Radio Rabies

If you have a thirst for animated fictional bands, get ready for your thirst to be quenched because the Gorillaz has finally released their third album and it’s called “Plastic Beach” and if I had to describe it in one word, I’d probably go for “first-class”.

If you enjoyed their “Demon Days” album you will not be disappointed. This album as far as I can tell right now is a lot less conceptual and more like their first album, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that this album is a breath of fresh air in these days of quite shockingly appalling music that is being spewed out of radios around the world.

The Gorillaz has evolved over the years from a strange cult status band into a mainstream phenomena that has musicians clawing each other’s eyes out to work with them. I don’t know what it is about Damon Albarn but whatever he touches turns into gold. That album he did called “Monkey: Journey To The West” blew my mind with it’s damn awesomeness.

As far as the tracks go there are a load of great guests on them. We’ve got Snoop Dogg, Mos Def, Lou Reed and some Swedish / Japanese band called “Little Dragon” who I haven’t heard of previously but I’ve got a feeling they’re worth a bit of a listen.

If you’ve not bought it or heard it yet, I suggest you do so or you’ll be mocked by your friends and colleagues for being so 2009! (Which will only be a good thing in 20 or so years time)

The charity single that was helping raise money for the Haiti earthquake has started to wane off and we can all thank Jason Derulo with his song “In My Head” for that.

Is it because people have just stopped caring? It it because Chile has stolen Haiti’s thunder? Or it is because the charts don’t actually matter and everybody under the sun has already bought a copy of the Haiti single already? Who knows…

All the blame should be laid on Jason Derulo for his catchy single. The swine!

Every now and again Kylie Minogue falls off everyone’s radar and she has to say or do something to get back there.

There was the infamous golden hot pants that showed of her newly “surgically treated” arse, the horrible breast cancer that she soon recovered from and now she is claiming to be bi-curious.

In a recent interview she said “I have been attracted to some women. I am a sexual exhibitionist and part of me is a natural flirt, but although I am attracted to women, I have never done anything with them.”

Wow! A shocker. I will certainly be buying her next single. That really clinched the deal. Seriously, when celebrities say stuff like this they are doing so to be controversial.

I get the irony blogging about this as it does buy into what she is trying to do. Shame on me, but shame on her more!

LOL. You know when something happens and you’re all like “that’s well rubbish” and then you find out that it shouldn’t happened in the first place and you’re all HA! Well that’s what happened when the BBC and U2 decided to suck each other off last year.

Basically the BBC decided to give U2 a hell of a lot of promotion at the time of their latest album release with radio interviews and these stupid little things flashing up on screen which said “U2=BBC”. It all amalgamated to U2 performing shit songs from their shitty repertoire on top of the legendary BBC television centre.

You see the reason why this is all so bad is because the BBC is paid for by us, the general public and it means that the BBC cannot advertise crap on their radio stations or television channels as well as having to be impartial to stuff. Well HAHAHA! You mucked up then didn’t you!

Luckily I don’t have to be impartial here and I can safely say the Bono and U2 are well shit!

There is one person who is connected with the Beatles that has never written a book about her time spent along side the Beatles and that is Yoko Ono, one of the ladies that married a band member. A lot of people dislike her for whatever reason but surely she deserves some respect for not publishing a book and “cashing in” as it were.

Well she has decided that the time has come for her to write about her time with the late John Lennon: “I would love to do it. I just have to find the time. It will be my next book, which will be written in the next five years.” Yoko has been quoted as saying recently. Although what she has been doing to fill up all her time is beyond me.

Having said that, I personally feel that her book will be a very interesting read, after all she has been widely speculated as to the reason why the Fab Four split up. It’s be ruddy interesting for her to finally get her say on stuff

I’m so happy that Amy Winehouse has finally pulled her finger out and started doing some work for her next album. It’s been bloody years and I was worried in case she died before making another. Yay!

She recently said in an interview: “I’ve actually written a few more songs over Christmas. I’ve been at home, been to my mum’s, actually been knuckling down to it really.”

That’s good news isn’t it? Her second album “Back To Black” was a stupidly good album and it would have been a shame if she wasn’t able to follow it up. It’ll be a hard act to follow and I reckon she’ll do alright with it. Here’s just hoping that she’ll be able to get someone as good, if not Mark Ronson back producing it.