The Commodores - Machine Gun
Got it from Robin. Lionel Ritchie was the bomb man!
Friday, May 30, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
The Last Shadow Puppets - My Mistakes Were Made For You (live)
A side project for Alex Turner of Artic Monkeys and Miles Kane of The Rascals. Sometimes, I prefer these artistes in their side projects than in their main bands such as The Postal Service (Sorry, Vicki, not a Death Cab fan but I love Dntel)...
Monday, May 26, 2008
Meifumadō
The Road to Hell.
Finally, after all these years, I found about the ending of the classic Japanese manga, Lone Wolf & Cub. I <3 Wikipedia.
Plainsunset
The veteran punk-rock band releases their self-titled 4th album Plainsunset today. Out in all shops. I love 'The River Song'! Sounds like Concave Scream! Check out some of the songs here.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Fwaaahhhh!!!
I haven't seen Max's design for the Novak EP. Given his Anglophiliac tendencies, it's not too surprising he plonked the whole thing with the Union Jack. To hear the EP, pop by his Friendster profile here. The song is right at the bottom of the page.
He posted the lyrics online as well. You can sing along if you want to... -_-"
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
The Lard Brothers part 26
Recently, we are trying to finish up all the tunes we have at hand. We are still left with the 'Shoebox', 'Black Maria' covers and the rap track. Then we will release all 14 songs online. Hopefully, somewhere in August. But don't hold your breath for it!
So we've decided to plan ahead for the new project: a tribute to the movies, comics, TV series, anime and manga we love. All those lovely geeky stuff...
Here's our recent e-mail conversation. I came up with the first 3 and Ian the following 3. And Weiyuan the last.
1) "Quantum Of Solace" - James Bond (which we have started work with Max)
2) "So Say We All/ I'm Not A Frackin' Cylon!" - Battlestar Galactica
3) "I'm Such A Wimp..." - Neon Evangelion
4) "Where Seagulls Fly And Coloured Clouds Float" - Qiong Yao
5) "I Have Got A Giant Sword (And I Know How To Use It)" - inspired by
Berzerk and those cheesy HK kungfu comics Willy likes to read. 80s style,
hence the title.
6) "Where Oh Where Did My Techno Go?" - a lament mourning the
disappearance of techno clubs. I will approach Bryan to help me with
lyrics ;)
7) "Rebond Da Hair And Climb Out Of Da Telly" - a tribute to all mind fuckin horror movies
Please note the 4th idea is very, very serious. We cannot even begin to explain how serious we are about doing a tribute to Qiong Yao or 琼瑶. All 3 of us grew up watching crappy Taiwanese drama weepies in the 80's, wondering who the fuck can actually write such crap.
And yes, it's her. And she's got her own Wiki entry as well.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Help required
Got this from my colleague who got this from his friend. It's really quite heart-wrenching...
If anyone of you regularly donate blood, haven't been to Cambodia/ Laos/Myanmar or rural Vietnam in the last few months, not on medication, haven't lived in UK during the mad cow disease period, healthy and are Blood Type: B+, pls let me know if you can donate your blood/ platelets to my niece, Jillian. She's 2 years old and has cancer.
After every chemo cycle, she typically needs blood transfusion and platelets transfusion. Platelets can only last for 5 days and we are hoping to compile a list of willing donors (name, ic and contact no) which we can contact when needed will be helpful.
The blog which her mum has set up for her is here. Do help out if you can.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
The Incredible Hulk Trailer 3
It's re-cut to be like an action flick. The orchestral strains at the end of the trailer sounds like 'The Lonely Man Theme' from the Bill Bixby-Lou Ferrigno's 70's 'The Incredible Hulk' TV series. You can download the tune here.
Portishead - To Kill A Dead Man
When you are at the start of your career, it's hard to get a break. Especially when one of your pet projects/ ambitions is to score soundtracks. Even more so when music critics mentioned that your music is cinematic and all. So what do you do? You get your entire posse together to shoot your own experimental (read: wanky) short film complete with bad acting from everyone and score your own film!
In 1994, Portishead did just that. The soundtrack is great! Beth Gibbons and Geoff Barlow (the founders of the band) look damn stiff in it. Hehehe...
But I guess if given the equipment, I'd do something like this since I doubt anyone would let me score their short/ film...
The Lard Brothers part 24
Biddy swung by on Monday night and did her vocals for the Plainsunset cover 'Plainsunset'. We loved her rendition quite a bit. I think we should be getting Sujin to follow her. This is supposed to be a duet but we see how it goes.
