Year's end is coming, what does this mean for us? Yeah right! Time for top-5-lists! 1. The Arcade Fire 1. Architecture in Helsinki 1. The National 1. The Mothers of Invention 1. M. Ward 1. Jens Lekman, Roísín Murphy 1. The Beatles 1. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible 1. Architecture in Helsinki - Fingers Crossed 1. Radiohead - In the Rainbows 1. (shared) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 1. The Arcade Fire - My body is a cage 1. Jens Lekman - The Cold Swedish Winter 1. Spoon - The Underdog 1. Justice vs. Simian - Because We Are Your Friends 1. Justice vs. Simian - Because We Are Your Friends noncompetitive: Immergut Festival, June 1/2, Neustrelitz noncompetitive: Immergut Festival, June 1/2, Neustrelitz 1. The New Pornographers, Oct 2, Mudd Club (Berlin) 1. Feist, 2 October @ Cirkus, Stockholm 1. Immergut Festival, Neustrelitz 1. Immergut Festival, Neustrelitz Immergut Festival! but the Melt! festival is almost keeping up with it. 1. Justice vs. Simian - Because we are your friends 1. Top skill brought to perfection: rushing to the bathroom between two songs during a concert 1. Top skill brought to perfection: organising exhibitions and vernissages 1. Top toy: Guitar Hero, last.fm software
I'll make a start, feel free to edit and complete it (once again the reminder: sign in by using the address: becauseiamguest@gmail.com, password: becauseweare).
Actually, I am not too sure about a lot myself...
[Edit: oh this was hard. I guess I'll modify everything again soon.... haha]
Here we go!
Top 5 bands:
marie (spr):
2. Pulp
3. Two Gallants
4. The New Pornographers
5. Malajube
michau (usual):
2. The Knife
3. Tunng
4. Klaxons, Cansei de Ser Sexy, New Young Pony Club, Justice, MSTRKRFT, Outlines
5. Stateless
6. Xploding plastiX
7. Kashmir
8. Hermigervill
9. True Live
10. Boards of Canada
sorry, couldn't not mention any on these bands.
peter (rude):
2. Arcade Fire
3. Elbow
4. Great Lake Swimmers
5. Kashmir
max:
2. Odean Pope Trio
3. Sublime
4. Diamanda Galas
5. The Organ
Top 5 solo:
marie (spr):
2. Bob Dylan
3. Feist
4. The Divine Comedy
5. Frida Hyvönen
michau (usual):
2. Iain Archer
3. Rufus Wainwright
4. Ben Westbeech
5. Michael Ward, Patrick Watson
peter (rude):
1. Jens Friebe
2. Rufus Wainwright
3. Jens Lekman
4. Maximilian Hecker
5. Pelle Carlberg
Top 5 posthumous:
marie (spr):
2. Elliott Smith
3. Frédéric Chopin
4. Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht (Dreigroschenoper)
5. Georges Brassens
Top 5 albums:
marie (spr):
2. Two Gallants - The Scenery of Farewell (ok, this was an ep)
3. Justice - †
4. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
5. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
noncompetitive: Evil Kangaroo - Agent Hello In Goodbye's Sober Day :]
michau (usual):
2. The Knife - Silent Shout
3. Justice - †
4. Tunng - Good Arrows
5. Stateless - Stateless
peter (rude):
2. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
3. The National - The Boxer
4. Broken Social Scene presents Kevin Drew - Spirit If
5. Seabear - The Ghost that Carried Us Away
jani:
1. (shared) Panda Bear - Person Pitch
3. The National - Boxer
4. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
5. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Top 5 songs:
marie (spr):
2. Polarkreis 18 - Crystal Lake
3. Get Well Soon - If this hat is missing I have gone hunting
4. Kukka - Chabom (no idea when it's from, let's say from 2007...)
5. Duke Special - Our love goes deeper than that
michau (usual):
2. The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Heart
3. Stateless - Bloodstream
4. Klaxons - The Bouncer
5. The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home f. Patrick Watson
5. Tunng - Soup
5. Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Wirlwind (Hot Chip remix)
jani:
2. Panda Bear - Bros
3. The National - Fake Empire
4. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
5. Cosmobile - On My Way
Top 5 loved songs:
marie (spr):
2. M. Ward - Right in the head
3. Pulp - Like a friend
4. Two Gallants - Steady Rollin'
5. New Order - 1963
michau (usual):
2. Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Wirlwind (Hot Chip remix)
3. Jens Lekman - The Cold Swedish Winter
4. Kashmir - Kalifornia
5. Klaxons - Atlantis to Interzone
Top 5 live concerts:
marie (spr):
