Your Daily Song Tip Thread

[Andail]

With all these loose music threads tossed out sporadically on the board, I thought we could organise it a bit.
So I present to you

YOUR DAILY SONG TIP THREAD

* You pick a song which you've listen to recently (though not necessarily for the first time), a song that the mainstream audience might not be already too familiar with.  Preferably, it should be something you came over by chance. A serendipity discovery.
* It doesn't have to be your favourite song, or belong to your favourite genre etc, so don't be affraid to post something non-representative. The only requirement is that you can write something personal about it, if it affected you in a good or bad way, etc.
* Write a little comment about it, how you discovered it and, (optional) some fun fact.
* You may post in this thread max once per day. You may only post in this thread if you can contribute with a song! If you wish to comment on a previous poster, separate the feedback from your own song with a horizontal rule [ hr ].
Posts in this thread that don't provide a Daily Song Tip will be removed!

Example:

Song: Nosebleed Section, by Hilltop Hoods (available on Youtube, albeit with a non-original video)
Comment: Definitely not my typical kind of music. Very corny, of all things Australian hip-hop! But this song is simply so corny it's good. Made me all giddy inside. Apparently, they are the shit in the Aussie hip-hop scene.
How I discovered it: My girlfriend played an old CD last night which she had got as a present during her stay in Australia, long time ago.  We listened to the song several times and giggled over it.
Fun fact: The sampled song is Melanie Safka's "People in the front row", which I, to my great satisfaction, reckognised immediately.

Now you go ahead! You can write more lengthy than I did, or half as long if you wish.

[Nikolas]

I'm not feedbacking on Andails song, but on his idea which is brilliant! Plus I'm getting to try the horisontal line !

Song:Just, by Radiohead from their 2nd album "The Bends"
Comments: Definately my kind of music! My cup of tea! A perfect video and an even perfect(er) song! I've been listening to this song for more than 8 years now and it still works! That means a lot to me!
How I discovered it: A friend commented on Radiohead and the specific song. That was it! I stuck with Radiohead and still am!
Fun Fact: Now how fun this comment can be... Radiohead, are using contemporary classical music techniques in various songs to make their music. They are not just grabbing a guitar and write music. For example here they are using techniques from the early 40s from Messiaen and his Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Note: hope is not dead. I can't post for another 24 hours.

[Mr Flibble]

Sure, I'll play.

Song
Venus Say by BUZY. Available(ish) on YouTube. You'd never find it, so here it is. If this is inappropriate, I'll remove it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmv6JPU_rcY

Comment
This probably is my kind of music, really. I don't remember how, but I got into Japanese music at some point. It has a nice catchy melody which is what I appreciate mostly, but I also rather liked the lyrics. Most of the Japanese songs I come across seem to have this kind of "Nicely upbeat but with recognition of melancholy" tone.
Again, if poorly translated lyrics are inappropriate removal will occur.
http://gendou.com/amusic/lyrics.php?id=75&show=2

How I discovered it
After finishing a fantastic anime called PlanetES I was looking for another anime to watch, and I discovered that the same studio made an anime called "Twin Spica" about teenagers wanting to be astronauts. This song was the opening theme for that series.

Fun Fact
The band, BUZY, are an all-female Japanese pop musical group, according to Wikipedia. One of their songs was used in the Megaman anime, apparently. Oh, and apparently this song has the same tune as "Kujira" (which I assume to be a song of some kind) with different lyrics. And this song may have been written by one of the guys from Porno Graffitti, a much more famous Japanese group.

Hot.

[GarageGothic]

Song: A Song From Under the Floorboards by Magazine
Comments: The lyric "my irritability keeps me alive and kicking" really resonates with me for some reason. I haven't studied the origin of the lyrics, but I always imagined it to be influenced by Kafka. There's some lovely cover versions of it, my favorite being the one by Strange Boutique.
How I discovered it: Morrissey performed a cover of it at a concert I attended in Sweden last year.

Fun fact: Someone synced the music with clips from Phantom of the Opera and put the video on youtube. At least it's a chance to hear the album version which is a bit different from the performance posted above.

[Stupot]

Song
Uninvited by American melodic-punk band Ruth Ruth from their album Laughing Gallery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1du1EdYf0zI

Comment
This is good American punk, but not like Bad Religion and Pennywise, it's more focused on melody and this track in particular show's just how good they were back in the day.

