Bucky Lagrange & The Museums - New Demo

This is an idea had knocking around for a while, fucked about a bit yesterday and recorded this.
Its a start, dont ask me what the lyrics are cos I dont know.

http://www.box.net/shared/hqsvekt9ja

New Mark ROnson produced Black Lips songs

"Flower Punk" is the type of music the Black Lips have been making the best part of 10 years. Its a term they coined themselves and it sums up there music pretty well.
The 60's jangle is always there but delivered with ruthless punk venom. There music is under produced, rough around the edges but bursting with enthusiasm.
There live shows are infamous with dead animals, male nudity and various bodily fluids often included in amongst a set list of ferocious 3 minute pop songs.

So with that being said, it came as a suprise when news broke that "mega producer" Mark Ronson was taking the helm on there new album "Arabia Mountain" due for release on June 6th.
Fans of the group, such as myself, would be forgiven in thinking he could mess with there sound to much.
I love there garage band sound, it works for them, and the idea of a big producer adding horns, drum loops, multi layering of tracks, vocal distortion, nipples, amy whinehouse and a host of other things could end up ruining the bands sound.
On the other hand, this will be The 'Lips 6th studio album so they can be forgiven for trying to change things up a bit. It might even lead to some mainstream attention.
Fans need not worry though, because on first listen they still sound very much like the band we love with an added lick of paint that takes nothing away from there sound, just freshens it up a bit.

Why Noel gallaghers album is going to be better than anything Oasis put out in the last 10 years

Word has it Noel is currently in LA recording his solo album which comes as a great suprise to any fan of The Chief who only the other month declared it would be a while yet longer before he was to start work on the as yet untitled project.



Proof.

This is good news. Especially if he continues to write the sort of songs hes s been writing over the last 10 years or so.
As time went on with oasis Noel let the other members chip in with songs of there own.
What this highlighted was that Noels songs were as good as you first thought they were, and up against the other efforts it really showed.
He also began to take more of a lead with his own songs, by this I mean he started to sing more of his own songs which gives us a bit of insight into what his new album could possibly sound like.

Here are a few highlights that since the turn of the century featured on Oasis albums that were writen by and sang by Noel.

Mucky Fingers - taken from the album Dont Beleive The truth. Noel goes Dylan with an anti america theme running throughout. This song fades out and then was origionaly planned to go into the next song, swolen hand blues.


Swollen hand Blues...

This made it on as a b-side. cant remember which single it featured on, but bar a few iffy lyrics, this is a superb tune.

Bluesy psychodelic rock is the running theme so far, this song was the soundtrack to there 2005 tour documentary by the same name, lord dont slow me down


The next 2 songs come from the album Dig out your soul, the final oasis release and the album that split up the band. Noel really cut away from the other band members in this album and you can hear it in his songs. Hes reaching for something else that was away from the Oasis sound.
He has become great friends with serge from Kasabian over the years and Noel himself has mentioned that Serge has introduced him to a whole host of new artists that are obviously making an impact on the songs Noel is writing.
High Horse Lady followed by Falling Down



I thought I would include some of the Falling Down remix. Its 20 mins in total and completely and utterly mind blowing.
and here is the man himself explaining a little bit about the ghuys behind it.......and yet more evidence to suggest he was burnt out with creating the "OAsis sound". Noels now looking to do something different.


Finally, here is a demo that leaked a few years back. Its a bit more of a classic Noel song. Big chorus, catchy as hell, sounds like you have heard it before etc etc...
But its great.
I wanna live a dream in my record machine...


So there we have a small selection of songs by the great man that have featured on some Oasis releases over the years.
There are far more to go through such as the importance of being idle, but im going to leave it there and enjoy the sun for a bit.
Sounds promising wouldnt you say? we could have a bluesy psychedelic mash up with some massive choruses.
Just as long as we arent served up 12 tracks resembling she is love and force of nature we should be just fine.

Enjoy the sun kids

More new songs from the Monkeys and a few other things

Well this album sounds like its gonna be a bit good........




and we have already heard this one...



should be a belter. A much heavier and darker sound than there first two albums but the wit and charm remains that some may argue was missing from there 3rd, Humbug.
Die hard fans of there first album will probably moan, "its to american......its to heavy.......why havent they done there first album again, just slightly different......whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.............whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy......"
But they will just have to get used to it.
Genuinely looking forward to this album, which couldnt be said about the other big hitters that have been released so far this year, such as the strokes, beady eye.....elbow............erm, the streets.....

So anyway, other than the new Arctic Monkeys stuff I have also been listening to (is it me, or has this blog turned into a bastardised version of Jessies Diet from the fast show?) a German band called "Blue Angel Lounge".

