ‘Good News’ so understandably people thought I was losing it. The video doesn’t seem to be on YouTube either, which didn’t help matters, but, I found it on a free podcast – it’s from offthebeatentracks.tv. The vocal arrangements are pretty amazing and I’m sure this is similar to how it’s sung when Meursault play with Withered Hand. Oh the song is called ‘Joy’ and it’s originally by ‘Desc’ apparently. Here:

Aye, so there’s a kind of Christmassy blog, Merry Xmas and Happy New Year.

Radiohead – ‘The King of Limbs’. An Epiphany.

The reason I have decided to write this is because I’ve only just realised what this album is for.  All of Radiohead’s albums seem to take around 30 listens before you realise that you have actually listened to them before.  This is one of several reasons that I love Radiohead, as every listen feels like new music and is extremely hard, nigh on impossible to become fed up with.

However, there was a point when I thought I would never recognise ‘The King Of Limbs’, no matter how many times I listened to it, which is simultaneously impressive and irritating.  Fortunately, I elected to listen to it again last night and it hit me; The King Of Limbs is an incredibly awesome chill out album.  If you don’t believe me try it now.

The sun is out – or at least it was when I wrote this – so go outside, jump in your hammock, lie back and press play on your ipod.  You can even smoke a substance of your choice although you don’t have to; it worked fine for me without.

relax enjoy lotus flower