47/13 - Like When Galileo Dropped His Orange

Back on track. Monday is list day again. Let's celebrate with an energy-injection.

Janelle Monáe ft. Prince - Givin Em What They Love

What an exquisitely cool and genius pairing. I think especially of Janelle's voice at 2:40, met by an equally screeching Prince-guitar. Not many people that could sing a duet with the purple one and come out his equal.

Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - Peaches en Regalia (live at Fillmore East)

Hayden was making muffins, so obviously me and John had to put on Muffin Man, and then it just carried on from there. Zappa-week!

Beastie Boys - The Sounds of Science

< Nice transition there. The ultimate Beatles-beat; Sgt. Pepper's and The End with a little bit of When I'm 64 and Back In The U.S.S.R. 

Omar Souleyman - Yagbuni

So many songs culminate around the 4 minute mark. Here again, as infectious as the rest of the track is, the little break at 4 minutes is to die for.

Pharrell Williams - Happy

I'll admit I'm hooked. For the past couple of days I've checked in on 24hoursofhappy.com to see who's dancing at that very moment and my mood has been infinitely the better for it.

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof!

46/13 - All For You Oh Hungry Moon

Right. Really late list. No matter. Here it is. Gotta catch up with myself next week.

The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

Well you, know, the story is old, but it does go on and on.
Actually I dreamt about my late cat, Hobbe, last night. He's been dead for 8 years now, but it was really vivid and I missed him a lot.

Goldfrapp - Thea

Pretty good tune from the new Goldfrapp-album.

Peter, Bjorn and John - Inland Empire

Pretty weird track. Appropriate for the title.

The Knife - Behind The Bushes

Pretty eerie.

Rodrigo - Fantasía para un Gentilhombre: II. Españoleta e Fanfare de la Caballeria de Nápoles: Adagio

Pretty pretty.

Spike Jonze directed a live music video for Arcade Fire during the YouTube-awards. It was the best part of the show:

45/13 - With a Smile On Your Face and a Tear Right In Your Eye

Late list due to bad internet. Bad, bad internet!
I'm all about the guitars this week.

Kent - Livräddaren

Old emo-teenage-years classic for me. Still lovin it. The guitar sounds at around 4:00 especially...

Savages - No Face

Feels a bit silly to indulge in starstruck idolisation at my age, but if you'd been at the Classic Grand on Sunday, when Jehnny Beth entered the stage, you would understand. The conviction, the intelligence, the charisma, the style.... I think it was around the time they played this song that she climbed the fence just in front of me, reached down and held my hand for a second.
What a perfect band. I reckon this is what I would have felt like if I had seen, say, the Clash at the beginning of their career.

bob hund - Allt På Ett Kort

One of the best rock songs of all time. I cried happy tears when I heard it the other day.

I've forgotten my first summer
I've forgotten my first winter with snow
But I've still got a picture of father

Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Miles - Them Changes

Top 10 of historic concerts I would've wanted to go to? This one, probably in top 3.

The Rolling Stones - Shine a Light

For wee Peter, the night porter at the hotel, who turned 63 the other day. He buys everything Stones-related in two copies. One to put on a shelf and one to listen to/watch. Me, I'm happy with one copy, of anything up to and including this album.

44/13 - Give Me Something To Give

I'm not topical, I'm just a raging lung.

Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction

Yeah sure, it's just a little crisis. Yeah sure, capitalism has always existed. Yeah sure, there is nothing exceptional about the past 100 years of accelerating expansion. Yeah sure, we're gonna come up with solutions that let us go on with it infinitely. Yeah sure, it was Greece's own fault. Yeah sure, it was Portugal's and Ireland's own faults too. Yeah sure, it's just about fine adjusting a winning system. Yeah sure we are riding a wave, and we don't need to think too much about those under the surface. Yeah sure, we don't need to change... ?

The Doors - The Changeling

See me chaaaaaaaaaaange

Patti Smith Group - Privilege (Set Me Free)

Take me Patti. Build me a dream. A furious, young, naïve dream of a new world. The only kind that counts.

Juana Molina - Bicho Auto

Fuck yeah. I'm dancing. I'm shaking my head. Dance with me Emma Goldman. We are beautiful, radiant things.

Sun Kil Moon - Sí, Paloma

It was the antagonism between those who wished the revolution to go forward and those who wished to check or prevent it—ultimately, between Anarchists and Communists. 

-George Orwell, 'Homage to Catalonia', 1938

The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.  

- George Orwell, 'Why I Write', 1946

And with that, let's end on three awesome music videos: