144 bpm 3: Bright Lights Big City
Posted in Urban decay on the elliptical machine, and the bright lights of my hometown won’t be getting any dimmer… 144 bpm 3: Bright Lights Big City The Lighthouse – Amon Tobin City of Blinding Lights – U2 IT – Genesis Shattered – The Rolling Stones Futures – Zero 7 with José González In-Between Days – The Cure London’s Mine – White Rose Movement Hymn From A Village – James Moaner – Underworld One of Us Is Gonna Die Young – The Ark (cooldown) We’re In Yr CornerI – Cornershop
Yeah, okay: This mix didn’t come together entirely by accident. But I didn’t have to massage the tracks too much on the technical end.
I’m a little disappointed with the way that “It”—excuse me, IT—works in this context. The (second-) most tuneful and straightforward rock song on all The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, it—I beg your pardon, IT—suffers from a bad mix; the drums have no punch, and the bass just sort of meanders around when it should be driving the song.
Note the segue from the line “It is only rock and roll, but I like it” into a Rolling Stones song. Is very clever, yes? Is funny joke! Everyone please to laugh now!
There’s a neat symmetry to José González’s collaboration with Zero 7. González, of course, first made a name for himself (in the States, anyway) with his cover of The Knife’s “Heartbeats,” taking a heavily electronic song and turning it into a folky ballad: now one of his original folky ballads is transformed into piece of a glitchy electronica. Is very clever, yes?
To accompany “Moaner,” I almost linked to a YouTube clip of a segment from The Vagina Monolgues with the same title. Is very clever, yes?
I’ve worked out to this mix for months, and the unexpected entrance of “One Of Us Is Gonna Die Young” skunks me every. Single. Time.
Lastly: I cannot vouch for the reliability of those Cornershop lyrics; yeah, they’re from the official artist site, but I wouldn’t put it past Tjinder to fuck with us, would you? Sing along if you dare.
