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The 11 Best Songs By Morcheeba

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Built out of the ashes of the trip-hop movement in the ’90s, Morcheeba may be the lone survivor of a genre that seems to ripen with age.  With only a thread of Massive Attack remaining, a Portishead that may be still around but who really knows, and Tricky who gave up trip-hop for a less longstanding ’90s genre called grunge, Morcheeba remains the only artist from that era who is still keeping pace.  Their last album wasn’t just a welcome return, it was like the band transported it via telephone booth from 1996 to our doorsteps (or earbuds).  Trip-hop was a brief moment in musical time.  It hit softly, made a little imprint, but has withheld the test of time.  Like Pearl Jam, Morcheeba has struggled but emerged stronger than ever.

Here are the 11 Best Songs By Morcheeba:

  1. Blindfold (The Big Calm)
  2. The Music That We Here (The Big Calm)
  3. Tape Loop (Who Can You Trust?)
  4. Blood Like Lemonade (Blood Like Lemonade)
  5. Undress Me Now (Charango)
  6. Trigger Hippie (Who Can You Trust?)
  7. Recipe For Disaster (Blood Like Lemonade)
  8. Wonders Never Cease (The Antidote)
  9. Otherwise (Charango)
  10. Part of the Process (The Big Calm)
  11. God Bless And Goodbye (The Antidote)

Buy Morcheeba’s new album, Head Up High…now!

The 11 Best Bands Who Have Never Played Coachella

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There’s something sadly thrilling about getting to sit in front of my computer and watch Coachells unfold before me without paying hundreds of dollars, enduring crazy temperatures, dust, dirt, and douche bags.  Right now I’m flipping back and forth between New Order and Phoenix.  I couldn’t do that at the festival…I would have to choose…currently, I’m winning.  Because at home, I get both.

While enjoying Coachella from the comfort of my home, I started to realize how many bands have never played the festival…some that I’m actually shocked.  Some I thought for sure had played only to find out they had never made the journey to Indio. (Journey being one of them)  Below is a list of the best bands that have never played Coachella.  I have only chosen bands that are still together.  Reunions…well, that’s really for another list…so, check in tomorrow for that list.

Here are the 11 Best Bands Who Have Never Played Coachella & Should (that are still together):

  1. U2
  2. Pearl Jam
  3. Ryan Adams
  4. Fiona Apple
  5. Tori Amos
  6. Royksopp
  7. Iron & Wine
  8. Burial
  9. Morcheeba
  10. Sufjan Stevens
  11. Garbage

 

The 11 Best Songs By Morcheeba

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 I spent the day at E3 playing all the new video games in the coming years.  Playstation 3 has “Move” which is a wand like the Wii…Xbox has Kinect which has no controller whatsoever.  When I think of the future of video games I get excited.  Technology is giving developpers the ability to create games that we once only dreamed of playing.

 When it come to music, I feel the exact opposite.  To me technology is music’s biggest enemy, not its ally.  The more produced a song sounds, the less like a song it sounds.  Production has the power to clean out all the background noise, the frayed sound waves, giving the music a crisp & clean sound.  But all that extraneous snippets is what gives the song personality.  It’s the little negative that makes the song positive.

 With video games I look to the future, with music I’d rather live in the past.

 Glad to see Skye Edwards feels the same way and has rejoined the brothers in Morcheeba.

 Here are the 11 Best Songs By Morcheeba:

 1.  Blindfold (The Big Calm)

2.  The Music That We Hear (The Big Calm)

3.  Trigger Hippie (Who Can You Trust?)

4.  Shallow End (Fragments of Freedom)

5.  Otherwise (Charango)

6.  Undress Me Now (Charango)

7.  The Sea (The Big Calm)

8.  Tape Loop (Who Can You Trust?)

9.  Part of the Process (The Big Calm)

10.  What New York Couples Fight About (Charango)

11.  The Big Calm (The Big Calm)

 Buy Morcheeba’s new album, Blood Like Lemonade…now!!!