What is it about Scandinavian bands and their ability to come up with the most incredibly catchy songs known to man? There must be something about the air in Scandinavia or something. There’s ABBA, Roxette, Ace of Base, Michael Learns to Rock, The Cardigans, Aqua, and of course, my favourite of them all… M2M. (Well, [...]
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M2M
Tuesday, 18 January, 2011
“The Day After The Revolution” By Pulp
Wednesday, 6 October, 2010
Song (here). One of my favourite songs by Pulp. This is from their “This Is Hardcore” album, which I thought was slightly better than the already fantastic “Different Class“. The Day After The Revolution The dust has settled, Replaced the bulbs with all the lights. I guess I’ll get no sleep tonight. A revolution happened, [...]
“Misery” By Maroon 5
Friday, 24 September, 2010
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge Maroon 5 fan. They are one of my favourite bands in the world right now, together with U2 and Radiohead. I think they’re really tight, and they write fantastic songs. As a band you’re ultimately judged by the quality of your songs, and Maroon 5 has quality songs [...]
Mind-Blowing
Saturday, 11 September, 2010
I was just surfing for YouTube clips on the Jools Holland show and stumbled on this performance of “Paranoid Android” by Radiohead. This is one of those songs that is way ahead of its time. It came out in 1997 and up till now I’m still not sure if we are fully ready for this [...]
Chris Martin On Songwriting
Sunday, 5 September, 2010
Chris Martin talks about how he wrote a new song called “Wedding Bells”. (He performed this song at the recent Apple conference.) Basically he plays around on the guitar and when he settles on an interesting chord that he likes, he just goes along with it and a tune (and even possibly lyrics) would naturally [...]
“Reo” or “Ah-Reo”?
Tuesday, 26 January, 2010
For those old fogeys like myself who have been around long enough to be familiar with the 80′s power ballad “Can’t Fight This Feeling”, you might have heard the band “REO Speedwagon” being mentioned before. And has it ever occurred to you why they always pronounce it as “Ah-Reo” instead of just “Reo”? I’m just [...]
iSing The Musicals
Saturday, 19 December, 2009
I was very pleased and honoured to be a part of the ensemble at “iSing The Musicals” at the Esplanade Library recently. Basically Desmond asked if I could take on the piano duties and I hesitated a bit before agreeing to it, cos I wasn’t very confident of my piano abilities. But I agreed to [...]
“Take Cover” By Mr Big
Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Well, the Mr. Big gig at Fort Canning last Sunday was way awesome. The guys have still got it. What else would you expect when you have one of the best guitar shredders in the world (Paul Gilbert), plus one of the best rock bassists in the world (Billy Sheehan), plus one of my favourite [...]
Bands Named After Places, Songs Named After Girls And Guys
Sunday, 20 September, 2009
I was thinking about this for the longest time…how many bands can I think of that are named after geographical places, e.g. cities, states, countries? Here goes: America (don’t know much about them) Boston (“Amanda”) Chicago (needs no introduction) Europe (“Carrie” and “The Final Countdown”) Kansas (“Dust in the Wind”) Texas (“Say What You Want”, [...]
Green Tinted Sixties Mind (Acoustic)
Wednesday, 19 August, 2009
I was just surfing around on YouTube and stumbled upon this clip of Mr. Big doing an acoustic version of “Green Tinted Sixties Mind”. And it just brought a smile to my face. Great song, great harmonies, great delivery. It’s hard to find another collection of such fine musicians in one band. They look like [...]
