Day 117 - Moneybrother - They’re Building Walls Around Us
Moneybrother comes from Sweden, and when I first saw the videoclip some years ago I thought “this should be the summer hit of 2005″. But no.
The video was hard to find though. Not on YouTube, and only through a very bad link on the site of recordcompany Burning Heart. A bit of searching brings a nice working link on MySpace.
Day 115 - Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Last night, while shooting my daily selfportret, Green Day’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams came in mind.
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
and I’m the only one and I walk alone
Day 111 - Saybia - The Second You Sleep
I’m listening a lot to Saybia lately. Often compared with Coldplay but a lot better, of course. (Coldplay realy sucks)
Day 110 - Nada Surf - Blonde On Blonde
Nada Surf is also the only band that could write a song about a Bob Dylan album.
I’ve got Blonde on Blonde
On my portable stereo
It’s a lullabye
From a giant golden radio
YouTube: Blonde On Blonde, live 2006
YouTube: Blonde On Blonde, Matthew Caws acoustic
Day 109 - Nada Surf - Fruit Fly
Nada Surf is the only band that could write a song about fruit flies. I have them in my kitchen right now, probably coming from the basil.
Flying jerky patterns
Like snowflakes in the air
Day 101 - Manic Street Preachers - Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
Max did a “Songs I hate” theme week recently. Well, hate is a big word but there are certainly “songs that suck”. Lets hear some of them.
I kick off with Your Love Alone Is Not Enough by the Manic Street Preachers. I love this band, but this song from their latest album Send Away the Tigers realy sucks. Not because Nina Persson sings along, not because the clip, not because being one of the singles from the album. It’s just this stupid refrain: “Its noddienuff, noddienuff, noddienuff”. Believe me, it’s more then enough!
Day 100 - Underworld - Two Months Off
A hundred days off, with this project. Took me four months. Hundred and twenty days. So 10.000 songs will last 12.000 days. That’s 32.8767 years. Make that 33 years. Finishing this project in 2041. I’m 71 years old by then. But first: do a rain dance along with Karl Hyde.
Day 88 - My Morning Jacket - Highly Suspicious
Some like the new My Morning Jacket album, some hate it. Especialy Highly Suspicious is a love it/hate it song. I’m lovin’ it. Wonderfull song like Prince don’t makes them anymore. I’ve heard some live versions of this song, and live it’s even better. So I’m going to De Melkweg tonight and check them out.
YouTube: Highly Suspicious, first live performance march 10, 2008
Day 60 - My Morning Jacket - Hopefully
From the second album At Dawn by My Morning Jacket comes Hopefully. Jim James and reverb, its such a golden combination.
Day 58 - Marco Raaphorst - Peper
Marco Raaphorst is one of my internetcontacts. We never met, we never spoke. But we’re both on flickr doing the 365, we’re both on Last.fm, both webloggers using WordPress. Marco is a Composer & Sound designer and also a Creative Commons expert. Since a while he’s making a Klankbeeld every week, combining CC licensed photo’s and his own music. Can be a soundtrack, a song or a soundsnippet. Peper is a song, and a good one. Although the lyrics are in Dutch you should all check this out.
KlankBeeld Raaphorst: Peper, audio & download
Dailymotion: Peper, the video
About this/me
About this:
Inspired by Tuuur, who was inspired by Glenn Case, I will be posting some song of the day posts over here. This blog is written in (poor) English, but since I’m from the Netherlands there will be some Dutch songs and/or lyrics passing by.
About me:
I live in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, a short train ride from Amsterdam. I like open source software, open-minded people and bars open all night.
