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August 2, 2006
today's gripe
I saw a trailer today for the new Oliver Stone movie called World Trade Center. And something bothered me. The song that they used over the trailer was "Fix You", which is arguably the best track from their most recent album, X&Y. Here's what bothers me. Besides the fact that it's a great song, its themes have no bearing on what appear to be the themes of the trailer, if not the film. Sure it's a powerful song, but should the themes of the picture and sound of the trailer jive?
I'm on the lookout for new music. I've been listening to the new Thom Yorke album, which is called Eraser. It has reminded me how much I like Radiohead. Listening to Eraser is essentially like listening to Radiohead without any of the live instrumentation. So, I suppose you could say it sounds similar to Amnesiac, though it isn't nearly that dark. Last weekend, I heard about a band that supposedly sounds similar to Radiohead This group branches off developmentally from Radiohead following The Bends. So it's like the alternative version of Radiohead. Supposedly. I haven't mentioned the name of the group cause I can't for the life of me remember it. Ferrario knows it. Dude, what was that band called again?
In terms new music, by which I mean music with which I am not yet familiar but I'm sure many other people are, I really enjoyed listening to the latest album by Stars called Set Yourself on Fire. Quite excellent. I'm also interested in hearing more by Mike Doughty. His sound seems unique, at least from the one song of his that I've heard, which is a single called "Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well" off an album called Haughty Melodic. Haughty, according to Merriam Webster, is another word for disdainfully proud. Seems similar to today's Google Word of the Day: Supercilious, which means disdainfully arrogant. All my life's a circle...
Posted by ben at 4:27 PM | Comments (4)