Kraftwerk

We again get on the time machine and find ourselves in early 80s. Today i did a small post about four german musicians' genious electroshock group Kraftwerk.
Computer World
It’s almost exactly three years since Kraftwerk released their last album, the coolly majestic
‘Man Machine’. In the interim their unique sound has been plagiarized and popularized by
a cast of thousands including the Cliff Richard of new electronics, Gary Numan, robotic bores like
Telex and new age funsters Buggles. How refreshing it is then to be reminded just how shallow these plastic imitators sound up against the genuine article. As the album’s title cut establishes, nobody has yet matched the rich tones and classic purity of this music. Their approach is so devious, so subtle. Superficially they purvey a frightening barren landscape as bleak as their song titles but their humanity finds expression in the controlled rhythms of each piece which is invariably blessed by a haunting melody. Consequently Kraftwerk can be cold but elegant, stark but poignant. Their medium is ruthlessly mechanical, their spirit is warm and glowing. They make the modern world seem empty yet beautiful no mean task. Unfortunately, what’s lacking on this long awaited work are songs of the same quality as those on ‘…Machine’.
In their place the group appear to have opted for a more one-dimensional style of European disco which, running the entire album, adds a new dance sensibility and a distinct continuity.
Ironically this new phase will no doubt open them to accusations of stealing ideas from their largely anaemic successors. So let’s remember how all this began. So what if the closing track ‘It’s More Fun To Compute’ is positively innocuous compared to some of their earlier material. You can dance to it and the new commerciality is itself a fresh direction within which they maintain credibility. This is Kraftwerk’s first pop album. Didn’t you guess that beneath those showroom dummy exteriors was a bunch of wacky Germans looking for a party? Well, it looks like they found one...Ian Pye
mp3: Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator
Where are my little lego toys? Oh (Crying!), i was playing with my legos and my elder brother grabbed them and threw them to a place which is imposible to reach. The model reminds me my lego adventures because of its unmixed melodies. The song was popular enough as a U.K. single. The model is totally queer work of Kraftwerk, lyrics are as same as pop song formula-- long synth melody sections with a quite odd meloncholic moving...Bulut
mp3: Kraftwerk - The Model

Low - Drums And Guns

Rating: 9.5/10
Modern Music Review
Starting with an extra striking uneasy words 'All soldiers, they're all gonna die/And all the little babies, they're all gonna die.' Low is singing the words hearty on opening track "Pretty People", supporting this inconvenient truths by avant-garde unti melodic music. "Drums and Guns" mostly consists of opaque lyrics, unusual noises with foreground male voice and backrounded epic female voice. Check out Dragonfly, Sandinista and Belarus to get in the darker atmosphere and textures. Easily broken, slow songs are not new materials on Low's music. But However Drums And Guns matches the right independent rock benefits on -- luxurious experimentalism, flawless song order, passion of discovery and very interesting guitar supplements.

While it rings on ears, it also carries proudly its own arty success. The More it gets near to end, the more it becomes a strong record. Particularly, difference between songs perfectly covers the gaps of ending sections. These are like a blueprint for how to construct an unusual but extremely effective intependent record.

Like last year's unforgettable records Scott Walkers' "The Drift", The Knife's "Silent Shout", Low's tenth full-length recording"Drums And Guns" hits the target and becomes a true artifact of the year. Release Date: Mar 20, 2007
MM picks:Breaker, Dust on the Window, Take Your Time, In Silence, Violent Past
You may also like:
Liars - Drum's Not Dead (2006)
American Music Club - Everclear (1991)
Palace - Arise Therefore (1996)
Smog - Doctor Came at Dawn Listen Now! (1996)
mp3: Low - Hatchet
bonus mp3: Palace - A Sucker's Evening
Official Low

Angelic Melody Clouds

In Wintertime, a cat is crying outside. I wanted to help, but... We all want to do something, once in a time I Wanted to fly high above the skies. I don't have any whigs but beliefs. Say it to yourself 'Yes you can do it, there is always hope' When you hear Alison Shaw's one of a kind voice, embracing you, loving you, crying for you. Cranes were one of that rare alternative rock bands in early '90s, released eleven albums, and albums such as "Wings of Joy" (1991) , "Forever" (1993) are distinctive and major records that they released. Adoration is a song which included in Wing of Joy, combining delicate vocals and melodies with instinctive dream pop influence. If you don't want to be slave of the song, don't listen!
mp3: Cranes - Adoration (1991)

