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Monday, 3:34 pm in Music

Hey hey hey, it’s Music Monday!  You know you love it.  Anyway, no videoclips today because I’m at work and really shouldn’t be looking up YouTube.  Nonetheless, y’all probably should at least check out the OK Go songs, because – as always – their clips rock.

OK Go, “A Million Ways”

Oh such grace
Oh such beauty
And lipstick and callous
And fishnets and malice
Oh darlin’
You’re a million ways to be cruel

As you can maybe tell by this week’s playlist, I’ve suddenly discovered a love of OK Go; mostly because their songs fit eerily well into UN.  This one is hands down my new Nekro track.  Okay, so it’s not original but come on people!

Operator Please, “Get What You Want”

Disappointed you know there’s never gonna be a cheery face inside this crowded room.
Think you’re the shit now because my lingo is so out of the loop why yes I’m out of the loop.

Yes yes; this is the song in the background of the Virgin Blue ad with the man in the doll box.  You may also know them for “Just A Song About Ping Pong”, which is getting quite a bit of chart play at the moment.  Anyway, Operator Please are a bunch of Aussie kids (and I do mean kids), whose lead singer has a face that I just swear I’ve seen before but can’t place.

Arkana, “House on Fire”

Choose your life it’s an innocent lie,
Against the grain it’s all the same.
Spend my time wasting yours,
To give away you’ve got it all

I was totally out researching Batman science last week when found this track and had a massive attack of the nostalgies.  I seem to remember “House on Fire” got quite a bit of airplay on Channel [V] back in the day, and I may even had had it on a couple of mix-tapes.¹  Anyway, it is my considered, 1990s-centric opinion that this remains the best song on the Batman & Robin soundtrack which, let’s face it, isn’t saying very much but whatever.  Actually, Moloko’s “Fun For Me” is okay, but I remember really hating it at the time.  Similarly, I used to really like the Smashing Pumpkins’ “The End is the Beginning is the End” but can no longer stand it (as a general rule, I like the Pumpkins, but if I’m recalling correctly they released the track in one of their severe slump-times).  For the record, the best comic-book film non-score soundtrack song of all time is still U2’s “Hold Me Thrill Me Kill Me Kill Me” and I will fight anyone who disagrees; brin’gitawn!

Airbourne, “Runnin' Wild”

So you can cry me a river, cry me a river of tears
Yeah you can cry all you like but it won’t change my mind

I first heard this on the ‘rock’ channel on the aeroplane radio on the way to Melbourne.  I’ve since seen them – with a different track – a couple of times on rage in the mornings, and it turns out they’re an Australian, AC/DC pub rock revival band.  Or something.  Anyway, as you can probably see the lyrics are dreadfully inane, but I have to admit I was impressed by the song nevertheless.  I think I’m just a sucker for bogan rock.

OK Go, “Do What You Want”

So you were born in an electrical storm, took a bite out the sun, saw your future in a machine built for two
Now your rays, make me kind of go crazy, shocked and awe and amaze me
Just a ticker tape parade and me
But something was wrong
Till you tap danced on the air, in the night, screaming at the top of your lungs, you said
“Come on, come on
Do what you want
What could go wrong?”

It’s not an understatement when I say I felt a shiver when I first read the lyrics to this track.  Now, I’ve had a lot of Loki-centric theme music over the years but I don’t think any song I’ve yet heard manages to – in the first line, no less – sum up not just Loki but Baldr and Sigmund and Sigyn as well.  I mean seriously; there’s so much concentrated Corner in this song that it’s spooky.  For those of you who aren’t totally down with the Norse mythology; one of the parental origin stories for Loki (there are a couple) is that he is the result of Fárbauti (‘cruel-striker’) throwing a lightning bolt at Laufey (‘leaf island’).  Now, before you go yukking it up, just think about it allegorically and you get Loki being a forest fire caused by lightning striking a tree.  He was born, in other words, in an electrical storm.  Yeah.

In other news, I almost bought a green iPod Nano today.  And then I didn’t, because I realised eBay was hacking me with stupid US dollars.  Not that I can’t afford it exactly so much as, Jesus, I fucking hate iPods.  But my w900i is getting less and less reliable, despite the fact that I just paid $160 to get the damn thing fixed.  Bleh.

Oh, and yeah!  You remember last Music Monday when I said I had an amusing anecdote about discovering the Bedroom Philosopher and couldn’t remember what it was?  Well, I remember; I was looking up my work IP in Wikipedia to see if anyone had been making edits.  There were a couple; one of which was to the page of this guy.  So now you know.  I am so fucking tired I feel physically ill.  Jesus.

1. Yes, kids, I really am that old.  For those of you who missed the pre-mp3 era, I used to record songs I liked off the radio onto tapes to play in my Walkman.  This is how I survived on the bus driving around France and Italy on the school trip in 1999 (or was it 1998?). ^

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• Comments By » Jen (in Japan)
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