Posts by bob daktari
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"there are no orchestras"
and thank goodness for that - there are a few moments on the album when I feared the introduction of a string section... just not needed given the sparse soundtrack her voice inhabits
Cheese On Toast nails it:
"Royals is how most people came across Lorde and it remains one of the best pop song’s written. In 10-20-30 years time your kid’s kids will know this song. Mark my words"
http://cheeseontoast.co.nz/2013/09/27/pure-heroine-by-lorde-first-impressions-track-by-track/
She is simply just fab!
Next week is her best shot at the number one slot in the USA, according to more informed minds than mine - I hope she gets there and then the album follows suit...
reggae remix of Royals
https://soundcloud.com/namdrik16/lorde-royals-reggae-remix
Great EDM links - stupid genre for stupid wealthy people, viva la dance!
https://soundcloud.com/grass-green-recordings/darren-clark-suzy-128k-preview
its been a bloody great music week!
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pleased to see Ardern take arts as well.. and most changes seem generally positive - now for them to pull as a team, for the betterment of the nation not selves
NRT's take, is interesting, as it possibly explains some areas of potential weakness http://norightturn.blogspot.co.nz/2013/09/a-signal-to-greens.html
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Hard News: Friday Music: Dancing Fool, in reply to Tom Beard,
bluegrass and hardfloor (I love how they work that 303) - today is a good day
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oh cool cheers for the zip file!
I like dance music and all things associated with that... but I rarely dance... I'm a foot tapper head mover but not a let it all out kinda guy (repressed white guy styles)
Today I've been desk sitting (dancing in my world) to this Greg Wilson set, which kicks off with a yet to be released track entitled Keiths Two Teeth on Auckland label Huhu (they doing good stuff)
https://soundcloud.com/gregwilson/festival-no-6-portmeirion-14
In my time pushing play on record players in clubs I aimed my sets at getting people to drink more, dance if you want to but I want my crowd well lubricated... easiest way to do this was to play music they didn't like but I did, needless to say I wasn't booked that often
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Dean Papa,
I think, musically, with my feet - everyone else is doing it wrong!
PLUR
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"Tickets for her debut London show – at Madame JoJo’s next Tuesday – sold out in just four minutes. Not that Ella seems overly fazed by any of this.
“It’s a bit weird,” she shrugs down the phone. “[New Zealanders are] quite self-deprecating people in general. I was on this radio show and they were like, ‘You sold out your LA show, that’s amazing,’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, but the venue’s not very big!’”
Read more at http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-radar/radar-band-of-the-week-lorde#UHw3kZwFDE4TOeWu.99
That last comment gold!
hat tip Peter MClennan
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Hard News: Game Lorde, in reply to Lilith __,
threads been palmered.... time to leave
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as a Kiwi I expect and am usually rewarded for cost benefits of "vital" services to be passed onto offshore interests... indeed so much so that I expect some of my taxes to subsidise such
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America is another world (charts), from billboard:
Sixteen-year-old New Zealander, and current Billboard magazine cover act, Lorde blasts 8-3 on the Hot 100 with her breakthrough U.S. single “Royals.” The track wins top Digital Gainer honors for a fourth time in five weeks, vaulting 8-2 on Digital Songs (225,000, up 34%). It reaches the top 10 on Streaming Songs (12-8; 4 million, up 40%) and lifts 17-13 on Radio Songs (72 million, up 26%).
Aided by its support at alternative radio, “Royals” rules Hot Rock Songs for a second week. It tops the Alternative Songs airplay chart for a fifth week, tying Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know” (1995) for the longest domination on the ranking for a song by a solo female. (Browse Billboard’s 25th anniversary celebration of the Alternative Songs chart’s all-time top songs and top artists.)
This is exciting… and not long to wait to see what and how well the album will be greeted in larger markets.
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Hard News: Game Lorde, in reply to Samuel Scott,
interestingly or not... if you read the various comments from US fans on youtube and other places Lorde has popped up there is a theme of calling her alternative - which she is if you consider her career path. No disney years learning to smile on cue... nothing. Nor was she developed via radio / TV, ie the traditional route for a "pop" act - rather US radio is only now catching up.
She's fresh, new.... and a breath of fresh air to many - so to a person in America (or elsewhere) she's well alternative - not stylistically as in 90s college rock et al (hate the term alternative I might add) but in that she's not been over marketed, hyped and groomed to an inch of her life like her peers
So saying that its not surprising a kiwi would think the same, given they too can see similar comments