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Each week on the 3am Mixtapes podcast, I will share with you the Top Six Songs of a certain subject. The topics can be as general like best video game songs. Some might be a little more... specific. Top Six Songs To Listen To While Reading Horror Stories,
And they say you should never judge a book by its cover, but what about judging a book by its title? Because this week is the Top Six Band Names!
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Each week on 3am Mixtapes, I will present to you, in my dulcet tones, the Top Six Songs of a certain subject. The topics can be as general like Top Six Drinking Songs, or they can be as obscure and specific as Top Six Songs to Help Nurse a Hangover.
This week we take a look at songs written about people. Songs written about particular people. Songs written about, for, or in relation to specific people. The Top Six Songs Named for Famous People!
Whether they're about the person, written with them as a backdrop, or not about them at all, these are all songs named after people you might have heard of.
It was a full night in the city, with Brasstronaut and Hollerado also playing shows, but both of those bands I had seen earlier this year, so I went with Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. That, and they would be the least likely to be back soon.
The Lonely Forest, from Anacortes, Washington, opened the night, with a fair amount of super-fans in the crowd. They had a pretty good sound, but nothing that really set them apart. "Turn Off This Song And Go Outside" was a standout of the set, but a lot of their songs sounded kind of similar, and had the same structure. Still, I wouldn't mind catching them again. They said it was only their second time in Vancouver, but hopefully they'll be back, since they're just over the border.
It had been a couple years since I saw Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, so I was a bit anxious. They hit the stage with the best prop ever, a life size cardboard cutout of Han Solo, and their incredible energy and stage presence had the crowd dancing and clapping along to their pitch perfect indie pop. I was a bit sad they didn't play "All Hail Dracula!", my favourite from their new album, Let It Sway, but the subtle energy of "Anna Lee" -- always feeling like it's just about to burst -- and "Pangea", which features some of my favourite lyrics: "pangea, we used to be together, why'd we have to drift apart?" both made up for it. They played a good mix of older and new, and at one point the drummer, guitarist and bassist did a little switcheroo and changed roles for the rest of the set. While they were not overly talkative for the most part, they still had some good stage banter & antics; dedicating a song to the lights on the mountains they thought were UFO's and player guitar around the Han Solo cutout for the first song of the encore. They put on a hell of a fun show, and I just hope it isn't another two years before I get to see them again.
Haven't really done this in a while, so here is another instalment of my song(s) of the weekmonth "whenever I feel like it" segment! These are three new songs which strike me and I just feel like sharing, so enjoy!
Nova Scotia'sThe Tom Fun Orchestra is back with a follow up to their debut full length, 2008's criminally underrated You Will Land With A Thud. While there doesn't seem to be any details on the album itself, the band has released a single to tide us over, entitled "Miles Davis". The song is a six minute ride through the bands style of a mish-mash folk, roots, blues, rock and punk, combined with the lead singers Tom Waits-isn rasp. You'd think something like that would end up a mess, especially with a nine member band of varying instruments, but they pull it together into a incredibly unique -- not to mention catchy -- sound. They're a hard band to describe, so you'll just have to listen to the track to see hear for yourself. If the upcoming album is even half as good as this track, we're in for a doozy. They are also phenomenal live, and are about to kick off a tour. Here are the dates, and they'll be here in Vancouver August 12, so if you have the chance to see them... do it!
The awesomely named Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin has released the second song from their upcoming album, Let It Sway. Their third album, which was produced by Chris Walla of Death Cab For Cutie, is to be released August 17th. "Banned (By The Man)" is a high energy and joyous track that just begs to be sung-along to. Stereogum calls it "probably the most precious pop song ever to be called "Banned (By The Man)"." So sure, let's go with that!
Last but not least, another east coast, Nova Scotian rocker, Matt Mays. I swear, there are so many amazing artists who have come out of Nova Scotia... Whatever the case, Mays has alternately released albums under just his own name, and him and his backing band, El Torpedo. Well, now that the band has split, I assume Mays will just be continuing on under his own name. Recently, he recorded a song for radio station Q104 called "Queen of Portland Street" (though it was apparently previously titled "Hurricanes"). The song is immediately recognizable as a Matt Mays tune, which is not necessarily a bad thing, as it is a pretty damn good song.
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