french kissin' in the bff
rob - de la musique (mp3)
rob - power glove (mp3)
in general people seem to enjoy giving the french a hard time. okay, so they're not particularly good when it comes to wars and whatnot but, whilst they may be happy to put up with occupying forces, they would never put up with bad food, bad drink, bad tailoring or bad left-field pop music and i know i'm not the only beef blogger who would say that they've probably got their priorities right.
i think it's pretty well known that i'm a fan of pretty-much all things french. yep, i love our gallic friends nearly as much as i love ranting about stuff and so it should come as no surprise that the likes of air, daft punk and phoenix are never too far away from the ghettoblaster* chez stevo.
i'm sure you've all heard enough of the usual suspects but i want to introduce you to a criminally overlooked member of the heavy artillery in the much mooted french invasion, see if you can guess who he is from these clues: he's best-friends with seb tellier (he even wrote a song about him); he plays live keyboards for phoenix and he probably goes for tea at daft punk's house and looks after air's cat when they go on tour. yes, you've guessed it, it's rob, maker of the finest prog pop this side of that side of the channel.
okay, i'll admit it, i only discovered him and his seven year old 'don't kill rob' album about a year ago thanks to the national treasure that is ash kennerley's record collection, so unfortunately i haven't even the flimsiest of excuses to chastise the lot of you for failing to give the chap the recognition he deserves.
i've posted the album's fantastic opener 'de la musique' as well as the excellently named 'power glove' that follows it. they are probably my two favourites from 'don't kill rob' and also between them they rather handily offer a pretty good idea of what the album is like as a whole - ie fantastic keyboards, an awesome guitar sound that could have come from anywhere in the last five decades and some finely crafted, and damnably catchy pop hooks.
he could also teach kev and scholes a thing or two about facial grooming.
* used quite literally to 'blast the ghetto'.
yeah, yeah, i'm still working on that bleepy music post.
rob - power glove (mp3)
in general people seem to enjoy giving the french a hard time. okay, so they're not particularly good when it comes to wars and whatnot but, whilst they may be happy to put up with occupying forces, they would never put up with bad food, bad drink, bad tailoring or bad left-field pop music and i know i'm not the only beef blogger who would say that they've probably got their priorities right.
i think it's pretty well known that i'm a fan of pretty-much all things french. yep, i love our gallic friends nearly as much as i love ranting about stuff and so it should come as no surprise that the likes of air, daft punk and phoenix are never too far away from the ghettoblaster* chez stevo.
i'm sure you've all heard enough of the usual suspects but i want to introduce you to a criminally overlooked member of the heavy artillery in the much mooted french invasion, see if you can guess who he is from these clues: he's best-friends with seb tellier (he even wrote a song about him); he plays live keyboards for phoenix and he probably goes for tea at daft punk's house and looks after air's cat when they go on tour. yes, you've guessed it, it's rob, maker of the finest prog pop this side of that side of the channel.
okay, i'll admit it, i only discovered him and his seven year old 'don't kill rob' album about a year ago thanks to the national treasure that is ash kennerley's record collection, so unfortunately i haven't even the flimsiest of excuses to chastise the lot of you for failing to give the chap the recognition he deserves.
i've posted the album's fantastic opener 'de la musique' as well as the excellently named 'power glove' that follows it. they are probably my two favourites from 'don't kill rob' and also between them they rather handily offer a pretty good idea of what the album is like as a whole - ie fantastic keyboards, an awesome guitar sound that could have come from anywhere in the last five decades and some finely crafted, and damnably catchy pop hooks.
he could also teach kev and scholes a thing or two about facial grooming.
* used quite literally to 'blast the ghetto'.
yeah, yeah, i'm still working on that bleepy music post.