My attempt to write something everyday sort of failed; so instead I have decided to produce a list of 100 albums, not necessarily my favourite, nor necessarily important albums in terms of what they meant for music, but just albums that meant something to me. Using the wonder that is excel, I’ve randomly selected the order that the albums are in, just in case an artist stumbles across this and sees JLS above them, and decides to quit music all together; mind you, if there was a U2 album in the list, and that situation occurred with Bono, then, yes, this is in a set order, and yes JLS whooped your Irish behind. Doing this means I haven’t got to worry my poor brain through thinking of things to write about. I know these wont be to the standard that you’d find on Pitchfork, but at least they wont all be 8/10 as they are in certain magazines *cough* NME *cough*Anyway, I’m beginning to drone on, and I’m sure you’ve all got better things to do on the internet then to read my waddle (zomg someone might have wrote on your wall!). I know you’re all on tenterhooks, so let’s crack on with the list.
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Love’s The Most Expensive Comedy-Cheap Mondays
According to their lastfm page (whatever would we do without this website. If you haven’t been on it yet, I urge you to do so, it’s like wikipedia crossed with John Peel) “The Cheap Mondays started their life in 2007.” I’m not sure whether this means they were formed in 2007, or whether it means they were created in a science lab, and they’re a new meaning to the term “manufactured pop”.
Cheap Mondays are an unsigned Indie (real indie, not the new indie name which is given to people willy nilly) band from Italy. Now, with most unsigned bands, you’d expect their first offering to sound raw and unpolished, yet Love’s… sounds as though it has been produced on a major label. They’ve clearly been influenced by the Strokes, (much like most alternative indie bands post This Is It) both instrumentally and vocally, shut your eyes and you could be forgiven for believing you were listening to Julian Casablancas rather than Francesco Bianchi, but this isn’t a bad thing.
For an Italian band, they have a wonderful grasp of the English language; from the typical teenage fascination with love/sex in opening track Petals, “Sparks of desire are breaking you down”; to the ironic critique of people trying to relive the 80’s, themselves included, in Relics of The 80’s, “We are relics off the 80’s/Boys with ties and depressed wannabes.”
Overall, the album offers much potential for Cheap Mondays, if they manage to find the right label, you can see them going far. If you’re into your Strokes or early Franz Ferdinand, ie before they turned shit, then these guys are probably right up your ally. I just hope you manage to find this band before the genetically modified boybands under the control of Simon Cowell destroy the world in a puff of hairspray.
Petals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CHgoqdFlt0
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/cheapmondays
Lastfm: http://www.last.fm/music/Cheap+Mondays
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