Something we like, and something we don't.

Thumbs up: Yeah Yeah Yeahs' video for "Heads Will Roll"
It's our favorite song off It's Blitz!, and the video in typical YYY fashion is another creative venture. It basically involves the band performing while a werewolf-looking bloke dances for a crowd of unsuspecting patrons. Said werewolf then attacks one of the said patrons and guts and blood fly everywhere. Like confetti. Confetti of horrors. It's all quite nice.



Thumbs down: Shiny Toy Guns cover of "Major Tom"
It's most unfortunate what's happened to the Guns. Two years ago they were our favorite new band. Their debut album We Are Pilots contained not one, not two, but at least four or five electronic pop gems ("Le Disko", "Don't Cry Out", "You Are The One", "Rainy Monday", "We Are Pilots", "Rocketship", etc). Then they got themselves a new female singer and released a second album that is just complete crap. Then they do what any band would do in the 21st century and whore themselves out to the corporate world by recording a cover of Peter Schilling's 1983 hit "Major Tom" for a Lincoln car commercial. The original "Major Tom"- quite incredible. One of the best '80s songs. Shiny Toy Guns' version- rather stale and just sounds like a high quality karaoke track.



That is all for now.