Jersey Shore...

Jersey bred Nerina Pallot has somehow gone under my radar for way too long, as i have just found out through listening to this acoustic version of her song 'Put your Hands Up'....



me likey....

'If MGMT and Passion Pit had a baby it would sound like The Naked and Famous'

Kiwi hipster band The Naked and Famous have bestowed upon us one of the best album titles of recent times... 'Passive Me, Aggresive You'. It just sounds so good!
Here is my favourite track from the album which also features said phrase! It comes with a rather nifty video of rhythmical stomping and food throwing too, which is always fun...

Beyonce 2007 vs. Beyonce 2011

So back in the B'day days, Beyonce released a deluxe edition of the album with added DVD (I have to say i was a little peeved coz they mixed 'Kitty Kat' in with 'Green Light' when i felt it did deserved it's own video, but still..) This DVD included this version of 'Get Me Bodied'



It appears that in a post Austin Powers haze Beyonce has foolishly allowed her mother (who designs possible THE most hideous outfits) to let loose on the lamé....IT BURNS USSSSS!!!

One has to feel sorry for the rest of Destiny's Child in this video (oh and her sister Solange) It's like Beyonce went and said 'There's going to be a video where you MAY NOT sing for I am the DIVA and I shall dress you in the most hideous outfits Momma can knock up and I expect you ALL to be happy about it!!! Ok!'

Fast forward to 2011 and Sasha Fierce is running with an altogether higher calibre of woman! The first lady Michelle Obama herself!! Enlisted to help get young people to move, Beyonce has ditched momma's threads, ditched the superfluous other band members, donned her curly blonde weave and turned a pretty average song into a dance frenzy!!



This, my friends, is what we call EVOLUTION....



Work it Michelle!

Far from home....

For those who check from time to time I would like to apologize for the lack of posts in the last few weeks.....What the hell have you been listening to in my absence? anyways... I have been much travelled since last I posted with little to no time to search for new things...
But fear not soundtrackers for i have returned to the web (if not to the motherland just yet!) and have found a cheeky little ginger, Ed Sheeran, strumming away on his boat through London to his song about a drug taking girl...



He almost takes his head off on the bridge but the whole thing makes me feel rather homesick... who knew clips of industrial work could make one pine for good ol' Blighty?

When Irish ears are.....smiling?

Does anyone else remember that one summer in the mid-nineties....River dance was a sensation, Michael Flatley became a household name, lucky charms cereal was like an uber treat because it was almost like being allowed to have candy for breakfast (my parents wouldnt buy it... i only snuck it in on sleep overs at friends' houses...)and this song by the Corrs was on the radio, at some point, on some station...at all times ....



good times, good times!

A tale of Parental Wishes....

Following on, if slightly randomly, from yesterdays post I remembered this little, nutty, gem of a song by the king of loopy loo Devendra Banhart...



It is a strange wish for one's child to have long hair in order to keep it's head warm but fair do's, cranial cosiness is important!

Interesting fact about bonkers Devendra is that he is also the ex of Natalie Portman and somehow persuaded the oscar winning actress to take part in this Bollywood inspired video....



She was perfect.....
He was mad as a sack of badgers!

A song for a momentous occasion!

Yesterday my sister gave birth to a beautiful baby and I became an uncle for the first time!!! A momentous day indeed!
Although the lyrics are completely unrelated... I was listening to my new find Laura Jansen when i got the text message from my dad simply saying: 'it's a boy'



SO HAPPY and most definitely not 'The End' but a fantastic Beginning...