The Best Stupid Song

In a previous blog post I mentioned how apart from a few exceptions I can’t stand songs that sing something like “na na na’s” or “la la la’s” in the chorus. Especially the use of it by British bands in the 90s to disguise their lack of song writing and musicianship. The Super Fury Animals song The International Language Of Screaming being an exception. Well the Wilson Picket’s Land Of A Thousand Dances takes the na na na’s to the extreme. Not only that but the verse’s are lyrically just as banal. Its basicaly listing types of dances. But as stupid as it is, with the bands driving rhythm and Picket’s voice I defy anyone to not like the song.

A Random Find On The Net - Anthony Pandofino

I randomly came across an album on a blog that I blindly downloaded. I've done that many a time, with varying results. Though its not that often that I download a real find that's a keeper like I did with an album called Gnosis by Anthony Pandolfino. Its down-tempo electronic, that has a dark drone undercurrent beneath the rhythm. And that's about all I know about him. The only other information I could find is that he’s based in Tampa, Florida. No pictures, no bio. Only great music. Get a free download on his bandcamp page here

Gus Gus

Somewhere in the 90s I started listening to the Icelandic electronic outfit Gus Gus. Back then I had almost nothing to do with electronica type stuff. I wanted guitars and an actual drummer, not a drum machine, that’s not real music!
Gus Gus were the exception, and the two albums Polydistortion and This Is Normal were played and played.
Listening back to Polydistortion apart from a few songs it doesn’t stand up as well as I remember it. But the electronic pop of This Is Normal certainly does.

The Limpest Of Combacks

I saw a clip of the reformed S Club formally known as S Club 7. That was when there were seven in the group. The comeback is a limp three members.
That’s embarrassing enough in itself, but add to the fact that they are in their thirties, carrying a few extra pounds and singing songs that were always aimed at the youngest end of the record buying public, well it takes cringe to a new level.
I didn’t make it all the way through the song (I defy anyone to) but skipped to the interview at the end. When asked why they’re a few members short the reply was that everyone’s busy, a couple of them are in the theatre and another member has just had a baby.
So they are getting on with their life’s. Instead of desperately clinging on to when they had some success in a pop group back in the nineties.
I almost feel sorry for them. But I don’t because I don’t understand why they can’t just get a job. They will make a lot more money working behind a till or a bar.
And there’s no embarrassment in that.