Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks C/D

like Victoria Concrete's voice despite there being several things wrong with it (she'd be laughed off x-factor). like the bongos and the whistling.

this is hardly a con.

bongos and whistling have their uses now and then.

(Is there / Should we start) a thread of 'singers who'd be laughed off X-Factor' ?

Captain Beefheart
Ian Dury
Jilted John
Joanna Newsom
Sandi Thom
Len
The Cheeky Girls (oh wait)

oh, i meant 'i like the bongos...' (i tend to drop the 'i' off starts of sentences)

want to punch the kids in the video too. smarmy faced cunts. Terribly drawn, they look old, they have perma creases/wrinkles. grmmph

I need a cup of tea.

oh, all swedish. could've guessed:

http://www.peterbjornandjohn.com/

they are faithful renditions of the illustrative style popular at the time this song supposedly harks back to. the sort of thing you see on dated airplane safety instructions and whatnot.

also if you want rural Knife listen to 'Parade' from their first album.

Rounding to the original point, I reckon an album like Silent Shout would definitely appeal to Metal fans with open minds. Half of it does sound like the intro to a Bal Sagoth album anyway.

rounding to the original point yeah :) don't want to derail (there's a metal thread bumped right now anyway) there is a vast world of metal out there I know! It's kind of intimidating. Maybe I should wait another ten years...

Without wanting to derail any further, but I agree with you that it can be daunting and sometimes a little hard to delve into. I mean, with Dub there's loads of stuff out there and it can also be a bit daunting but you have staple acts like Lee Perry and King Tubby which can be generally trusted and you move from there. Metal is so dodgy and finding the illusive needle in the haystack can be incredibly time consuming - especially if you don't really know what you like.

I find the idea of sticking on a Metal album these days really trying but once I do it I can be very much rewarded. I don't know if I actually can be bothered to sit and listen to 50 minutes of caterwauling and screaming, especially if it's epic build-up kind of stuff or if it just sounds like it's going to be BORING.

Actively seeking good Metal can be fun though. You can either go the hit-and-miss and just pick the band with the best album cover (often a good barometer, the more demons and virgins and the more incomprehensible the band logo, the better I say); or you can go on some sites and read a few reviews. I found the idea of Melechesh quite interesting because they use Mesopotamian imagery and scales to enhance their music. Sadly the music is a little flat though. Bal Sagoth is good fun - futuristic battle music with great big keyboard noises and comedy song titles. Arcturus and the associated project Ulver are leaps ahead of the Metal game, fusing it with jazz and electronica to make a really epic and interesting noise. Sigh, a Japanese Thrash band also do a lot of dicking-around with genre exercises as well and it works surprisingly well. You've also got the more conservative, fun-hating, ultra-conformist Black Metal bands like Darkthrone who sound like someone dropping glass sheets in a church and then recording it on a dictaphone which does it for some people.

I say don't give up on Metal really. It's widely underappreciated for the same reasons it is loved and once you're in that mood then it can be awesome.

Recs:
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors (very advanced, epic metal that has certain leanings toward Goth-Pop and experimental electronics but still keeps it raw)
Emperor - Scattered Ashes (they are the kings of whirlwind black metal really - very atmospheric)
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape (Thrash Metal that goes on journeys of Country and Western, Manga ending music, Reggae-Ska and everything in between).

there's more to the video than you're probably seeing (ie it's not as cheap as it looks) lots of multiplanar things going on there - when she moves her head only parts of her hair moves, for instance. but yes, the janet and john look of it is, er, an acquired taste.

ohhh btw discobelle.net have posted two remixes of young folks besides the "beyond the wizards sleeve" one ----> punks jump up special disco one kicks ass w/more bongos andddd sounding a lil like the rapture to me (i.e. the serge santiago edit of "gonna get myself into it) for some reason lol :P xx

The Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve mix rules, and apparently there's a TOMAS ANDERSSON remix - even thinking about that boggles my mind.

Good song anyhow.

"Every band will be famous for at least 15 indie chords"

lol

Young folks
Love to see red
Young folks
Never talk about it
Young folks
Crave a blue lady
Young folks
Know and still they doubt it

I'm just no good without it
I'm not a man at all
It makes my skin crawl

youtube.com/watch?v=R-2Bp2CCpqo#t=1m27s

u should have warned me