Hitting the interwebs earlier today, boom shacka lacka lacka lacka lacka, here’s Coldplay’s new single. And surprise! It sounds like Coldplay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
The album title and release date are still TBD, but the lead single’s a good one, another rafter-shaking, sky-high melody in the vein of “Talk” and “Viva La Vida.” A much better first step than Viva La Vida‘s lead single “Violet Hill,” that’s for sure. More, please, and soon.
Wouldn’t it be great if all bank holidays actually came with a six-pack of beer?
Have a fun and safe Memorial Day weekend, everyone. And if you have kids, take them to see “Kung Fu Panda 2.” It’s awesome.
Welcome to a new piece here at the Bullz-Eye blog, where we ask musicians to tell us which songs get their mojo risin’, as it were. Our inaugural subject is Saam Hagshenas, lead singer and guitarist of Chicago synth-rock trio Hey Champ, whose 2010 album Star is still in heavy rotation at BE headquarters and whose new EP Anything at All hit digital shelves earlier this month. It might not surprise you to hear that some Chicago house made the cut, but so did Led Zeppelin. Dude’s got diverse tastes, to be sure.
Not only does it illustrate Shuggie’s amazing knack for songwriting, but it also seamlessly blends funk, soul, and psychedelic. Not to mention the guy went and pulled a Stevie Wonder, recording basically all the instruments himself while still a teenager.
This track is just so damn raw. If anyone ever disagrees with the absolute fact that this band is the Godfather of heavy metal and hard rock, make ’em check this one out. Bonham’s thunderous drumming, the precision in Page’s and Jones’ musicianship, and Plant’s ridiculous range and blues-rock crooning make this a definite favorite.
The bass line is so hypnotic, the chords so lush, and the drums so thumping. It’s a track that makes you feel as if you are in the sweatiest club all drugged out, giddy, and dancing your arse off.
First heard this track on the “Resident Adviser” mix by Scott Grooves and keep coming back to it. Classic early ’90s house that still sounds incredibly fresh today!
Nicky Hopkins was best known (“best known” being a relative term) as the studio keyboardist for the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Kinks, et al. He also made a few undeniably gorgeous songs of his own on his album The Tin Man Was a Dreamer, including this one.
Somewhere between putting the brakes on ELO and joining the Travelling Wilburys, Jeff Lynne found time to record this weird doo-wop-meets-synth-pop gem for the “Electric Dreams” soundtrack. We love you, Jeff.
This song is all mood and sex; an incredible example of music that creates a tapestry and is so much more than just melodies and a beat. After listening to this, go have a listen to Beck’s “Paper Tiger” to see how much influence Serge yielded on modern music.
While its thematic parallels to Bowie’s “Space Oddity” are obvious, this is a truly beautiful little tune that has one of those melodies you feel you’ve known your whole life. This is from a little side project from Architecture in Helsinki’s Gus Franklin.
There was a sort of beautiful pain and desperation in the Four Tops’ music; the result, no doubt, of well placed minor chords and Levi Stubbs’ almost tortured delivery.
We could go ahead and put on “Kiss on My List” on our list but everyone knows that one, and more importantly, this track came first!
The only thing worthwhile about Ron Howard’s latest “comedy” “The Dilemma” is that this song appears towards the end. This is what they play whenever the ‘Hawks score a goal, and it’s as pitch-perfect a choice as there is. Listen to that vocal hook. There’s a drunken barroom, rugby-players-tying-one-on-after-a-match feel to it that is contagious. And the video, boiiiiiing! Scores and scores of women in negligee. You had us at ‘scores of women.’ The negligee is a bonus.
Again with that goddamn exclamation point. And to think we thought it was lost forever. D’oh.
When we last saw the then-puncuation-free Panic at the Disco, they were getting their Beatles on in a big way with 2008’s Pretty. Odd. We, of course, thought it was awesome, but the younger members of their fan base hated it, which shows that their parents didn’t play the Beatles for them when they were growing up and have therefore failed society as a whole, but that’s another story. The band, now a duo after the departure of their bassist and guitarist (the latter of whom was also their primary songwriter), the band’s new album Vices and Virtues is a unapologetic swipe at the brass ring, and few songs on the album demonstrate that better than new single “Ready to Go.” With the sky-high “Oh oh ohhhhh” in the chorus, Panic (sorry, but we cannot bring ourselves to use that exclamation point again) seems to be going after Katy Perry’s babysitting money demographic, and to be fair, that’s not a bad play. The tune is damn catchy, and better yet, Brendon Urie can sing.
Will it work? Who knows. It’s damn near impossible to get a hit these days, even for established artists. But after Urie won us over in an interview earlier this year, it’s hard not to root for the guy.
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