A Little Less About Music

This isn’t exactly a “music” post, but more of a link to a video that I found.

Basically, Matthew Good did this piece for Much Music back in 2003 on a topic that still resonates today more than ever. I touched on it a bit in the previous post, but I’ll just post it and let you do the watching.

Watch zee video, yo.

Image Could Be Just About Everything

Now I’ve said this before, but for me it’s difficult to discover new artists on purevolume.com. With music being so asexually reproductive these days, about seventy percent of all new artists are just carbon copies of each other. So when I saw the following shot of unsigned solo artist, Lady Gaga, I had to think it was some kind of joke. Because as we all know, using sexual imagery to promote your music just makes everyone lose respect for anything you have to offer.

Or, as I’ve learned, in some cases it makes you check out what they have to offer just to be proved so very wrong.

The Five Best Summer Albums

5. Here We Go – Tuuli

Four summers ago I purchased this album from all-girl pop-punk Canadian band, Tuuli. Since then, it’s since slipped into my past, what with songs about bad break-ups and misbehaved boys. Really, though, the greatest part about Tuuli (which is, for the most part in these days, split and non-existent) was their refreshing sound. It was girly, it was poppish, it was everything summer for a sixteen year-old should have been.

4. Logic Will Break Your Heart – The Stills

This album really has a somber tone to it the entire way through, but in my case, after buying it, I let it become the sophisticated soundtrack to the more drab events during the summer of 2004. Really, though, it’s better for evening listening.

3. Funeral – The Arcade Fire

Speaking of “sophisticated” summer albums, this one really is an obvious pick. I picked it up last June and quickly let it drone into my summer with flying colours. A few of the songs actually deal with winter weather and freak snowstorms, but it didn’t make much of a difference, really. Often enough, a summer album is really all about the sound. And this album had it perfect.

2. All We Know is Falling – Paramore

Last summer, I received my pre-order of this album the day I got back from an amazing all-friend camping trip. I listened to it on repeat while I was cleaning the mess out of the coolers and scrubbing the campfire smell out of the pots, and it just brought back memories of every great event prior to it. This entire album just has a refreshing sound to it, and this band is quite possibly one of the most promising acts I’ve seen in a long time.

1. Watoosh! – Pezz

Otherwise known as the early Billy Talent, Pezz had a different sound to them that was upbeat and summer-like in all ways possible. It was typical teen angst fueled by upbeat energy – a good mix, in my opinion. Watoosh! was their first full-length album as Pezz, which sparked up my summer of 2004. Even now I can still throw it in the old CD player and feel it all come back.

Always Too Good

Matthew Good has recently posted two new demo tracks on his myspace, titled “Black Helicopter” and “If I Was A Tidal Wave”. Really, I appreciate everything this man has to offer; his music has never failed me.

Both songs are more acoustic, which seems to be a new sound that Matt must be experimenting with. So far, I’m liking what he’s coming up with. “Black Helicopter” is a more slower, somber song, which is really quite powerful in its own way. I have no idea what MGB fans were really bitching about after Matt went solo. The band really had a sound of its own, but Matt’s new work is clearly more honest and mature. “If I Was A Tidal Wave” is a bit of a faster demo, a bit more upbeat. At first I wasn’t enjoying the all-too-typical political message behind it, but Matt’s lyrics are really too good to bash. He writes based on perspective, not trend. And really, I don’t have enough thumbs to raise in positive review.

So if this is of any indication what his next album is going to sound like, then I’ll be marking the date on my calander for sure.

A Lesson in Mainstream Breaking

When Nelly Furtado first made her appearance with “I’m Like A Bird” all those years ago, I couldn’t say that I was a fan. Really, though, I respect tangible changes in music. Nelly just wasn’t up my alley. And even while her debut album, Whoa Nelly! faired pretty well on the charts, her follow-up, Folklore, didn’t break much of the mold.

Now, enter Loose, which spawned the singles “Promiscous” and “Maneater”, two songs which are both guilty pleasures on my playlist. Honestly, I’m surprised that I like her, too.

The Cracking Gun

I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time.

Two summers ago I started working on a music reviewing website. It was a site that never made it to the Internet thanks to my lack of will and attention to detail. This was why I figured that everything would be so much easier to manage if I just made the “site” a “blog”.

So this is Audio Intercourse, my music reviewing weblog. Here I will be posting about everything musical.  My opinions shouldn’t matter, but people just love comparing in this day and age.  What probably means most to you is what I really think about your favorite band.

We’ll get to that one of these days.