Ocean! It's fresh, starts from somewhere and it ends with nowhere. Medicine is another great shoegazing band, formed 1991 in Los Angeles, CA, somewhat druggy, melodic and dense music they create. I'd recommend you to listen the great debut "Shot Forth Self Living". It's striking debut for long nights.
mp3: Medicine - Fried Awake (1993)

Beauty and Ugliness are definitely relative terms. When you say to someone that word, (Ugly), think twice! Because you're not beautiful indeed. Beauty is right in the nature. Oh! Somebody hit me! I have to wake up. But Mark Eitzel's (American Film Club) sentimental work "Ugly American" doesn't allow me to ending up dreaming. Large, even, Terrific! I can't even find right words to describe rising of senses. Your body needs a rest now. A flawless music do the control at this time. Good Night!
mp3: Mark Eitzel - Nightwatchman (2003)

Modest Mouse mp3

Modest Mouse smashed me with the new record, "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank".
it is the first album with former The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. If you see some anonymous people talking itchy on other blogs, that's because of they're jealous bastards. Modest Mouses are growing and bringing quite in a good mood music to the scene. Isaac Brock keep going to yammer. In an interview Isaac Brock said of Johnny Marr, "He made a cautious commitment to write and record with us, and then the tighter we got, he was like, ‘okay, let's tour too.' Then he was pretty much a member of the band-- not pretty much. It's really amazing to see Johnny on this modest band. I can feel those very soft guitar joints on the new record. So they're funny, odd, and still fucking amazing. Review is coming soon!
mp3: Modest Mouse - Missed the Boat (****)
Watch "Dashboard," "Float On," and "Ocean Breathes Salty" at here.
Modest Mouse Official

And The Papercuts, mentioning on good music always works on faces. It's peaceful feeling that you're happy. Maybe not always music will help you to be happy but you see the title above. It's 'Without music life would be a mistake'. The Papercuts' music is gentle enough for me, like ' look there is no cloud in sky'. They're traveling through the air on wings from San Francisco, CA. Their secondary record "Can't Go Back" reminds a view of water flowing. It's melodic, less noisy, and pure all the way. Here!, a modest song.
mp3: The Papercuts - John Brown (*****)

Jonny Greenwood Is The Controller

Rating: 8.5/10
Modern Music Review
It's because of hot weathers when i feel hot and playful. What about music? Do you believe power of music? Is it powerful enough to change your mental state (YEAH)? A rhythmic music for sunny days, a rhythm guitar and a bass drum hitting on the third beat of each measure, plus a fervent singer. Oh wonderful, terrific and refreshing music. Thanks to reggae's founders for bringing such a sweet music genre to the life. What if some considerable Reggae songs from some successful jamaican artists. I hear you, you think that it's very hard to explore all those artists especially it's hard when they're not well-known names. As always i pointed if you're not famous, it doesn't mean that you're a weak musician. Therefore Jonny Greenwood had given his heart to this charming style for six months, and shared with us some of his recent favorite Jamaican artists. He still keeps discovering new ones. As you know, there is no end in the music, always new music to discover. Jonny adds 'So, explore this music. This isn't a 'best of...' by any means:it's just the surface, and if you hear a voice or a style that you like, then you'll find hours more of great recordings out there. Happy Digging!' Alright! Here we are for digging the music; rock, jazz, pop, blues, classical, electronica...Style doesn't matter. The matter is good music!

This is a really cool reggae compilation for who loves songs including love, sexuality and broad social commentary.
MM picks:
Marcia Griffiths - Gypsy Man
Derrick Harriott - Let me Down Easy
Desmond Dekker & the Aces - Beautiful And Dangerous
Lloyd's All Starts - Dread Dub
mp3: Lee 'Scratch' Perry & The Upsetters - Black Panta

New Rock Singles, New Videos

New Singles:
1. Hadouken - That Boy That Girl mp3
2. The Horrors - Gloves mp3
3. Ville Valo & Natalie Avelon – Summer Wine mp3
4. Blonde Redhead - 23
5. Magic Numbers - This Is A Song
6. Of Montreal - She's A Rejecter
7. The Maccabees - About Your Dress
8. Mumm-ra - What Would Steve Do
9. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
10. Goose – Low Mode

New Videos:
Ville Valo Natalia Avelon Summer Wine
Modest Mouse - Dashboard
Tokyo Police Club - Cheer It On
Hadouken! - That Boy That Girl

Hadouken's new single is amazing! Only one per customer ya hear? The amazing grindie / new rave indie-kid-ridiculing anthem brought to our attention by Leery of New Slang. The Horror's new single Gloves as strong as Hadouken's. The Horrors, hailing from Cedar Rapids, IA, this bass-less trio produces punked out garage rock drenched in reverb and distortion. Much like Doo Rag and the Gories, but with a greater rockabilly influence. Their eponymous debut was released on In the Red in 2000.

