Hello! I'm a DJ of many different styles who's been mixing since '98. That said, I listen to many genres both electronic and non, including acid techno, acid trance, progressive trance, psybient, gabber/hardcore, synth-pop, pop rock, vocal pop, funk, punk rock, ska/ska-punk, hip-hop, classical, jazz, reggae, score/soundtrack, heavy metal, and a few other miscellaneous categories. I also do reaction videos for both electronic and "normal" music. So keep an eye out for a constant stream of video mixes, Ambient Excursions, reactions, audio mixes taken from my Soundcloud account, video explorations of my vinyl collection, and eventually some guest appearances from techno folks near and far.
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I also wanted to mention that 'Do you get excited' is the second Roxette reaction of yours to reach 1000 views. 'Fading like a flower' only needs 15 more views to complete the Top 3. ('Things will never be the same' is the undisputed no.1). Join the Joyride!
Isn't that the song Per later said about it sounded like a parody of Roxette? I only remember the movie was a complete flop which affected the success of this song. I like it anyway.
As has been mentioned it should have been in Hocus Pocus but, instead, ended up in Super Mario 🫤. The official video features an actor well known to us Brits. Every time I see it I still think, -'haha, it's Tony from Hollyoaks!' Very recognisable Jonas Isacsson sound on the guitar solo. 😊
The intro is epic!! His voice sounds familiar, maybe he was the guy who sang the male part in 'Maria Magdalena'.
Oh buddy you gotta watch the movie adaptation! It's my wife's favorite musical. It's really good and well casted. Their singing is phenomenal and the whole esthetic is beautiful. Highly recommend watching it, it won't disappoint
Personally "All for You" is one of my four favourite tracks from Life in a Day with its tense guitar chords, its baroque keyboards (hats off to you Matt!) and cryptic lyrics. Early biographies recorded how Simple Minds realised they were a song short whilst recording their debut album, so they resurrected an older, previously discarded song called All For You. This suggested that the song was performed live in the early part of 1978 and subsequently dropped. Yet there was no prior evidence of this song. It didn't appear on any early bootlegs, it didn't feature in any early set-lists, there were no mentions in fanzines or magazines, and it wasn't considered worthy of a place on the two demo tapes which led up to the album. So was it actually a old live song? Or was it written in the studio? This song was specifically remembered by Derek. "'All For You' we wrote. I remember doing that in the Townhouse Studios. The bass line is me starting my whacky bass lines. There were a few things - we definitely added to it - we didn't get any publishing for that. But to be fair that was the first album. And we made quite a pretty penny out of it, but not anything like what was to come." The studio tape trail does confirm that the song was recorded late in the sessions. It was one of the three tracks recorded at The Townhouse, after the majority of the album had been committed to tape at the initial sessions at Farmyard Studios. It was recorded before the 23rd February 1979, along with other late contenders Destiny (which had been played live) and Children Of The Game (another new song). An early rough mix prepared by John Leckie between the 19th and 23rd February 1979 featured different synths during the choruses and an undeveloped middle-8. The question of the middle-8 was unexpectedly resolved by by a drunk Bruce Findlay (manager) galavanting on the keyboards in the studio late one night. Leckie was amused by the "whooshes" and weird effects and mixed them into the track. The final mix (including one very similar out-take) was committed to tape on the 28th February 1979. All For You was a simple song, reminiscent of their light-weight poppier work, and bascially album filler. It was performed live in 1979 as Simple Minds toured the UK but was quickly forgotten.
A very interesting track…it’s more a wild card rather than a wildfire in my opinion. I’d describe it as is a miscellany of thoughts and experimentations of tempos & sounds…with familiar snatches of lyrics recycled later in a-ha’s music “Right from the start I knew this world would break my heart”…from I Dream Myself Alive for instance. I think your reaction and mine to this track are more or less insync Matt, it’s a demonstration of Bridges and Pal in particular’s singular and distinctive creative identity.
Can't stop the world, why let it stop you
This was written for the Bette Midler movie 'Hocus Pocus' but En Vogue were chosen to sing the main song. So it ended up on the 'Super Mario Bros' soundtrack. Lucca has perfect timing at 3:30, while Marie is singing 'You give me that look...' 😺
Michael Cretu is good friends with GK!
Sweet! Did they make a record?
@@michik694 Michael Cretu produced the soundtrack for Magic Sticks.
Great selection!
Super Mario bros movie soundtrack, I have this tune on 7" lol
Interesting choice of song today, Mr Claypole!
You really ought to listen to each album side as a whole, like each one is a suite, not separate songs.
So awesome. 🎉
Love it 🥰
Hi Emma ♥️♥️
Nice one! I still own the 7 inch of which I love the cover art. Like someone else said this one was often paired live with the instrumental Another Journey By Train, which has a more hurried and downbeat vibe. It’s one of my favorite instrumentals by the band. Of the bonus tracks I hope you’ll also concider reacting to the instrumental song as mentioned, Play With Me, I’m Cold (with Siouxsie on backing vocals) and Winter (a song that I will always be mad about at the band for not having released it properly at the time- a true hidden gem in their early catalogue).
