“Lonely Hearts Still Beat the Same” by The Research, a band from Wakefield, England (which I heard ‘thanks to hillary‘ – not like that’s never been written on a blog before) is a charming little song. You can see the video here, but close your eyes and listen to it once before you watch. (The video is OK – best in the middle-8 – but the medical setting is not what I first pictured hearing the song, and seems a rather easily clever knock-off on “hearts beat”.)
The toy keyboard, played by (the by some accounts eccentric) Russell “The Disaster” Searle, provides harmonic structure packaged with a pleasing level of grimy noise. Georgia Lashbrook is the bass player, as well as the singer of this song and “star” of the video, and she plays very well – nimble is the word. Sarah Williams’ two-piece drumming is perfect. Writers have mentioned the Beach Boys and the Ronettes to describe the sound. It reminds me a little of The Glands. The aesthetic is The B-52’s gone twee.
The high fun level of the song contrasts with the melancholy vocals, but it re-inforces the brave defiance of heartbreak expressed in the title refrain. The booty-shaking quotient on this song is not that high, but you can really shake your shoulders to it, and that’s something tense urbanites need to do.
It ends with a measure of a cappella Beach Boys-like multi-vocals and when it ends you want it to start up the chorus again so badly that it starts playing in your head and keeps playing for days. A real gem.
June 6th, 2006
by xnxx
What Beatles riffs? II
I’d like to continue this question for new people, like me!
Right now, I’m learning ‘Getting Better’.
What riffs do you know?