Before you read on, you may need headphones and time in order to fully participate in this post. I am become a musical wanker, and the prose below is my soft porn AND my yacht rock. (Pumps chest with fist).
Listen to this ... thank you Dazza Hanlon for the title for today's blog post.
I have rediscovered my love for music. Not Gaga, nor La Roux, nor whatever other horrid 'new sounds' are currently being pushed by hipster friends on Facebook, but quirky, feelgood folk/pop (and a hint of feelsad folk/pop for good measure). It has been a bloody long time since I've heard a song and wanted to know it with the intimacy I reserve for my late 90s favourites (Heavy Heart, Unsent Letter, Glory Box et al), but this song by Darwin Deez provided the very beginning of a spark and a few days away with friends with guitars provided the kindling for what is now a raging fire of musical enthusiasm.
In recent years, I have let the growth rate of my admittedly already plentiful CD collection dwindle with fewer and fewer additions (more often just an album here and there to fill a gap in the back catalogue), but I realised last week, as we sat on a balcony wrapped in doonas and staring off to sea, that the playlist of late night guitar favourites needs some updating (though Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead and Red Hot Chilli Peppers never fail to slip on like a comfortable old shoe). So I went looking.
The amateur guitarists from the doona/balcony scene told me it was akin to herecy that I had not yet embraced The Shins, so I dutifully jumped online and ordered 'Wincing The Night Away' upon my return from the South Coast Buddymoon (r). Seeing as I was already logged in and all, it seemed a shame not to throw in Darwin Deez and The Drones, so I did.
The Shins album arrived today... and as it did it's first lap of the CD player I was reminded to listen to the Fleet Foxes album that somebody gave me a copy of once, so I did. A bit of online research later, I found myself smitten with a Swedish duo of sisters called 'First Aid Kit' and their cover of Tiger Mountain Peasant Song. So I was on their MySpace page and they were 'friends'/label mates with some band/artist called Peggy Sue, and that sounded good too, and THAT reminded me that I have often wondered whether I should buy some Joanna Newsom, as I usually like what I hear of hers. And I still do. Then I saw that Fionn Regan had a new album out, and I really liked his last one, so I clicked on that one too.
The Shins album arrived today... and as it did it's first lap of the CD player I was reminded to listen to the Fleet Foxes album that somebody gave me a copy of once, so I did. A bit of online research later, I found myself smitten with a Swedish duo of sisters called 'First Aid Kit' and their cover of Tiger Mountain Peasant Song. So I was on their MySpace page and they were 'friends'/label mates with some band/artist called Peggy Sue, and that sounded good too, and THAT reminded me that I have often wondered whether I should buy some Joanna Newsom, as I usually like what I hear of hers. And I still do. Then I saw that Fionn Regan had a new album out, and I really liked his last one, so I clicked on that one too.
I also remembered to look whether Chaos had the Rockabye Baby albums of popular band's well known songs done as lullabies, because I have been meaning to give these as gifts to every child I've known born in the last six months. And they did. So click, click, click.
Exhibit A - The Order
Now I just have to wait for them to arrive.
n.b. Decemberists... Mountain Goats... you're on my radar too.
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