How I discovered it
Laughing Gallery was the first CD I ever called my own.  My cousin gave it to me as a birthday present about 12-13 years ago because I loved it so much, and the song I'm recommending today remained my favourite song for years.

Fun Fact
Ruth Ruth have had a tough time over the last 15 or so years.  Dropped by each of their record companies after one album, they have released records on American and Epitaph and others.  They split in 1999(ish) and all was quiet until they decided to start from scratch in frontman Chris Kennedy's garage and recorded Right About Now which they released themselved without a major company, but it was only availble on Itunes and CDBaby

To hear more of their stuff, they have a MySpace page:
http://www.myspace.com/ruthruth 

[Tuomas]

Cute idea, though my guess is this'll reach more than enough pages in a few weeks, but hey, I trust andail knows what he's doing. And about songs, Nik, lovely choise, Radiohead is great.


song: Junior Senior - Move Your Feet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKcDa0Kp2K8
Comment: Not my cup of tea, but a very catchy tune, and I think I really like it in a kinky way, the singer's not bad either.
How I Discovered It: Well my brother sent me the mp3 with msn telling me he liked it a lot as a jammin song. My friend at the moment was sitting next to me and told me it was shit.
Fun Fact: Well my brother then linked me to their video telling me it's great again, and it indeed is, especially if you like pixel art, and I know you do. And yeah, the song does make most people sway around a bit, a great partytune And even though no-one knew this band, I recognised the song immediately as one I've heard, and to my brother, I was the first one to know it. Well, the single is also available on the soundtrack of the popular American television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

[LimpingFish]

Song
Flaming Telepaths by Blue Öyster Cult, from their third album Secret Treaties.

Comment
A pounding piano rift opens up this lament to drug-induced, occult madness. A real stomping piece of rock.

How I discovered it
Quite recently, while browsing in Tower Records for something "new". The cover to this CD caught my eye and the song titles intrigued me.

Fun Fact
The lyrics to this song, like a number of BOC songs, were taken from the poetry of the band's manager Sandy Pearlman. His cycle of poems entitled "Imaginos" became a BOC concept album in 1988, and featured narration by Stephen King. Apparently.

[DGMacphee]

Song: Dance With Me by Orleans
Comment: Very sweet. Play this to your girlfriend/wife/significant other and she will give you lots of kisses.
How I discovered it: During last year's US House election campaigns, I saw Stephen Colbert interview Orleans co-founder John Hall, who was running against incumbent New York congressional representative Sue Kelly. Both Colbert and Hall harmonised a few bar of Dance With Me together and it sounded quite beautiful.
Fun fact: Hall won against Kelly and is now the Congressional Rep for New York's 19th district. Many attribute his appearance on The Colbert Report to aiding his victory. During his interview, Colbert offered him "smear cards" to smear Kelly as a joke. Hall selected one that read: "My opponent smokes marijuana".

See Colbert's interview with John Hall here.

See the follow up interview after Hall won.

[Tiki]

Song: Good Morning Captain, by Slint
Comment: The pinnacle of Slint's achievements.  Builds perfect anticipation, and utilizes the "less is more"  philosophy to a chilling degree.  And when it gets loud, it gets LOUD.  This band never received proper credit for the way it influenced other artists.
How I discovered it: I was camping with my brother and he lent me the CD for a night.
Fun fact: The band broke up almost directly after the album's release, and one of the members (David Pajo) went on to play in Zwan.

[Rincewind]

Song:
Take the veil Cerpin Taxt by The Mars Volta

Comment:
One of their best songs. And as always with TMV, it's a blend of odd rhythms, frenetic progressive instrumentation and ambient soundscapes, topped off with Cedric Bixler-Zavala's high-pitched, nasal voice and wonderfully cryptic lyrics. (Or how about "The iconoclastic had it coming for years/They know the prisons that you have yet to fear/Where thumbs hide inside of sleepingbag mouths/Adlib your memoires by casting a drought"?) All this while retaining a great sense of catchy songwriting midst all the experimentalism.

How I discovered it:
Now, I been a fan of The Mars Volta since the first time I heard them, and especially their first full-length album, "De-loused in the Comatorium", which is nothing short of a masterpiece in my opinion. But it took me a while to fully appreciate the last track on that cd. However, after repeated listens, it's become one of my absolute favorites with them. Now I can't stop listening to it.

Fun Fact:
Well, not really "fun", I suppose, but the song, and indeed the whole album is based on the fate of their ex-bandmember Jeremy Ward, who died shortly before they recorded the album.

