For God & Country - Smashing Pumpkins
attractiveteacookies:anxiouspanxious:caravanslost:jcasteyo:
Gorillaz- Empire Ants (David Letterman performance)
Besides Yukimi being her beautiful self, there was definitely LOADS OF LAUGHTER when I was watching Damon.
omg damon you are perfect
Damon Albarn - Tender
damon solo is just … entirely too lovely. it would be better with graham on guitar, of course, but holy hell. too great.
teganandsasa:cameralightsaction:sainthood:feelitinmyboneslove:
Best version of When I get up ever.
Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
oh teegz
omg they actually played and it’s jfkdaf849 vjkafjewoanv even though tegan just fucked the entire thing up surprise surprise
The Divine Comedy - 06 Charge (La Route du Rock 2002)
now that sixstepsback and jarvizcocker (are you the same person omg) have teamed up to rekindle my interest in the divine comedy, vague though it was, i must say …
this is just great. especially 3:06 - 3:12
anxiouspanxious:caravanslost:peculiarlyentrusted:
This is a low - Blur
Damon Albarn came up with the lyric between midnight and 1 AM on the night before he entered the hospital. It was written from a Christmas present given to him by Alex – of a handkerchief showing a map of Britain and its shipping regions (from Stanfords Map & Travel Bookshop in Covent Garden). “We always found the shipping forecast soothing,” Alex explains. “We used to listen to it in America to remind us of home. It’s very good for a hangover. Good cure for insomnia, too.”
Damon began at one corner of the handkerchief – the Bay of Biscay – and worked his way around, quoting names as the mood struck him and the rhyme demanded. Damon: “I’d had this line – ‘And into the sea go pretty England and me’ – for a long time. So I started at the Bay of Biscay. Back for tea. ‘Tea’ rhymes with ‘me’. And then I went ‘Hit traffic on the Dogger Bank’. ‘Bank’ – ‘rank’ – so ‘up the Thames to find a taxi rank’. And I just went round.” Best of all, the chorus now made sense: a “low” as in a low front; or a low as in a mental depression. In rain-battered Britain, after all, mood and meteorology have always been inextricably linked. And by following up with the kindly line “but it won’t hurt you”, Damon is – even if he does not quite believe it – forecasting sunshine.
Damon has no recollection of this, but others recall him phoning Maison Rouge from his hospital bed, having just come round from his anesthetic and making lucid instructions about how he wanted the song mixed. It is some song that can do that – even to its writer. Even though ‘This Is A Low’ nearly never made it to ‘Parklife’, it is impossible to envisage an alternative climax. The song is five minutes and four seconds of bliss.
this song almost never made it to parklife?
dear god can you fucking imagine? it would’ve been an overlooked b-side, if that. which could’ve changed so much.
