A Complete Explanation Of Everything

Stayed up last night, hitting a few brewskis and taking a trip down nostalgia lane...

First up, is arch hipsters: Curve, a 2 person group including sultry chanteuse Toni Halliday. I used to describe this band as being like The Prodigy only good which got people intrigued enough to take a listen. This is probably one of my favourite singles of all time off of a great record entitled: Come Clean. The video ain't too bad neither, check it...

Curve - Chinese Burn

Up next, a little something from The Pumpkins. This is a tune that I tend to cover quite a bit on the old acoustic but it's kind of galling that most who claim to like the band don't really recall it and it's not my version that is at fault. It was one of the best moments, if understated, on Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness and reminds me of what I'm trying to aim for, to a degree, when I'm making music. Enjoy...

Smashing Pumpkins - Thirty Three

Let's rock it up a notch or twenty with the next tune. Actually, it kinda links in because there was a heavy amount of inbreeding between The Pumpkins and Filter for a while. When Jimmy Chamberlain got thrown out for supplying the overdose (or at least being there) that killed The Pumpkin's touring keyboardist, the drummer from Filter was drafted into the band that they were supporting. I think that was the same tour, where in Dublin, a young girl was crushed to the death at the front of the stage during the first two or three songs of the gig. Anyway, this track from Filter was probably as good as it got for them, it features a killer bass line and is supposedly about the public suicide of some state treasurer in the US. Hey man, nice shot...

Filter - Hey man, nice shot

Next up, one of Dublin's great lost bands. Whipping Boy were contenders for a while, their album: Heartworm, still features on the best 100 Irish records of all time, etc. I forget exactly why they broke up but in Ireland, bands tend to develop a certain amount of momentum and then, well, there's only so many venues before you need to break out internationally. Never happened for these guys but it should have...

Whipping Boy - Twinkle

And to round off, the king of all videos, Depeche Mode & Enjoy the Silence. Directed by the ever visual, ever wonderful, Anton Corbijn, this really set the bar for what videos can and should be, it really adds to the ethereal arrangement of the tune and there's not really much more to say. Words are very unnecessary as it were...

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence