Happy Valentines Day

We know that everyone loves valentines day, amongst it's "consumerist" values is still a very sweet and honest day about doing that little bit extra to show someone you love them, doesn't even need to be one person, you could use valentines day as an excuse to hang out with your friends, get drunk and eat pizza.

But for those other people who aren't so lucky (myself included, 21 year streak of no dates on valentines day) Valentines day can be pretty easily dismissed as a load of shit, but somewhere inside of you could be a secret yearning for someone to at least listen to your lame jokes and laugh, at least for one day.

With this in mind, all the single women and men of the world unite, find some cheap wine and a chicago town pizza and bump our bumper easynoiz playlist entitled

"YOU MAY HAVE SOMEONE WHO LOVES YOU BUT IT'S COOL, I'VE GOT OTHER THINGS TO DO"

the playlist is divided into little sections so you can find the music instantly that you want to listen to when your crying into your 4th tub of ben and jerrys with smeared make up on or find yourself in sweatpants and no top sweating incontrolably over pictures of the girl you like in your sociology classes facebook.

note: although it tends to be alot of male angst songs (it's in our nature to feel permantly hard done by if things don't go our way) it's more about the emotions and the context than the lyrics themselves, and excluding NWA most of these songs can be interpreted towards either gender of your choosing, and i've got Irreplacable too to balance the mysogonist vibes out.

I'm Angsty About Being Alone
My Bloody Valentine - Good Charlotte "I followed him home, stood outside his bedroom window"
I'm A Fake - The Used "Love is nothing, especially not a fucking knife"
Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne "she's like so whatever, and you could do such much better"
Mercury Rising - From Autumn To Ashes "everytime I exhale is just a sign of exhaustation now"
Dateless Losers - Reel Big Fish "it's friday, no phonecall, nobody asked us out"
Ghost Of St. Valentines - Bayside "there's no love, just appetite, and that's what keeps you up at nights"
Get To Fuck - Eternal Lord "you'll get what you deserve, a fairshare of all this fucking heartache"
Ride The Wings Of Pestilence - From First To Last "pretend to be you, your friends will like you more than they used to"

All Men/Women are Dickheads
Fuck It - Eamon "your just another act, look elsewhere cos your done with me"
Take The Knife From My Back And Push It Into Yours" - Tower Of Rome "Let's play a game called who changed first"
Hit Em Up Style - Blu Cantrell "there goes the love that I had but you cheated on me, so that's worth that now"
Independent Woman - Destinys' Child "depend on no one else to give you what you want"
Fuck You - The Queers "you didn't want to fuck me so, FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU"
Bitch Is A Bitch - NWA "That's why when you say 'hi' she won't say 'hi', are you the kind that think you're too damn fly"
I Hope He Kills You - Handguns"It's taking everything I have not to call you back, I hope he breaks you down"
Irreplacable - Beyonce "I could have another one of you in a minute, so don't you ever get to thinking your irreplacable"
Save Your Breath - Hit The Lights "I've wasted all this time on you, On you, It's all the same, we all make mistakes"
Landmine Spring - Quicksand "loading my questions like a shotgun, you can fuck every chance with one shot"
Caught Out There - Kelis "I hope your happy since you got caught out there"

I'd Rather Not Be In Love
He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) - The Crystals "when I told him I had found someone new"
Songs About Your Girlfriend - Los Campesinos! "Are just psalms of spite since it came to an end"
Treat Her Like A Prostitute - Slick Rick "cos all they do is hurt and trample, listen up close here comes the first example"
Embrace Hate - Agitator "the life I live, I leave love behind for hate"
Death At The Chapel - The Horrors "Screaming NO ONE WILL EVER LOVE YOU"
I'm Not Going To Teach Him How To Dance With You - Black Kids "two i'm kissing on you, was he better than me?"
What's Love Got To Do With It - Warren G "You say you had love, I said you need to quit"

It Could Be Worse
Me Myself and I - Beyonce"I took a vow from now on, that imma be my own best friend"
Life After Lisa - Bowling For Soup "it's the times I missed out, on sleeping with your roomates everytime you passed out but that's okay"
Your New Twin Sized Bed - Death Cab For Cutie "It's like you're in some kind of hurry to say goodbye"
Best Deceptions - Dashboard Confessional "you don't warrant long goodbyes, your calling too late"
I Know It's Over - The Smiths "It takes guts to be gentle and kind, Over, over, Love is Natural and Real"
Lover I Don't Have To Love - Bright Eyes "I want a lover I don't have to love, I want a girl who's too sad to give a fuck"

5 Favorite Soundtracks

Taking out the obvious examples that everyone rates super highly (or should do) including: Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord Of The Rings, Italian Job, Pirates Of Carribean, Jurrasic Park, Superman, James Bond, basically anything that has been blessed with the magic of John Williams/Danny Elfman/Hans Zimmer, it's important to rate the lesser known soundtrack artists (or their lesser known work). there's a few well known names here and a few odds and sods, but these are my 5 favorite film soundtracks from eerie theremin to intelligent rap via Nick Cave's creepy vocal steez.


1) Ennio Moriconie: The Thing Main Title

Asides Alien I personally believe that "The Thing" is one of the most important sci-fi thrillers of all time so it was definetly a tough job to reflect the eerieeness of the story through strong soundtracking but the mastermind behind some of the world's most recognisable western soundtracks Mr. Moricone, brings the lesser known 80's synth instrument the Theremin in and creates a suspenseful otherworldy soundtrack that sets the tone of the movie, using both sudden key changes and long doomy held notes to really show the space-sent terrors that the crew of the arctic research station are going to encounter later on in the movie.

2) RZA (Wu Tang) - Ghost Dog

It's probably only a matter of personal taste but I was slightly dubious when someone told me that Ghost Dog had an all-rap soundtrack even though it was supposed to be an american style samurai film, but after watching it I understood completely why the choice had been made and embraced it completely. The song features Wu-Tang figure-head RZA dropping some classic intelligent lyrical fire with a samurai-twist, which completely suits the style of the movie and through that has encouraged me to watch more classic japanese samurai films to understand where the references and inspirations coming from in this movie.

3) Jerry Fielding "Straw Dogs Soundtrack"

In what can be described as one of the most emotionally rollercoaster of a film I have ever seen, Straw Dogs needed a strong ending to match the entire menacing tone that underlined the film. This song comes just after the mild mannered Dustin Hoffman has activated "I've had enough of your shit mode" and killed the people who attacked his home. After closing on his final line of the film "I got 'em all" the soundtrack kicks in, a mixture of redhot fury representing the change of man that he has had to embrace to protect himself and his lover but also the melancholy he clears feels at resorting to the acts of violence he so deplored throughout the movie.

4) Nick Cave "The Proposition"

Nick Cave's penned western tale of "rampage, retribuition and revenge" is supported by some of those most atmospheric set of opening titles i've ever heard, which reminded me heavily of films such as punishment park and last man standing, with a slow sombre pace with a obvious western twist to give the film this almost heavy yet sparse feel which reflects perfectly in the movie as the bleakiness of the characters lives unfolded in the boiling heat of the australian outback.

5) Braindead Soundtrack

No appreciation soundtrack post would be complete without mentioning one of the most delightful inappropriate opening soundtracks to ever grace my (slightly broken) ears. Braindead is a film that is completely caked in gore and laughter which only a horror and comedy director savant could truely master, however in true form to our antipodean cousins, the Peter Jackson helmed film places it's tongue firmly in cheek and gives a completely wrong impression of the ensuing and hilarious OTT carnage to come. The only way to describe it is to paraphrase a friend of mine who compared braindeads masterful use of incredibly high quality orchestral work for such a zany film to "using limp bizkits "Break Stuff" to soundtrack the beach raid in Saving Private Ryan"