Ian is coming in tomorrow to finish up the bass for this. We had major problems when Robin was tracking the bass. There were immense electrical noises. Ah well, just our luck. But I guess he's helping us on some other tunes.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Hmm... part 22
Benita sent me this link. Of David Gan's blog.
It's hilarious. Seriously. Though I reckon it's probably ghostwritten since he is illiterate apparently just a couple of years ago.
But this picture of Jacelyn Tay on the blog is fucken fierce.
Quantum Of Solace
Was hanging out with Max for the weekend. This is the longest stretch of time I've seen his ass for a while. So, the two of us were listening to his The Best Of James Bond Theme Songs compilation while driving around Sim Lim Square yesterday. We found a nice steamboat place near Arab Street.
Anyway, being the idiots we are, we came up with this idea.
I love Mark Ronson. He adores Amy Winehouse. Initially, the both of them were tasked to write the theme song for the new James Bond movie 'Quantum Of Solace'. However, due to Miss Winehouse's perennial alcohol and drug abuse problems hindering the recording process, they are taken off the project.
Well, the two of us decided that we will give it a go to write the 'Quantum Of Solace' theme song. We will keep it old skool just like what Ronson and Winehouse would have done. Not that we would ever give them a run for their money. But hey, middle-aged, single men like us should have something to do to occupy our time eh?
But what the fuck is a 'Quantum Of Solace' exactly? Wiki here.
Chris Cornell - You Know My Name
From the really great 'Casino Royale', this is really the suckiest Bond theme song EVER! Even Sheryl Crow and Garbage were better. Yeah, even Paul McCartney did a hell of a good job.
Shirley Bassey - Diamonds Are Forever
I <3 this song. If it's good enough for Kanye West to sample, it's good enough for me. If there's ever a reason why the Propellerheads worked with her, this is probably it.
One of the comments on YouTube: 1973: "Diamonds Are Forever" was released as a single in 1972 and the Movie came out in 1971. This 1973 Performance just may be the first time Shirley has performed this on Video. It is interesting how she has changed her singing style of this song over the years.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Food blog
Edwin started a new blog with 2 of his many interests in life: food and beer. Trust me. He has loads of hobbies.
The new blog probably explains his girth. Hurhurhur...
He has a couple of receipes up on the site. That's one thing in my life I've yet to do: Learn how to cook. Since this is the year of "attempted major changes" in my life, I probably should try that sooner or later.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Fun for everyone...
Joining the fray of giving away free albums slightly later is industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails with the ambient experiment Ghosts early this year. Overtly beefy curmedgeon Trent Reznor just released another one, The Slip. Download it here for free.
I've signed up with the website which allows you to download stems/ multi-tracks for free so that you can muck around and remix the songs. For FREE! So fuck you, Radiohead!!!
Well, I'm just glad I'll be able to say that to them in October when I go up to Tokyo to catch them live. A single "FUCK YOU!!!" amongst tens of thousands of screaming fans screaming in incomprehensible Engrish or Japlish. Should be fun!
Monday, May 05, 2008
The final trailer...
The Dark Knight.
If you watch carefully, in the scene which Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent is holding a pistol, pause the clip.
Is it me or there is some slightly scarring on the left side of the face which is hidden away? Heh.
Getting my mojo back...
Thanks to Max, I've been finally been getting my ass to using the new laptop to record some stuff.
If you know Max like I do, his job brief was "I'm going to write some pussy-melting songs."
Yeah, ermm... okay.
So he sends me some demos. The Lard Brothers are helping him flesh out the tracks. We hope they can help him melt some pussies or particularly, one. I guess, you'll be hearing the songs on a MySpace page pretty soon.
Andriod Koyuen
Joe just informed me that he uploaded some new tracks for his Android Koyuen project. Basically, it's him doing some weird-ass singing. There's this thing which he has apparently mastered: throat singing.
I've still no idea what the hell that is. Check it out here.
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Spiritualized - Soul On Fire
Got it from Billy. Doesn't sound anything different from the last album I got: Let It Come Down, not Amazing Grace. Actually, his musical connection/ similarity with the Britpop/ Britrock bands of frontman Jason Pierce's era is pretty strong. I guess the only thing which makes him more indie was the fact that he was probably the weakest singer (if even considered one) out there.
Friday, May 02, 2008
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