Championed by the likes of Anton Newcombe, they are making a name for themselves on the psych scene on both sides of the atlantic.
They are similar to American bands such as The Black Angels, very psychodelic with an ominious drone throughout there music. Its atmospheric stuff that i can only imagine would sound epic live.
Speaking of performing live, these lot (who to the best of my knowledge are still unsigned), had to litterely beg for donations to get them to America to play the Austin Psych Fest.
Follow this link where you can see whether they managed to raise enough cash to get them to the gig. Yet another great little story woven into the rock'n'roll fabric these bands continue to add to.

Its the type of music that belongs in a film dont you think? I will go back to my comparison with The Black Angels who I have always said create songs that sound like the soundtrack to the best war film that hasnt been made yet. Both bands have that dark, 60's psychedelic vibe that would work brilliantly - my opinion obviously.
But, that kind of brings me onto this other band I have listened to recently.
"This Will Destroy You" are a 4 piece from America (Texas to be exact) who make atmospheric instrumental soundscapes. And they are pretty good.
Here is the first song from there first EP that was released in 2006 (may aswell start from the top eh?). When I listen to them I find myself imagining what sort of film, scene or any random video footage these songs will fit into.
Whoever made this video, a good one at that, clearly thinks that this song would of fit nicely on the, "The Sky At Night with Patrick Moore"

fuckin what, fuckin what? fuck! fuckin what mate!? fuckin what?!

just thought i would do my best impression of wayne rooney to kick things off. its been a while and what better way but to immitate one of our nations most loved/hated heros/wankers.

in all fairness, wayne was only venting his frustration at earning £100k a week, shaggin colleen every other night and scoring a hat trick for one of the biggest football clubs in the world.
the rest of us only have to go to jobs we hate earning nothing but pennys and shagging nothing but your own fist.....but enough about marc stevenson, lets talk about some music shall we?

I am going to post a song i recorded months ago called ruby. its influenced by the silver apples song by the same name. its just me singing over some really simple guitar iin open d. i like it though, it has legs.
i am posting this because i promised some more songs from bucky lagrange and the museums. truth is i simply havent had the time to do anything over the last month or so. its been hardcore and not in a good way.
anyway, they song will be somewhere in this post so look out for it, download it, listen to it, judge it, tell me you love it even if your actually thinking "what the fahook is this shite? hes not even wrote a chorus......or a second verse."

foo fighters have a new album out. not heard it. its meant to be good. have a listen if you want, its up to you. but its meant to be quite good.
dave grohl is also the nicest bloke in rock..........according to the music press anyway. so no doubt it gets good reviews even if its nothing but a led zep rip off album. what? na, theyre ok.

there aint much happening right now to be fair. things aint the best in the world, i didnt win the grand national or the lottery so you can imagine how i feel. those poor people in those other countries that are having a bad time must be feeling a bit like me right now.
where is the band that sums shit up in one song? there isnt one right now, and there should be. in the words of delia, "where are you?!"

music isnt inspiring right now, or should i say new music. i was listening to some bob dylan today for the first time in months.
has there been anything released in recent times that hits as hard as these times are changing, like a rolling stone, tangled up in blue....fuckin......oxford town.
no.
bring back the protest songs.
im really sick of hearing dub step and bad pop songs passed off as rnb.
there is a massive market for good old fasioned rock/folk/anything guitar based. the problem is, it aint played anymore.
local radio stations should play local bands. they shouldnt be playing the same shite you hear on radio 1.
if you were watching telly and you were watching bbc 1 or sky 1, you wouldnt switch over to comedy central and happily watch the same programmes that are on the other channels (although in daves case, that is exactly what it is). so why are radio stations different? why do you hear the same songs and same shite being spoken by some cunt dj on dee 106.3 as you do on radio 1?
local radio stations should play local bands. let people hear whats going on in there area, give them a chance to hear whats going on outside the mainstream and give them a choice. there is no choice right now and there fuckin should be.
people say downloading had ruined the music industry.
rubbish.
people need to hear whats out there and new bands will do well, people like rock'n'roll and they always will do. blah blah blah im ranting now and im bored of it. you get my point? good.
heres a picture to break things up and keep you interested.

I tell you what, Wigwam, one of the songs off Beady Eyes album is really really good. Fair play Liam you have done well with 2 or 3 songs on that album. the rest is dire, but never mind.

Ive got a new song on the way, its called "I am a massive blob so give me a bastard job".
Sums up this country quite well.
The lyrics are, "jesus christ, whats the point. please skin me a massive joint. i dont want to try, in your industry of work, having some money is the only fuckin perk."

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

i did feature in 8 mile. i was the white one.

anyway, heres that song i was on about.
RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUBY MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRY

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VFNBJAFW

peace and love fuckers
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