SHUNS SHUNS SHUNS SHUNS *clap*

Jesus, thanks James. Hiya again to all the new people - pull up a chair and enjoy plz.

LCD Soundsystem, "Tribulations" (Lindstrom remix) - Calling Lindstrom's mix of LCD Soundsystem my favorite thing he's ever done feels kinda like saying my favorite Rolling Stones album is Forty Licks, but I gotta call 'em like I see 'em, and this is just an axe murderer of a remix. Setting aside the fact that "Tribulations" on its own is probably my favorite song off an album that I'll keep forever (even if I never play it the whole way through again), it's also simply a matter of this probably being the most unthreatening example of Lindstrom's particular brand of space disco. I actually tend to like most of the man's output and jump all over any download with his name on it I ever come across, but the undeniable fact is that a lot of his catalogue leaves me kinda unsatisfied (although to be fair that's probably more of a testament to the dance music I brought myself up on than Lindstrom). That is emphatically not the case here, however; between the cavernous breakdown, that tinkly little bell, and one particular effect that I don't want to give away since I'm not sure if it'd be my favorite use of an effect in a song this year if I'd known it was coming, this is damn close to being a fireworks show. I probably don't even need to mention that it's a little bit danceable too. A little bit. (Click here to buy the "Tribulations" single from Calsound)

David Soul, "Silver Lady" - The fact that there's a musical cottage industry which exists in order to convince people of certain songs' simultaneous innate shittiness and immense likeability makes me kind of uncomfortable, although of course I own one of those compilations and wouldn't mind finding the other one so there you go. It helps immeasurably that I'm at least between five and ten years old to even experience embarassment over these kinds of songs; I'm sure that if I had any roots whatsoever in the 70s', I'd find the idea of Starsky - yes, that Starsky - making a pop record as mortifying as the idea of Don Johnson doing the same. Fortunately for me, I wasn't and so I don't, so all I'm left with is one of those super-schmaltzy strings-'n-steppin' 70's AM ballads which mean absolutely nothing yet prove infallibly enjoyable when they come up randomly on my iPod. When you've got a song like that on your hands, who gives a shit who sang it? I mean it's not like I haven't already made an ass of myself for a song performed by David Brent already or anything. (Click here to buy Guilty Pleasures Rides Again from Amazon.co.uk)