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Rating: 10/10
Product Info:
The eagerly anticipated second album from Montreal's Arcade Fire exceeds all expectations. Neon Bible was written, produced, arranged, and performed by the Arcade Fire and recorded throughout 2006 in Quebec, New York, Budapest,and London with recording and engineering help from Markus Dravs (Bjork, Brian Eno) and Scott Colburn (Animal Collective, Sun City Girls). With string and orchestral arrangements by the band's own Owen Pallet (also Final Fantasy) and Regine Chassagne.

Review:
On "Neon Bible", Arcade Fire keeps intensive style of indie rock, atomizing soundscapes, assorted instruments, gleaming noises. For the first time listeners, Ocean of Noise, Intervention and Black Waves Bad Vibrations are plain sample of this various intensive indie rock style, including piano along with slide electric guitar, then undamaged passages, violins, mandolin. It sounds like a big orchestra playing that Neon Bible isn't entirely different from "Funeral". In addition this is their best record yet. Of course it's Arcade Fire, and they're truly a famous and prosperous musical group now. The differences between Funeral and Neon Bible is that "Neon Bible" wants to get higher and rationally it approaches to right direction. They make denser their sound on every song, moreover it creates a magical mood. As for the Funeral, it was the record that made Arcade Fire, the Arcade Fire. People who love to discover a record from time to time definitely die for this record. Its rich atmosphere, chock-full of oxygen air, meditative lyrics are coming up with special and odd Arcade Fire sound. In addition this is one of a kind music for snowy, cold, rainy weathers. This makes "Neon Bible" a necessary choice for the winters.

There is no doubt a labor that requires a lot of effort in what "Neon Bible" reveals, a modern
masterpiece! Date: March 6, 2007
mp3: Arcade Fire - Ocean of Noise
MM picks: Black Waves/Bad Vibrations, Ocean of Noise, The Well And The Lighthouse, My Body Is a Cage
Official Arcade Fire

Some Great Cover Rock Songs

Hooray! I don't remember when i last post about cover songs. what would happen if i remember, nothing! Oh you can't imagine how i feel crappy for writing a paragraph like that. To be Honest, most of cover songs are crap, but i should think of people who love cover songs. In some cases to cover a famous song is that performer needed money or popularity. On the other hand if musician adds the ability and artistic, a song becomes a truly artifact. I hate bands which try to gain success a cover song at the begining of their career. It really doesn't matter. But! Listen what you've covered at least. Because don't you know you're killing my favorite rock songs. In adition some stupid djs changes a rock song to a disco hit. Ugh! This post is about some good cover songs, now listen some good covers!

mp3: Bryan Ferry - Knocking On Heaven's Door 2007
Long a Bob Dylan fan, Bryan Ferry remade "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" for his 1973 self-titled album of covers. This time around, the celebrated Roxy Music leader turns in Dylanesque,
recasting 11 Dylan classics during a single live-in-the-studio week that leaves the album sounding vibrantly faithful to the original numbers. A great cover Knocking On Heaven's Door is a proof that we can call this like a wonderful treatment not a cover.

mp3: Nico - I'll Keep It With Mine (Bob Dylan) 1967
A almost different reworking of Bob Dylan's "I'll Keep It With Mine. Nico's art rock movement with heavy folk rock oriented music, and her name Nico which is written on the wall of musical history.

mp3: Everything but the girl - I Don't Want To Talk About It (Danny Whitten) 1988
Listen this originally written by Danny Whitten composition from Thorn and Watt. It's a certain kind of smooth, jazz-like radio friendly pop music.

mp3: Afghan whigs - Lost In The Supermarket (Clash) 1998
They have recorded this cover song for inclusion on a Clash tribute album.

mp3: The Venus In Furs - Baby's On Fire (Brian Eno) 1998
The song is included in Velvet Goldmine Soundtrack album, and it's a terrific soundtrack album
which also includes Lou Reed, Pulp, T.rex, Roxy Music, Steve Harley and more.

mp3: James Dean Bradfield - To See a Friend in Tears (Jacques Brel) 2006
You know if you read this blog regularly, the great western is one of my pick on 2006.

mp3: Frank Black & the Catholics - The big hurt (Wayne Shanklin) 1998
He's freak and i feel good whenever i hear his voice.