The Ben Folds' Song Title Game

Whilst at Uni I decided to play this game. You can play to, if you want to... Here 's how:


Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly (without repetition) answer the following questions. 

Pick your Artist: Ben Folds / Ben Folds Five 

Are you a male or female?: 
Sentimental Guy 

Describe yourself: 
Best Imitation Of Myself 

How do you feel?: 
Selfless, Cold and Composed 

Describe where you currently live: 
Effington 

If you could go anywhere, where would you go?: 
Jesusland 

Your favorite form of transportation?: 
Dog 

Your best friend?:
Dr. Yang 

You and your best friends are?: 
Brainwascht 

What's the weather like?: 
Fair 

Favorite time of day?: 
In Between Days 

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called?: 
Your Redneck Past 

What is life to you?: 
Philosophy 

Your relationship?: 
Battle of who could care less 

Your fear?: 
One angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces 

What is the best advice you have to give?: 
There's all ways someone cooler than you 

Thought for the Day?: 
Learn To Live With What You Are 

How I would like to die: 
Missing the War 

My soul's present condition: 
Evapourated 

My motto: 
Still Fighting It 

Newcastle's Evolution Festival, and Glastonbury Festival 2010 (The 40th Anniversary) - A List Of All The Artists I Watched

Hello my fine readership,

Here is a simple list of all the live music (and related businesses) I have seen this fine 2010 festival season thus far. The list starts with Newcastle's Evolution festival along the Toon's quayside. Secondly it lists the performers I witnessed on the hallowed grounds of Worthy Farm, Pilton, Glastonbury, at the world's greatest festival's 40th anniversary celebratory shindig. Lovely. A proper review / blog will be done covering my Glastonbury experience giving you the full low down. I've also attached a link to all the artists I could find on spotify that I saw at Glasto! So you can listen to (nearly) any of the named artists that take your fancy.

Anyway to the list!

Evolution

John Smith

Po Girl

King Creosote

The Unthanks

Field Music

Lissie

Smoove + Turrel

Slow Club

Ellie Goulding

De La Soul

Baskery

Hadouken!

Delphic

Glastonbury (2010)

Josh Thorner

Two Door Cinema Club

Egyptian Hip Hop

Chapel Club

Local Natives

The Magic Numbers

The Charles Hazlewood All-Stars

Beth Jeans Houghton

Shlomo

The Hypnotic Brass Ensamble

Phoenix

La Roux (with Glenn Gregory of Heaven 17)

Rob Da Bank

Faith SFX

Plan B (with Faith SFX)

Radiohead

Broken Bells

The Flaming Lips

The Xx

Troy Ellis and the Longshots

Brother Ali (With DJ Snuggles)

Coheed and Cambria

Peter Hook

Huw Stephens

The Strange Boys

Beach House

Stornoway

The Cribs (with Johnny Marr)

Editors

Laura Marling (with one member of the Wilkomen Collective)

The Pet Shop Boys

Sub Focus

Dizraeli and the Small Gods

Frightened Rabbit

Everything Everything

These New Puritans

Holy Fuck!

Dry the River

Grizzly Bear

Ray Davies (with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)

Jack Johnson

Loudon Wainwright III

Toots and the Maytals

Rodrigo Y Gabriela

Dan le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip

The Journey So Far...And What To Expect Next

Hello Blog Readers!

My Blog now includes all my entries from the NSR (Newcastle Student Radio) Blog. From here on in then it is a solo journey of music scrutinising, starting with Glastonbury. I'll be keeping a Glastonbury Diary, logging all the bands and acts I witness. I'll let you know who was good, who wasn't, and who you should endeavour to check out!

Also, in the coming weeks my musical project should be much further along in the production process. Find attached a cheeky video trailer. Don't forget you can add me on myspace (www.myspace.com/iamconfuciusmusic), add me on twitter (@SirScottofMac) and of course comment on all the Blogs I post.

Thanks,

P.S. I Am Confucius

TUESDAY, 26 JANUARY 2010 Murder FM – Anthems for the Used (Mini Album)

Like angry shouty men? Particularly, angry shouty tattoo covered men with interesting hairstyles? If yes, you’ll love Murder FM. Simply breed ‘30 Seconds to Mars’ with ‘LostProphets’, add some extra hate of the world, and let it stew in a disco. Murder Fm emerges from the mean rock disco broth to challenge your musical tastes. Though FM do not advocate murder, many makers of musical opinion will argue Murder FM do indeed murder music. ‘Heavy’ music still divides opinions, however, Murder FM are much more than just ‘guitar metal’. Synthesizers and keys, though not the biggest part of their sound, temper something really heavy, and make it much more accessible. Murder FM’s tracks ‘Mrs. Wrong’ and ‘As Beautiful As You Are’ are quite a good examples of metal mitigation. They are in effect potential pop songs that got kicked out of ‘The Charts’ (a high-class nightclub called), and spent a night behind bars for drinking too much and kicking Barbie Girl in the face. Though possibly an intimidating music venture for mellow music fans, Murder FM are surprisingly easy to listen to. Maybe I am guilty of presupposing everybody is as receptive to rock music as myself. Even so, try Murder out. You might well be surprised.

