Greetings my Well Wishers

Its after a very long time that I’ve blogged. I really appologise for my long absence. But I promise you that the stuff I’m gonna bombard you with will leave you gobsmacked.

Okie enough of exaggeration, this post of mine is about one of the most underrated Rock Bands in the world today and one of my personal favourites, LOSTPROPHETS.

I don’t know how many of you are interested in Rock music these days, coz we’r living in the age of Hip-Hop & Trance music (the age of Himesh for most of my native Indians). But I can always vouch for Rock music being one of the most Feel Good & Melancholy Eradicating forms of music in the world. And especially if it comes from the heartland of Rock – the United Kingdom.

Lostprophets is one hell of an amazing band. They are a gropu of 20- something Welsh boys, all from very humble backgrounds. The gropu comprises of Ian Watkins (Lead Vocals), Jamie Oliver (Keyboard, Synthesiser & Addt. Vocals), Lee Gaze (Lead Guitar), Mike Lewis (Guitar & Addt. Vocals), Stuart Richardson (Bassist) and Ilan Rubin (Drums & Percussion). They juggle with Genres from Hard Rock,  Punk Rock, Alternative Rock & Alternative Metal. I must say they are far better than the overrated and not so memorable French -Canadian Band  Simple Plan.

Lostprophets have given us some ming boggling Tracks such as “Rooftops, Last Train Home, Everyday Combat, Burn Burn, Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja & Last Summer”.

But “A Town Called Hypocrisy” is in my opinion their best track ever, and perhaps the best British Rock Song in the 21st Century (okie, Coldplay’s Speed of Sound & Viva La Vida are equally good).

And when a Kick Ass Rock Song gets complimented by an equally awesome Music Video, its purely icing on the Cake.

Heres the Music Video for you to view and enjoy. Its completely hilarious. Its set in the late 70s Britain and features the Band’s lead Vocalist ‘Ian Watkins’ as the Host of an Educational Kids Show where he teaches the lesson of the day being ‘Sharing & Oral Hygeine’. Now thats a lot of Double meaning stuff going on here, which makes the whole video a treat to watch. And plus Ian Watkin’s acting is 1st rate, he sure gives Jon Bon Jovi competition when it comes to making sarcastic and raunchy expressions.

I’m sure you all have loved both the song and the video. I guess I’ve made Lostprophets win some new fans. In case some of you have any suspicions about the band, let me clear the Air.  These guys are not Weirdo Goths like Marilyn Manson or Bad Hair Day Cribbing Emos like the band KISS.

The next single in the series is by a band which I know very little about. Sure, I’ve searched the internet and read some stuff, and David Devant & his Spirit Wife seem to be still active (at least up till last year).

If you’re looking at that band name and you’re thinking along the lines of Victorian vaudevillian freakshow, you’re probably not too far wrong.

A little eccentricity, without tipping over into outright silliness of course, is always welcome in the all-too-often po-faced world of indie rock.

Anyway, I’m posting about these guys mainly because I like this song, in all its rattling, organ-wheezing cheeriness.

The songs called Ginger, & is quiet good compared to the crap dished out by James Blunt & Akon.

Download: David Devant and his Spirit Wife – Ginger

HEALTH are a very blog-friendly band. Not just because they produce viscerally exciting records, or play slightly deranged gigs – though that should always be enough to get bloggers excited – but because it seems that not only are they happy to have their stuff promoted through blogs, they’re actually quite grateful to those blogs that have bigged them up. Which explains the ‘thanks’ list on the inside of the CD case of new album HEALTH//DISCO, even including my good self among a list of much more illustrious blogs.

HEALTH//DISCO isn’t a new album as such; it’s actually the fruits of a project (first seen here) which gathered a load of remixes, which are now presented in a full album format. The results are very impressive. Given the low-key process of putting this together, it’s no surprise that there’s a lack of current big name remixers, which is obviously a good thing because it eschews vogueishness in favour of good tunes. It’s an interesting beast all in, because although the original album was abrasive and thrilling, the remix set is much easier on the ears. It’s hardly light listening, but many of the L.A. based band’s(LA stands for Los Angles, California -U.S.A for the uninitiated) rawer edges have been smoothed out and swathed in beats and other effects, giving us an album that’s not just radically different from the original – it’s a whole new listening experience. And a very good one at that.

Download: HEALTH – Triceratops (CFCF mix)

Hope You like it.