First heard on the current TV ad for the Saab 93. Grabbed from iTMS.
Taken from the album Let There Be Love.
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Song of the Day: Twilight of the Gods – Paul Roland
Thrown up on random play on a flight from San Francisco. It has an excellent guitar solo in the 2nd half of the song. Paul Roland’s stuff is very quirky but I love it. Snippet available on iTMS.
iPod touch post
So I read on TUAW that some iPod touch units were starting to hit the Apple stores in the USA. So I hightailed it round to the San Francisco store to see if I could get one. I did. A 16GB one. There are unboxing photos in the web gallery linked on the right. In addition to being an iPod, it’s also a WiFi enabled Internet device. If you are reading this post then it seems that I can post to this site using the built in Safari web browser. More details and thoughts on the device to follow.
Update: Post spell checked and categories set from my MacBook Pro a few hours after posting from the iPod touch.
Song of the Day: Back Chat (Live) – Queen
The Song of the Day category is for listing any song or piece of music, that I’ve heard on a particular day, that has reached into my brain and lit up the pleasure centres! There won’t be a post every day I expect.
Today a song that I really enjoyed when it came up on random play on the iPod in the car, was Back Chat live from Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl. Brilliant stuff. John Deacon’s bass playing is superb. I love this track from the Hot Space album. I was at the 1982 Milton Keynes Bowl concert. Right at the front at Brian May’s side of the stage. He does a sizzling lead break in Back Chat 🙂
New Queen & Paul Rodgers album and tour next year?
Possibly. Paul Rodgers has been talking to Billboard.com. Apparently there are nine songs recorded for the new album. Some interesting insight into how Brian May holds the different layers of a song in his head and directs the recording of each bit individually. It then comes together in the edit. BTW it says in the interview that BHM has just got his PhD in Astronomy. According to Brian over on his site (see entry entitled Musing at Imperial College posted 18th June 2007), he has just finished the thesis but has still to submit it, do his defence and present to the Imperial College Astronomy Department. So still a bit of work to do. If you’re reading this, good luck!Anyone else doing a PhD should check out the PhD student comic strip. Actually that’s worth putting in your RSS reader even if you’re not doing a PhD.
TVital ’07 Belfast
The 2-day TVital concert in Belfast this year will be on 21st and 22nd August. Acts confirmed so far are The Killers, Manic Street Preachers, Razorlight, and Kasabian. Just watching The Killers live at Glastonbury 2007 on the BBC at present. Marvellous 🙂 I’ll definitely be there for at least The Killers on 22nd August. Probably go on the 21st as well.
I didn’t make it to TVital last year. The 2004 concert was excellent (The Darkness headlined and were brilliant). In 2005 Scissor Sisters headlined the night I was there, but Franz Ferdinand blew them off!
American Doll Posse – Tori Amos
Yeah! New Tori Amos album and tour. Bought the album from iTMS this morning. On first listen I really love some of the tracks. Especially Big Wheel (the new single), Body and Soul and Programmable Soda. There are 24 tracks on the album! Will take a while to dissect the package. There is a whole back story with 5 different characters (the American Doll Posse) associated with the album. See the web site. I like Clyde best 🙂 There are blogs for each character and a MySpace page where you can listen to some of the tracks. All good stuff.
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Update: I’ve listened to the new album a few times now. I like it a lot. Not sure if it is better then The Beekeeper. Time will tell.
Song of the day
I’ve got an iPod nano in my car that I listen to via a Kensington FM Transmitter. Now the iPod in question only has about 850 tracks on it, and as I hand picked them all, they are some of my favourite pieces of music. So it shouldn’t really be surprising when on random play the iPod throws up a song that I really, really like. Today it threw up Machinery of the Gods from The Franklin-Neumann Project. Been playing it a few times since then. Marvellous stuff.
Whatever happened to…
David Lee Roth? Spotted doing a bluegrass version of the Van Halen song Jump. It’s actually pretty good stuff!
Van Halen are reforming for a tour as well.
Imagine – Queen & Paul Rodgers
There is an excellent version of John Lennon’s Imagine performed by Queen and Paul Rodgers at their Hyde Park gig. Why is this entry filed in the Music and the Atheism categories? Roger Taylor’s reaction to the no religion too… line. Apparently in the USA that line is often changed to read as one religion or even taken out altogether.
Roger has form on dislike of religion. His song called The Key (which could be one of my Desert Island Discs) contains the lyric:
Well you can search the whole wide planet
Down to viruses and germs
A sensible religion
Is just a contradiction in terms