For those who have helped me rock: I salute you.
I'm one of those people who, when they find a song they like, just plays it over and over and over again. Right now it's hype-surfing indie darlings
du jour The View and their song "Superstar Tradesmen". It's not original or different or any kind of new wave but it's just great: it's what boys with guitars should be doing with their time.
10 seconds in and you already know that everything is OK with the world; when kids start picking up guitars and NOT wanting to make records like this THEN we are in trouble. It's got this infectious energy and this simple youthful rock mojo that makes me so happy. I love the fact that these schemey kids from Dundee can have me singing along (well, more like lip-synching to be honest) as I walked down the street this afternoon.
It's the sort of song that should be the entrance criteria for being in band. Guitar shops should refuse to sell guitars to hairy young boys who don't swear a terrible oath that they intend to make records like this. Girls should be asked the same thing with reference to Punka by Kenickie.
posted by JJ @ 11:56 AM
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