3/5
http://www.myspace.com/murderfmmusic

Tori Amos - Midwinter Graces

Midwinter Graces has ‘BBC Radio 2’ written all over it. If you like Tori Amos and wear cardigans deliberately to be pretentious this is definitely the Christmas album for you. In ‘Midwinter Graces’ Amos puts her own take on classic Christmas and festive winter songs such as: ‘What Child’, ‘Nowell’, and ‘Star of Wonder’. Amos’ gift to the listener appears to be a simple rearrangement of seasonal songs into a more conventional pop structure. The result is an album of Christmas songs you will probably never play as you opt for the classics, or a pop album you’ll store with the Christmas decorations. Once you’ve dusted off 11months of dust every year you will probably come to realise it is a very good album in regard to musicianship. However, it has no clear purpose, apart from actively and positively seeking musical territory usually filled by failed Christmas number one attempts. Give it to someone who wants to be ‘alternative this Christmas’, or someone who really likes Tori Amos.

An easily ignorable 2.5 / 5

TUESDAY, 26 JANUARY 2010 Ou Est Le Swimming Pool – Dance the Way I Feel

If you do as ‘Ou Est Le Swimming Pool’ urge, and dance the way you feel, you’ll probably look like a robotic muppet. However, you won’t care, as ‘Dance the way I feel’ is an electronic delight. You’ll loose yourself in newly discovered electronic recesses of your own mind. It has an infectiously catchy electronic synth riff that accompanies a repetitive, instructive and uplifting chorus. The verse is a brooding indie narrative of a nightclub, ‘Pet Shop Boys-esk’ in feel, unashamedly good electro-pop in reality. Well matched beats, and subtle multi-layered lead and string synthesisers combine to make what can only be described as ‘electro-joy’. Paradoxically the cold wired synthesizers make you feel warm on the inside. You know deep down that the programming of the keyboards cannot compute warm-blooded human emotion, but you remain confused by how close they get. The sentiments in the vocal humanise the near clinical electronica, making clear the ultimate feel good nature of the tune. The Camden trio are increasingly rising in profile, supporting many premier British electro-pop names; ‘La Roux’, ‘Sam Sparrow’, ‘Mr Hudson’, and ‘Reverend and the Makers’ to name a few. They also played no less than three stages at Glastonbury ‘09. If somehow you like you music dancier in nature I’d definitely recommend the ‘Dynamikk’ remix of ‘Dance the Way I Feel’. ‘Ou Est’ are definitely a name to remember. Actually, they make great music just about worthy of accompanying their unforgettable name. Possibly one of the best band names ever.

4/5

Band Name: Off the Scale /5

TUESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2009 Lost Prophets - End of the World

Potentially more polarising for fans than their last studio album ‘Liberation transmission’, ‘Its Not the End of The World’, the latest single from the Lost Prophets, is a further step away from their pop punk break through material. Fans disenchanted by ‘Liberation Transmission’ will not find a return to the Welsh rockers glory days of ‘Shinobi Vs Dragon Ninja’, ‘Burn Burn’ or ‘Last Train Home’. Likewise, Transmission fans may too be disenchanted. ‘End of the World’, perhaps appropriately, does have a darker feel about it. The darkness, and some degree of emo apathy, must have spilled into the Prophet’s studio as even the sound quality has a shadowy feel. The bass is heavy and dull; whilst the guitars appear to aim for a fussy vs. clean tone contrast. However, they are predominately fussy throughout. The contrasting cleaner tones suffer from lack of volume. In fact contrast is only successfully reached when the song turns ‘Muse-y/ Matt Bellamy-esc’ in the guitar breakdown mid track that seems dramatically different to the darkness of track as a whole.

On first listen ‘End of the World’ is a disappointment (unless it is indeed the first Prophets track you’ve ever listened to). Even the happy choruses and chanting characteristic of ‘Liberation Transmission’ have been warped and seem sinister. In fact, I would describe ‘the woahs’ throughout ‘end of the world’ as uninspired. Akin to a noisy group of idiotic and drunken lads out on the razz; the Prophets fail to produce a convincing or fitting chorus harmony. Saving grace you plea? Luckily there is. In the last 50 seconds there is a moment of sheer quality. Ian Watkins actually unleashes his voice. So good is his voice in these fleeting seconds I will even go as far to say it actually saves the song. Instead of playing the song all the way through, you can, like me, just skip to that brilliantly loud moment over and over. No doubt, this track will continue to cause debate amongst Prophets Fans.

Nevertheless, I believe a complete removal of expectation, and a fresh look at the Lost Prophets is required whenever they release anything. They regularly reinvent their sound, and this must be complimented. Yet, if this was the first Lost Prophets track I ever heard I’m sure I’d enjoy it, but I’m not sure I’d rate it as special. I think on this one the listener should decide.

My Opinion: an on the fence 2.5/5….Ian Watkins’ scream alone 4/5