Pierces - "Kill! Kill! Kill!" (Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge)

• "Kill! Kill! Kill!" - "what are you doing in my dreams?!" sexy (meow?!)
• "Secret" - gotta secret, can you keep it....
• "Boring" - their hit: boring
• "Boy In A Rock And Roll Band" - ladaadadaadada, swing, happy. niet bijzonder, gewoon blij.
• "Go to heaven"

Fleet Foxes - "Your Protector" (Fleet Foxes)

Oldfashioned harmonical sounds (according to Pandora, set up in honor of '60's bands like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Zombies, and the Beach Boys.

Nice.

Andrew Bird - "50 Pieces"

*think* it was the song just heard on Pandora, folky, gypsy, catchy.

Not sure though, and hard to find.

Blade Runner (Theatrical Cut)

Must watch the Director's Cut soon again to see the differences.

Didn't like the voice-over one bit. Telling, not showing.

Still, the mood, the music, the photography, breathtaking.

Decemberists - "Culling Of The Fold"

Dash her on the paving stones,
It may break your heart to break her bones,
But someone's got to do the culling...
Of the fold.

(Oh, oh oh.)

Wonderful song, poppy, mineur though.

Johnny Cash - "Read Your Mind"

Beautiful slow and soft song.

Oud volkskrant artikel: muziek voor in de trein

Treinmuziek
09/01/10, 00:00

Downbound Train.. - Bruce Springsteen
First Train Home - Imogen Heap
Last Train Home - Lost Prophets
Morning Train (Nine to five) - Sheena Easton
Downtown Train - Tom Waits
Party Train - The Gap Band
Ghost Train - Counting Crows
Mystery Train - Elvis Presley
Blue Train - Johnny Cash
Stop That Train - Peter Tosh
I'm A Train - Albert Hammond
Trains And Boats And Planes - Burt Bacharach
Long Train Runnin' - Doobie Brothers
Waiting For A Train - Flash & the Pan
Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight & the Pips
Last Train To Clarksville - The Monkees
Summertrain - Sandy Coast
Runaway train - Soul Asylum
Op Een Klein Stationnetje - Oud kinderliedje Let the Train Whistle Blow -Johnny Cash
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Bob Dylan
Locomotive - Guns N' Roses
Wagon Wheel - Lou Reed
De Trein Naar Het Noorden - Ramses Shaffy
The Loco-Motion - Gerry Goffin en Carol King |Fast train - Solomon BurkeDo the Choo-Choo - Archie Bell & The Drells Per Spoor (Kedeng Kedeng) - Guus Meeuwis
Night Train - Guns N’ Roses
This Train Will Be Taking No Passengers - Augie March
Last Train to Trancentral - The KLF
Gaat Deze Trein Nog Terug - De Dijk
Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel
From a Late Night Train - The Blue Nile'N trein Naar Niemandsland - Frans Bauer De Laatste Trein - André Hazes

Pandorum

sci-fi horror. Cosmonauts awake from hypersleep during long trip after the world has gone haywire.

Monsters (mutated people, "adapted" to the ship) roam the vessel, all very Descent-ish.

Not bad. Not impressive.

3/5

High Noon (1952)

One of the classic westerns.

Gary Cooper als a retiring (just married to Grace Kelly) sherrif has to face an enemy he put away behind bars alone when the whole town goes chickenshit on him.

Acting debut of Lee van Cleef (not a single line).

Most of the film is the countdown to high noon, when the train with Frank Miller will arrive. It's slow and nice enough. One by one his old friends turn their back on him and the whole town lets him down.

"Do not forsake me, oh my darling", written for this film, became a hit and received an Oscar. The first time that the theme of a song was used throughout the film and marketed separatedly.

The film was an allegory to the blacklisting of the Committee of Un-American Activities.

The final fight isn't as long and intense as they would show it these days. Particularly the little fight of Grace Kelly when she's captured by Frank Miller, enabling Gary Cooper to shoot him, is simple and over in the blink of an eye.

Batman : Under the Red Hood

Animated film by Warner Bros.

Amusing enough for a lazy fridaynight, but predictable and hardly new, fresh or exciting in any way.

Yann Tiersen live @ Belly-Up

First a funny concert by "Breathe Owl Breathe", 2 beardy guys and a girl. Folky, playing funny songs about a dragon and a princess who were penpalls (she didn't know he was a dragon, because his penmanship was really good) and ending with a werewolf-song during which the girl wore a werewolf-hat.

Yann Tiersen was simply amazing. (we saw him outside, on the phone, while having dinner in the Belly-Up's restaurant "the Wilde Note", really should've gone outside and talk to him)

Played almost the whole "Dust Lane" album, hardly stopping inbetween, saying nothing but "thank you" every now and then. Sometimes doing his immense crazy violin stuff ("Sur Le Fil" etc).

The girl from Breathe Owl Breathe joined them on stage for a song. Such a voice she had. No words, just melody. Amazing.

Shivers, more than once. Amazing concert.

Younger Brother - "Crumblenaut" (A Flock Of Bleeps)

Randomly encountered while I thought I had only scheduled Yann Tiersen.

Pretty nice. Snake-charming, derwish-invoking, darker-eyes-in-dark-night dreaming.

Yann Tiersen - "Bagatelle" (On Tour DVD)

Heart-breaking, this version.

3am? melancholy

Chris Black - "All Along The Way" (Jericho)

Tom Waits with gypsy violins.

Amazing!

Morphine - "I Had My Chance" (Yes)

Beautiful dark song.

(not my Pandora, but a Nick Cave channel)

Arvo Pärt - "Lamentate for piano & orchestra" (Andrey Boreyko, lamentate)

Soft, sad, minimalistic piano

Toru Takemitsu - "Face Of Another" (OST)

Nice symphonic music, bit Danny Elfman / fantasy.

Dancing strings.

Cherry Poppin' Daddies - "Zoot Suit Riot" (Zoot Suit Riot: the Swinging Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies)

Swing!

According to their biography they became popular during the swing revival at the end of the 1990's.

Catchy.

Shakespeare - "Sonnet 17"

Sonnet 17

Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies:
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers yellow'd with their age
Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And stretched metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice; in it and in my rhyme.

Röyksopp - "Triumphant"

Still a beautiful, beautiful song.

Not exactly better than "What Else Is There" though.