6 posts tagged “dunedin”
HDU are kind of psychedelic-y, post-punk-y kind of music. They are noisy. I like that.
(terrible quality, but it's the only one I can find on youtube)
Speights is the beer of my hometown, Dunedin. I grew up thinking that beer = Speights; I didn't understand that there were many many different varieties. I'm from the south of NZ, aka the "mainland", and while we're not all sheep farmers or cow cockies, this sort of advertising definitely appeals to most people down there. Me included, I gotta admit it.
There's a whole series of these "Southern man" commercials. They've been running for nearly 20 years - this is one of the earliest.
I made a mix cd for my friend J. I've been friends with him for about a year (sidebar: it's so cool when you actually manage to make a new friend after the age of 30 - thank dog for the internets where I can "meet" people and pretend they are my friends) and I realised a few weeks ago that I had no idea what sort of music he liked. The fact that I didn't know this gave me a perverse sort of pleasure, because I remember the days when I found out someone's taste in music before their last name. And yeah, I totally judged them. Heh. So anyways, there I was feeling all mature about not caring, but still interested. He said that he didn't really listen to new music (favorite artist: Lou Reed) but he did like Belle and Sebastian. And I was all like "I love Belle and Sebastian! Hey, we have similar tastes in music - I'll make you a mix cd!" (sidebar 2: I know this isn't an original thought, but weren't mix tapes so much better? You forced the person to listen to the music in the order you dictated. And it's the order that turns an average mix tape masterful).
The cd took on a bit of a life of its own, as they tend to, and it turned out a little poppier than I anticipated. This is what I put on it.
1. The New Pornographers - The Bleeding Heart Show
2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over and over
3. Of Montreal - The Actor's Opprobrium
4. Slowdive - Alison
5. The Arcade Fire - Wake Up
6. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
7. The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle
8. Sons and Daughters - Blood
9. Low - Transmission
10. Straitjacket Fits - If I were You
11. My Bloody Valentine - Loomer
12. Stars - soft revolution
13. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space
14. Bike - Slide on By
15. The New Pornographers - Sing me Spanish Techno
I realised that this list probably looks like jonmc's worst nightmare. I can live with that :) And yeah, I really like the New Pornographers. Here's a couple of songs from the mix.
Straitjacket Fits, as I have mentioned before, are from my hometown. Their first couple of albums had a nicely balanced dynamic between the raw guitary songs written by Shayne Carter and the dreamy pop sensibilities of Andrew Brough. Their final album, after Brough left the band just wasn't as good. You can see what Brough produces without Carter in Slide on By, the final single of the album Take in the Sun, by Bike, his post-Fits band that only put out one album.
(also, the next mix is up at outof5)
6 years later, J and T still haven't broken up. He was slightly younger than she realised, she was much older than he had guessed. But they abide, and they are awesome.
2 of the 3 members (not T) of Carriage H formed Die! Die! Die! who have been tearing it up around the USA and Europe.
Aaahh memories -- this album came out in my first year of university (1993). We used to drink gin and smoke some and lie out looking at the stars and listening to this. I was such a cliche :)
