Picture the scene: you've just stepped out of the Hercules Moments DeLorean and you find yourself in the 90s. MC Hammer pants and Walkmen are all the rage. Deciding to ignore the fashion of the day, you pick up a Walkman and head home to 2012...
Over the past few months, we've been getting in touch with bands, celebrities and more to ask them to create eight-song-long mixtapes for YOU. So crack out your Walkman and enjoy...
Dundee rock and roll band Fat Goth have been on the rise lately, with praise from Vic Galloway, Ally McRae, Rocksound, The Skinny and the BBC album review guys among others. Having played many a successful gig and appeared at a few festivals, their loud and weird brand of metal has assured an increasing number of fans. Let's see what they listen to in their spare time.
Torche - In Pieces
Any
song from this album would do, they're all killer, but this one is my favourite
track. Slightly meaner sounding than the other songs, with an
absolutely amazing and weird-feeling syncopated rhythm switch in the middle of
the song. Harmonicraft by Torche is pretty much my
album of 2012. An amazing marriage of power pop rock with really heavy,
sludgy guitar sounds.
Deerhoof - Bad Kids To The Front
Deerhoof
pretty much have no bad albums, they're always surprising and somewhat off
kilter and this new album Breakup Song is the oddest and most
unexpected record that they've put out. I think I remember reading somewhere that Deerhoof now
intend on writing and recording all of their music collaboratively using pro
tools on laptops and this record certainly sounds like it. Not really a conventional rock album but it's incredible, and this is one of the oddest tracks from it. It's got a bit of an electronic Stone Roses vibe, weirdly.
Field Music - The Rest Is Noise
Field
Music have gotten a lot of recognition this year with their new album
Plumb but for me, it's smoked by Measure they're
previous double...quadruple "magnum opus" as they say. 20 songs over two CDs without a single bad note or missed
beat. I consider it one of the best albums to come out in years - if ever - up
there with Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden and all sorts. Field Music are true music pioneers in our time and it’s
a shame that they're not the most popular thing on the planet.
Tacobonds - BPM4
Of late, it's been nothing but this band; I'm blown away by how good their record
is. They're a Japanese Post-Punk band from Tokyo that recently toured with us. They sound very similar to bands such as Les Savy Fav, Gang of
Four, Rapture, the Minutemen, and a whole lot of stuff on Dischord records such Fugazi etc. but they're as good as their influences. They've mastered odd, off-kilter rhythms, constantly
surprising with their weird syncopated timing and they layer on top of that some amazing Greg Ginn style guitar freak outs.
John Brion - Little Person
Despite
my harsh, abrasive and somewhat rancid exterior I am a sucker for gentle,
heart-felt, melancholic music, and this particular track taken from the
Synecdoche, New York soundtrack is a perfect example. The film is as
pretentious as they come but this song is undeniably brilliant, thanks in no
small part to Deanne Storey's voice. I dunno, I'd like to cover this with Fat
Goth but trying to persuade Mark to slow things down to this kind of tempo is
more difficult than establishing peace in the Middle East.
The Melvins - Dry Drunk
I bang
on about The Melvins and The Jesus Lizard all the time to anyone in my
immediate vicinity. I love both bands equally so I was presented with a problem
when it came to choosing one over the other for this recommendation list.
Luckily for me this little ditty exists on The Melvins' Crybaby album and
features the vocal 'talents' of David Yow, not to mention a bizarre interlude
from Godzik Pink thrown in for good measure. This tune is the musical
equivalent of a sex pest falling down an abandoned elevator shaft.
The Beatles - Martha My Dear
I
better include something people will actually be familiar with so I don't come
across as some arty wank, despite the fact I did actually go to Art School. We
all make mistakes in life. Anyway, this tune is properly outstanding! In my
opinion, Paul McCartney's output in The Beatles was consistently better than
the other three. I don't care if that's not cool. I've never been cool. The
only reason people have ever taken notice of me is due to my general
freakishness. Why stop a good thing?
Metallica - Battery
If
ever there was a soundtracking competition for kicking someone’s head in then
flying to the moon and eating it, this tune would win at a canter. Completely
and utterly over the top and a regular soundtrack on our travels, this tune
would make Mother Theresa in her prime want to drive blindfolded up a busy
street.
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