Uncle Traveling Matt Archives

August 30, 2007

Songs Of The Week #7

On rotation this week are some of my favourites songs from the Britpop genre, a style of music heavily influenced by '60s British pop (especially The Beatles) and also 1980's rock outfits like The Smiths. The Pulp music video is really awesome (yes I have been watching too much Man vs. Wild), it really fits with the mood of song and in some ways makes the track even better. The Oasis song is also a classic, obviously I could of put Wonder Wall here, but that's kinda been played to death. Blur have so many good songs it's hard to choose, I have all their albums, however this one came up on my iPod's shuffle songs the other day and made me think of a Britpop post and it's a good track too ;-)

Pulp
A Little Soul

Oasis
Champagne Supernova

Blur
There's No Other Way

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August 15, 2007

Songs Of The Week #6

The first two songs by Cary Brothers & Joshua Radin don't have a music video, so the tracks linked to here are just someone's visuals put to the song. They were the best encode of each track I could find on YouTube though. Newer tracks by both artists on YouTube have videos directed by Zach Braff, and their songs have been featured on a number of his projects including Scrubs and the film Garden State. Calexico are also pretty cool, lovin' the whole Mexican band thing at the moment—I also have some Mexican hip-hop, but that's another story ;-)

Cary Brothers
Honestly

Joshua Radin
Don't Look Away

Calexico
Corona

Great hall locations: Songs I Like | Talked about by: 1 Fraggles

July 23, 2007

Songs Of The Week #5

Loving the new Chemical Brothers album, below is the video for the first single. The U2 one reminds me of running around the lake near my house at sunrise—sun reflecting of the water, mist and that early morning chill in the air. Stay Positive also rates highly, a track I often listen to when I'm feeling a little too worn out by the world outside.

The Chemical Brothers
Do It Again

U2
Beautiful Day

The Streets
Stay Positive

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May 20, 2007

Songs Of The Week #4

My absolute favourite track at the moment is Franco Battiato's cover of "Insieme A Te Non Ci Sto Più". This song featured on the sound track to the film Manuale d'amore, and was originally released by Caterina Caselli in 1968. Also, in the playlist this week are two more tracks I really like from The Streets and The Shins.

Franco Battiato
Insieme A Te Non Ci Sto Più
(wma audio)

The Streets
When You Wasn't Famous

The Shins
New Slang

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May 1, 2007

Songs Of The Week #3

I'm really lovin' Sigur Rós right about now, it sounds soo much better on high definition headphones than the YouTube version though, but at least this clip gives you some idea. Fall Out Boy is also on heavy rotation on my iPod, as well as a few of my favourite Beatles tracks—the original simple stereo mixes, not that remastered bullshit.

Sigur Rós
Hoppípolla