The BrokenFM (Morally Ethical) Flexidisc Collection: Part One
- 5/28/2007 03:55:00 pm
- By Mark X
- 1 Comments
First update for an age, we know. Sadly, the decision to build ourselves a gigantic media rack out of chicken wire, reinforced cardboard and Cyan-Taque (the non-copyright infringing local discount supermarket equivalent of Blu-Tac) was a catastrophic one, and as a consequence we've spent the last ten weeks digging our way out of the pile of Pet Shop Boys reissues, bootleg Depeche Mode tribute albums and Carter USM promos we'd amassed over the last 20 years. Still, we've now recovered and can begin to offer the music opinions that almost dozens of readers have come to expect.
Of course, the massive flaw in simply writing about music on the internets is along the lines of "why should we listen to you? Granted, you've been empirically correct about every single one of your end of year Best Of 2006 lists, but without listening to the tunes you're championing, how do we know we'll like what you're talking about?" Well, we're a highly principled (i.e. scared of being killed by ninja lawyers) blog, and don't want to be a party to the 21st Century home taping that is giving away MP3s. That said, we do like the idea of more than 3 people bothering to read this blog, and so we present a happy medium.
Yes, that's right. Doing what everyone else does, but pretending we're somehow justified in doing so. First up, an alternate version of Love Cliché, by Bran Van 3000.
Who?
The ones who did Drinkin' in LA, a pretty big hit in 1999, after being a smaller hit in 1998. It became a bigger hit after being used in a not-very-good cider advert that was pretty much an ad-friendly remake of the Smack My Bitch Up video. That was taken from their critically well received album Glee, which, despite containing at least six slices of SOLID POP GOLD, wasn't plundered for any more singles after Drinkin'... became a top three smash. Although the BBC did use some of the track Gimme Sheldon in a trailer for some golf.
So this is from that album?
Nope. After Glee, the band sat around until 2001, by which point they released the follow-up Discosis. Not quite up to the standards of their debut, it was still enjoyable enough, with the highs (Astounded, Dare I Say, Rock Star, Love Cliche) more than making up for the lows.
So, this is from that?
No. After first single from the album, Astounded, featuring the late Curtis Mayfield, received a decent amount of radio airplay, the decision was made to put out the wonderfully bouncy pop song Love Cliché as a follow up. In the same vein as Len's Steal My Sunshine, it would have been the perfect compliment to any summer. Unfortunately, the band's US record company Grand Royal went out of business before the release of the single, despite promotional copies being sent out containing the song itself, and an alternate guitartastic version of it.
And this is that?
Yes. Given it doesn't seem to crop up on eBay very often, and there's no other way you can legally get hold of the track, we feel morally justified in offering the following.
Of course, the massive flaw in simply writing about music on the internets is along the lines of "why should we listen to you? Granted, you've been empirically correct about every single one of your end of year Best Of 2006 lists, but without listening to the tunes you're championing, how do we know we'll like what you're talking about?" Well, we're a highly principled (i.e. scared of being killed by ninja lawyers) blog, and don't want to be a party to the 21st Century home taping that is giving away MP3s. That said, we do like the idea of more than 3 people bothering to read this blog, and so we present a happy medium.
Yes, that's right. Doing what everyone else does, but pretending we're somehow justified in doing so. First up, an alternate version of Love Cliché, by Bran Van 3000.
Who?
The ones who did Drinkin' in LA, a pretty big hit in 1999, after being a smaller hit in 1998. It became a bigger hit after being used in a not-very-good cider advert that was pretty much an ad-friendly remake of the Smack My Bitch Up video. That was taken from their critically well received album Glee, which, despite containing at least six slices of SOLID POP GOLD, wasn't plundered for any more singles after Drinkin'... became a top three smash. Although the BBC did use some of the track Gimme Sheldon in a trailer for some golf.
So this is from that album?
Nope. After Glee, the band sat around until 2001, by which point they released the follow-up Discosis. Not quite up to the standards of their debut, it was still enjoyable enough, with the highs (Astounded, Dare I Say, Rock Star, Love Cliche) more than making up for the lows.
So, this is from that?
No. After first single from the album, Astounded, featuring the late Curtis Mayfield, received a decent amount of radio airplay, the decision was made to put out the wonderfully bouncy pop song Love Cliché as a follow up. In the same vein as Len's Steal My Sunshine, it would have been the perfect compliment to any summer. Unfortunately, the band's US record company Grand Royal went out of business before the release of the single, despite promotional copies being sent out containing the song itself, and an alternate guitartastic version of it.
And this is that?
Yes. Given it doesn't seem to crop up on eBay very often, and there's no other way you can legally get hold of the track, we feel morally justified in offering the following.