Great insight and reaction as always! If you could react to “On a Day Like Today” by Keane off their first album that would be amazing - I’m a huge fan and this is my current favourite song of theirs!
haven't listened to Boy for forever, it's so good
Just to say ... Happy birthday Neil Tennant! Yesterday he turned 70 years old. His voice is still incredible, and almost the same when young!
She is fantastic and so underated
Not a bad one at all, I enjoyed it more than I expected. Particularly when his voice sounded deeper (as you pointed out), which I really liked. Not so much when he went high on the chorus, though. 😛 He always reminds me of a goat when he sings like that. 😁🤭 I really liked the guitar, too. The opening was very nice and engaging. 👍 A heartbreak song with sadder tones, though there may still be some hope, and maybe the faster-paced chorus expresses that lingering hope he is holding on to. But, musically, I would prefer him to stay in the" shadowside" (borrowing my favourite band's song title). 😜
Ooh, good-catch on the slower-faster dichotomy speaking to the pain but lingering hope, baby. I didn't think of that concept, but I think you're onto something there. 😘
I liked this one, enjoyed hearing Sinéad sing lower (of course) and the dark vibes. 😉 But the best thing in this video is Lucca, of course. 😻 Particularly after 8:25! Aawww, just look at her looking at you! ❤ And what a cool cat, completely undisturbed by all the fires going off outside. 😎 Adorable. 😊💞
Lucca is definitely the star of my channel, no doubt. But she loses in the adorable category to you, babe. 😍❤️🔥
Well, I love this. ❤ I hadn't heard it for years and in my head I was mixing this one and A Forest a bit, so maybe there is really some similarity between the two, as Solo says. 😉 I really liked your comments about the vocal delivery being sort a-rhythmic and how Robert "stretches" the lines "beyond where they normally should be". A good description to me! And I enjoy that peculiarity, too. The bass, that's probably one of the elements that attract me so much in The Cure's music, though I wouldn't be able to say for sure. 😜 The guitar work and Robert's vocals are also very compelling to me. Whatever it is, they are undoubtedly one of my top favourite bands.
I love it, what a great track. Thank you for the recommendation, baby. And indeed, the bass is so notable in these early tracks, and those extended vocals really are a cool technique to emphasize the end of the lines. Loving this journey with you. 😘🥰❤🔥
React to 855 7019 from bee gees 🎉
Has a song about being jaded ever sounded so relaxing? The lyrics have an odd cadence at times, almost like Paul's just making them up as he goes. I'm not counting back through all the tracks on this album, but it feels like a lot of them had strings. They definitely add to many of the songs but sometimes I feel like I have string fatigue. However, would the tracks sound a bit less "weighty" without those violins or cellos or whatever? Overall this is a really nice tune and, as I maybe did for the previous record, here's my songs in order of preference (wonder what's at the bottom looooooool) 12 Against the sh... Sun 11 If You Won't Come to the Party 10 Five Million Years 9 Overgrown 8 Face 7 Paramount 6 Half of the Time 5 I Would Not Change a Thing 4 Reasons to Stay Indoors 3 The One that Got Away 2 Once Upon a Year 1 Fearlist Honestly, there's not much to choose between the top 8 and I like 9 and 10 as well. Maybe I only realized this now, but this could be Savoy's best album up to this point. I always felt it was the first record but, objectively, this collection of songs is of a more consistently high quality. Now, we move on to "Savoy" - in the words of the Bee Gees, this is where I came in. My first Savoy album. I have identified before, but my favourite Savoy track is on this record. It came between "Lifelines" and "Analogue", a-ha's most interesting music since the reformation in the late 90s. i think the "Savoy" apple didn't fall far from the tree.
My absolutely favourite aha song! I had to import all their albums from not released in the US. I finally found a man original vinyl pressing of this song from Germany. I am in love with all their albums. This song was made before 9/11 and when that event happened I played this over and over and just cried. ❤
Awesome tune 👌👌👌
Class tune 👍👍
Such a great song really timeless tune like you say 👌👌 on many of of my playlists
How amazing was the early 80s that’s a song that never stops giving me goosebumps 👌👌 your reaction was just how I was as a 12 year old listening to it for the first time back in 81 🫡👍👍
‘Haunt me’ is one of the best tracks on that brilliant album.
Very similar to A Forest.
I think you may be right, because yesterday I had a mix of the two songs in my head when I tried to remember this one. But I like A Forest much better.
@@SofiaMarques18 I think the bass is pretty much the same, and some of the guitar work is the same too. Speaking of "A Forest", is it saying that Matt is Mr Gump?
@@handsolo1209 I will have to listen closely to both songs one day. Anyway, if I really enjoy the bass and the guitar work, I am not complaining if they sound like the same. Give me more! 😅 Nope, I am saying no such thing... 😜
@@SofiaMarques18 I will add more bass and guitar if I ever make another track. I will also remove my sleeves as a tribute to Matt.
Robert is well known for wearing sleeves. I am surprised you didn't know that.
According to Robert Smith, "Jumping Someone Else's Train" is about fashion, particularly about the ‘mod’ revival of the time (1978/79). In 1989, Robert Smith told to a Belgian magazine his inspiration behind “Jumping Someone Else’s Train”: "I loath the snobbism and elitism of it all: ‘I was already acid-house when you were still new wave’ - that stuff. In fact it’s all as small as the ska revival where I wrote an angry song about: Jumping Someone Else’s Train. Now I read articles everywhere about the new ska revival. Despicable. At this rate, we’re having 5 revivals every year. I’m probably old fashioned, but I like music that’s not limited to a certain time." By the way, "Jumping Someone Else's Train" is not from the Three Imaginary Boys sessions. It was a non-album single (with the B-side "I'm Cold") recorded in September 1979 and released in November 1979. It was also the last track recorded with bassist Michael Dempsey. Jumping Someone Else's Train" can be found on the US compilation Boys Don't Cry, released in early 1980. That same year, when they played live, The Cure used to link "Jumping Someone Else's Train" with the instrumental "Another Journey by Train" (B-side to "A Forest"). Train stories in a row.... ! 😉
To me this one has always sounded a bit more well rounded than many of the album tracks chosen for the standard release. The lyrics seem to present you with someone who lives their life by the title phrase and becoming happy when the 'trend' seems to catch on in wider society.
Hey! I know this isn't the best place to comment on this, but it's been a while since you finished the "Beauty and the Beat" deep dive by the Go-Go's and I was wondering if you are still going to do a deep dive on their 3rd album "Talk Show" I'd love to hear your feedback on it and I think you'll enjoy it a lot!
fantastic song but not emotional enough for me. Still wonderful though !!
Oh yay! I was thinking you had abandoned the Tori journey. You always have an interesting perspective on her lyrics, so glad to see you reacting to another Tori
Totally unique … the full on guitar is as close to a hook as you’ll get, instead the music draws you in with its intensity. I hope you get a chance at some point to listen to the album as a whole and enjoy immersing yourself in it as a one-er (I say that with full respect to the track format of your reviews on the channel).
Imagine what this sounded like when it was released. There wasn’t much around like it at the time. And not that many people listening given this was the b side to what was essentially their biggest ‘pop’ hit. Fast forward to their final LP laughing stock which I remember not long after I bought my vinyl copy seeing lots of them for sale in the bargain bins for a few pounds. You couldn’t give the album away. People just didn’t want or understand this music back then. In this you can hear, gospel, Jazz, ambient, musique concrete, post rock, OST’s and so on. Of course, I’ve kept all my original Talk Talk vinyl. Funny how things turn out….
Como todo lo que hizo A-ha , espectacular.
Interesting sonics, indeed. Unusual, as you say. Your speakers turned off just when I began enjoying it most! 😀 That fuller part (at the beginning of the chorus? Is it the chorus?) is my favourite. On the other hand, it gets a bit too "experimental" and "loose" for my taste, though indeed it doesn't get boring, despite the length (I also wouldn't say it was that long!). I enjoyed it! 😉
Oh, what a classic! Loved the surprise. 🥰 Of course I know this one, though I am not totally sure I have heard the original. It was Bruce Willis that immediately came to my mind when I saw the title. 😁 Thank you for thinking of me. ☺❤😘
Of course, my love. 😘🥰❤️🔥
This is a very enjoyable listen, though also not one of my favourites. A bit above the middle-of-the-road category, I should say, but not a top track for me. I love the sonics (those "space vibes" blended with acoustic guitar, as you pointed out), again I love Paul's voice (and also the "ethereal" effect used here), the strings... But, like Marjorie, I can't make anything out of the lyrics. 😅 I do find the line about the man in China funny ("Lower than a man in China jumping in the air"), though it only makes sense if you're on the opposite side of the globe. 😜 I see Lucca is being cute hidden from public view. 😻😸 But she couldn't miss a Savoy track, could she? 😉❤ I don't have a clue what comes next, waiting for Sir Graham's superior knowledge. 😁🙃
"waiting for Sir Graham's superior knowledge" - said no one ever 🙃
@@nearvanaman Well, there you go, I said it! 😁 No outstanding bonus tracks on this one?
@@SofiaMarques18 oh yeah there might be. I don't really care much for those usually. But I know Matt's a "completionist". 🙃
I really love this song ❤
It's a catchy tune, with a nice drive to it, I always the structure of the chorus. Keep up the good work with the reactions, always appreciating them!
It's even better live. No joke. I know people say that, but check out the live Houston version from 81. When he sings the line "through bitter tears and wounded years" he hits a level almost reserved for deity. It's amazing.
I’ve no idea what is overgrown and what on earth a man from China had to do with it…I don’t think it’s vegetation he’s talking about! Joking apart though…I did actually like the sonic quality of this track. It’s just the lyrics that are a bit baffling…
Oh, it seems we are in accordance about this one. 🤗 I have no idea what he's talking about either. 😁