Sebastien Tellier Kills Eurovision

Dude is soooooooooooooo sleazy and French. Bless him.
BW presents the 19th best song of Eurovision 2008.

Sebastien Tellier - Divine (produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk)

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Git'r Done!

So look at the picture. They're Texan. Actually. But it's 'cause they're from Austin, which is basically like Newtown on steroids, with tonnes of great freaks and a massive student population and more bars on a single street than Australia has in total. I was there for a month and got more music up in my junk than you'd get anywhere else in a year. PINETOP fucking PERKINS walked into a bar* on a Monday night and played 5 songs. This is a 93 year old guy who was the pianist for Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. Homeslice still smokes like a chimney. I lit his Malboro 100 for him. Amazing.

Anyway that's Austin. It's difficult to illustrate just how the weird creativity grooves with the blues foundation of the city, but the result is things like Ghostland Observatory. Mostly they build on these kinda cheesy dance beats, adding prototypical nasal-shout indie vocals, with an 80's strut and lean. It's a frappe of drums, electronic beeps and whistles, punky riffs, and an upbeat attitude that they like to describe as BALLSY. On their myspace, influences include Jerry Lee Lewis, David Bowie, Daft Punk, Green Velvet and The Clash - if you can imagine that at all at once you'll have a fairly good idea. Whatever, they're super fun. In my favourite way: the run-around-like-a-kid way.

* Nuno's on 6th St. The house band Jo Hell and the Red Roosters were so incredibly balla we were begging them to tour Australia.

Ghostland Observatory - Piano Man

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Personal Top 10 - Nat Jones

Just to be totally original I thought I would post my top ten albums of this year and as a little bonus to those who give a crap my top ten movies as well.

Albums:

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

MIA - Kala

The White Stripes - Icky Thump

Burial - Untrue

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Battles - Mirrored

Daft Punk - Alive 2007

High Contrast - Tough Guys Dont Dance

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Movies:

Ratatouille

Knocked Up

Superbad

Hot Fuzz

Grindhouse

Children of Men

Transformers

American Gangster

Rock the Bells
Sicko

Human After All

A pic of Daft Punk sans masks taken at the after show for their Melbourne live show. Apparently.