Um, here’s an mp3, though. For those of you who haven’t already gotten it via Hits in the Car, Emodreng & Indiepige, or some other place, here’s the Bonnie and Clyde remix of Oliver North Boy Choir’s Serbia on Fire (one of the B-sides with Blizzard, their most recent single). I don’t have much to say about it; sorry.
Ivan (from the band) promises a few more remixes next week to accompany the release of the new ONBC single. Very soon.
--DL--
The weather today is almost perfect. I wish it would stay like this forever. I’m such a better person when it’s sunny and not raining all the time.
Her er i gårses spilleliste:
1. Whatever You Want – Club 8 (SV)
2. Marine Thing – the Bridal Shop (SV)
3. Current Acids – Shout
4. Bachelor Kisses – the Radio Dept. (SV)
5. Disco 2000 – Pulp
6. Brass Ring Lionheart Child – the Vonneguts
7. She’s Broken – the Ponys
8. Hotel Room – Richard Hawley
9. Cheat Death – Dirty on Purpose
10. Something New – Oliver North Boy Choir (DK)
11. Something New – Bakers at Dawn (SV)
12. Inside – Bang Gang (IS)
13. From the Valley to the Stars – El Perro
Once again, I will draw attention to the fact that, in addition to downloading the podcast, you may also download Bakers at Dawn’s excellent cover of ONBC’s Something New, as well as read more on what I think about it in the post immediately below this one.
And now I am going outside to enjoy the weather for a few more minutes before I have to go to work.
--DL--Ashtrays Podcast (11. april 2008)
And now I have this nice new thing...
Something New has always been one of my favorite Oliver North Boy Choir songs, if not my very favorite. Why? I think it was the line ‘I hope I dream of you’ and the longing of it -- yet something about the delivery reassured me, told me it was all going to be okay.
There was always something optimistic -- it’s a sad song, but I never particularly thought of it as such. While I’ve listened to the words dozens, probably hundreds, of times, I’ve never thought of them as being upset or desperate; ONBC’s Something New strikes me as more of a paean to a perhaps errant lover; a song written not in doubt or desperation, but more of a happy reminisce. Yes, there’s longing, but it’s a longing for something that she knows will soon come to be. He’ll call her in the morning, the sentimentalist in me always thought. If he’s not there already.
And now there’s this cover, by Swedish soloist Bakers at Dawn. I didn’t like it when I listened to it first, because it destroyed the little safety net of 'oh, it's only temporarily delayed gratification' I’d allowed ONBC to build for me. I felt let down, not only by a less-than-stellar version of a song I loved, but because this new version very bluntly announced -- hey, everything you thought would be okay? It’s not.
ONBC sound hopeful, whereas the Bakers at Dawn version, on the other hand, sounds more like a suicide note, a last-ditch effort from a rejected, dejected lover. This guy has hit bottom. He knows she’s never going to call him again. The song is a wish, a dream, a hope, yes -- but he’s come to accept that it’s not coming true.
Lately, just as it’s starting to finally get sunny in
I like this song more every time I hear it.
Listen for yourself -- I’m allowed to offer you a download of the Bakers at Dawn version, and you can preview ONBC’s at last.fm. Both songs will also be played (in full) on the radio show this afternoon.
There are more artful ways I could put this, but here’s the short version -- I’m sick. I still did last night’s show -- albeit in a somewhat less-than-usual fashion -- and, by employing my both my illness and infinite persuasive power, I also forced Darren, the station manager, to co-host the majority of the show with me. Really quite fun.
Her er spillelisten:
1. To the East – Electrelane
Then Darren played some stuff I don’t know
4. Migration – Sambassadeur (SV)
5. Trying Something New – the Honeydrips (SV)
6. Open Up Your Eyes – One Weekly Gun (DK)
7. This Moment – Under Electric Light
8. A New Chance – The Tough
9. Shy – Tiger Baby (DK)
10. Icecold Kisses – Ostrich (SV)
11. Blush – the Raveonettes (DK)
12. Want to Cannot Help But Dance – Billie the Vision and the Dancers (SV)
You can download the podcast here. You can send me get well wishes here.
