Today my office space (or rather, the space I share with close to thirty staff) was invaded by building noises. There were no actual builders in the room but they were occupying the cavity next to the heating vent, making all sorts of thumping, banging and crashing noises which meant I had to relocate myself somewhere where I'd actually get to mark some SACs. My friend Niki yelled at them to shut the f* up (I doubt they heard) but I thought it would be far more effective to play some angry music at them. Like, perhaps, the following....
Your Honour, Regina Spektor
Angry music about fighting! How appropriate can you get! 'I kissed your lips and I tasted blood... da na na na na na, da na na na!'. From Soviet Kitsch, which I can't get enough of at the moment.
19 20 20, The Grates
I knew there'd be something appropriately loud on this album although it was a bit of a toss up between this and Nothing Sir. Not really angry but definitely loud. Like Pain would also be appropriate.
Sympathy, Sleater Kinney
Notice how all these bands are mostly female so far? I wonder if there's something more to be analysed in that.
The Letter, PJ Harvey
Another female singer-songwriter here. The whole album Uh Huh Her has a definite angry tone. Maybe it's the pay back to Nick Cave for writing a whole album about her, although you'd hope she was over that by now.
See America Right, The Mountain Goats
So we have one with a male lead singer! Has one of the best lines I know... 'your love is like a cyclone in a swamp, and the weather's getting warmer'.
Piece of Me, Diana Ah Naid
More angry women, or rather one. I was annoyed recently when I found she's started spelling her surname differently so it's more difficult to track down her music!
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