Submarine is a really wonderful movie and so is the soundtrack. Turns out Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys recorded six original songs for it. His voice sounded oddly familiar but I had no idea it was him until I looked it up after watching the movie. These songs aren’t the Arctic Monkeys at all; they’re restrained and relaxed and, more than anything, dated, but in a good way, just like the movie.
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“Alone But Moving” — Here We Go Magic
Here We Go Magic gone and done it again.
“Dark Tower” — Miniature Tigers
A pretty song if I ever heard one.
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“Hold On” — John Lennon
My friend Liam (of Kids These Days) recently turned me onto John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band. It’s so barebones, it hurts. This song is incredible.
That wind that blows from spencertweedy on 8tracks.
Some favorites from the past couple months. ‘Favorites’ with an emphasis on “Listening To The Wind That Blows” because it’s one of those songs that’s so good, you feel like you’ve been hearing it all your life. Well, maybe I have been hearing it my whole life (or at least I heard it a bunch around the time it was being made, when I was a lil’ tyke), but when Mermaid Avenue 3 came out on Record Store Day last Saturday and I listened to it for the first-ish time, I was tickled.
“Sumthin Like This Night” — Snoop Dogg (ft. Gorillaz)
Love this song. I’m not too familiar with the ole Snoop (nor am I too hip on Gorillaz), but I came across this a year or so ago and loved it. The triplet horns. The windy chorus. Damon Albarn can produce things.
Alabama Shakes on Jools Holland. Boy, has she got soul. I kinda wish her band would loosen up a bit.
After the ninth and final, record-breaking rendition of “Niggas in Paris,” Jay-Z sees fit to apologize to the sweaty, exhausted L.A. crowd. “I’m sorry if this is your first concert,” he says before the lights come on. “It’s all downhill from here.
Watch Spiritualized perform “So Long You Pretty Things”, the last song off their excellent new album, Sweet Heart Sweet Light. It’s 9 minutes and 57 seconds you’ll wish would just keep going and going.
