"Could someone tell me what SHITGAZE is?"

I'm sooooooooooooooo pissed off with the current state of my blog at the moment! For some reason, the side elements are now at the bottom of the blog, and no matter what I try I can't seem to reverse this!

If anyone has any suggestions please leave a comment on this blog!

This blog is going to be a lot sharper and shorter after the last one, because if I ever write that much again, I’m likely to have a panic attack. I was slightly behind on keeping my blogs up to date on Monday mornings and I don't want to slip into a funny old routine, so this has only been posted a few days after the last one. Also as it's coming to the end of the month, I need to start focus on getting my February playlist sorted, which should be up on either Wednesday or Thursday of this week.
Next month I'm going to really challenge myself with blogs, and instead of bombarding your minds with new music all the time, I’m going to give you some old music as well. As a mid-week supplement I'll suggest five songs for you to go away and listen to, that I think require some particular attention. Some of these songs you may already know, but not necessarily remember the artist or the name of the song. I hate it when that happens you hear a song you haven't heard in ages, yet don't know the name of it!
Each song, I will have grown up listening to at some point, and some I may just find randomly during the week, that I didn't know before, but do quite enjoy. Now on with the whole problem with this new emerging genre!

Times New Vikings/Psychedelic Horseshit
Music for Deaf People!

A few weeks ago, the NME featured a new emerging genre coming out of the mid-western United States, and for some reason went for it as a great addition to their Radar section.
I'm not going to disagree with any of the comments given by the reviewer of the scene, just simply give my opinion on the music.


First up is Times New Vikings. A three piece 'lo-fi indie rock band' whatever that means, consisting of two boys on Drums and Guitar, and one girl on Keyboards and the Drummer and Keyboardist on vocals. Already they've got things wrong; I mean how a photographer can get decent pictures of a band whose vocalists are hidden behind mahoosive drum kits and keyboards. Typical Americans! The music is so hard to connect to its unbelievable; just imagine three people on stage smacking their instruments with sticks, with some added echo and amplifying and you pretty much have them down to a tee. I never thought I would find the courage to disgrace a complete scene of music, but shitgaze really is abysmal.
Another of these silhouettes of shite is 'Psychedelic Horseshit', I mean seriously which member of the band was drunk when that name was conjured up.
'New Wave Hippies' sounds like a toddler playing with something that has thousands of buttons. The guitars are scratchy, and deliberately out of tune. It's almost as if this band has gone out of its way to completely undermine every musical convention every proposed. This band is either a load of idiots on speed who suddenly thought they could play music while tripping, and sounds like a very massive pile of utter drunken shit, or it's just some very clever chimpanzee's who've evolved and suddenly realise they 'might' be able to play some music. In one song, 'Bad Vibrations' the vocalist literally says over and over again 'ahhoooowaaaooo oooo oooo oooooooo'.
I've actually given up on summing up this utterly pointless way of life. I would rather shave all of the hair off on my body and commit myself to a life of celibacy and become a neo-Nazi.
My flat mate has put this review out of its misery and very kindly summed up this entire music scene in two words, 'utter bollocks'.

Track of the Week
REM - Supernatural Superserious

After that utter mindfuck of songs, my brain needs some nurturing and appreciation for finely tuned, well-balanced balls out anthem!
The brand new single from the upcoming REM album 'Accelerate' that was released this Monday, and I think it's one of their best works for a long time. It echoes with perfection and mirrors their all time greatest song 'Everybody Hurts', only this song has more of a kick to it, because remember it's 'Superserious'. No really in all seriousnesslessnessness, this is a great track, worthy of a top #5 spot in my opinion. If you're looking for a song where you can lay back, put your feet up, close your eyes and feel every beat and every note pulsating through your skull, then this is for you!
Bloody hell, that sounded like some kind of chocolate bar advert!

Video of the Week
Late of the Pier - The Bears are Coming

I saw Late of the Pier live once last year, when they supported Hadouken! on their UK Tour at the Astoria. I got cramp in both legs about 400 times; spent 3 hours solid, jumping around like a tit face; eating glow sticks and having 15 year old ratty school kids asking me for pills and if they could give me head just to get one!
Fast forward 4 months and they've created the weirdest video known to man and aliens alike. I would get down on my knees and kiss the filthy shoes of the designer of those saucy robes any day of the week!
If you're looking to be psychologically traumatised whilst fighting the urge to masturbate in public then this is the song for you!