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Ambushed! Tracks that creep on you and reveal their brilliance
Posted by russell123 on 17 October 2009 - 5:56pm.
Ever had a track creep on you over a period of weeks and months until one day the penny drops - and you need to check your iPod to see just who the band is?
Here's three tracks that ambushed me.
The acts can be really well known or obscure.
They are the kind of tracks you didn't realise were on your Ipod - maybe they came from free CDs from such magazines as The Word or Paste.
The point is the time they took to ambush you - and reveal their quality. Anyone else have examples?
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The National - Mistaken For Strangers...
Gist- Love At First Sight.
I've had this song for a year or two, but it only made a significant impact a couple of weeks ago. It must have been one of those moments.
Mew - The Zookeeper's Boy
The "Are you, my lady are you..." Refrain gets me every time.
Same here
This was lingering on iPod for ages (probably a download from Pitchfork or somesuch) and one day it just burst into colour in my ears. I got the albums which are just magnificent.
The National
Danger Fourpence, Would you believe that National track was another one I was considering for my examples? There is something about their music that bears repeated listening.
Absolutely true...
...a track that sounded utterly unremarkable after 3 plays and a work of genius thereafter. A trick repeated half a dozen times on both Alligator and Boxer. Top top band...
don't laugh
but first time I heard Def Leppard's "Animal", it washed right over me, weeks later I found the opening riff playing on my internal jukebox
cutting to the chase
it's a brilliantly structured piece of guitar interplay, layers and layers of them
thank you
At risk
of prompting the return of the neggers. I would instantly switch radio stations if I heard "That's Not My Name" by the Ting Tings when it was first released. After time as you simply could not escape it my toes began to tap and I ended up loving the sheer joy of it from the ceaseless drumming and the unique rat-tat-tat of the vocal. When I saw them perform it live my love of the song was complete. I cannot remember a song that transfered itself from shite to delight in the same way.
Delorian by Atomica
Thanks for posting the Silversun Pickups - never heard of them and I like what I hear.
My contribution is this one:
It was a free download from last.fm, lived amongst a lot of other free downloads til it was liberated one day.
Silversun Pickups
one on my discoveries this year, 2009 has been a fine year for good new bands
Silversun Pickups
That song needs no time to appreciate. Very, very fine to my ears. Nothing to do with the original Silversun who I liked a lot, I presume?
I've just been listening to Paloma Faith. Sod her. Populist girly cobblers. This seems more like it. Sounds a bit like Super Deluxe..
From a Word CD
about 4 years ago I think, but didn't come to my attention until last year or so.
Joy Zipper - Thought's a Waste of Time
Absolutely gorgeous piece of sunshine pop; I've heard nothing from or about them since though
Nina Nastasia - On Teasing
Had the album this is from for a while, and hadn't really listened properly to this song until this week. Awesome Balkan burlesque folk thing.
p.s. the video has some random dancing, so you have to skip about a minute into it before the music begins
Thanks
Those tracks are great and well worth further investigation Especially the Mew track.
Here's another one. This is a live version from the Australian band Dead can dance which I confess I know little about... It's called The ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove.
The singing is something else. Don't be put off by the bagpipe sound at the start.
http://www.dcddiscs.com/ubiquitous.mp3