The End of the World by The Living End

Aussie punks then, that doesn't instil confidence, like coffee Pepsi somehow the two don't sit too nicely together. Please don't lecture me about the myriad of Australian punk bands, to me I know of one, and that is The Living End, and they doth rock, so I don't need to know of any more.

End of the world chugs along at breakneck speed and at times reminds me of the long tall texans, it isn't psychobilly, it really isn't but it is good and worth the 2 minutes downloading it, I promise you will play it more than once.


http://fsphost.com/readyartbrut/end%20of%20the%20world.mp3
http://www.thelivingend.com.au/

Sunday Morning Comin' Down by Kris Kristofferson

Sunday Morning Comin' Down, been covered by a few people, all of them have that certain believable quality that makes you believe that yes, they will spend Sunday morning coming down and not finishing off the Telegraph's Sudoku. Kris Kristofferson wrote this and you feel that with that face, and that voice he did have a beer for breakfast and another for desert, no Angel Delight for that man.

I love this song though, one of my all time favourite tracks and a welcome addition to any compilation, bridging the gap between country and folk way better than the below par, in my opinion Me and Bobby McGhee, a joy.


Kris Kristofferson

Mixtape by Brand New

One of the many stand out tracks from Brand New's debut release Your Favourite Weapon. Before the fame and when they only wanted to name check Morrissey as opposed to imitate him.

This song may be a clichéd opener to a mixtape but what better song, well ok, maybe The Promise Ring's Make me a mixtape, but aside from that this is the one.

This year will see the release of Brand New's third album and it promises to be a strong follow up to Deja Entendu, the leaked demos hinted at that, in the mean time, download this and put it on to a tape for a girl that you are falling out of love with.


Mixtape.mp3 by Brand New
Brand New

Only Love Is Spoken Here by Pure Grain

When the Family Cat split up fans kept an eye on things hoping that lead singer Paul Frederick could translate his songwriting in The Family Cat to a new outlet. Pure Grain came along on Fierce Panda, and the change on the whole was a good one, more Rockbreaking than Tom Verlaine, two of the Family Cat's standout tracks.

Only love is spoken here, I can't recall how this came to my attention, it is an absolutely beautiful song and one that gets a play every now and again and if you are making a tape for a special lady, this could easily sit nicely between Barry White and any other romantic track, unless that any other romantic track is WASP's Fuck like a beast.

When Pure Grain stopped making music Fred went on to form Jack Adapter, they aren't too good in my opinion.


Only love is spoken here.mp3 by Pure Grain
Pure Grain

Robot Song by The Supernaturals.

This gem is tucked away as one of the other tracks on the second part of the I wasn't built to get up single. Someone put it on a tape for me and I immediately fell in love with the track.
If you can get past the I like pina colada and making love in the rain sentiments that seem to echo Escape or The pina colada song as it is more universally known, it really does reward. It is brassy without the brass and more up than Kate Moss after a night round Kerry Kotana's, that up! Complete with bada baa's and ooh-ee-ooh's it looks like they raided the songwriters book of pop and took everything of worth.

It should have been an a-side.

Robot Song MP3 by The Supernaturals
The Supernaturals

Mabel by Goldfinger

Goldfinger, the all singing, all dancing, vegan party punk band. Years of experience and songs to learn and grin. Essentially a punk rock version of Craig David's 7 days, he meets her Sunday and all is rosie but its all over a few days later and the once baby hugged puppy dogs have got rabies.

Bitch.

The song though, taken from the self titled debut, it doesn't indicate short lived love affairs, it indicates fun times and sunshine and pop punk at its most sublimely great, imagine guttermouth's finest tunes, now remove the sexism, the homophobia and frat humour, then and only then make it twenty times better. You have Mabel by Goldfinger.

Mabel MP3 by Goldfinger
Goldfinger

Adventure by Be your own pet.

Like most I first heard Nasville's Be your own pet when Damn damn leash was all over MTV2, and subsequently courtesy of my wife, forever on the car stereo. I personally thought it was an ok tune by an ok band, nothing earth shattering and nothing life changing.
Now the next thing I hear is Adventure, the new single, and I see the video. I am shallow as the next man and I guess I didn't see it before but the singer, Jemina Pearl, is a stunning looking woman and the single, a huge slice of visceral pop pleasure. Part Karen O, part Corin Tucker, all top stuff.

Adventure MP3 by Be your own pet.
Be your own pet