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Archive for June, 2010
World Cup 2010 Japan team song (Exile): Victory
I must confess, I do not know anything about Japanese popular music. Is this a good representation of the Japanese contribution to World music, I do not know? What this sounds like though is an attempt to mix traditional African bush music with a modern disco-boy band. Fail! What I don’t [...]
World Cup 2010 Mexican team song: Bam Bam, Un Gol Por Ti
Have you ever been in an authentic Mexica restuarant.. you know, where the owners, workers, cooks and even the food on the menu comes from Mexico? One where the walls are festooned with Mexican artwork – woolen pictures, colorful looking portraits, and at least a dozen national flags. Where the tiny TV in [...]
Dizzee Rascal & James Corden – Shout
It’s World Cup Fever! And for every football tournament England partakes in, there are a number of official and unofficial anthems that are released to support the band. Yes, I’m thinking of such classics as the 1998 disastor titled “Vindaloo” by Fat Les, and probably the best of them all, Three Lions on the [...]
David Bowie: Five Years
Later this week, there will be a sort of anniversary. It will be “Five Years” (as David Bowie glumly prophesizes), since I arrived into this country. But today isn’t the end of the world. A lot has happened in the past five years, as my wife will testify – for a start, [...]
Band Of Skulls: Light Of The Morning
Have you seen the new Ford 2011 Mustang ad. In particular, have you heard this ad? The music rocks, and it took me a while to track down who performs this song. It is by “Band Of Skulls”, a band name I am familiar with and placed on the “must listen to [...]
The Beach Boys: Bluebirds Over The Mountain
As I stated yesterday, there’s probably no better band that brings you the soundtrack to the Summer than The Beach Boys. “Bluebirds Over The Mountain” isn’t the typical Summer or surf-song that you would match with The Beach Boys, though as with pretty much any Beach Boys song, it is full of Mike [...]
The Lovin’ Spoonful: Summer In The City
I apologize for the lack of posts recently – an unusual occurrence has arrived in my neighborhood… Summer! You’ll not see any Summertime Blues here, no Winter Hymnal, none of that. From here on out it is wall to wall sunshine, the stuff oranges live for. Summer songs in the 60’s had [...]
