Monday Morning Video Fun
I’ve got a rather large pile of unsorted mp3’s in one of the folders of my hard drive. These are all songs that were offered on other music blogs over the past couple months (most of these fine blogs are the ones that make up the ‘Musical Linkage’ sidebar on the right). This past week, I’ve been trying to go through as many of those tracks as I can, picking out the ones I like and welcoming them to the rest of my music collection, where they will lead happy and fruitful lives until my hard drive crashes.
The one track that has stood out the most so far is from a UK act called Ambulances. The track was featured at the bottom of this Songs By Toad post, where it is sadly no longer available for download. Here’s the video for the song, which is called “Cease To Exist”. Along with being a terrific song, it also provides some inspiring words to live by. Over the last couple minutes, the band reminds you that – whenever things are bad – everything will be better if you just “put on the Backstreet Boys.”
At least that’s what I think they’re saying.
More songs can be found at either their home page (where you can buy their album, which you should) or their Myspace page.
The following song and video did not come from my unsorted mp3 pile. Instead, it came to me via email by one of the members of another UK band, Her Name Is Calla. This video is for a song called “Long Grass”. In it, they make very good use of the natural reverb provided by the fort where they recorded this video. This one is pretty slow, but stick with it.
Here’s the mp3, which features some very subtle differences in the arrangement. Compare and contrast, yo:
Her Name Is Calla – Long Grass
One other (very long and very good) song can be heard at their Myspace page.
That’s all for today. Enjoy the rest of your Monday.
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