[Helm]

Song:
Symphonaire Infernus at Spera Empyrium by My Dying Bride

Comment:
The very first song My Dying Bride apparently wrote, it's 11 minutes. The version above sadly is clocks at chopped 5 minutes. This song is really important to me for many reasons. Well before this brand of romantic doom metal has been saturated by clones of the 'original three' (british Peaceville artists My Dying Bride, Anathema, and Paradise Lost) there were no photographs in sleeves, no interviews, no silly vampire lyrics, nothing but a very esoteric promise that only heavy metal can make, but rarely holds. The lyrical material here is, top-notch:

The destroying genius of idols
Will shroud the world with utter lies
Dance the cobbles, his abode named Dis
Portraits have spoken their masters distress

Icons with kisses, tell me who have seen this
Failing Enochian tapestries
Depict the prince of fallen virtues
In almost poetic rhapsody

Masturbate to the sound of the knell
The Patchetic stench of dying children
Perhaps our fall is certain
Limbs entwined in absolute contrusion

Please put off your veil
Your heart is blameless
And I shudder for knowing it

A hot May makes a fat churchyard
And Lychfowel breed in chaotic frenzy
Her cry was the saddest of all earths sounds
Trauma bites hard the hearts of Kin
Swept away by a moments sadness
They say rage is a brief madness
By way of the beloveds farewell
Give back to nature what we first did take
And monuments would slowly fill
The agendas' of Kings and Queens
In silence our faces bleed
The holy voice torn away by the gale

Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you...

Love is a game where both players cheat
Gone is the tale of Hero and Leander
Women are angels yet wedlock's the devil
To have and to hold but death no longer parts
Harlots and sluts, whores of our world
Expose their stinking vaginas
Many who have no will of their own
Hold their souls towards the sinister bloom
Are you rich oh lord of vanity
As you peddle your wears of cruelty
Dressed up so you look the part
So blind, it's ignorance you wear

Quite brutal beyond belief
Sores that weep their septic tears
Dragged out through war torn lifetimes
And death shall feast on us all
The mills of God grind slowly
The adorable light of that which is most divine

The fascination of her shape
With mansions of awe and splendour
Elegant in simplicity
So at last your faith rewards you
Through fields enriched with pastel shade
And fragrant lavenders soft to smell
You laugh and drink wine of no great age
Nature does scent the farthest shores
Face to face your angelic host
All hopes in you imperishably kept
Is God your wish and all your dreams
If your body is frail then yes by all means

Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you...

Sorry for not putting just a snippet, but how do you do that with this sort of work?

If experienced under the right circumstances ( youtube isn't it. ) this music is magic. Full of an incandescent malevolence, a cruelty of life, and more.

How I discovered it:

By bying the first EP.

Amusing Anectode:

When I witnessed this song live, and I was in the front row singing the lyrics and headbanging all the while, My Dying Bride recieved numerous rounds of applause. It wasn't because the audience was so appreciative of this track, it was because they were unfamiliar with it, and every time a rest came they thought the song was over. For them I guess My Dying Bride played 3 different songs close to each other.

[Radiant]

Song: Grendel, by Marillion
Comment: It's nearly fifteen minutes long and covers a variety of styles. It depicts the story of Grendel (of Beowulf fame) from the monster's point of view, and is none too kind about the humans in the story.
How I discovered it: I got one of their CDs as a semi-random birthday gift and started buying all of them.
Fun fact: The band was missing a vocalist when they wrote the song, and the lyrics were added later by the vocalist (Fish) after they joined up.

[Timosity]

Song: Wellkumn, by Bagster
Comment: This song just grabbed me instantly, a ska, punk, rock anthem type song, with some funny lyrics, well worth a listen
How I discovered it: I've seen the band play a few times, they are local, but I haven't seen them for over a year. I noticed them on one of my myspace friends pages and checked out their page and heard some of their latest songs and this one stood out for me
Fun fact: I had this song in my head today, and after a while it had changed into the Teddy Bears Picnic - ie
"If you go down to the woods today, You're sure of a big surprise
If you go down to the woods today, You'd better go in disguise."

