Bands listened to – 7/23/08

Here’s a post of bands that I listened to on July 23rd. Meant to do this post a while ago, but never got around to it:

Probably my favorite song from The Stranglers’ 1979 album, “The Raven”, this one’s called Shah Shah A Go Go. The song’s lyrical content concerns the usurping of the king (or shah) in Iran in the 1979 Iran Revolution, and while simple, do get the point across. The throbbing bassline and simple, but driving, drum beat drive the song along while the spacey keyboard part runs up and down throughout the song; the guitar sounds fairly simplistic, but has a nice ring to it. The beginning portion of the Muslim call to prayer is a nice addition – what can I say, I’m a sucker for well-placed samples.

One of my favorite songs by The Cure, this one’s “Fascination Street” from their 1989 masterpiece “Disintegration”. The bassline in this does it for me, it’s got a nice rhythm to it, and I just plain love the tone of it too. The drums are loud and keep the song moving well, the guitar sounds kind of psychedelic and complements the songs well, and the lyrics aren’t very thoughtful, but work well in the song with the way Robert Smith delivers them.

Great song from Big Star’s second album, “Radio City” (1974), this one’s called “Back of A Car”. Storytelling lyrics with some pretty sounding guitar make this a perfect pop song, and the drums are fairly driving too. It’s too bad this band broke up so early on – they really did have a perfect pop sound without sounding drab and repetitive.

~ by isolator86 on August 18, 2008.