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The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die

Last month The Prodigy released their fifth album – Invaders Must Die.

I’ve been a fan of The Prodigy for a long time – not since the beginning, but a long time.

I really enjoyed their previous album Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned.  It was different from their previous albums in that only Liam Howlett was involved from the original group - only guest vocalist were used.

In Invaders Must Die, Keith Flint and Maxim Reality are back doing the vocals on most of the tracks, and it’s at least as good as Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned was.

Invaders Must Die is identifiably Prodigy, which means it sounds a bit 90′s.  I can see why some people wouldn’t like that, but it has progressed and grown since then and it’s exactly my style.

Here’s the music video for my favourite track on the album – the single Invaders Must Die:

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Here is a fun retro music video for The Asteroids Galaxy Tour’s song Around The Bend (as heard in the iPod Touch ad):

Spinnerette - Ghetto Love EP cover art

Spinnerette have released the Ghetto Love EP for digital download (yay!).  It costs $5 and features four tracks that will be on the yet-to-be-released album Valium Knights:

1. Bury My Heart
2. Distorting A Code
3. Valium Knights
4. Ghetto Love

My favourites are Valium Knights and Ghetto Love, though the other two tracks are good too.

Here’s the excellent music video for Ghetto Love:

EDIT: I’ve already started getting hits for people searching for download links for Valium Knights and Ghetto Love.  Just buy it you cheap pirates – it doesn’t cost that much and if you’re really a fan then you’ll want to support the band, right?  The announcement email even contained a plea from the band:

Please note that we are putting this out ourselves and that downloading for free, “stealing” will mean that we might not tour as far and wide as we’d like to, due to a lack of funds…and also Santa will steal your Mom away and make her a gift wrapping slave. But seriously think about it and think about doing good and lovely things for each other, after all these are the best gifts of all. We hope you enjoy this as much as we enjoyed making it. 

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I recognized the song Reckoner from Radiohead’s album In Rainbows in tonight’s episode of Life (Evil… and His Brother Ziggy).

I didn’t notice it in the first series of Life, but the music in this series is absolutely fantastic.

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There was a cool song in today’s episode of Chuck - Council Estate by Tricky.

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I really like the music from the intro to True Blood - Bad Things by Jace Everett.

I usually hate country music, but this is more like Johnny Cash than the whiny country stuff.

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The first episode of the new series of Life (Find Your Happy Place) had a great song in the background while they’re finding all the bodies in the trunks – Devil’s Playground by Gram Rabbit:

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The ad for the new series of Dexter has a cool song in the background and I tracked it down – it’s Secret by The Pierces:

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I’ve been a longtime fan of The Distillers, and I’ve always been disappointed that they broke up after only one album (I don’t count the first two albums as they sound completely different).  Coral Fang is one of my favorite albums (disturbing album art notwithstanding) and is one of the few albums where I love all (but one) of the songs on it.

Fortunately it turns out that the Distillers’ lead singer Brody Dalle has started a new band with similar sounding music – Spinnerette.

Spinnerette Valium Knights album cover

The title song from their upcoming album Valium Knights is available as an mp3 download if you sign up for the newsletter on their website.

If the rest of the album is as good as this song I just might have another favorite album – can’t wait.

Battlefield: Bad Company soundtrack

The Battlefield: Bad Company soundtrack is available – I love the menu music (the jazzy piano one) but it’s not on the soundtrack!?