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Pretty fucking special

You'd be hard pushed to find many people as prodigiously musically talented as this woman. If you do please tell me because I'll eat my beret.

She drew a rabbit for Charlotte, which was nice of her. It's a rather evil looking rabbit, with big pointy gnashers... more like a vampire rabbit actually, but a rabbit nonetheless.

So nice one Joan Wasser; we salute you.

Ps. I'll change the music in the sidebar at some point, I promise.

Album art can be good

I spent about five hours figuring out how to upload album art on to my new walkman phone the other day, and while embarking on this quite frankly unbelievably boring quest it did occur to me "what exactly is the point of this thing I'm doing, seeing as most album covers are a pile of old shite?"

Then, just to disprove my point, this came along:

Is this not the coolest album cover you've ever seen? Thank God  for Björk is all I can say. Can you believe that she's 42 years old? Looks good for her age doesn't she? As the missus commented, it's all down to having that 'pixie' face.  Not sure if the massive multi-coloured chicken suit is a good fashion statement though, even if it is fucking cool looking.

And her new song is super smashing great; I would link to the video but it hasn't been released yet, so I won't. I will however put the song on here cos it's a free world innit?

Have a listen.

Jelly belly

I was never hugely enamoured with Lemon Jelly. The whole sample some weird old stuff and come up with some quite contrived although obviously very clever but not really very dancey dance music kind of passed me by (I was probably dancing my tits off to some jungle at the time) and as a result didn't appeal to me very much.

Their last record however, '64 - '95, was a bit different; more dance-oriented and therefore more up my passage than their previous output. They also have extremely pretty album covers (see here, here and here) and are blessed with spankingly good videos. I like good videos I do. Here's a wankingly good vid for a song called 'The Shouty Track'. It very good thing!

Here's another one, and yet another song - called 'A Man Like Me' - with a bloody ace and extremely colourful (it has pandas in it!) video.

Both of these shorts and all of Lemon Jelly's other videos are all produced by a company called Airside that was actually set up by one of the blokes from the band, Fred Deakin.

What an annoyingly clever bastard.

Pretty lights!

Re the Flaming Lips post a few days ago on Timboblog, here's a vid I found (with a little careful hunting) of the UFO lighting rig being tested out before the Oklahoma gig.

Honestly, these guys are so inventive. If I didn't love them so much it would probably make me sick with jealousy. But I do love them, and so am joyful and triumphant like, you know, all ye faithful, and stuff.

Timbo's Tip of the Day

This has turned into Music Week. Next week I shall discuss how all the currently or recently pregnant women in Lost don't look pregnant at all. No bumps, nothing. Apparently they should have saggy post-pregnancy boobs too (not my words) and blatantly don't. This will all be discussed.

Today is Queens of the Stone Age Day.

The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
Feel Good Hit of the Summer
No One Knows
Go With The Flow
Someone's In The Wolf
In My Head

(I tried to get these vids to open up in their own little pop-up windows, but I haven't got my html head on today and so you'll have to make do with the YouTube pages instead)

Quite clearly, a great, great band. And this is only the stuff that can be found on YouTube. Buy all their records and also listen to Eagles of Death Metal; they're effing great too.

new songs

This is a plump and pleasant festive (and some not so festive but just fucking good) song selection for all you uplifting gormandizers out there. It starts metal poppy, goes west coast, gets retro, pops over to Niceland for some goosebumpy strings, turns all Christmassy, and then eases down with Rufus's mum. Ain't music grand?

(As always, please click on the album covers above to hear the songs in all their glory.)

Merry Christmas to one and all in Blogland from Timbo's CD collection!