Gym Class Heroes - Taxi Driver

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From their site:

"The band has produced an original hip-hop sound fusing crisp guitar rhythms, deep melodic bass lines, head cracking beats, and conscious lyrics to create a sound that is truly their own."

This song is kind of cute.

7/10

Genghis Tron - Laser Bitch

Released: 2005
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Starts off like New Order circa '83, and ends up in a whirlpool of grindcore.

Bizarre.

5/10

Supercar - Strobolights

Released: 2002
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This song can be heard during a montage sequence (of sorts) in one of my favourite movies, Ping Pong.

Calm beginning builds into a driving, uplifting song that shimmers and soars. Electric but still organic.

8/10

Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade

Released: 1942
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One of the best remembered instrumentals from the famous yet doomed* WW2-era band leader.

8/10

*On December 15, 1944, he was scheduled to fly from England to Paris to play for the soldiers that had recently liberated the city. His plane disappeared over the English Channel and was never found. Miller's death remains somewhat of a mystery; the fact that neither Miller's remains nor the wreckage of his plane (a single-engined Norseman UC-64, USAAF Tail Number 44-70285) were ever recovered from the Channel have led to many conspiracy theories over the years. Read more.

VHS or Beta - Night On Fire

Released: 2004
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OK it's a blatant Duran Duran rip-off, but this really comes alive in the last 1/3 of the song when that bass hits.

7/10

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On Ice

Released: 2005
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I don't like his vocals. It also sounds EXACTLY like an indie/alterno track from the 90s but I can't work out which one.

But it's still one of the nicest tracks I've heard so far this year.

8/10

Secret Lives of the Freemasons - It Only Took A Whisper

Released: 2005
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Singer sounds like a cross between Daryl Palumbo (Glassjaw) and Dryden Mitchell (Alien Ant Farm), song is a pretty bland and generic mish mash of emo / screamo / pop / punk. Yet I still like it. Nothing new here, but they know what they're doing and they do it well.

8/10

Gogol Bordello - Sally

Released: 2005
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Meh. More New York hype.

Sounds like a bunch of thieving gypsies stole some old Mr. Bungle riffs.

4/10

Fiddy Special Edition Post

Released: 2005



I'm Supposed To Die Tonight. Download It.

Yes Fiddy, of course you are.

"Niggaz wanna stick me for my paper" ... actually, that's more or less true.

6/10

Piggy Bank. Download It.

Fiddy earns shedloads of paper and has lots of bling. Let him remind you of that fact for 4 minutes.

6/10