Monday, April 28, 2008

Where's The Vodka?














Lifelike



These are not bangers. These are not banglodies. These songs are sweet stabs of italo-disco-electro-funk. These songs and remixes are Lifelike, they are songs for electro cats to chill to. If you listen to way too much dance music, like us here at Fake Tattoos, then these song will be a certain sort of respite from the banger overload of the blogworld. I listen to Lifelike when I drive my spaceship around Sector Y, when I make love to your ghost, and when the world collapses and reveals icy streaks of light that hypnotize you and your heart until it all seems so...Lifelike.

So Electric

In My Car

Epic Last Song (Lifelike Remix)

Happy Therapy (Lifelike Remix)

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Friday, April 25, 2008

Black Rose Bunny Circles



I was crawling through my garden when a black rose opened up and inside was a rabbit made of circles and wire. I asked him "What do you need?" shaking my snow covered fist at him, "Guitars interlocked to inform me of space and time" he said with his eyes aglow inside of a moon inside of a sun inside of my favorite songs mixed together in a 15 minute mini love letter to the world and to everyone who reads Fake Tattoos. Please download this and enjoy it through your ears. It is made to please, nothing more does it intend to do, this is not challenging, this is euphoric, this is Black Rose Bunny Circles.

1. Six Organs Of Admittance - Saint Cloudd
2. Shugo Tokumaru - Mushina
3. Felt - Crystal Ball
4. The Verlaines - Joed Out
5. Neutral Milk Hotel - A Baby For Pree
6. Television - Days

Black Rose Bunny Circles

Thursday, April 24, 2008

The Stone Roses



Spring is here, and this should be your anthem. One of the greatest albums ever made, reminds everyone of sun, fun, and romance!!!!

One Starfox's top 3 favorite albums!!!

From AMG:
Since the Stone Roses were the nominal leaders of Britain's "Madchester" scene -- an indie rock phenomenon that fused guitar pop with drug-fueled rave and dance culture -- it's rather ironic that their eponymous debut only hints at dance music. What made the Stone Roses important was how they welcomed dance and pop together, treating them as if they were the same beast. Equally important was the Roses' cool, detached arrogance, which was personified by Ian Brown's nonchalant vocals. Brown's effortless malevolence is brought to life with songs that equal both his sentiments and his voice -- "I Wanna Be Adored," with its creeping bassline and waves of cool guitar hooks, doesn't demand adoration, it just expects it. Similarly, Brown can claim "I Am the Resurrection" and lie back, as if there were no room for debate. But the key to The Stone Roses is John Squire's layers of simple, exceedingly catchy hooks and how the rhythm section of Reni and Mani always imply dance rhythms without overtly going into the disco. On "She Bangs the Drums" and "Elephant Stone," the hooks wind into the rhythm inseparably -- the '60s hooks and the rolling beats manage to convey the colorful, neo-psychedelic world of acid house. Squire's riffs are bright and catchy, recalling the British Invasion while suggesting the future with their phased, echoey effects. The Stone Roses was a two-fold revolution -- it brought dance music to an audience that was previously obsessed with droning guitars, while it revived the concept of classic pop songwriting, and the repercussions of its achievement could be heard throughout the '90s, even if the Stone Roses could never achieve this level of achievement again.

The Stone Roses Debut Album (Self Titled)
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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow



Felt was a band from the 80s. They worshipped Television. They created songs that made everyone remember America, even though they were from England. Listen to this music and pretend you are from the 70s, wearing jeans and a leather jacket, smoking on a NYC side street, staring at a gang of blondes singing Friction as loud as they can while tagging up the walls with CBGB. Good ol' days. This is some of the best shit.

Here are my favorite songs from their 1984 debut, The Strange Idols Pattern And Other Short Stories.

Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow
Crystal Ball
Whirlpool Vision of Shame

Watch as guitar lines slip and slide between each-other creating absolute diamond memories in the sky of your eyes.