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Caroline — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 02:09:35 +0000

J.D. is so going to be the next singer of OB: INXS.

While MiG the most ‘theatre’ of all and not in a good way, it’s J.D. who understands the theatre of rock. Check out his performance of Pink Floyd’s ‘Money’. The guy has vision. I’m also digging the rhinestone megaphone that he uses in ‘Pretty Vegas’, the song he co-wrote with Andrew Farriss. Well, I would, wouldn’t I? His performance of ‘By my side’ was subtle and I love the voice. That hint of Elvis that everybody hates so much? It’s a good thing. Elvis doesn’t have the patent on it. It’s Scott Walker. It’s Bowie. Totally floats my boat, anyway. I’ve been humming ‘Pretty Vegas’ for the last couple of days.

MiG’s the next to go. Too feminine, too sweet, too theatre, too squeaky clean. An ill fit with the Farriss brothers. Then it’ll between Marty and J.D. And Marty? Maybe an audience favourite, but he’s just completely wrong for INXS. The grunge voice and the arrogance cum naivety in thinking he can change and lead this band, come on. His idea that INXS invented ‘dance rock’ and that he can make them compete with the new new wave bands… please. Convoluted much? Poor sod, I nearly cacked myself when he started to ‘explain’ the music business to OB:INXS.

My money’s still firmly on J.D.

Maybe Suzie can join Fleetwood Mac now she’s eliminated. That’s where she belongs.

You know, that band? With that singer?

Caroline — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 01:01:04 +0000

This has been bothering me all weekend. I have some MP3′s at work, a full (recently released?) album by a band whose name I can’t recall. I’d never heard of them before, but they may have been around for a while. My colleague passed them on to me. I went through all the Pitchfork reviews and current charts yesterdat, but couldn’t find them. I don’t know anything about the band and haven’t heard the songs enough to say anything about them, but their singer sounds a lot like Tom Jones. I think they’re British, but they might not be. I think their name sounded a little odd or funny, in that it didn’t fit with the music they played. I could wait till tomorrow to find out, but maybe you can tell me right now.Update: Duh. Remembered I can access work mail from home, found the original mail with the download link. The band is called Electric Six . If the Scissor Sisters played rock music, that’s what they sound like.

Can you remember any of the song titles?

Futureheads maybe? Killers? Not sure about the Tom Jones thing though..
Gordon – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

No, can’t remember anything. Other than it isn’t the Killers or the Futureheads, or Interpol, or Bloc Party. They’re not one of the ‘new new wave’ bands, afaik.
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

Electric Six? Tom Jones?? ;-)
Gordon – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

I’m not the only one who thinks so:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/m..

Check out the song Future is in the Future – where it’s most noticeable.
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

Ever tried MusicBrainz? It’ll analyse an MP3 and tell you what song it is. It works pretty well. On Mac there’s something called IEatBrainz that’ll take your iTunes library and let you ID any song. I’m sure there’s something similar on the PC.
Andy – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

That wasn’t really the problem. The files were properly named, but they were at work and I was at home.
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

Aaah, fair enough. Anyway, from what I see, I should have assumed you’d be on top of such things.
Andy – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

Have you heard their first album, “Fire”?
Milo – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

No, I haven’t, should I?
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

It’s a lot more fun than this one, so… maybe.
Milo – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

I heard the singles from the first album, this album is completely different. I downloaded it after you wrote about it. Sounds nice.
Tom (link) – 08 May 2005 – 09:54

The week in bits and pieces

Caroline — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 00:28:32 +0000

I was handed these colourful vouchers at the train station — the design struck me as ‘of this time, but looking back at the 20′s and 30′s (see ‘Dutch Moderne‘).

Best quote I read this week (in Q Magazine… who appear to be taking a cue from Word these days) was from New Order’s Bernard Sumner on meeting Greenday for the first time: ‘Ah, the American Alarm!’ Bwah!

