Dumb Blonde, Dead. – We Choose To Go To The Moon

It’s been a while since I’ve talked about anything music related, and that’s because nothing has really made me want to. That’s changed, and I thank Team Fortress 2.

Why? Because of Team Fortress 2, I found Control Point. Because of Control Point, I found the Dead Workers Party. Because of the DWP…you get the point. Eventually it brought me to a forum post by a character called Ash Williams, about his band’s new EP “We Choose To Go To The Moon.” being available for streaming on their website. The album was available for download on a “pay what you want” scheme, and I downloaded the album for free, deciding if I liked it, I’d go back and pay for it then.

After a couple of weeks, it’s grown on me enormously. Not being the best writer when it comes to describing music you’ll have to bare with me. Ready? Ready.

There’s really only one word I can think of to describe a majority of the music, and that’s haunting. The band has dual vocalists, and the way they intertwine with each other, swapping back and forth and sharing lines sounds so amazing at times it makes me shudder. Music is meant to inspire a strong feeling in a person, and this works in doing that for me. In songs like Moons So Bright, the music is slow, and in a lot of ways sounds like I’ve heard it before. The vocals though, just hook me. I really wish I could go into this more, but I can’t, I need a thesaurus.

There are some songs I have trouble getting my head around of course, like ‘Spin, Spin, Spin’. The strange style the band switches to makes it difficult to get into those songs, but they by no means are terrible or unlistenable.

If you found all that terrible to read, here’s the jist; It’s a good album from a good band. Go and buy it. From their website. Or at least download it and give it a listen. Do it. You know you want to. Peeeeer pressure. Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer pressure.

I just went back and paid ten dollars for it. Which by Australian standards, is pretty cheap for music. If you’re interested in listening to new music and this post did absolutely nothing for you, try visiting http://dumbblondedead.com/, give the music a listen, and judge it for yourself.

Preserved for Prosperity

I wish to proclaim myself forever CASUAL CHAMPION OF ZAK AND SARA BY BEN FOLDS. I just had to grapple with someone attempting to overthrow my high score, but I got back on top. So for now and the future, here’s the proof that I am the best at EVERYTHING forever.

THERE I AM! First column! I AM THE GREATEST.

My Most Played Songs (October-November 09)

I may of forgotten to do this for October, so this particular post encompasses the top songs I listened to for the past two months. I’m of course not sure if anyone actually looks at these, but hey, I enjoy keeping track of this stuff.

Previous months song lists:

• September 09
• August 09
• July 09
• June 09
• May 09
• April 09

I’ve Got Nothing

ChartJackers is a project being run by four popular YouTubers, in which their goal is to get a song written, recorded and on the UK Charts using nothing but “the goodwill” of people on the internet. Everything in the song and connected to it is done by members of the YouTube and internet communities, and all money made by the project goes to Children In Need. It’s been worked on for a while, and now the song is finished, has a music video on YouTube, and is available for download on iTunes. Listening to it, it’s a good song, and though fairly poppy, the money goes to charity anyway, so it’s a win win by any means.

The music video was posted on CharlieIsSoCoolLike’s channel for our viewing pleasure:

Some more information about the project, from the sidebar of said video:

The lyrics of the song are made up of YouTube comments, compiled into a song by another YouTuber. The lyrics were released and then YouTubers wrote a melody for the lyrics, and we picked our favourite. We held YouTube auditions via video response to pick the band, found the producer of the song through YouTube, and the music video is made up of literal interpretations of the lyrics, clapping and singing along, by YouTubers! It’s a bit YouTubey.
All of the money from the song goes directly to Children In Need, so I hope you’ll consider helping us by buying the song, and telling all your friends and family to buy it too! Thanks :)

It’s a good song, and it’s great to see what people can create when joined by the power of the internet.

Blink

I’ve gotten into Chameleon Circuit, a band which sings Doctor Who themed songs. They released their album a few months ago, but it took me a while to finally buy some of their songs off iTunes. And since listening to them, they’ve become a small obsession for me musically. In my boredom today I’ve been youtubing the band members old videos (I forgot to mention, all the band members are popular YouTubers) looking for old videos about it, because they performed demos of the songs and the like.

For absolutely no reason other than I can (which is reason enough right?), here’s one I just watched for the first time by charlieissocoollike, where he performs the song Blink. Blink is based on an episode in the third series of the recent Doctor Who (the second series to feature David Tennant). It’s one of my favourites, both the song and the episode.
Oh, you have to watch the video all the way to the end for a cheap laugh.

 

I’ve finished adding music (mostly)

As a result of buying a new 120GB iPod, I felt the urge to copy as much of my music collection to my computer humanly possible; this is the end results. This is about 95% of my CD Collection, plus a few extras given to me by some awesome friends. Some of my CDs have problems copying though, so I get to say “THIS ISN’T ALL MY MUSIC GUIS. HEY GUIS, CHEK DIS OOT”.

My Most Played Songs (July 09)

My songs are going to change a little these coming months; I’ve been given a set of discs by a friend at work full of random music. Swing, gypsy, rockabilly, and so forth are just some of the types of music included, so it should make an interesting change. I tried Gogol Bordello, and as you can see, despite the singers…“interesting” voice, I’ve really gotten into them. I’ve also cut the “genre” bit out of this and future screenshots so as to make it easier to see.

You can see previous results here:

• June 09
• May 09
• April 09

Favourite Quotes

There are several quotes in movies and music that hit a chord with me. Some are stupid and nothing but a big joke, others have a deeper meaning which I either relate to, or just love because of how well written and timed it was.

This is one of those lists, where the quotes aren’t listed in any order, and no real description; just quote and title.

There’s a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But, they don’t all bring you lasagne at work. Most of them just cheat on you.

-Clerks, spoken by Silent Bob

I’m constitutionally incapable of making eye-contact with a woman I don’t know.

-Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, thought by Joel Barish

Quiet, Anus.

Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, spoken by Harold Lee

I never realize how much I like being home unless I’ve been somewhere really different for a while.

-Juno, thought by Juno MacGuff

I’ll be in my bunk.

Firefly, spoken by Jayne Cobb

Just because your eyes are open, doesn’t mean you can see

-Bring It On Back, sung by Jet

You can’t stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere.

-Serenity, spoken by Mr. Universe

When you guys are walking in the mall and both your heads turn at a really nice looking chick, it’s going to eat you up inside. You’ll spend most of your time wondering when the other shoe’s going to drop.

-Chasing Amy, spoken by Banky Edwards

And that’s some of my favourite quotes. If you’re one of the few people who read this, please share one of your favourite quotes in the comments below.

My Most Played Songs (June 09)

I left this a few days late because I completely forgot about it…but here we are, this past months most played songs, as part of my documenting my changing music tastes this year. This month I was obsessed for awhile with the release of Marilyn Manson’s new album The High End Of Low, but that didn’t stop me getting addicted to Footloose, sadly.

You can see previous results here:

• May 09
• April 09

My Most Played Songs (May 09)

Well it’s been a month since I first decided to start keeping track of my music tastes via monthly captured images of my top 25 most played songs on iTunes. It’s been a long and perilous journey involving Freddy Krueger, Mario Kart and a rather entertaining local band called Prawnhead, but here is this months most listened to songs.

Very blurry still; I don’t know what causes that. But wow, now wasn’t that such an exciting post? I’m shivering from the adrenaline rush.

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