Articles tagged with: MySpace Trawl
The bah humbugs are on us this Christmas. Rather than find the next biggest Mexican folk carol singers, we thought we’d just go and find some stuff that hasn’t got anything to do with Christmas at all. Until annoying people who knock on our door do this sort of thing, we’ll shut the door on them. Imagine ...
Nothing amuses us more than when people take a poke at other artists and ride the boundaries of copyright. We assume that Duran Duran haven’t bothered to get in touch with Duran Duran Duran and ask for a name change yet. Probably because their heads are still up their own arses from the past successes or, in the case of Simon Le Bon, because he suspects there's some food lodged up there. A million miles away from the shiny radio-friendly pop songs that Duran Duran made, Duran Duran Duran give the impression that if any Duran Duran fans listened to them by accident, they'd quite literally make them lose their minds until their ears bled.
Ooh, before we get into the music, we have to note the random change of MySpace! All the omg’s, lol’s and wtf’s don’t really cover what Tom and Rupert Murdoch have done – like seriously. For some strange reason, the music player has changed. It looks like an inbred cousin of iTunes. We feel no emotion towards it. Perhaps they wanted to keep up with Facebook and arbitrarily change stuff against people's will. Now, for a band to be a band, they have to have more than one individual. If not, you’re just a solo person. Sometimes, bandmembers will do their own thing and release an album full of tasty offerings. Our first ever trawl was Gay Against You, so we thought we’d let you know what one of the two members is now doing. Germlin’s solo stuff is very similar to his band project. And that’s why we like it – the songs are fun, chopped up and noisy.
We like it immensely when stuff is made simpler for us. Not because we’re lazy sods whose biggest daily challenge is picking up the remote off the floor, but because we like having things made easier for us. Wouldn’t it be ace if there were a device that did things when you thought it? Don’t want to get up and microwave last nights rotting curry? Then brainpower will solve that problem! Granted this would never happen and even if it did, it would probably be exploited for strange people to cook ants. But we can dream... Amazingly there is a point to the above dream. We hate it when we have to go out and buy an album, as we have to trek through the crowds and get pushed around by old people who deserve respect for fighting in wars and other boring things. The kids of today also demand respect. Not for any particular reason apart from the fact you’ll end up being stabbed and be left one kidney short. Money is sometimes is an issue. We don’t always have the funds to spend on records and downloading soulless MP3s with no artwork is crap. So isn’t it great to know that Death By Panda has his entire discography on the internet, for free, complete with pretty images?
Continuing our look at ridiculously young musicians we head oop north to Scotland. Nestled away in Leith, near Edinburgh, is a youngster who is probably awaiting the results of his GCSEs. Or some sort of equivalent, we’re not entirely sure what is taught over the border. Perhaps it’s basic hunting skills in case everything goes a bit 'Braveheart' again? Or possibly just English, Maths and Science. Now we’ll give you some prior warning before you continue this particular Trawl. It's the return of the dreaded chip music.
After doing this feature for God knows how long, it’s just dawned upon us that we don’t have a witty opening tag to use every week. You know how Q Magazine's motto is 'use crusty bands on the cover that are popular and will shift a few copies'. The NME’s words of wisdom are 'recycle the same twenty bands every week and make up new genres like “post vacuum glam†to make us look hip and trendy'. So after thinking long and hard we’ve come up with this drawn-out introductory paragraph. “Each week we try and bring you something a little bit different and isn’t necessarily going to make you the coolest kid in school. Here’s something that we think sounds ace, but hasn’t quite got the power to make A&R men wank out millions of pounds to whore it out on TV & Radio". On second thoughts, that sounds really shit, so we’ll not bother. Here’s something much better, Modern Institute.
Apparently, the most recognised instrument in modern day music is the guitar. Anyone can pick it up and have a strum, though most people produce better sounds then the ones we belt out. But never mind, we aren’t overly jealous and we’re quite content with our homemade tambourine.
Some people also say that the human voice is something that can make or break a song; depending on how well the vocal sounds, it can add that little bit extra to the track. Once again, singing is not ranked highly on our list of talents - but when the karaoke bug bites, just watch hecklerspray go.
Pop is short for popular, everyone knows that. But just because it’s popular, does it necessarily make it good? In the case of most things, no, not at all. Music is very opinioned and people are influenced very easily and miss out on the good stuff unless it’s slapped in their faces.
Take the Mint Royale song/remix Singing In The Ring when it was originally released, no-one gave a shiny shit about it. But since George Sampson did a dance to it on “Britain’s Got A Bit Of Talent Which Simon Cowell Will Then Exploit†the whole country went nuts to the song and got it number one.
Hecklerspray just wants to get good stuff to you before its mass marketed to death. Take interview storming Chris Martin, we know they have a new record out but every time we switch on the TV his band are there either advertising it or promoting iTunes. All we know about this week's band Strangebusyworld is that it’s one bloke just doing something he enjoys and trying to reach out to people.
