I am VERY impressed with Gangway, an obscure 80′s group from Denmark. Download samples of their songs. Notice through the recordings how the breaks come, and the styles change. It has those witty lyrical fun things I love most from my music.
The first song, Gangway – Mountain Song describes exactly going to a city like Denver or Durango with uppity dining establishments manned with plastic people. They get eight capillion points for leaving in the “Hang on” phrase where he misses the note completely and then giggles about it.
Next is a real shocker; Gangway – My Girl and Me. This marks the first time I have heard a word-for-word scripture including chapter reference in a mainstream song! So-called Christian groups don’t even do that.
Then comes Gangway – Going Away a life-ruining break up song. Very intelligent lyrics, with almost Taco like vocals. “Death beams” and “the house belongs to you” are clever.
Don’t Trust Me is not as catchy, but it has some nice atmospheric stuff.
Come Back As A Dog is light hearted, along the theme of the “I’ll come back to haunt you” idea. Done in brilliant cheeky style.
Sitting in the Park is decent, the rest of the tracks don’t stick with me much. They are included for completeness. You can afford the 150megs and bandwidth.
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Remember Scorched Earth? The Shareware tank game with pixel graphics from 15 years ago has been rebuilt by someone in the UK. The controls take a few attempts to get efficient. After that hurdle is tripped over and the camera wrestled, it is actually quite fun. There are usually lots of other players online also.
Since Scorched Earth and One Must Fall have been rebuilt, all that remains is to remake the brilliant Return Fire. And while you are at rebuilding the best games ever, give Lost Vikings a boost!
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Ok, after much listening and considering I have decided to update this review. Issues: There is a cuss word on the cover sticker – lovely for my kids who opened the package. Such a bummer to have them totally enjoy the music but be unable to go to any concerts! 21+ = -4 fans. Sigh.
Track one (Less Talk) starts with a nice in-your-face cussword also. Audition editing time to clean it up again. Sigh.
Track two feels rushed. Syllables don’t fit lyrically. The melodic parts and rhythm are fine. Frontload is such a mixture that it represents the entire CD well. Some really neat vocals, especially the male lead. Someone has been practicing. The rest of the track is rather meh. I hate the word “party” when used in music like this it becomes “potty”.
I really enjoyed Thought Balloon. Why are the dreamy vocal songs like tender lies so many leagues above the others?
Brainpower – some kind of throwback to early eighties girl power groups? Mayhaps. My favorite part is the “very same brainpower I mentioned before” not fitting in timing. Very vell done.
STILL NO INSTRUMENTAL! What is the deal? Afterparty almost met this, but then the rush job lyrics kicked in again at half way (and one S word). In my book you can’t call a group synthpop unless they have nearly one instrumental song per CD. Even put them B-side on a single or something.
Musically Do you like boys? is dreamy and smooth.
The rest of the work just comes across as blah or gay. (This is not a rude accusation by the way). I would rather not think about his “wang” even if it is a pun.
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I have moved from the “quit being silly” about spiders category into the “shake every piece of clothing and look in the sheets” category in one bite (actually, two bites). There are some evil spiders out here such as recluses. I used to let them live, but now all spiders have moved into the cricket category. (Kill on sight). Notice the uneven spread of poison and the red soon to be black color?
What I wanna know is how did he get in my briefs? One bite was on the right cheek, and this one up front at the leg joint. I did the correct procedures, using a sharpie around the perimeter to measure growth. I am very blessed that it didn’t get as bad as those internet pics and stories of bad recluse bites.
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Gotsta git me some er dat yummy diesel chik’n.
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I am building to split the information in several sites and move them back to America from my horrible Indian host (avoid powweb.com unless you are fluent in Parsi or Hindi.)
Soon to be brought into existence: whatacustomer.com, mudstick.com, and cdnerd.com. Fun! (Actually it feels too much like work at this point.)
This is a shameless cross-link so that spiders will quickly find the following sites:
The Sons of the Rio Grande Official Western swing music group page. Apart from the music player, it is straight up plain php.
Check out The evangelism tool has been updated with a better navigation structure. Made image maps without using image maps, flash or javascript. Do they work in other browsers? Did I nail the Indiana Jones feel to it? It is time for content providers to help.
It seems time that this popsynth tired site gets a facelift as well. Now all that remains is to choose a method, brand it, and repost everything. While updating the Where to eat pages, I happened to consider that URLS should also not be changed during the upgrade process. I should have chosen a more stable blogger, no?
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- Friday, Nov. 9 2007 – at the Brickhouse, 1 East Jackson Street, Phoenix. with Solvent and Peachcake and DJ Jared Alan. 8 pm, $12 in advance, $15 day of show. all-ages!
- Saturday, Nov. 10 – Bang Bang at Club Congress, 311 East Congress Street, Tucson. with DJs Matt McCoy, Dewtron, and Noirtech. 10 pm, 21+, $6.
- Monday, Nov. 12 ’07 – Sean and Liz DJ set at Black Mondays at the Surly Wench, 424 North 4th Ave, Tucson. 21+.
This show was awesome! Tight venue with lots of up close blippy dancing.
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Maybe you are familiar with Star Trekkin’ by The Firm? It was new to me so I really enjoyed it. Don’t watch the youtube until you listen to the song. The vid does not do it justice.
I am either A. Sorry about the size of the flac, or B. You are welcome for the flac. Either way These two songs rule. The other song is a catchy Brit ditty called Stop the Cavalry by Jona Lewie. I crank up the da ba dum dum break! This one also has a youtube.
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Installed a cheap pellet stove off of ebay, but listen to the noise! T__T (10mb)
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Normally I’m not very politically motivated, but the gas-price leeches are really sapping me. Plus the ditty “We need a war” by Fischerspooner is really fun. The following approach looks very accurate:
Fact-based costs of the war in Iraq.
Even getting a third of all our gas money does not make a dent in funding the war. We will be paying for this one for many generations. Is debt how Vietnam and other conflicts were funded? As a country have we ever actually paid for any of it?
The whole Saddam hanging thing bothered me. It felt wrong. If Osama really has family with millions and his goal in 9-11 was to hurt our economy by attacking the iconic financial institutions, he clearly won.
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