I Can See The Venom In Their Eyes

Right well as it has been a while (tm. Staind) I figure i'm allowed to post lots. My trip to New York only yielded one new musical discovery, which to most other people won't be a discovery at all. Anyway so I saw Snakes on a Plane, which is utterly dreadful in a sublimely hilarious way and has this wonderful song as its theme:

Snakes on a Plane (Bring It) - Cobra Starship

In typical fashion on the friday we left NYC one of the few remaining artists I -have-to-see-before-I-die (Pearl Jam are on this list, t-minus 24 hours) the wonderful Ted Leo was playing. Arse. Instead I comforted myself by imagining he is probably a lot better on record than live (/lie). Anyway this was the first song of his I heard, perfect pop creation that it is:

Me & Mia - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

Time for my once weekly (ignoring the fact that most of my songs could at a stretch be played there) 'NG1-song!' slot. Today we have Cassius who if I could be bothered to google i'm sure I would find had a song about five years ago, something about sun or water? Anyway he is a french dance bloke and has made this insanely catchy slice i've brought you:

Toot Toot - Cassius

Ending on a high we have a remix/mashup by a guy called DJ Earworm. Now I know what you are thinking, she only downloaded it because he has a silly name, and in many respects you are correct, however on the first listening I was grabbed by the sample about two fifths of the way through which I later discovered is by a band called Under the Influence of Giants. Name sounds a bit Oasis. Hmm. But yeah the original song is nowhere near as good as this so enjoy:

Over the Confluence of Giants - DJ Earworm

Reading Festival Tomorrow

This is what Neil will have to sit through :P

- Metric
- Spank Rock
- Taking Back Sunday
- You Say Party! We Say Die!
- Lady Sovereign
- Hope of the States
- Coldcut
- Small amount of Slayer to pay tribute to their hippy slaying powers hah
- Broken Social Scene
- My Chemical Romance!!!!!1
- Klaxons
- Placebo
- Pearl Jam, with segments of Maximo Park and 2 MAny DJs if they aren't as awesome as I expect


Woot!

You've Rung Me Out Too Many Times

Right, time to wrest back control of this blog me thinks. Enough of Neil's faux ghetto and onwards to higher ground. This time in the form of Cold War Kids, aka-the- trendiest band of last month. In this song they bravely go where only Weezer have dared to go before and have dedicated a song to the metaphorical life of a jumper.* Awesome.

*possibly, I tend not to listen to the actual words of songs and take these things at face value.

Hang Me Out To Dry - Cold War Kids

Regardless of whether it is in fact about an item of clothing it is still fab. Next we have the Format, supremely catchy pop/rock/another genre along these lines which basically means that they sound like Bleed American era Jimmy Eat World/Ben Folds Five. Woot.

The Compromise - The Format

And seeing as you've been denied my presence for several days you get one more song. In the world of Susie's music there are two catagories - NG1 songs and non-NG1 songs. NG1 being a wonderful/dreadful gay club in Nottingham in which I and my housemates managed to spent a far too unhealthy amount of time dancing to music which could not possibly be heard anywhere else. This song falls into the 'NG1 song' catagory but achieves the rare distinction of being played on the radio too.

World Hold On - Bob Sinclair

Will get in your head for hours, you have been warned.

I Know I'm Right For The First Time In My Life

*hungover*

Really really good night out yesterday. Have done nothing at all today to compensate.

Music time, le premier chant (my french is attrocious, i apologise) est le Crowded House, because I thought I ought to explain the 'betterbehomesoon' thing. Crowded House are probably the band I would most consistently consider my favourite band ever. I went through stages of claiming it was Savage Garden (...i'm really trying to get over them i promise), then Pearl Jam, the Matchbox 20. God my music taste couldn't be any more MOR.Meh.But in reality they are the band i've loved the longest and there isn't a single song on Recurring Dream that I don't adore.

This isn't my personal favourite but it was in my head at the time of creating this, therefore tadaa:

Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House

I do rather feel that to uphold my super indie cool status I have to have at least one trendy up-and-potentially-coming band included. Today we have Los Campesinos! who are, much to their shame, Welsh. However if you are as tolerant and accepting as I am, ahem, they are fairly splendid and this song does have a marvellously cheesy end rant which never fails to make me smile, pushing the song from a 7/10 to at least a 9.

Enjoy!:

You!Me!Dancing! - Los Campesinos!

My My My

This damned thing is insanely addictive, i'm almost looking forward to going back to work next week to stop myself posting so much.

So anyway, until my sister lets me back on her computer you guys get the somewhat limited selection on this laptop. Be excited, be be excited.

First up we get the third best Nelly Furtado song evah (first being Try and second Powerless, obv). Once you get over the fact it was written by Chris Martin (ugh) is in fact a brilliant pop song and was my 'end of uni' anthem, bless.

All Good Things Come to an End - Nelly Furtado

*sniff* it's so sad.

Second we have genius song by...I have no idea. I suspect I got it trying to download some Keane (don't laugh) but got this instead, five thousand times better. Ahh google says it is the Cat Empire, we love you google. Crazy trumpets, silly foreign accents = fantastic song.

Hello - The Cat Empire

She knelt down beside, said 'can I share your pillow?'
I rolled over and I said, ‘well hchello hchello...’

A Beginning

Well basically the point of this is so that i can inflict musical slices of my choosing on the unsuspecting. Whether this will be effective we shall see.

Either way to start you get the best thing i've heard all day:

Roscoe - Midlake

Obviously I only just discover them as they finish their UK/Barcelona tour. Bah humbug.

Edit: Okay so it's been pointed out that they are a bit mopey and probably not the best way to convinced people to come back. So in addition to Midlake you get the wonderful if awfully named Secret Solution who are funk rocky/pop....a bit like Maroon 5. but please don't let that put you off!

Except Each Other - Secret Solution

Woo.

Finalement you get a vague 'hip hop' (in the lightest sense of the word) quota in the form of Girl Talk who are supreme. This song is just genius:

Bounce That - Girl Talk

Testing Testing

etc etc