They are supporting Reel Big Fish on their tour over here

[MashPotato]

Song:Do You Trust Me? by Blanche  (video)
Comment: An alt-country song with a quirky, slightly bizarre feel.  Well worth listening to, especially if you want something different!
How I discovered it: My brother played it for me after he first discovered them (they were touring with The White Stripes).  I'm not a fan of country music in general, but some alt-country, like Blanche, appeals to me.
Fun fact: Blanche was the first band I ever saw in concert, and I believe this was the first song they played

[Adamski]

Song: Brian Ellis - XYL (myspace)
Comment: One very talented man, several instruments, painstaking overdubbing, great music! Sort of folk electronica rock.
How I discovered it: As a fan of Benbecula Records and a labelmate of Brian elsewhere.
Fun Fact: If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom falls off!


Good choice by the way Nikolas! I'm not sure I can see the Messiaen influences in Just - I thought those influences really came in after OK Computer - but Quatuor pour la fin du temps is pretty harrowing piece of music, especially considering the circumstances of it's composition. It's probably not easy to listen to for most people, but highly rewarding... people should check that out if they're familiar with Radiohead already

[deFineLicht]

Song: Blue And alone by Weeping Willows
Comment: Please ignore the video, since this band is quite unknown outside Sweden, I couldn't find any better link.
I really like this song, gets me all emotional.
How I discovered it: It was the opening tune for a swedish comedy program called "Pistvakt" , the program was mediocre, but I really liked this song.
Fun Fact: No, not really.

[Tuomas]

Once a day huh?

song: Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmMyLBJk-Qw

Comment: I have this on vinyl and cd. actually everytime I hear this song, it brings a different memory, of home playing guitar, or at a exhibition with my mates, what ever. It's one of the greatest folkrock/prog songs there ever is, and I was so surprised to see there was a video for it.

How I Discovered It: Weel first of all I discovered Jethro Tull and they've been my favourite since '97-98. My father had a collection of old vinyls and he gave them to me. That's how I found this. The video I found when I was thinking of good lyrics for a song, that or a poem that someone told me to write to her. I remembered the lyrics of this song, and this album as whole, and sought the video.

fun fact: of the band presented here, only 2 continued to make the next album. Rest left, bassist died. Later, a few years ago the keyboardist/violinist, David Palmer had a genderchange and is now known as Dee Palmer.


Have to comment, Radiant and Rincewind, great choises, especially Radiant. Not many people own Market Square Heroes, so consider yourself lucky.

[Mr Flibble]

Song
What's He Building? - Tom Waits

Comment
I like this song because it sounds like it's being sung by Ben from Full Throttle, or possibly a Grim Fandango character. The offkey sound effects in the background also seem to remind me of Grim Fandango. It's quite an eerie song, but the voice of Tom Waits is just ... well, it's incredible.

How I discovered it
It scared a friend of mine, who sent me the video on Youtube. I didn't find it scary, but since I found it so rich and delicious, I favourited it. The one I listened too had better audio quality than the one I linked here.

Fun Fact
Listen closely in the background... they're saying "I heard that too."
A song about rumours or paranoia perhaps... or maybe even something more real?
We DO have a right do know 

[LimpingFish]

Song
Holy Wars...The Punishment Due, by Megadeth from their 1990 album Rust in Peace.

Comment
What epic metal should be. A myriad of tempo and key changes, and guitars that manage to sound like the string section of a symphony orchestra playing at full whack. Six and a half minutes of audio adrenalin.

How I discovered it
...is tied directly into how I discovered Megadeth. Which goes way back to 1992, remains inactive for 12 years, and then begins again in 2004. It's a long and rambling story. So...

Fun Fact
Wikipedia: "Holy Wars" deals with the ongoing Arab-Israeli Conflict then the song proceeds to, after a bridge, become "The Punishment Due", which is about the comic book character The Punisher." Groovy.

[Rincewind]

Song:
Stardust - Music sounds better with you

Comment
Now, usually, I'm definately not an avid listener of club/house music and so on, but this song is just to wonderful to ignore. Repetitive, sure, but when the hook is as good as this, it really doesn't matter. Be sure to watch the video as well, it's just as good. This is an essential summer-tune for me.

How I discovered it:
Well, I remember seeing the video on one of these top-of-the-pop-ish programs on tv when it came out back in 1998, and it was somehow etched into my head. Didn't see or hear it again after that until sometime last year, when I suddenly remembered it and had a craving to find it again.

Fun Fact:
This song was the only thing this band/project ever released, which is a mighty shame. Notable is, however, that one of the three people behind this is Thomas Bangalter, more known as a member of Daft Punk.



Mr Flibble: Great choice. Tom Waits is the man, no doubt about it.