Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.
It's a comparatively chilly Saturday in Perth today and over in Melbourne it's just gone half time at the MCG in the Melbourne V West Coast match. All I can say about West Coast's game so far is WTF! So let's get on with the music.
First up, courtesy of NPR, I have a 10 track sampler of new music for April. Also new are the latest from Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Dawes. Some Australian flavour this week too, from punk pioneers The Saints, indie rock heroes Jebediah and unofficial poet laureate, Paul Kelly. Speaking of Punks, I've got a Greatest Hits from John Lydon's PIL. Thanks to Amazon's amazing new retrospectively active AutoRip feature on vinyl (and some creative getting around a geotardation) I have the digital version of one half of my Led Zep Mothership vinyl. Finally, in the Hip Hop corner, jazzy consciousness from De La Soul and gangsta swagger from the King of New York, Jay-Z.
Check it out:
It's a comparatively chilly Saturday in Perth today and over in Melbourne it's just gone half time at the MCG in the Melbourne V West Coast match. All I can say about West Coast's game so far is WTF! So let's get on with the music.
First up, courtesy of NPR, I have a 10 track sampler of new music for April. Also new are the latest from Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Dawes. Some Australian flavour this week too, from punk pioneers The Saints, indie rock heroes Jebediah and unofficial poet laureate, Paul Kelly. Speaking of Punks, I've got a Greatest Hits from John Lydon's PIL. Thanks to Amazon's amazing new retrospectively active AutoRip feature on vinyl (and some creative getting around a geotardation) I have the digital version of one half of my Led Zep Mothership vinyl. Finally, in the Hip Hop corner, jazzy consciousness from De La Soul and gangsta swagger from the King of New York, Jay-Z.
Check it out:
- VA - NPR April Sampler
- Jebediah - Of Someday Shambles
- De La Soul - Buhloone Mind State
- Dawes - Stories Don't End
- Paul Kelly - Ways & Means
- Led Zeppelin - Mothership (LP 1 & LP 2)
- Saints - Know Your Product
- Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
- Public Image Ltd - The Greatest Hits, So Far
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
Top Five Artists Last Week
- Beach Fossils
- Counting Crows
- Ryan Adams
- Elvis Costello
- Gram Parsons
Song of the Week : Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow
First up, let me apologise up front for the total cheese of this week's choice. However, I found myself in a situation where it has been the ear worm every single day of the week so far and I thought I'd share the love :)
This is Kacey Musgraves – Follow Your Arrow from an album called Same Trailer, Different Park. That should clue you in to how whitebread and country this girl is. I hadn't heard of her until NPR streamed her album and I thought I'd give it a listen for giggles. Most of it is a Dixie Chicks bluegrass hybrid and pretty bland overall. But this one song, as cheesy as it is, won't let go of my eardrums.
I suppose I like the sentiment, I quite like her voice and the melody is very catchy. It’s also a little bit of an insight into some contemporary issues for grrrrls, I suppose. See what you think, but don't blame me if it takes hold of your brain too - in the way that annoying jingles can do.
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Thanks for stopping by. With any luck you'll find some new music this week that changes your life - or just some annoying song you can't get out of your head. It's all good.
Hasala malakim.
Hasala malakim.
