So amidst the drama of having lost my beloved dog, getting a wisdom tooth pulled out and quite obviously not adjusting too well with the idea of working a relatively full time job AND studying University at the same time, I've been listening to a lot of sensational music. About 2 months back I was exposed to Simon Curtis (pictured, right) via Paul at The Zapping. From what I'd heard on his MySpace account, it was all very fabulous pop and I was quite keen on hearing more. Low and behold, several weeks ago the lovely Simon sent me his entire new album which is very bloody good. Unfortunately, iTunes decided to play funny-buggers on me last week and deleted about 30 albums I had stored on my computer, Simon's being one of them. It's really okay because most of these albums I have the originals for anyway, but this one was specifically sent to me... SIMON COULD YOU PLEASE RESEND THAT LINK TO ME AGAIN WHEN YOU GET THE CHANCE? Anyway, if you're keen on checking out more, head on over to his MySpazz page and download the album, Alter Boy, megamix teaser. You should also take note that Simon is VERY EASY ON THE EYES and has a nice hip-bone.

Siobhan Donaghy's new album "Ghosts" is spellbinding. My best friend Ben & I were discussing it last week and had concluded that, amongst it being quite Kate Bush-esque, it was also incredibly Witchy. In fact, Siobhan may have very well spawned her own style of pop, Witchy-Pop, the genre she is labelled as on both Ben & I's iTunes. "Medevac" is currently my favourite song of 2007, "Coming Up For Air" sounds like the kind of beautiful pop song that the UK *SHOULD* be sending to Eurovision (and would probably win with), rather than the shit they've peddled through for the last 3 years. The album as a whole is pretty amazing, just as her first "Revolution In Me" was. But there is something just a little more special about this one. Definitely a Top 5 contender for Album of '07.

Everything bar maybe the one song from the latest Silverchair album "Young Modern" is - as expected - quite outstanding. Daniel Johns = still a musical genius. Chris Joannou = still INCREDIBLY sexy. THANK GOD for that then. This is easily next Monday's number #1 album in this country, without a doubt.

I was INCREDIBLY unpopular last week when I brought up the new Joss Stone album. But you've GOT TO ADMIT that track #8 - "Arms Of My Baby" - is POSITIVELY ELECTRIFYING. Very good job Joss, you obviously 'fucked well' for that track.

Oh, just quickly, whatever anyone tries telling you, the new Timbaland album is NOT good. It's actually a complete waste of everyone's time and a big wallop of old rubbish. Sadly, the terror also includes the song he's done with M.I.A. which takes nausea brought on by music to a whole new level. Although "The Way I Are" is probably the records only exciting moment.

I'm still playing the absolute hell out of Patrick Wolf, Tracey Thorne, Amy Winehouse, and Madonna's "Confessions Tour". Am starting to cool on the new Jay Jay Johanson album though, which has slowly begun to grate on my last nerve. Comparing to the last record he brought out, it really isn't that good. I know, I claimed it as one of the years best, but after excessive listens I found myself distancing away from it with each listen, rather than finding more to love about it. I don't think it's terrible by all means, but I was definitely a bit premature on heralding it as one of his best efforts. Oddly enough, Brian McFadden has an ACE NEW SONG on his MySpazz profile called "Alice In Wonderland". Just please go and listen to it, this absolutely blew me away and very much needs to be a single.

And just finally, 2007 marks 10 years since Baz Luhrman's remake of Romeo + Juliet hit the cinema screens. It also marks 10 years since the groundbreaking soundtrack topped the world's album charts for 972 consecutive weeks. The movie's soundtrack gave us pop gems such as The Cardigans "Lovefool", Garbage's "#1 Crush", Kym Mazelle's take on "Young Hearts Run Free", Sade's "Kissing You", and that Prince cover Quindon Tarver bung on about. All in all, the soundtrack was a pretty special part of my collection back in the day (bought on cassette, thank you very much), and now - to celebrate the passing of 10 years - a limited edition pressing of the CD has been released. There are bonus tracks galore and, as previously mentioned, The Cardigans' "Lovefool", which is worth the money alone. You can find that on Amazon.

Labels: Album Reviews, Madonna, Patrick Wolf

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• 12:42 AM | Paul said...
  always good to see a bit of Simon on others websites. Good stuff young man...

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• 5:48 PM | popgoescanberra said...
  Hip bone noted. Bulge noted. Tummy noted. Easy on the eye face noted. Thank you. Music to be noted in near future.

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