Music Reviews: Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Suckers, and The Horrors

The Tenure Itch by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart.

This song opens up and reminds me of early 90s brit pop mixed with the drum sound of new wave. This band has had a lot of talk surrounding them, and I must say I was one of the people really feeling them. Its not like I don't like this song, its just that i have heard it before. There isn't much new about this band, but they succeed in pulling off a well known sound that I personally enjoy. B

www.thepainsofbeingpureatheart.com

It Gets Your Body Moving by Suckers

At first listen this song does everything but get your body moving. The melancholy, drone sound doesnt really keep my attention that well, even though I do enjoy the fullness of the harmonies and use of orchestra. Just as I was about to turn this song off, because the repetition of not moving my body happens the melody changes and a whistler comes in and nicely builds up a break that takes you over the hump of this song. My advice is if you can get through the first minute and a half you will be rewarded with a nice sing along section you could proudly throw your beer up in the air and sway with the anthem. C

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Sea Within A Sea by The Horrors

Automatically I like this song, because it has a fun upbeat tempo to keep me interested in what could possibly come up over the next 7 minutes of this track. The beat is taking me on a nice trip, but does tend to last a little too long without vocals. As the singer comes in and he sounds a bit like Ian Curtis, but not thats a bad thing in my opinion. The song then takes you down this path, that adds a bit of japanese feel to it, mixed with the weird sounds that remind me of animals crying out for help, similar to the background in Meat is Murder. This then leads to a psychedelic section that promised to bring you back to the song, with a tad bit of electronica driving the bus to the finish line. It does tend to get a bit boring, especially when its the same beat and vocals for the last few minutes. Overall its a good song, it at least has character to it. B+

www.thehorrors.co/uk

Left of the Dial 5/22/09

Left of the Dial
Ms. Connection 5/22/2009
Happy 50th Birthday Morrissey!!!

1-The Smiths-Stop Me if You Think You’ve Heard This One Before (Strangeways Here We Come)
2-The Killers-Why Don’t You Find Out For Yourself (off Vauxhall & I)
3-Bridges and Powerlines-Interesting Drug (off Bona Drag)
4-Placebo-Bigmouh Strikes Again (off The Queen is Dead)
5-David Bowie -I Know Its Gonna Happen Someday (off Your Arsenal)

6-The Smiths-William It Was Really Nothing (off Hatful of Hollow)
7-Supergrass-Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (off The Queen is Dead)
8-Copper-There is a Place in Hell For Me and My Friends (off Kill Uncle)
9-Sweet and Tender Hooligans- Heaven Knows Im Miserable Now (off Hatful of Hollow)
10-My Burgundy Waltz-Our Frank (off Kill Uncle)

11-Morrissey-Tomorrow (Your Arsenal)
12-The Pretenders-Everyday is Like Sunday (off Viva Hate)
13-Gene Loves Jezebel-Ask (off Best of..)
14-Bow Wow Wow-I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish (off Strangeways Here We Come)
15-Sharon Van Etten-The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get (off Vauxhall & I)

16-Morrissey-Speedway (Vauxhall & I)
17-Chris Garneau-Suffer Little Children (off The Smiths)
18-Vitamin String Orchestra-Glamorous Glue (off Your Arsenal)
19-Morrissey-First of the Gang to Die (You are the Quarry)
20-Loomer-Death of a Disco Dancer (off Strangeways Here We Come)

21-The Smiths-The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (The Smiths)
22-Microfilm-November Spawned A Monster (off Bona Drag)
23-Billy Bragg-Never Had No One Ever (off Queen is Dead)
24-Exit Clov-Sing Your Life (off Kill Uncle)
25-The Autumns-Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want ( off Louder Than Bombs)

26-Morrissey-Hairdresser on Fire (Bona Drag)
27-Max Vernon -Headmaster Ritual (off Meat is Murder)
28-The Smiths-Unhappy Birthday (Strangways Here We Come)

Left of the Dial 5/8/2009

1-Air-Playground Love
2-Sparklehorse-Dont Take My Shinshine Away
3-Band of Horses-Weed Party
4-MeWithoutYou-Every Thought A Thought of You
5-The Shins-Sealeags
6-The Shins-So Says I
7-Toyko Police Club-Nature of the Experiment
8-The Promise Ring-Red and Blue Jeans
9-Sea Wolf-Your a Wolf
10-Shout Out Louds-Please Please Please
11-Broken Social Scene-Almost Crimes
12-Metric-Help Im Alive
13-CSS-Reggae All Night
14-Trouble Andrew-Bang Bang feat. Santogold
15-Radiohead-Jigsaw Falling Into Place
16-Peter, Bjorn and John-It Dont Move Me
17-Clap Your Hands Say Yeah-In This Home On Ice
18-Black Moth Super Rainbow-Forever Heavy
19-Morrissey-Black Cloud
20-Built to Spill-Carry the Zero
21-Caribou-Shes The One
22-The National-So Far Around the Bend
23-Wolf Parade-Same Ghost Every Night
24-White Lies-To Lose My Life
25-Interpol-All Fired Up
26-The Ting Tings-Impacilla Carpisung
27-Spoon-I Summon You
28-Lykke Li-Let it Fall
29-Vampire Weekend-I Stand Corrected
30-The Blakes-Commit