So I take resolutions seriously and I made a resolution to write something once a week. I’m going to review my favourite Strokes album to fulfil my resolution
A week is a long time in blogging.
Why is it my favourite, it’s not their best one, The first one is better, actually they all are, everyone hate this album, I mean it’s all subjective. At this point me liking 00s Strokes is almost like how I watch the space battles in Star Wars if I have been out and come home to my empty house drunk.
So the first song ‘shut me down, shut me up’
It’s really not a great album when I am trying to write about it so I’m not going to pretend it is, ‘standing in the lightfield’
Two songs in, they are good but they are not that raw. I think I like the sadness
Third one is great, huge rock riff. This is such a shit post, but I made a promise. This is like my landlord breem liveblogging a blackpool game.
The Heart Beats in a Cage.
I think that there is this weird thing that The Strokes mean to me. Like they represent the cynicism of our generation, that sounds pretentious, but there was this whole thing that nothing would ever go wrong because USSR had disarmed and China was doing business, so it was all fine. Nobody believed it, even as a teenager I was like ‘this is stupid, China is bigger than the world
Sorry interrupting myself, Razorblade is one of the songs I love. they are doing this kind of dirge sound on this album, I assume since they are all good at their instruments and were still one of the huge bands they made a choice to make it all drowned and flooded.
My feelings are more important than yours
I would imagine that they were all taking loads of cocaine and arguing a lot. Is it bad production? I make music and it sounds like bad production to me
Oh and then Razorblade goes into ‘On the Other Side’ which is one of my favourite songs. I didn’t realise it was about suicide until people who knew people who did it got angry with me
I’ll put the lyrics in later. I may one day take my own life rationally, not because I’m sad or anything though, I mean in my 20s though, maybe
Anyway ‘On the Other Side’ is one that I want at my funeral. It just sums up that loop you get into when you start seeing everything through an ugly prism of sadness. They put it on a nice doo wop beat as well.
The production is so shitty since I mentioned it I wonder if it’s my headphones
Ok I’m not going to carry on doing this. If you read all of that shite I’m going to give you a little Easter Egg. This album is ok but it’s just ok, it’s sentimental. And yes it was my headphones, I have a cheap pair of headpones and a nice pair and the production is clean and good as you’d expect on the good ones.
Ok, they’ve gone, let’s get to the juice
I was just an intern at the time, but I was working for the company in London where Ian Brady, Frank Skinner, and David Baddiel were when they were recording the Three Lions anthem. I was only 16 and it was super lucky because one of my uncles pals pals owed him a favour, and he owed my mum a lot cos of his divorce she had paid for him for a bit.
But anyway, I was working for the company, and I was just some child who they sent to get cups of tea and I looked a bit older so they could send me to the shop to buy fags and booze. Frank Skinner drank insane amounts. Brady was a bit more grown up, he drank with them, but he was a real pro, he would feel a bit squiffy, then just go ‘truant la, make us a coffee, we are back to work’
Then he would go the fuck off on those two, Frank to his credit seemed to be constantly drunk, but he was exactly the same drunk as sober, except for sweating.
Baddiel could booze, but he was more like most people, he had this tipping point where he just became this pointless tramp. Over the two weeks I was there they pretty much had it down.
The one bad experience from that summer was when they found out that they were not going to get the official England money, it meant that the money that the record company gave them was going to just cover their money.
The official England money went to Simply Red who did that weak song ‘We are in this Together’ which was, let’s face it, a shit song
But Mick Hucknall came over one day to
man fuck this. I made a cartoon a few years ago that I was trying to work into a joke. I have written this long stupid post really long and stupid. TangerineBreem probably will read this, he is a better writer than me, but I have met a lot of people who are better than me at whatever I try. They usually like my eccentricity
HE’S BUMMING GNOMES. HE’S BUMMING GNOMES
HUCKNALL’S BUMMING GNOMES
I am almost done with the Strokes album, it is dece but not really that good. What a journey that was to end up nowhere
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