Sinéad O'Connor

I grew up in a world where the name Sinéad O'Connor was automatically associated with Nothing Compares 2 U. As I've gotten older that same association has always stuck and I've never felt any interest or compulsion to find out if there is more to the Irish songstress.
No matter how beautiful a song Nothing Compares is, there is always the cringe-factor whenever you or someone else plays that song.
In fact I'm having a really hard time trying to think of a moment where it might be socially acceptable to play Nothing Compares. Definitely not a wedding.

What happened to Sinéad to give her this kind of "cult" status? Or has she even got this kind of status and that I'm just generalising my own thoughts?

Through a random series of events I've broken down the lifelong boundaries separating me and Sinéad. Starting with her debut album Lion and the Cobra.
Parts of Lion and the Cobra sound as though, if made today, would automatically sign to Matador Records and get called Glasser's Ring.
The same ethereal, haunting textures are there but only 23 years earlier. Obviously it has dated slightly and sounds irreparably 80's but if I've learned something from this year in music is that the 80's has come back to haunt us.



I should have some final, grand, concluding paragraph, but all I have is one destroyed prejudice and this video:

OMG I've been pigeonholed

Today I have mainly been listening to Kanye West, Lady Gaga, various remixes of said artists and a lot of dubstep.

The Duke Spirit

So The Duke Spirit are back with their new Kusama EP joining the (not so long yet) list of female vocal bands I'm glad to see make a return
-See earlier Those Dancing Days post-



They've been steadily giving away free mp3 tasters of their new release. A while back it was Everybody's Under Your Spell's turn to get shamelessly thrown into the midst of the internet wilderness but now if you head over to http://www.thedukespirit.com you'll get a free download of Villains which is so effing new that it hasn't even got a video yet.
Head on over and join the party. Tis a good one!



Oh yeah and The Duke Spirit are NOT to be mixed with The Delta Spirit. I know it's an easy mistake as both bands are proper good and all that.

I just off the top of my head made up a little rule to differentiate the bands and remember which one is which:

Duke Spirit: Dukes are usually dudes. Posh stuck-up dudes. Obviously The Duke Spirit has a bird (female) singing. They've done the old switch-a-rooney

Delta Spirit: Δ Delta's like a triangle right? Something witch-housers love using. Something that if turned upside down becomes ▽. Right? Now correct me if I'm wrong but I once saw Tom Hanks show me what the mother of Jesus' child looks like and she looked a bit like ▽.
Obviously The Delta Spirit aren't the mothers of Jesus' babies so they've done the whole switch-a-rooney too.

Easy.

Chrome Sparks

Sorry to keep anyone waiting for a new post, but I was on a boat. Enough said.

Today is independence day in Finland and pretty much the whole country'll be busy watching the president shake hands with a lot of Finns that I've never even heard of/seen before. And after 4 hours of hand-shaking they'll indulge in some rather un-cheeky dancing shenanigans.

I won't be watching that as:

A) I haven't got a TV
B) I don't really give a fuck

What I'll be doing instead is letting you know about Chrome Sparks and his single Wait For Hearbeats. Mainly what I'll let you know is that it is bloomin' "off the hook"



The two tracks on Wait For Hearbeats are two genuine electro heartthrobs that are really making my studying for exams hard.

The track called Our Love is Heartbeats, Our Love is Hot Beats already tells us what to expect from its title. And hot beats it duly delivers. Unfortunately there isn't a video to embed for hot beats so you're gonna get the chilled beauty of I'll Be Wait For Sadness Comes Along instead (I'm still trying to understand how that song title makes any sense)



It's available for "name your own price" on his (Jeremy Malvin) Bandcamp:
http://chromesparks.bandcamp.com/

Minks

Minks are dangerous animals. Here in Finland they're very brutally killed by mink hunters who live for no other reason then to bathe in mink-blood. Usually they're hung-drawn and quartered, I think because Braveheart had just come out on VHS when the mink epidemy started. Not even girls who dress as foxes can/want to save the minks. Because if the minks are saved, then who knows what kind of disgusting acts of violence they would cause to our ecosystem. And our babies. Mostly our babies.

No don't be a mink activist. That is if you want your babies to live in a safe environment. Safe from the colossal and razor-sharp gnashers of evil mink bastards.
Fuck.
Minks terrify me. Fuck.

Why anyone would want to name their band 'Minks' is completely beyond me.
Unless it's a kind of subversive "fuck you" to governments (Australia) who won't act upon animals eating babies. Dingo to mink is only a short step in the grand scheme of what Darwin calls "his theory" and God calls "bullshit".

Minks the band however aren't really that dangerous at all. Unless you count listening to them a little too much dangerous (ha ha ha)
They released their first single Ophelia earlier this year and it proved to be pretty much awesome.



Now they've got a new single out called Cemetery Rain before they release the full length By The Hedge some time come January.

MINKS - Cemetary Rain by forcefieldpr

realised how easy it is to write a horribly prejudiced text and it scares me. I do apologise to all the minks whom this text offended.

KXP tonight

Your boy's off to Dynamo tonight to catch a glimpse of the almighty KXP who released one of my favourite "home-grown" albums of the year.

T-Bone prepare to get hypnotized.



It's like having our very own Holy Fuck.
So excited, but first I've got a pub quiz to win.

Laterz