Anyway, I open METRO recently and LondonLite and thelondonpaper and even the Observer Music Monthly and they're all banging on about this secretive South London artist called Burial and how his second album is the awesome sound of late night London, he's the Banksy of the urban music world; four stars, five stars, must buy album of the week. And it reminded me that a) I'd really loved the first one and also b) that it was surprisingly brilliant on the playlist for the morning walk to work.
Personally, I don't really want the Scissor Sisters yawping their unique brand of 'fun' at me while I can barely open my eyes and the guy next to me is scratching his filthy armpit with a spirit level and the alarm didn't go off again and I shouldn't have had that fourth schnapps and my left shoelace snapped on the walk to the station and ... well, anyway, my question is this:
"Who do you have on your playlist for the walk to work?"
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I am currently agreeing with Gordon Brown and listening to the Arctic Monkees to get me up in the morning.
The fact I'm still listening to them now at 10 tells you that I still haven't quite officially entered the land of the living.
This morning it was the Radio 1 double CD of covers. A mixed bag really - a surprisingly nice cover of the Pretenders' Don't Get Me Wrong by Lily Allen, and the Kooks amusingly doing Ace of Base.
But some of the choices are just horrific: Editors doing the Cure, Kasabian playing Too Much Too Young, and Just jack massacring the Cardigans. I wept.
Well in utterly awesome moment of the week (so far) I find out that there is a remix of the wonderful 'Flux' by Bloc Party (another of my favourite noisemakers) by none other than Burial.
Ah, heaven*
* sorry I've done it again, haven't I
Katamari Damacy soundtrack (its a weird Japanese computer game) never fails to bring a smile to my face in the morning.
For a while, I listened to Chicago by Sufjan Stevens every morning before leaving for work. I can't really explain why, just love that track.
@Alison: now that's awesome; but do you therefore collect all the random items you touch along the way?
Another bit of Burial here in which he quotes influences including 'Love' by Luke Slater.
Now that track, for me, is only second to the Dark Train remix of Dark & Long by Underworld.
At the risk of having to go up into the loft and dig out my white gloves, "TUNE"...
@fourstar - all I'm going to say is its a good job I get the bus not drive or it would end like this each day: http://xkcd.com/161/
@alison: I'd really like to see the insurance claim form...
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