Category
Gits
Music awards.
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01.21.06The Gits Music Awards: 4 - The Just Can’t Get Enough award(for the album which you played and played and played and played and played - doesn't have to be a 2005 release) Elbow - Leaders of the Free World I quite like Elbow - have done ever since the brooding mantra-like Any Day Now - but I'd never really given their albums a particularly good listen, because I much preferred the singles to the rest of their output. Having said that, Leaders of the Free World is in a different class entirely. I certainly wouldn't say it was the best album ever or anything, but it has a pleasing wholeness ...
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01.20.06The Gits Music Awards: 3 - The Can’t Get You Out of My Head award(for the song that - good or bad - got stuck in your brain for days/weeks/months on a permaloop) Nizlopi - JCB Song I have a problem. Sometimes, when I'm particularly stressed by things, I find it difficult to switch off in the evenings. If I'm particularly wound up, then I find it difficult to fall asleep at night. Things keep going round and round and round in my head, and I just can't stop them. Sometimes it's a thought, or replaying a particular situation. Sometimes it's a phrase or bunch of words which just keep on churning. And sometimes, the ...
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01.19.06The Gits Music Awards: 2 - The Fungal award(for the album that grew on you) Kate Bush - Aerial When I first heard the single King of the Mountain, I was fairly underwhelmed, and assumed the rest of the album would be much the same. After the first listen through of the whole thing, I thought she'd gone mad, or at very least continued to feed the madness of the early years. It was kooky, strange, screechy in bits, odd prog-rock opera in others, and it had Rolf Harris doing a guest appearance. There was a song about a washing machine, and one about Pi, in which she ...
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01.18.06The Gits Music Awards: 1 - The Better Than Expected award(for the album you expected to hate, but you actually ended up liking) Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV I thought they were going to be another bunch of hyped-up scruffy twenty-somethings with a good-looking lead singer and one catchy track. I ended up really liking this album, and I was surprised. Plus it was recorded in an old cab office in Staines or Slough or something, which is cool. Straight out of West London / just like a loaded gun / the cognoscenti don't like us / they don't like us... Yeah, but I do.
