Frank Turner - Poetry Of The Deed

The fact that I'm FINALLY off to see Frank Turner in March, coupled with my missus's strange OCD-like compulsion to learn every word of every song has led to a LOT of Frank Turner being played in my car!

Not a bad thing at all, though, as Frank Turner is fucking brilliant! There are moments where he's in danger of becoming the Levellers on this album, but he manages to dodge it, and turn in yet another near-perfect album. Go buy it now! (Don't download it off the internet or owt, though, as that makes Frank ANGRY!)

Tragedy - We Rock Sweet Balls And Can Do No Wrong

The Haiti Project led me to this. An all METAL tribute to the BeeGees! Does exactly what it says on the tin, basically, and is hilarious on first listen. After a couple more plays, though, unfortunately, it just becomes annoying. A lot like the real BeeGees, really.

Various Artists - The Haiti Project

You might have guessed from the title, but this album's proceeds all go towards relief efforts in Haiti. You can get it from here, for the tiny sum of £5.

And, for an album featuring a brand new track from Ginger Wildheart's new band The Sonic Graffiti, along with tunes from Eureka Machines, The Wildhearts, Electric Six, and Tony 'Terrorvision' Wright's Laika Dog amongst others, you'd have to be an idiot not to buy it (not buying it also makes you a racist by default.)

Full tracklisting:


The Sonic Graffiti – Mystery Number (Exclusive)

Eureka Machines – Being Good Is Ok, But Being Betters Better

Electric Six – Newark Airport Boogie

Jackdaw 4 – Jesus Wants My Soul Back

The Loyalties – Sofa Surfin’ UK (Acoustic)

Antiproduct – When We Find Love

The Organ Beats – Happy Birthday/Come On Home

The Wildhearts – Unbroken

Tragedy:All Metal Tribute To The Bee Gees – Nights On Broadway

Radio Dead Ones – Take It On Trust

Ricky Warwick – Love Owes

Brijitte West (Feat. Jesse Malin) – How To Be Good

Moi? – This Is All That I Wanted

Laika Dog – Piano Song

Sorry & The Sinatras – Riverside

Children of The Unicorn – Nightshark

Simon And Garfunkel - Best Of

What?!? Look, just fuck off, ok?

Keane - Perfect Symmetry

Ok, so I haven't updated this thing for a month - too busy at work, and too lazy to update from home! :) A massive backlog of crap to post means updates will be shortish and shit-ish until I'm done!

Anyway, Keane. Following the age-old Good Album, Shit Album, Good Album progression, this, their third album, is actually good! Hurrah! Even if they have gone a bit Simple Minds.

Not the best thing in the world, but good enough for me to keep coming back for another listen.

No sample songs for you to listen to, because I can't be arsed. I might put some in later.

Skindred - Roots Rock Riot

Punkreggaemetal is one of those things that, like chocolate-covered bacon, just shouldn't work, but bizarrely does!

Formed from the ashes of Dub War (another top band), Skindred mix reggae beats, dub basslines and heavy riffs to make something shiny and new. I've listened to this album more times than I can count (so, about 7 times....) and it's STILL exciting stuff.

Also a fucking great live act, one that you should definately check out if you get the chance (and if you live in the Northwest of England, that chance comes on 15th March, when they play a tiny shithole above 53 Degrees in Preston!). VERY excited about seeing them again, although I'm not sure why, considering that after I saw them last time, I spent three days in creaking, bruised pain! :)

Have a listen to Trouble or Destroy The Dancefloor

Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing

Experimental ambient/dance stuff isn't really my thing, but I had to listen to these just because of their name!

While their newest album isn't exactly commercial, this, their first effort, kicks commercial squarely in the balls and leaves it whimpering in a corner. Full of screaming, fuzzed up synths, incoherent ranting, and assorted oddness, it's strangely hypnotic.

If synthesizers could go insane, this is the noise they'd make as they muttered to themselves in the middle of the night, rocking back and forth in a pool of their own filth. And it's fucking brilliant!!

It works best as an album, but have a listen to Sweet Love For Planet Earth, and if you like it, hunt down the full album.

Polly Scattergood - Polly Scattergood

I've noticed that I seem to do a lot of comparisons on here (sounds just like so-and-so, etc) - that's because I think that gives you a better idea of what something sounds like than the various genre-labels people come out with (for example, saying an album is 'post-grindcore shitbeat' means nowt to me, but saying it's 'Like Metallica attacking Bob Dylan with hammers' gives me at least a vague idea of what I'm in for).

That said, Polly Scattergood REALLY sounds like Tori Amos.

Luckily, she sounds like good Tori Amos (circa Little Earthquakes, Under The Pink), rather than incomprehensible-batshit-drivel Tori Amos (erm...pretty much everything else, really).

I'm actually fairly obsessed with this album at the moment - it's one of those that just seems to get better and better each time you listen to it. And I've been listening to it a lot!!

Have a listen to I Hate The Way. Or Please Don't Touch

In fact, balls to it, listen to Bunny Club and Nitrogen Pink too. And then go buy her album. Ta!

