I ::Might:: Like Retro Music. Maybe.

Amy Winehouse is getting crazy spins everywhere you go. No complaints here, she's basically made the jazz-drenched pop album that Christina Aguilera wishes she had the balls to make. You've already heard "Rehab" and "You Know I'm No Good" so I'll use the new joint instead. And I don't know what she's on about, but black is always the new black.


Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
::Krizia says that Winey was piss drunk while performing last week. I only made it in time for the Klaxons, but I'm still kicking myself for sleeeeeeeppppping on tickets. Sorry Cas.::

Speaking of Britpop artists stealing cues from 60's girl groups, The Pipettes dominate me.


The Pipettes - Pull Shapes


The Pipettes - ABC


The Pipettes - Judy

Adorable. Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me EP should already be out, and We Are The Pipettes album should be out stateside near the end of summer (been out since last June in the UK). And they're going on tour - I'll see you there, either at the Troub or Popscene.

It's a shame that American audiences are completely infatuated with bands attempting to emulate the English garage rock formula/sound, because A) No one does garage rock better than American bands and B) THE ARCTIC MONKEYS DON'T SOUND ANY DIFFERENT FROM THE KLAXONS (who, I hear, are supposed to be this year's Arctic Monkeys).

But this is a retro music thread. I'll get on with it.

Retro garage rock (that should contain eagles and whiskey and hookers. AMERICA, FUCK YEAH)(Also, Josh Homme and Dave Grohl are whores - Josh is easy to spot, Dave not so much)

Eagles of Death Metal - I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)


Retro new wave

The Sounds - Tony the Beat (Push It)

Retro disco

Scissor Sisters (with Ana Matronix on vox) - Kiss You Off

I'm pretty sure I've posted it at one point or another, and I know for sure that it's played to death across the pond, but the first single off Ta-Dah! is a goddamned masterpiece.

Scissor Sisters (this time with Jake Shears up front) - I Don't Feel Like Dancing

Retro hard rock (Bon Scott would be proud. Shit, so would tha Crue.)

Damone - What We Came Here For

And one of my personal favorites of late, retro glam metal. (Sound quality gets significantly better around the 40 second mark)

Bang Camaro - Swallow the Razor (live)

Bang Camaro. You heard it here first. I nearly shat my pants when I saw that the song was unlockable on Guitar Hero. They released Push, Push (Lady Lightning) in June of 06 (if I remember correctly) and are everything you love about 80's glam metal, minus the parts that blow. No pussy lyrics, just a few choruses about pussy. And whiskey. And rock. And enough guitar solo to melt your face off, melt your genitals off, melt every part of the human anatomy off the skeleton. It's that good. And yeah, they've got a power ballad. It's called The Ballad. Bloody genius, I swear.

They also have 20 lead singers. Twenty.

In the words of my brothers Camaro, "Let it burn and let it ride - ROCK AND ROLL WILL NEVER DIE".