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June 28, 2005
Muzak roundup
There's a couple music things I thought I'd mention today.
First, from Pitchfork, the Gallagher brothers have some negative things to say about the Live 8 concerts:
After the initial denouncing of the Live 8 shows by many for under-representing minority artists and the subsequent about face of adding more acts, organizer Bob Geldof has once again been getting it; this time from two barrels, as some artists are slamming his project in the press and others are thwarting his organized plans. For instance, noted gentleman and scholar Noel Gallagher was up to his old tricks in discussing the upcoming Live 8 shows. He sung to the media, "Correct me if I'm wrong, but they hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing 'Sweet Dreams' and thinks, 'Fuck me, she might have a point there, you know'." And what's a Gallagher quote without mentioning another overblown British band not completely dissimilar to our Manchester heroes, but who of course, "are shite": "Keane doing 'Somewhere Only We Know' and some japanese businessman going, 'Aw, look at him...we should really fucking drop that debt, you know'. It's not going to happen, is it?" Nope, probably not Noel, you know.
Shazaam!
But there's more:
Liam then told Canadian Chart Magazine that were they not booked, they'd love to play Live 8. "I'd love to. Y'know why I'd love to do that gig?" he said. "First of all, it's fucking awareness and all that stuff. I just love to go on and do four fucking songs and really fucking rip it up. Come in and fucking bang it with fucking four of your classics. And then walk off, and fucking flick Robbie Williams in the eye and say: 'Follow that you dick!'"
Sigh. I just can't get pissed off like that, even if I have a few Brown Ales in me. Oasis may be washed up, but Liam & Noel can still produce a world-class tirade.
On the other hand, Fountains of Wayne put out a new CD today. It's actually two CD's worth of outtakes and demos, but that unmistakeable FoW quality is there. By God, there's even a sort-of ironic cover of "Hit Me Baby One More Time" that probably rivals Cake's version of "I Will Survive."
Fountains of Wayne, to me, are at the top of the power-pop universe. They occupy a rarified air that is rarely matched. The only current band that can catch them in this department are Weezer.
Posted by oz115 at June 28, 2005 01:36 PM