Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Cowboys & Indiefans.
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 So a fantastic email arrived in ye 'old inbox this morning from a long-time reader, Mark Simons, who is a bit worried of what the future holds for IAR. Instead of me relaying his comments, I thought I would just share the whole email and follow it with an open letter of sorts.
Dearest Adem,
I have been reading your site for a couple of years now. I never comment, never email, just read and enjoy the posts. But your most recent post is the something about a camel, back, straws, etc.
What is going on here? You have turned into one of those Indie people haven't you? Soon you'll be hanging out with Emily off of Big Brother and telling people to push out their niggers. Segregation never, Integration now Adem!
I am worried. I am worried that you have traded in your lovely Girls Aloud t-shirt for one of Jet or something equally as hideous as that. You haven't have you? Do you listen to The Strokes? I bet you have been. Don't lie to me. Am I going to find Pete Fucking Doherty in your banner one day? This questions answer is a complete mystery to me, because two weeks ago I would have never given it a second thought but now that you're telling people you enjoy that new Babyshambles song, well I don't know what to think anymore.
Please tell me you're not wearing a pair of faded black, skintight denim jeans right now as you read this email??!?!
Anyways, love the site and stuff. And I am not telling you to STOP talking about that guitar music, but maybe throw in a picture of Dannii Minogue in between indierelated posts just to give people like me a bit of a break from it all. Keep up the good work.
Love always,
Mark Simons.
Genius.
Dearest Mark;
To answer your questions, and address some points...
1) Indie is not taking over my body and soul, but I do like some of the music it produces. I have always been a fan of that crazy Indie-movement, even before Emily off-of-Big Brother discovered it and shared the glory with people the world over. In fact, if I was a fan of it before Emily discovered it, doesn't that mean that I actually CREATED it? Calvin may have created disco, but it seems I created Indie.
2) The Girls Aloud t-shirt is still being worn, never fear. It IS in competition with my Arctic Monkeys t-shirt though. I don't think you should worry about me ever taking on a love of Jet however. Did you know that Jet are very much actually the worst band in Australian music history, right after Wolfmother? This is FACT Mark, and you should know better than to insinuate I would think anything else. Although, looking at your concerns, I do not blame you for thinking I may act foolishly and embark on a strange love of said "artistes."
3) I do listen to The Strokes. They are very good Mark and you should give their most recent album a proper listen if you haven't already.
4) No, Pete Doherty will never feature on the IAR banner. There is probably more chance of Elizabeth Hasselbeck appearing on the IAR banner than there is Pete Doherty. ALTHOUGH I DO LOVE HIM IN A COMPLETELY NON-SEXUAL, NON-DEALER KIND OF WAY.
5) Skin-tight jeans. On me? Are you fucking mad? You HAVE seen what I look like haven't you? I think skin-tight jeans would be an extreme crime, one that would see me locked away for violating several million occupational safety hazards.
As for breaking it up with a bit of pop, you'll be very pleased to know that I am caning the fucking SHIT out of the new Sugababes single, "About You Now," which is an incredible pop song and probably the best thing I have heard thus far in 2007.
Hopefully you're a Sugababes fan then.
Thanks for the feedback Mark, it is always appreciated.
xoxox Adem.
PS: Have you ever thought about starting a blog? I think you should.
Labels: Alternative Music, Website
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Bag of Lollies
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 First of all, let me talk about this album to your left. It's by an Alternative (!) band from Ireland called La Rocca, and it is titled "The Truth". One of the greatest songs to ever feature a piano, "Non Believer", features on this very album, and it is seriously breathtaking. If you like the first-album Keane stuff, really enjoy a heartfelt piano riff that comes from absolutely nowhere, or really quite enjoy the mellow-ish guitar strummings heard on One Tree Hill, then you are going to love not only La Rocca's best song, but their whole album too.
Before I go on, PLEASE visit their MySpace and listen to "Non Believer", the first song included on their MySpazz Music Player. The fabulous piano bit comes in just a bit after the 3:15 mark, and goes till about 4:00. Absolutely amazing stuff.
"Non Believer" was introduced to me through an episode of One Tree Hill, which I mentioned last week has become a serious obsession of mine during non-study periods of my day. A song so bloody beautiful, it encouraged me to investigate the group further. After listening to an, um, hem-hem, totally legal download of the album, it had engaged me so much that I promptly whipped out a credit card (apologies to whomever's card I used), and am now awaiting a proper copy of the album to arrive in my mailbox from the UK. And had this record actually been released THIS year rather than in August 2006, it would probably be sitting at about Number 4 on my albums of the year thus far.
NOW THAT'S OUT OF THE WAY - The tallying for the My Favourite Pop Record is almost over. I spent a large portion of my weekend counting up print outs, and will spend the next couple of days doing more of that. Hopefully by the start of April, I'll have the complete results - with added Blogerati commentary - online and ready to roll.
Speaking of the Blogerati, Paul from The Zapping has relocated his swishy site to an even swishy-er (?!) domain home. All of Paul's ace scribblings can now be found at www.thezapping.com.
It seems the All Saints have been dropped by Parlophone after 4 people bought their Studio 1 album. Oh dear. More at The Hotstuff and at Bop Pop...
I forgot to mention this some time back, but xolondon's written up the mightiest and most correct review of Paddy Wolf's "The Magic Position" album. Best I've seen on the web and the one I agree the most with.
Those crazy, gorgeous, et cetera CFBGoesPop! Girls have turned 4 years old this month. Happy Birthday you mardy nutbags!!
THERE IS EXCELLENT FEMALE SPUN DANCE POP BEING FEATURED ON POSTER GIRL. "Though I'm not sure that it's technically a special, I think that's what the songs will be the next four days" says Ms. Poster Girl. BRING. IT.
The ace Popalastic seems to have returned, and disappeared again. COME BACK FOR GOODNESS SAKES!
Paul from The Zapping has contributed a piece about Love on Pinkie's A Kind Of Love In. And in a legendary turn of events, he (briefly) mentions De'Lacey's "Hideaway" in said piece. DO YOU REMEMBER HOW GREAT THAT SONG WAS? I sure do folks.
Popjustice has finally mentioned Van She - well, their on-the-side, remix project Vanshe Tech - on the front page. Now to attempt for the six millionth time: getting people interested in Van She's original material...
Don'tStopThePop now have a tremendous theme song!
Kelis plans on doing the reality TV thing. More details at the ultra-fab Chart Rigger.
I suppose I better get back to studying then.
Labels: Alternative Music, Blogerati
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