Insomia and great music
by A.
I went to sleep really early tonight, and of course, I’m awake at 2 a.m. the only reason I woke up was that I was thirsty…and then of course I had to check the UPS site to see where my smartphone was and then there was an e-mail from an old friend that I was moved to reply to… and of course a whole bunch of downloads had finished. I’ve been talking with Adrian’s cousin this week and he has such impeccable taste in music (so does Adrian). He turned me onto a few bands that I’m in love with. Here are some of the new bands I’ve been listening to:
I just downloaded Beams by The Presets, which Adrian’s cousin recommended, and it’s so great!
The Knife (discovered mostly through other people on last.fm with similar tastes) – very, very odd synthpop
Shiny Toy Guns (discovered, oddly enough, through Katie) – very anthem-like songs, and of course the wonderfully danceable “Le Disko”
The Postal Service ( Adrian.) – jury is still out, I haven’t listened to the whole album yet
Lady Sovereign (my friend Mark) – She is so adorable! I’m hooked on her single “Love Me or Hate Me,” even though it’s rap (which I rarely listen to).
I Am X (the singer from the last Sneaker Pimps album’s solo thing…discovered from user kissandswallow on last.fm) – this album is an acquired taste and has a few good songs… it was like Splinter, the last Sneaker Pimps album, which was bad except for the first few songs.
CSS [Cansei De Ser Sexy] (last.fm and they played with Ladytron at the concert) – really addictive, simple songs with catchy lyrics.
Death From Above 1979 (from the CSS song ” Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above”) – hard, metallic guitar songs with great lyrics
Röyksopp – (from last.fm users with similar tastes to mine) – slow, syrupy sweet synth-pop with oddly intelligent lyrics
Comments
We do, indeed, have different tastes in music.
Massive Attacked was at the ACL music festival in 2006. I saw that and I was like “Wow…”
I have decided that you have started another blog on another website and that this is your fake “cover” blog to fool your old friends who you don’t want reading your new blog. Because the Darius I know blogs obsessively and understands his friends’ need to keep up with him.