{"id":185,"date":"2006-03-27T09:31:16","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T08:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2006-03-27T09:31:16","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T08:31:16","slug":"lots-of-stuff-to-waste-money-on-perhaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"lots of stuff to waste money on &#8211; perhaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">hell.o<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">ok, enough is enough, here&#8217;s a quick rundown on the  current pile, bear in mind i&#8217;ve had a crap weekend &#8211; so these opinions may  indeed be different when the sun shines: <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>ben harper<\/STRONG> &#8211; <EM>both sides of the  gun<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">never having had a real urge to hear any of this  guys stuff, when the offer came in i was originally heistant, but in the details  provided it became apparant that the doube cd is made up of the mans 2 styles.  one cd rocks out, the other cd doesn&#8217;t. initial listens seems to bear this fact  true. still aint sure if it&#8217;s my kind of thing. honest, earnest classic sounding  rock, with lots of heartfelt emotion. while ben is obviously a hugely admired  talent and has been doing this for years, i just wonder if in this post-blunt  world if people are getting fed up with &#8221;bloke with guitar complaining&#8217; type of  stuff. oh, hang on, may be that&#8217;s just me.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>archie bronson outfit<\/STRONG> &#8211;  <EM>derdang derdang<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">well i never. appearing out of nowehere, this one  is a cracker. dirty, grotty swamp filled blues rock that really hits home. the  phrase, &#8216;shake ye hips&#8217; is proclaimed on the drum, and fuck me, if you dont  start feeling the primal groove within the opening riffs of &#8216;cherry lips&#8217; then  you may as well check in with the undertakers. awesome stuff. proper review to  appear when i can be arsed, but if there were one guitar based album in recent  times that you should check out &#8211; this is easily it.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>spank rock<\/STRONG> &#8211;  <EM>yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">no idea if thats enough yo&#8217;s in the title, but hey.  this is the new blossoming sound from baltimore. electro booty bass madness, on  top of which saucy wordplay lets rip. i must be old, but the constant  declarations of pumpin&#8217; pussy\/ass\/tits\/ho&#8217;s etc gets tiresome, which is a real  shame as the production is at times inspired. recent single <EM>&#8216;rick  rubin&#8217;<\/EM> stands out from the hormonally charged partners.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>morrissey<\/STRONG> &#8211; <EM>ringleader of the  tormentors<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">if you have have read any press on this album you  will know that this is the album that most people make when in their 20&#8217;s, ie  this is morrisseys sex album. he is in love. and shock, horror. it could be with  a different man other than himself. this pleases me immensely, i am so glad that  the worlds most misunderstood misery has come to the conclusion that love is not  always a passage of hardship and can at times be rather fun. the other factor  with the album is the use of tony visconti as producer, and ennio morricone for  string arrangements. this has brought in a new found love for epic  orchestrations, kid choirs and glam guitars. full review once i have had chance  to get into the album a little more, but initial listens reveal that there are  couple of classics as well as&nbsp;a few filler tracks, but the album revolves  around the amazing finale, in which morrissey declares loud and proud, &#8216;at last  i am born&#8217;. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">welcome to your new world, morrissey. i hope you  enjoy your stay.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>yeah yeah yeahs<\/STRONG> &#8211; <EM>show your  bones<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">first up &#8211; never fell for any of the hype around  the first ep\/album. something about the haircut-centric karen o scared the  living daylights out of me, and their minimal drum+guitar sound really made my  skin crawl. all that manufactured cool and devotional excess. so why oh why do i  actually find myself enjoying the difficult second album? maybe the involvement  of&nbsp; studio craftsman alan moulder has something to do with it, maybe it&#8217;s  the fact that the band have decided to drop all the scenster crap and just write  some cracking tunes. of course, this means that fans of the last album will  probably hate this as its being hailed as a proper grown up rock album, and in  some ways i guess it is. proper song structures, fleshed out instrumentation  make the album like some bastard mutation of indie noise, post punk and proper  pop music. good stuff.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">more tomorrow<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">mark e<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG><EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\">ireallylovemusic<\/A><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hell.o ok, enough is enough, here&#8217;s a quick rundown on the current pile, bear in mind i&#8217;ve had a crap weekend &#8211; so these opinions may indeed be different when the sun shines: &nbsp; ben harper &#8211; both sides of the gun never having had a real urge to hear any of this guys stuff, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}