Assembly Of Dust - Some Assembly Required

If Tom Petty, Neil Young, and The Black Crowes got together to write an album, it'd sound a lot like this.
If the thought of that makes you want to set your own head on fire, I'd avoid this like the plague. Otherwise, like me, you'll probably like it. A lot.
The first track also features guest vocals from someone that sounds a lot like Roy Orbison (I doubt it actually is Roy Orbison, though, due to his deadness)

*edit* Wikipedia reckons Not-Roy-Orbison is someone called Richie Havens, who is not dead. So that's a relief.

Have a listen to Pedal Down

Lenka - Lenka

Ever wish there was a spare Lily Allen? One who's smug little face you didn't want to push into a blender? One with catchy songs that don't make you want to hurt yourself in the ears with a sharpened pencil?

That's Lenka, that is.

Lily would give her right tit to write a song as fantastically catchy as 'The Show'. Top stuff.

Have a listen to The Show

Simian Mobile Disco - Temporary Pleasure

Odd one, this. I've tried listening to it on 4 seperate occasions now, with the same result. Track 1 starts off with what sounds like the keyboard intro from Won't Get Fooled Again, only played on a shitty casio keyboard, and then turns into a wierd electro version of an 80s MOR song. Ok, odd, different. Not horrible.
Track 2, Audacity Of Huge, however, is fucking immense! Like Kraftwerk on happy pills, this is already a contender for one of my tracks of the year!
After that though, Track 3, shit, next, Track 4, shit, next, Track 5, shit, next, Track 6, shit, right, balls to this, I'm turning it off. And, with no further ado, it gets binned, every time, and I spend the rest of the journey home bouncing about to the Devin Townsend album (again!)

Have a listen to Audacity Of Huge on Last.FM

The Devin Townsend Project - Addiction

In the mood for some METAL!, this gets chosen, hopes high for a return to the rib-crushing brutality of Strapping Young Lad's 'City'.

Well, whatever this album is, it's certainly not metal. Bouncing between heavy riffs, operatic sections, jazz-fusion-y keyboards, balls-out rock and, on 'Bend It Like Bender', what sounds like Whigfield necking a fistful of drugs and buying a guitar, this is anything but dull! In fact, it's borderline genius!

I find myself wondering whether Devin makes music like this because he's bipolar, or if he's bipolar as a result of having stuff like this sloshing round in his brain all the time. Whatever, given that this is easily his best album since 'City', I just hope he keeps doing what he's doing! Everyone should give this album a listen.

Have a listen to Bend It Like Bender on Last.FM

Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions

To get the dullness of that Bon Jovi album out of my ears, it was time to turn to Biffy's latest, and one that, according to them, contains their 'heaviest riffs ever'.

Hmmm. First track doesn't bear that out, really, as it's an extremely poppy slice of pop!

Still, things pick up after that - while this isn't their finest hour, it's still a pretty good album. Good enough to manage getting played through to the end, even if I wasn't paying much attention to it by that point.

This will deffo get some repeat plays, when I'm in the mood for it. Nice Floyd-y cover, too.

Bon Jovi - The Circle

When you start covering your own songs, it's probably time to give up.

Opener 'Born To Follow' is pretty much a note-for-note ripoff of 'Born To Be My Baby' from New Jersey. A couple of dull, yet inoffensive, tracks follow this, and then it's into 'Superman Tonight', which turns out to be pretty much a note-for-note ripoff of 'One' by U2. At this point, I just can't be arsed any more, and I've dropped the missus off at work, so off goes the Bon Jovi album.

That said, I will end up listening to this again, I'd think, even if it's just for the amusement value of playing 'Guess the ripoff'.

Wilf's soundtrack

Right. If people can spend their time updating Facebook with details of what they had for breakfast, then there's no reason why I can't use this here bloggything to list all the music that passes through my ears on a daily basis.

Most of my music listening is done in the car on the way to and from work, and I am inherently lazy, so often the same album gets repeated listenings. Will I post the same shit each and every day? Only one way to find out......stay tuned!

The first thing Wilf likes in 2010

The news of the SOUNDGARDEN REUNION!!

"At precisely midnight on January 1, 2010, U.S. Eastern time, Chris Cornell posted on his Twitter and Facebook: "The 12 year break is over & school is back in session. Knights of the Soundtable ride again!", with a link to the newly designed www.soundgardenworld.com"

A new home for Wilf

Right. New year, new bollocks.

I plan on using this site as a home for a variety of aimless ramblings (usually when I'm bored at work!) about music, life, midgets and bacon, amongst other things. What I'm listening to, what I'm liking, what I'm hating, whether I've met any midgets. All these and more will be revealed over the coming months.

Also, I should probably warn any hapless soul that finds this thing - this blog may well contain language which, if you are of a weak and feeble persuasion, you may find offensive. Feel free to fuck off somewhere else, by all means, just don't fucking moan to me about it, you sorry little tit. Thank you.