I have a lot of the new New New Wave bands records, but The Killers’ Hot Fuss is the one I keep coming back to because it genuinely makes me feel better and I keep turning to ‘Indie Rock And Roll’ for a boost. I think it will stand the test of time.

New albums to get acuainted with this week: New Order – Waiting for the Sirens Call, Nick Cave – B-sides and Rarities, Athlete – Tourist, Doves – Some Cities. Having an mp3 player makes it easier to focus on complete albums again. 4gb is, however, not enough for the voracious listener.
(Update: both Athlete and Doves go where I’ve stuck Coldplay. The bin.)

Almost everybody I know who got the flu/bad cold, got it twice this winter.

A colleague introduced me to the Paleolithic Diet. I’m not a diet-believer (unlike my step mother who has been dieting obsessively for the last 30 years.), but this one seems to make weird sense. Not that I’m ever going to be able to do without dairy products and starch, two of life’s great comforts. But I have adapted my behaviour: more fruit, more raw root veg & meat, less spuds & rice.

I’ve never suffered from SAD before, but this year’s winter definitely gave me the bloody blues. Glad to see the back of it.

Still debating whether I should fork out 70 euro a month for a fitness club .

I have Oink invites. Want Oink?

‘House, MD‘ and ‘Medium‘ are two of my favourite new tv shows. Plotwise, both aren’t the best, but Hugh Laurie is compelling, even with the bad accent. And Patricia Arquette and Jake Weber (and the kids!) are portraying what must be the first ever realistic husband/wife/family relationship in the history of television.

The Office (USA, just started on NBC) isn’t bad at all. It’s just… exactly the same as the UK original. I think superfluous is the word.

Having never watched Dr Who before (bar the occasional glimpse), I come to the new series fresh and with no expectations other than wanting ‘good tv’. Billie Piper (Rose) is just… surprising. A likeable female character who isn’t a stick figure. I’ll just have to repress the whole Chris Evans thing.

Unfortunately, Eccleston (The Doctor) is all kinds of weird, the way he holds his head and all. Will probably get used to it and keep watching.

Had forgotten Easter is my favourite holiday. It’s Springtime, you get all the time off and none of the (family) obligations or emotions that Christmas/New Year bring. Wonderful.

What’s oink? Since there’s invites involved, I definitely want in. :)
ichris (link) – 26 March 2005 – 17:59

Bittorrent site, specialised in music of all sorts.
Caroline (link) – 26 March 2005 – 20:11

I just got Hot Fuss a couple of weeks ago to see what all the, er, hot fuss was about but haven’t gotten around to playing it yet.

I’ll be piggish and accept an Oink invite. :)
Melon – 26 March 2005 – 23:47

If you’ve still got oink invites, I’d be interested :)
Herb (link) – 27 March 2005 – 02:48

wouldnt mind an oink invite if youve got any left. all my other ratios are above 2 or 3 so i wouldnt make you look like an idiot or anything :)

if you need any invites to the other privates drop us an email
spicetek – 28 March 2005 – 09:20

I really like those simple designs as well. The start and endtitles for the animation flick “The Encredibles” has this feeling as well – did you see it (already?)
Lars – 28 March 2005 – 22:51

I haven’t seen it – not the biggest animation fan, but will check it out eventually (I did enjoy Nemo)
Caroline (link) – 28 March 2005 – 22:56

If you have any Oink Invites left, I would definately appreciate one
I have good ratios on other sites +1.5

Thanks
Hendrix – 01 April 2005 – 00:54

Do you still have those oink invites? I can really use one and will be greatful.
thanks, kukula.
kukula – 11 June 2005 – 23:04

I found your site through a google search for Oink invites. I know this is an old post, but do you have anymore? I have 25 gigs of music that I’d love to share.
Jason (link) – 24 June 2005 – 18:47

Jason said:

I found your site through a google search for Oink invites. I know this is an old post, but do you have anymore? I have 25 gigs of music that I’d love to share.
….

I’m in his boat, can anyone help me out? I’m glad to return the favour.
James – 14 August 2005 – 15:52