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2007 - A year like no other ?

So, my readers, 2007 is drawing to a close. And so slowly, it is time to dare to look back. What was going on musically for?

A, I find it very important, if not the most important music event was without question the album "In Rainbows" by Radiohead or how it was marketed. We remember: Radiohead featured her, incidentally, very good, album to download. The inclined downloaders could determine the price, he wanted to pay, himself (I have myself, since I do not have a credit card, unfortunately, have to type "0 €"). The media response was huge ... and now the marketing strategy has indeed already started to find imitators (eg, plans to publish the punk rock band Pennywise her next album in spring 2008 in a similar manner).

2007 was also the year of the great band re-unions. In particular, the Re-Union of Led Zeppelin is very interesting (if there is a tour is still questionable, but if there is one: I'm there when the tickets are not too expensive). Other great reunions were: Smashing Pumpkins, The Verve , Rage Against The Machine , Dinosaur Jr., The Jesus and Mary Chain , My Bloody Valentine ... In blur and Libertines is not yet clear what will happen, but it looks good. Resolutions were
it but unfortunately some. Which I think was the saddest of Blumfeld in the spring, especially since I, unfortunately, for any more cards his farewell tour got. Too bad I found the Blood Brothers , especially since I have also met this band until this year.

What I also noticed this year is something you can call such as "increasing commercialization of Indie". It observed true on several occasions that indie and underground bands were considerably Formerly much radio airplay. The best examples are there of course Peter, Bjorn and John with "Young Folks", the Kaiser Chiefs with "Ruby" and with Razorlight "America". Also exchanged a number of indie bands (sometimes forcibly) to major labels. In addition, increasingly is a death of indie labels observed (A consequence of this is of course the previous point). In addition, as early as 2006, a hell of a lot indie music written in the tabloids, namely, how could it be otherwise, Pete Doherty .

now follows a small, personal Jahrespoll:

Album of the Year: Tocotronic - surrender
more great albums were from Anajo (Hello, who knows whom?), Arcade Fire (Neon Bible ), Au Revoir Simone (The Bird Of Music), Babyshambles (Shotters Nation), Dropkick Murphys (The Meanest of Times) Erdmöbel (No. 1 hits), Ready, Go! (The Heart is a collector), Fiery furnance (Widow City), Gogol Bordello (Super Taranta) The Good, The Bad & The Queen (The Good, The Bad & The Queen), Karaptenhund (# 3), Kate Nash (Made Of Bricks), Kilian (Kill The Kilian), Mad Caddies (Keep It Going), The Skatalites (On the robbers ass), The Slapstickers (Rocket), The View (Hats Off To The Buskers) and the Box "A Song More" by Blumfeld .

Songs of the Year:
Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Danny Saucedo - If only you knew the
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta
Muff Potter - photo booth
Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks (even if published already in 2006 )
Tocotronic - surrender

concerts of the year:
Mad Caddies 31 May in Cologne on 2
Tocotronic October in Cologne

Newcomer of the Year:
Karpatenhund, Kate Nash, Kilian, The View

biggest musical disappointment
album "Black and White Album" by the Hives, e s are indeed some good songs, but by the "mainstream producer number one Timbaland-produced songs are just plain embarrassing and bad

boring concert:
Sick Of It All on the Rhine Cultural Festival in Bonn (have me worked totally arrogant and conceited, the singer screamed the whole time just calls into the audience, as it had pogo to as please; audience suggests and does (of course, that's normal for Hardcore, I like it but not at all). .. in hindsight I would have preferred to the Fantastic Four on the main stage)

personal, musical discoveries (read: "What do I have this Years for me personally discovered "):
- the" Hamburg School "Band Huah
- the Brit-pop bands Suede and Pulp
- various solo singers, especially from the! "non-rock" area ( Kate Nash, Amy Winehouse, MIA, ... )
- Ska old (especially the Specials )

Now the question is still: What will happen to 2008? For example, there are quite a lot of interesting albums announcements (eg, The Kooks, Kettcar, Olli Schulz der Hund Marie, Jack Johnson, The Breeders, Weezer, Oasis, Adam Green, ...)
But who knows? what is going to happen ... Well wait a

happy you all and see you next year, until then I'm concerned no longer intend to write something

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Christmas Special

So, dear reader, tomorrow is Christmas Eve. And I will take the opportunity to write even a small Christmas Special. Which means I'm going to recommend music that fits well with the hard (or maybe not, but more on that later ;-))


There are so many Christmas songs which was also extremely hard in front of the radio quite often run .. . what bugs me the most of it is, of course, the nasty "Last Christmas "by Wham!. However, there are more pleasant covers of this song. First, an electro version of the band" Jeans Team "( download here ) and a version of the Britpop band Travis. The amusing version is from the Cologne Indie band Erdmöbel. "And they took the melody of" Last Christmas "and wrote a new German text to the parody of the original (which also funny video can look at her you here ).

The next thing that comes to mind spontaneously in music and Christmas, the album is "We are waiting for the Christ Child" by Die Toten Hosen (published as "The Red Roses"). There, covered the pants mainly the old, classic Christmas songs (You come little children, every year, etc.) with new lyrics ("Little Children come ye, O come ye but all
here to listen) or Voodoo Glow Skulls - "Feliz Navi Dad") or even more covers of classic Christmas songs (such as WIZO - "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"). who also should be mentioned, is the American singer / songwriter Sufjan Stevens (he is probably best known to bring out through his project, for each U.S. state of an album). In 2006 he brought out a box with a total of 40 Christmas songs (some written, some covers). Otherwise, it is

just still many other good bands from different genres and anti-Christmas Christmas songs (eg AC / DC, Sonic Youth or by Weezer) to enumerate them all would only then really break the frame.

it, then I wish you a Merry Christmas and do not forget that Christmas is not just about gifts go ;-)

are PS one years Review it this year too, which is then in a few days

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