We had a great gig at Slottstallarna in Växjö with great support from our fans and friends.
We played the original set for 40+ minutes including the Beyoncé cover Irreplaceable – the crowd demanded an encore and we were pleased to oblige with a heavy performance of the soon to be smash-hit Mindset
Växjö, thank you so much for a great experience!
If you haven’t noticed yet, the praised TGF version of Beyoncé’s ballad “Irreplaceable” is now available for listening over at http://music.thegenuinefakes.com. Much enjoyment!
I think that The Wannadies is one of greatest bands in the world – I just don’t understand why they didn’t make it even bigger… Practically every song is a smash hit as far as I’m concerned!
I’ve linked some YouTube-clips that are definitely worth checking out. The first is the video for the song Friends which is one of their best songs…
The second clip is this simple but cool video for the song I Don’t Like You.
The third clip is from their awesome song Hit. We attempted to play it once with a cover band but it is seriously difficult to get the guitars and rhythm right. The Wannadies are just so tight…
Just look at their unbelievably cool discography; all of their albums are sooo good!
Tune in on Spotify for some excellent tunes by The Wannadies.
A while back we mentioned that The Genuine Fakes will contribute two songs on the the compilation Songbox Fan Crusade Vol. 1. Today the compilation is released!
The Genuine Fakes contribute with the songs The Promise and I Don’t Want It and the compilation is available for purchase on iTunes – cost 90 SEK.
Ebbot – the fantastic vocals of The Soundtrack Of Our Lives – has done it again. A few days back I browsed through my music library to find some easy listening music for Molly Fake and re-discovered the fantastic album ”Bröderna Lindgren – Vuxen Barnmusik”. The nostalgia for us Swedes that grew up in the 70’s and 80’s is quite intense; just check out the album cover.
The guest list on this album is amazing; except for the Lindgren brothers the following stars has joined the line up: Kristofer Åström, Ebbot Lundberg, Swedish Tiger, Nina Ramsby, Martin Hederos, Mattias Alkberg, Vanna Rosenberg, Swing, Caroline Wennergren Asha Ali.
My favorite track is the second song on the album – En flugas väg (eng. The Path of a Fly).
Check out the album on Spotify or visit the band website on MySpace.
The Songbox Fan Crusade compilation will be released through iTunes Music Store on Tuesday 31 March!
The Genuine Fakes contribute two songs – “The Promise” and “I Don’t Want It” and those two tracks make up the second official release from the band. The first was the Posies cover “Somehow Everything” on “Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited”.
The price of the album will be 90 SEK (ca 9€) and it will be released exclusively through iTunes on March 31, and a couple of weeks it will also be available through other online stores such as CDON.com, Sony Ericsson Play Now Arena and Nokia Music Store.
Title: Songbox Fan Crusade
Artist: Various Artists
Release date: 2009-03-31
Price (SEK): 90
Browsing YouTube I found this fantastic clip with Cheap Trick and the cast from “That 70′s Show”.
The song In the Street was originally performed by 70′s band Big Star. A cover-version of the song was recorded by Cheap Trick in 1999 for use as the theme song for the television show That 70′s Show. Great TV-show, great music and a cool video. Definitely worth checking out!
The second album I want you to check out may very well be the one album that has influenced me the most. It’s the phenomenal third album from The Posies entitled “Frosting on the Beater”, released in 1993. I’d say that this is the very album that got me hooked on powerpop in the first place, and in many ways “Frosting” defines the genre for me. It’s impossible to find a weakness on the album, since all of the songs are true gems in their own right.
My favorite song on the album and one of my favorite songs of all time is “Solar Sister”. To this day I cannot seem to tire of it. Actually, it’s hard to tire of any of the songs, but other “must-listens” are “Definite Door”, “Dream All Day”, “Flavor of the Month”, and the hauntingly beautiful closer “Coming Right Along” with the eerie C-tuning on the guitar that I spent a whole afternoon in High School trying to figure out.
These past couple of years I’ve had the pleasure to get to know the frontmen of the band – Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer – and the two still produce the most amazing music, both as The Posies and separately. If you start to delve into their back catalogue you’ll find some of the greatest music written during the past fifteen years or so.
Here’s a YouTube clip of “Solar Sister” that I just found. The harmonies on this song are absolutely killer!
And here’s the album cover:
spent the weekend with a dear friend listening to some old vinyls and drinking “Eau De Vie” (I’d call it swedish blue collar brandy).
we enjoyed the re-discovery of all sorts of music ranging from Leonard Cohen to David Johansen. even got a bit of Roxette and Billy Idol in there… on Saturday we also managed to pay a visit to the fabulous Monk’s Café for a bit of kriek, ale and stout. Thanx for visiting, Hank!
also, reading the most recent post from Tommy Fake, I recognized the old Spinal Tap trio from yet another great mockumentary,
A Mighty Wind from 2003.
finally, here’s “Cypress Hill Lyric of the week”:
(WHEN THE SHIT GOES DOWN)
shit, I still stand tall
with tha hill clan, ya’ll
better stand back – niggaz ’bout ta fall
I’m comin’ out blastin’ like Yosemite Sam
get tha cheese n’ tha bread for tha ham…
The opening track from the album, entitled “Very Best Years” is one of my favorite songs at the moment. A while ago I discovered that they’d made a music video for it, which you can check out here:
Do yourselves a favor and check it out!
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