Good times bad times...

Well, I'm still ill. And bored. But good things happen anyway.

Like Liverpool winning against Man U!

Or finding out that we've been played twice on a Greek radio show called Strictly Weird Tales, that's pretty cool :-).

Or checking blogs like Indie Music Filter and discovering this project called The Casablanca Sessions. I rather like the songs "So Blue" (Daniel Lee from Hooded Fang), "Stargazing" (Carl Johnson from Library Voices) and "Time To Remember" (Jason Haberman from The Paint Movement).

Or watching videos on Youtube like this new one from Xiu Xiu:



Or listening to loads of music on Spotify like the playlist I made on Friday or old albums by U2, Camera Obscura and C.V. Jørgensen.

And now, a crime novel (and a German one, who'd have thought :-)) and bed.

A trip down memory lane...

I've spent the day being ill, trying not to throw up and having this strange craving for Toffifee. And making this playlist of songs I loved in the 80ies (and that means that I had to love them at the time, not songs I love now, otherwise the list would've been a rather different one, including a lot of songs by The Smiths :-)):

1980: I really can't remember any songs that I loved that year (I was only five), but I listened a lot to either Shu-bi-dua or Gasolin, so I chose the sentimental favourite of the latter, "Længes Hjem" (if I ever get to play at a large festival, I wanna play that one as the encore :-)).

1981: Blondie: "Rapture". We listened to Blondie rather a lot, when we drove around in my dad's car.

1982: Steve Miller Band: "Abracadabra". From the first tape I got, X-mas that year! Some sort of "Best of 82" (there was a song by ABBA-Frida on it, too). It might have been the easy-to-sing-when-you're-seven-chorus that made me like it in the first place :-).

1983: Tracey Ullman: "They Don't Know". Fuck it, I loved that one! Did I ever tell you that I'm a sucker for cheesy-slightly-sad-pop? I even like the "baby" approx. 1.52 :-).

1984: Tears for Fears: "Shout". This is still a tremendously cool song! ""and in return you gave them Hell / as cold as ice / I hope we live to tell the tale". Yup, that's pretty cool, too.

1985: A-ha: "Take On Me". Well, one of the best pop songs ever written! Not much else to say.

1986: The Bangles: "Walk Like An Egyptian". Oh, this is good. And I had a pre-teen crush on Susanna Hoffs (and later a teen crush, too :-)).

1987: U2: "Where The Streets Have No Name". I could've taken any song from "The Joshua Tree", since it's the album that I've heard the most times (without doubt!). I bought the tape in Oslo (and later the vinyl) and it still sends shivers down my spine, when I listen to it.

1988: U2: "Bullet The Blue Sky (live)". I saw the movie in Tønder (the cinema in Skærbæk closed down just after showing "Footloose" in 1984 :-)). Apparently, it ain't that great a movie, but I was blown away anyway. And this heavy version, goddammit! And the light-thing (used on the cover)! Well, I'm just gonna show it:



1989: The Cure: "Lovesong". Being a rather depressed teen (well, who isn't), I loved this. Got it for X-mas (my mom got it right this year, not like 1984, when she gave me Duran Duran's "Arena" instead of Wham's "Make It Big" :-)).

Get strict...

The nice people from Town Hall sent me this video of them covering Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle". And a very, very lovely cover, it is:



And check this weird-shit-yet-cool video (cool song, too) by Yip Deceiver! Unicorns and Santa getting his arse kicked by a rabbit, wtf?!

Hösten Talar Med Oss

New video by Vit Päls (found via It's a Trap):



And listening to Zen Sucker by Larsen & Furious Jane (released 2008, but now it's on Soundcloud, too) and it's very, very much a pleasure:

  Zen Sucker by Larsen & Furious Jane

And now, I'm gonna write some lyrics (and perhaps have a glass of red wine, Friday, gotta love it).

Tempo-Athletes...

Tempomatador (Mikkel sings and I play the drums) has an old song with a new video up for grabs (and a new website). Check it out, it's rather cool.

And found this over at Stytzer, Danish band, Athletes, playing sinister new wave pop. We like!

  Fall Apart by Athletes

49ers...

What a game!

And great weekend, we recorded drums + bass + keys + some guitars for the debut album (and it looks like it's going to be pretty cool). Hence I'm very tired today, and right now I'm just relaxing and watching my son and the other choir boys singing for the queen (that's pretty cool, too :-)).

Sticky Burns....

Busy like ... well, just busy as always, but here's a bit of new music:

One: American folk band, Town Hall, check the EP "Sticky Notes & Paper Scraps" out here, if you're into stuff like Bright Eyes (I'm very much a fan of the last song, "Charlie").

Two: A new song from Burning Hearts, "Burn Burn Burn" (I rather enjoy the tempo shifts of that one).

And you know what? We're starting the "real" (got one song practically ready already) recording of the album on Friday. Oh yes, really.

New Sailor

Tomorrow the new album "Monolith" by Mads Bjørn will be hitting the streets. I've had the pleasure of getting a pre-listen and there's a good deal of good stuff on this one, I can tell you. Like the almost cute spiritual "I'm So Glad (Trouble Don't Last Always)", the instrumental "GNMCP" (sorta Notwist-ish here) or the lovely ballad "White Trees". At times I'm even thinking "this is a whole lot like Loney Dear" (which is a pretty cool thing), for instance the outtro of "The State I'm In" (I'm very much a sucker for that bass!). Or this one:

New Year's Kiss

Got back from the South of Jutland last night after five days with family, a bit of football, a few beers, some wine and loads of food. Still a bit tired, so I've spent the day reading and listening to songs like this very nice cover by flagwhite:

  New Year's Kiss by flagwhite

And the new Simon Gylden (free download right here).