--DL--Ashtrays Podcast (9. april 2008)
And since I am sure you are all eager to know this as well, here is Friday’s spilleliste, which I’m told was quite nice:
1. Sunbeams – the Concretes (SV)
2. Shoreline – Broder Daniel (SV)
3. Footsteps – Bye Bye Bicycle (SV)
4. Ten Years Younger – Bubblegum Lemonade
5. Lush (What Becomes You) – Soundpool
6. Your Sweet Voice – the Reindeer Section
7. En Hund Som Jag (feat. Mattias Alkberg) – Bröderna Lindgren (SV, SV)
8. Platonic Rate – Parsley Sound
9. From Off to On – the Knife (SV)
10. Pieces – Evil Death Machine (DK)
11.
12. Comforting Sounds (live acoustic) – Mew (DK)
I also hosted Babylon Radio again. (Playlist) (Podcast)
Also, something you should note -- KPSU has now entered pledge drive week. Feel free to send in donations and things; here is more info. And please keep in mind, depending on several factors, Wednesday’s show may or may not be in the form of pledge drive karaoke. Just so you know.
--DL--Ashtrays Podcast (4. april 2008)
Whoa. I have a computer again. Here’s Wednesday’s (2. april) playlist:
1. Act of the Apostle – Belle and Sebastian
2. Blue Straggler – Electrelane
3. Don’t Let It Slip Away (Oliver North Boy Choir remix) –
Attention Now! (DK, NW)
4. Worker Bee #7438-F87904 – Kind of Like Spitting
5. Needs vs. Facts – the Bear Quartet (SV)
6. Whatever Was – Ulf Ljusberg (SV)
7. So You Want Me to Bleed – Billie the Vision & the Dancers (SV)
8. Mouse – Le Fiasko (DK)
9. Just About Ready for Bed – the Morningside (DK)
10. We Want to be Happy – Cake on Cake (SV)
11. La Strada nel Bosco – Jens Lekman (SV)
12. Everything Goes – Club 8 (SV)
13. Hey Då Karolin – the Honeydrips (SV)
14. Saintly Friend – Said the Shark (DK)
And here is last Wednesday’s (26. march) playlist:
1. Oh My Stars – A Weather
2. Suddenly Electric – the Rainy States
3. Party – El Perro
4. Girl Got Lost –
5. Do Your Sister – the Floor is Made of Lava (DK)
6. Objects of My Affection – Peter Bjorn and John (SV)
7. Avec – Dazzle Ships (DK)
8. Coming Down the Hill – El Perro
9. Your Brother Is My Only Hope – Le Sport (SV)
10. These Eyes Are Berries – Múm (IS)
11. A Man of Happy Solutions – My Friend George (DK)
12. Baby Cool Backwards – Oliver North Boy Choir (DK)
13. Underwear – Pulp
14. Stay Golden – Au Revoir Simone
15. Take Me Home (Johan Agebjörn remix featuring Sally Shapiro) –
Don Juan Dracula (SV, SV,
I may have messed up the order around the end, but that’s the gist of it. And those are all the songs we played. I say we because Becca (who originally wanted not just two but three EPdM tracks) picked all the songs for this show (except the first two, which both come from podcast is still available.
So, anyway, I have my computer back -- and with a screen on which things are visible. Unfortunately, my internet has been rather spotty -- actually, that’s a huge understatement -- so I’m still way behind. Until I catch up again, here are three nice things I learned this week:
Said the Shark’s wonderful song Shaky Heart (from the new album Silly Killings) is number one on the Electric Barometer list. Yay! Listen to or vote for it here.
Oliver North Boy Choir will release their next single soon. It sounds good, but I can’t say anything more than that, because it’s all top secret.
The Danish word for playlist is playlist. But over the past year, I’ve grown so fond of spilleliste (that’s what it is in Swedish, anyway -- or at least something close) that I think I’ll keep using it anyway.
Also -- for those who are interested, in addition to my regular Friday show, I'll be hosting Babylon Radio again tomorrow (it's on immediately after Ashtrays). The planned theme is early '90s rock, a la Nirvana... maybe some Stone Temple Pilots... and I'll definitely throw on that Mew track with J Mascis.