Thursday and some fruit

Here we go again...

Thursday, Waiting:


So here's a little thing about one, pretty short little album that everyone seems to overlook, Waiting by Thursday.

You might have heard of Thursday, they're an American band who were part of the mid/late-nineties emo thing. Like some of the other bigger bands from the same 'movement', they grew up a bit, dropped the more obvious emo traits and are, at this moment in time, plugging away as a pretty successful rock band. Like of like Jimmy Eat World but not as well known.

Wind the clock back to December of 1999 however, and you have a very different band. Waiting had just been released and you could say that Thusrday had already reached their peak, because it's awesome.

Why? Well not only does it have raw emotion and energy by the bucket load, but the music is interesting and varied enough to stop the album's rather, err, pessimistic lyrical subject matter from grating. Sure most of the tracks are generally quite similar in style, but listen closer and you'll see it's a lot more that a collection of cookie cutter sadness, which is what you might have cynically expected.

Song wise, 'Dying in New Brunswick' (posted as a video a while back), 'Ian Curtis' and 'The Side of Brightness' are the songs I would pick as stand outs. But the whole album is on Spotify and all over youtube, so go give it a listen!



The Moldy Peaches

Now, the fruit mentioned in the title.

If you've seen the film 'Juno', then you will have heard at least one Moldy Peaches song, 'Anyone Else But You', ya know, that real cutesy love song that they cover at the film's end after everything has, completely improbably, turned out fine...

Well Juno is, in a way, the Moldy Peaches in film form. Very indie, more that a little twee and rather strange at times. Okay make that VERY strange. One of their singers, Kimya Dawson, used to dress up as a cat on stage, and they have lines in their songs such as, and I quote, '..I am a goat, in a moat, in a boat'- if you look at the video below, you'll see how odd they were live. Yes a man wearing a dress is playing guitar...

Still, there is something amazingly heart-warming about the lo-fi goodness of their music. Yeah I know that sentence didn't read or sound very cool, but I don't care. Yes they were a bit freaky, but it doesn't mean they weren't good, right?



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