I went to Summer Sonic this past weekend. It was pretty rad and I plan on writing about it sometime this week or the next. I won’t have much to say about the actual festival, but the entire experience did make me think about the state of rock music, what makes me identify with music, and the growing trend of pastiche as a genre.
I think it’s going to be rather wordy. So I apologize in advance for that.
Now music.
N.E.R.D.
She Wants To Move (D.F.A. Remix)
She Wants To Move (Mac & Toolz Extended Remix)
“Her ass is a spaceship I want to ride.”
“HER ASS IS A SPACESHIP I WANT TO RIDE.”
Fuck the “Happy” song, that line right there is the most life-affirming shit Pharrell ever wrote by far.
I love this song, much like I love nearly everything off of the first two N.E.R.D. albums. It’s such a great song that it can even overcome the lackluster DFA remix, that tries way too hard to make it into a krautrock song. You can’t do that to a song that has the line “her ass is a spaceship I want to ride” goddammit. The Mac & Toolz remix works far better, and instead re-imagines the song as an 80s funk jam with plenty of totally radical synths.
Big Country
Wonderland (Extended Mix)
Heart And Soul
Lost Patrol (Live)
Giant
I posted a bunch of Big Country a while back and have been repeatedly (but politely) requested by one incredibly persistent Big Country fan to repost them. Here are a few of them. I’ll try and put the rest up in the next few posts. Spoiler: “Wonderland” is one of the greatest songs ever written and you should like it.
Madonna
Celebration (Benny Benassi Remix)
Celebration (Benny Benassi Dub)
Celebration (Oakenfold Remix)
Celebration (Oakenfold Remix Dub)
Celebration (Johnny Vicious Club Remix)
Continuing in what will most likely be a multi-month/year posting spree of Madonna remixes. These are all from a 2×12″ single I picked up earlier this summer.
In additional Madonna news, I’m still working on part two of my guide to Madonna singles. It’s proving to be daunting. She put out a lot of freaking singles in the 90s you guys.
I’d forgotten how much I liked Big Country. I also had a crush on Stuart Adamson
It feels like it’s been awhile since I thanked you for the work you put in — Thank you!
I look forward with interest to your upcoming post. It’s no secret that I owe you for having broadened, deepened, my knowledge of popular (I use that term in the loosest sense possible) music which has given me/us a tremendous range potential additions to our music collection. It’s all so eclectic, yet it still works; and that’s cool. 🙂
Agree on Big Country. But NERD leave me cold.