Andrew's haphazard and a half 2003 roundup part 1

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To be honest, I only picked up The Pastels' Last Great Wilderness soundtrack because it has a track with vocals by Jarvis. That track is good, the rest of it just passes by like soundtracks (or from what I can gather Pastels albums) tend to do.

After I Get Wet, I was worried about the second album from Andrew W.K., and wondered if it mightn't have been better if he'd stopped. Incidentally I remember (or think I remember) an interview with Oasis about three or four years ago when Noel let the mask slip and said "Yeah, it might have been best if we'd quit after the second album. Still here we are, buy our new one!". But I suppose nothing other than dropping dead would have stopped Andrew W.K., so he released The Wolf, which is bit more Jim Steinman that I'd expected, and brought out the positive message stuff visibile in His Onion Interview. I'd be lying if I said it got anywhere near the number of plays as I Get Wet, but it does what it does just as well.

I bought a copy of The Clientele's The Violet Hour after going to see them when Friend Tim came ober from London to see them. I played it once or twice and wasn't grabbed by it, then tryed it again a few months ago at about 5, while the sun was setting over the Dublin skyline and shining warmly on my face, and it was the best album ever. It's pleasant jangle hasn't done that much for me since, but it has more than repaid it's price.

A friend in work recently came over after hearing one of Adam Green's songs on RatherGood Videos, late wednesday night on Channel 4, which is basically the same stuff as on rathergood.com, but over current songs instead. I liked Green's album Friends Of Mine (apart from the Too Much Strings effect) and I liked Kimya Dawson's last album (that I heard, I'm pretty certain it's ineligible for this review), but I'm starting to realise that I'm not going to ever hear another Moldy Peaches album again ever, and that makes me sad.

Doves are maybe one of the few bands that I could term a guilty secret. I love them to pieces, but their enormous guitarry drones about love and so on might as well be U2. They released Lost Sides last year, a disc of B-Sides plus a disc of remixes, and it wasn't really anything I was missing.

I keep coming back to Placebo's last album, Sleeping With Ghosts. It seems slower than their previous stuff, and maybe it is on average, but songs like Second Sight, The Bitter End and blistering opener Bulletproof Cupid are as fast as anything they've done and great, they're just great! Oh, all right, blah blah dynamic blah blah propulsive, but the fact is they're just fucking great. As are most of the rest of the tracks.