Modwheelmood - Scene
Modwheelmood is a nice little known project started by a former member of Nine Inch Nails. Don’t let that fool you though, this is by no means an industrial rock band. Rather than try to recapture the same aggressive edge that his former band did so well to employ, Cortini’s duo plays a far more calm and melodic form of electronic music. Check it out.
Haystacks Balboa - The Children of Heaven
Haystacks Balboa is a great psychedelic rock band that put out a single album in 1970. Their sound borders on early heavy metal at times and at others is populated by organs or meandering acoustic guitars in extended progressive passages. As in most of their songs the lyrics of The Children of Heaven are centered around ‘satanic’ themes with the chorus continually shouting away “The children of heaven are throwing their dollies away” and the verses describing a joyful funeral and more.
Imaginary Music
Music is great and there are a lot of really cool real recordings being produced all the time. However, I just want to take a few minutes of time from anyone who is willing to listen to point out a few really cool imagined bands. No, I’m not talking about ideas randomly bouncing around in my head I’m talking about fictional bands with music featured in movies. There are a handful of real gems that may have been overlooked as amusing little novelties and forgotten after viewing a movie. Just scroll down and take a look.
Sex Bob-omb – Garbage Truck
Sex Bob-omb is proof positive that when it comes to fictional bands Michael Cera does no wrong. Featured in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World this band plays a kind of distorted indie garage rock that plain rocks. Another notable imaginary band mention from the movie is Crash and the Boys.
The Jerkoffs – Screw the Man
Michael Cera should stop taunting the world with the great bands that appear in his movies or at least make some of them a reality. The Jerkoffs are a fictious indie punk group from Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist whose thematic focus is on homosexuality as evidenced by the lyrics of this song, what more is there to say than “screw the man, screw the man, I want to screw that man!”
Infant Sorrow – Furry Walls
Russell Brand’s comedy Get Him to the Greek serves up the great and hysterical band Infant Sorrow (previously referenced in Forgetting Sarah Marshall). Infant Sorrow is a fictious famous rock group who released a horrendous flop (African Child) but eventually recover as evident from this track, inspired by the events of the movie, that wraps up the hilarity.
Mad Season - I Don’t Know Anything
Supergroups are a funny thing, typically they go one of two ways, either they’re great, even stunning or they are somehow less than the sum of their parts. Mad Season, luckily, belongs in the former category. Grinding riffs and angst ridden vocals are delivered courtesy of Staley and McCready while Saunders and Martin do a great job of holding the rhythm section together on bass and drums respectively.
ColdWorld - Hymn to Eternal Frost
This is a cut of depressive black metal that features beautiful, sorrowful violin playing to go along with it’s droning, buzzing guitars and harsh distant vocals. It evokes vacuous images of a barren winter land devoid of light or life but perhaps for the listener, a traveler through the depressive soundscape.
Cage - Hell’s Winter
Hell’s Winter is a masterwork that encapsulates and conveys Cage’s unique struggles and sorrows from his broken childhood to his extended stay in a mental institution. This title track is the sum total of Chris Palko’s life in musical form and is as complex and emotionally beautiful as anything else that he has ever produced.
I'm John, I'll probably be posting random quotes, music I like and other things that tickle my fancy here. The blog title is basically copped from the Nevermore song/album (This Godless Endeavor) and then changed because of my long absence hazah!