1. Two Gallants, Dec 15, Postbahnhof (Berlin)
2. The Decemberists, Sept 30, Postbahnhof (Berlin)
3. Risto, May 9, Vanhan Kirjastotalon Puisto (Tampere)- yeah really this was such a nice atmosphere!
4. Jan Delay, July 14, Melt! Festival (Ferropolis)
5. Art Brut, June 25, Maison de Radio France (Paris)
michau (usual):
1. Architecture in Helsinki, 18th August, Mysłowice, Off-festival.
2. Genesis, 21st June, Katowice.
3. Klaxons, 11 November, Postbahnhof, Berlin.
4. Dick4Dick, 18th August, Mysłowice, Off-festival.
5. Leszek Możdżer, November, Łodź.
jani:
1. The Hold Steady, June 30 @ Accelerator The Big One, Stockholm
2. Dan Deacon, 22 August @ Klubi, Tampere
3. The Arcade Fire, 23 March @ Cirkus, Stockholm
4. Deerhoof (w/ Cosmobile), 10 July @ Redrum, Helsinki
5. The Flaming Lips, 6 July @ Ruisrock, Turku
Top 5 why-on-earth-haven't-i-been-to-the-concert-concerts:
marie (spr):
2. Rufus Wainwright, Oct 5, Volksbühne (Berlin)
3. Daft Punk, June 30, Velodrom (Berlin)
4. Simian Mobile Disco, July 14, Melt! Festival (Ferropolis)
5. Wiidakko, Oct 17, Klubi (Tampere) :)
jani:
2. Daft Punk, sometime @ somewhere
Top 5 concert venues:
marie (spr):
2. Postbahnhof, Berlin (have hardly been anywhere else in Berlin this year although I would have liked to see Lido)
3. Yo-Talo, Tampere
4. Maison de Radio France, Paris
5. Vanhan Kirjastotalon Puisto, Tampere (yes I really liked this ONE concert I've seen there)
jani:
2. Accelerator Festival, Stockholms Universitet
3. Fabryka Trzciny, Warszawa ("where's the vip-room!")
4. Cirkus, Stockholm
Top festival:
marie (spr):
Top 5 Finland:
marie (spr):
2. The Fratellis - Whistle for the choir
3. Rauli Badding Somerjoki - Tähdet Tähdet
4. Paavoharju - Musta Katu
5. Scissor Sisters: I don't feel like dancing
Top 5 tops:
marie (spr):
2. Top alternative festival drink: Jaloviina (beurks)
3. Top amazing additional live instruments: accordion (could hardly decide between accordion and harmonica...)
4. Top toy: last.fm software
5. Top secret favourite song: Mika - Grace Kelly
5. Top secret favourite song: Anita Ward - Ring My Bell
michau (usual):
2. Top shirt provider: Threadless.com
3. Top city: Copenhagen
4. Top toy: last.fm software
5. Top secret favourite song: Anita Ward - Ring My Bell
jani:
2. Top dead Swedish guy: Ingmar Bergman
3. Top controversial concert venue: Redrum, Helsinki (perfect sound but no vision unless standing in the first row)
4. Top new indie club in Krakow: B-Side, Pl. Nowy (the competition in this category was very tough. NOT!)
5. Top secret favourite song: Ace Of Base: The Sign
Sunday, 16 December 2007
Top 5 - It's all about the music 2007
Monday, 10 December 2007
Saturday, 8 December 2007
we are happy land fill
underground rehearsal and strawberry-bloodspill in our favourite Café cellar;
and some midnight noise and dance on the bridges of tha beautifool Paris;
(excuse the foggy pixels, i came back to use this lousy camera you know)
in an abstract parallel, we move towards a blurred horizon in a foggy school system ruled by gangstas (a kind of mob crew who kicks us out of the building every evening), whereas work is falling like rain (some courses appear in one day, very surprising)...
that is why, i finally don't think i'll be able to join this New Year gathering that is so warmly proposed, it'll be for sure a white christmas ;]
hugs to everyone!
Sunday, 2 December 2007
Puff, the magic dragon
Sorry... I just HAVE to do this second post for today. I need to share this. I discovered one of the greatest cover songs online. For free! Take this: Bonnie Prince Billy - Puff, The Magic Dragon. And listen to it for the rest of the evening.
abstract.
Adam asked me for the program of 31st. So, here we go - apart from carrying tables and cupboards from Potsdam to Berlin (no! kidding!), what about an exhibition about Finnish architecture in the DAZ (Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, German centre of architecture, who would have guessed)? Depending on when you're coming and how long you're staying that's something we should definitely do I think!
What else... I just rediscovered the Two Gallants. Great! You can listen to them on their website. Do so and then tell me if I should spend my money for the concert on Dec 15th. It's 20 € that I, actually, don't have... But I'd love to see them.
Anyway, November and December seem to be good months concerning concerts in Berlin... I recently saw Arcade Fire, Werle & Stankowski, The Klaxons (those Kunts!) and the Super Furry Animals (great! and I found the sticker that you see on the left there) live and had to resist spending my last money on Okkervil River, Fujiya & Miyagi, Gogol Bordello and there will be plenty in near future I will have to decide one hour before whether I've got time and money or not. (Oh, by the way, Iron & Wine will be playing during the time you're here... :] )
That's all for today... So long!
-spr.mry
