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The bit that you skip #286: Jean-Michel Jarre – Rendez-vous IV
Government ads in Mexico in the eighties always used instrumental music. Vangelis, Ray Lynch and Jean-Michel Jarre were quite popular due to this. Jarre’s album covers were always a thing of beauty. Artistic in that European comic book kinda way, Equinoxe and Zoolook are usually the ones I’d imagine are his favourites. Rendez-vous IV continues…
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The bit that you skip #285: Vangelis – The Bounty (Closing Theme)
Roger Donaldson’s The Bounty is the fifth cinematic take on the true life taking of the HMS Bounty, a merchant ship that sailed for the unforgiving south pacific ocean to gather breadfruit trees and carry them back to the British West Indies. Just don’t ask why they wanted a cheap source of food. HMS Bounty…
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The bit that you skip #284: …And you will know us by the trail of dead – Will you smile again?
The Shield was a show that had the misfortune of being around at the same time as The Wire. Whereas critics wanted the Shakespearean drama of The Wire, The Shield worked as a cautionary tale. Based on the corruption that led to the Rampart scandal and with Kurt Sutter’s great knack for dialogue, The Shield…
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The bit that you skip #283: Dave Matthews Band – Two Step
A band that’s been the butt of many jokes. A band I wouldn’t see live, as their jams feel too self indulgent for me. And a band I stopped listening to once they dropped Steve Lillywhite and a whole album for a horrible overproduced bore-off. Even still, I’m a dedicated fan of two Dave Matthews…
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The bit that you skip #282: Mission of Burma – That’s when I reach for my revolver
In hindsight, we always new there was something wrong with Moby. No matter how much he preached as a do-gooder on the sermons splayed on any of his booklets, the truth came out and now he’s sorta floating around, never being truly away, never getting a comeback. HIs taste on covers, however, is great. His…
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The bit that you skip #281: Ryan Adams – The shadowlands
Love is hell is a watermark in Ryan Adams career. Adams poured his heart into an album that eventually got rejected, so he scrambled back in the studio and recorded the very Strokes-y Rock n roll. Love is hell was split in half as two EPs, eventually re-released as an album. I only knew him…
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The bit that you skip #280: Wilco – Muzzle of Bees
Songs that you know out of inertia. For the longest of times, I was obsessed with Spiders (Kidsmoke), the track previous to Muzzle of Bees on Wilco’s massively successful A Ghost is Born. Following a monster hit like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was no easy task, specially with Jay Bennett gone from the band. Indeed, the…
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The bit that you skip #279: Beck – Deadweight
I had a love and hate relationship with radio when I was younger. I loved that I found many bands thanks to it, I hated that sometimes the DJs would neglect to mention the name of the song or band who performed. Case in point: Beck and Deadeye Dick. I used to listen to radio…
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The bit that you skip #278: Extreme – X out
As anybody else, my introduction to Extreme was more than words. Both versions. It was a staple of radio and I don’t think it’ll ever go away. It’s too much of a catchy song. It’s a song many will intertwine with a specific relationship in their lives. I’m more of a Get the funk out…
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The bit that you skip #277: Tenpole Tudor – Swords of a thousand men
This song always takes me to simpler times. I used to live in a small colony near an oil refinery. The colony was for the workers and it had lots of leafy sections, a communal pool, and a palapa, which is like a big palm shelter for parties and gatherings. I would sometimes go out…
