TODAY WE LIKE: US PLACERS

Hard as it is to believe I’m writing this, Lil Kim has outstayed her welcome, so it’s time for a brand-spanking song of the day to take us through the next few weeks. This isn’t new, as such, but I’ve been listening to it a lot lately – here’s the Thom Yorke-sampling Us Placers, by Kanye, Lupe Fiasco and Pharrell.

Over there. On the right. That’s it. Gently does it...

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TODAY WE LIKE: L'IL KIM

So Song Of The Day isn't always going to be a new band. Today it is L'il Kim, because I've been listening to her all weekend, and because she's so ridiculously too much, and because this picture looks nice on the homepage.

And since you clicked through and I can't turn that fucking feature off, have some L'il Kim facts: she's 4' 11"! Her middle name is Denise! Paris is a pussy - Kimberly Denise got a 366-day sentence for perjury!

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SAINT WINEHOUSE

Amy Winehouse not only impressed the industry-packed audience at the Mercury Music Prize last night, she used the down-time of the interval to cure AIDS, cancer and the common cold.

Pope Benedict XVI joined the clamour of praise for the singer today by offering Winehouse a beatitude, adding: “If she can prove she’s performed a miracle (other than turning up for a gig) we’ll waive the whole ‘death’ part and promote her straight to Saint.”

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KLAXONS VERY, VERY HAPPY WITH WIN

Q: How happy is James?

A: Very happy!
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TODAY WE LIKE: JOHN ET JEHN

And why are John et Jehn our Song Of The Day?

Because they are a bit French.

And that is a motto for every walk of life.

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TODAY WE LIKE: YO MAJESTY

As promised in penance yesterday, Yo Majesty are today’s Song Of The Day.

They are amazing because they are dykedelic butch Black devout Christians who like to flash their boobies. It’s a thing.

And they sound pretty hot – pre-gangsta-rap electro hip-hop with hooks galore.

Kele from Bloc Party was wearing their T-shirt at Reading last weekend.

They say stuff like this in interviews:


“In San Francisco a girl got on stage and started humping Jwl. She was aiight. But we kept playin’. Jwl started humping her back. The show must go on.”

They’re coming to the UK in October for another tour.

S’it.

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WE'VE BEEN ON HOLIDAY

By we, I mean I. And by holiday, I mean festival fun and then sitting at home watching TV. I really should get the hang of this "I'm not going to be posting" thing before going away, instead of afterwards...

Have this to make up for it...

It's a picture of Yo Majesty! And a sneak preview of what tomorrow's Song Of The Day will be (ie them). Woo!

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TODAY WE LIKE: LATE OF THE PIER

On the Polyester playlist this fine morning:

Late Of The Pier - Bathroom Gurgle

As usual, it is over there.

And here is the artwork.



And here is their website.
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TODAY WE LIKE: NIRVANA

Our song of the day is...

Nirvana - Been A Son

As this post title cunningly suggests, we're posting a different song we like every day. You'll be able to stream it in the cassette over there on the right. Retro!

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SNOOP'S DOGS

News trickles in of a planned 50 Cent diet product range (“Hey ladies, wanna look like a hulking beefcake of shot-up flesh and muscle?”), to add to his imminent “Formula 50 Glacéau Vitaminwater”. But, like much of Fiddy’s output, product endorsement has been done before, and better.

I give you… Snoop’s Dogg Pets.

The black Dogg-Father hoodie:



The polyester/cotton-blend T-shirt:



And the boom-box dog toy with sound chip:



A word of advice for G-Unit – stop ballsing about with beverages and get into animal clothing. Rebecca

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CHRIST

New Manics b-sides:

Heyday Of The Blood
You Know It's Going To Hurt
Lady Lazarus
Anorexic-Rodin

Lol-ocaust.
Eleanor

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POLY LOVES: PANCAKE MOUNTAIN

A couple of years ago I broke my leg and ended up convalescing in a house with a 4-year-old who had a dictatorial reign over the TV remote. I watched a lot of CBeebies: Balamory, Big Cook Little Cook, Bob The Builder (obviously) and mine and the little one’s favourite, Boogie Beebies. For the uninitiated, Boogie Beebies’ hosts Nat and Pete make you dance to songs like Pirate Gang and Go Go Mango. I didn’t do much dancing. I was crippled. Keep up. But the point is, the little one did, and he loved it.

It was the best show on CBeebies by miles. Grown-up dancing is mostly rubbish because it’s all posing and posturing for others to see, but kids just throw themselves around because it feels good, and it’s the nicest and funniest thing in the world.

And then today I watched a YouTube clip of MIA teaching her dance moves to the kids on the wonderful Pancake Mountain. This led to a couple of hours of online PM catch-up, as the show’s been running since 2003 and has had everyone from Metric to Scissor Sisters to Arcade Fire to Juliette Lewis to… well, it’s had everyone. If Top Of The Pops had got a goat called Rufus Leaking to present and roped an audience of under-fives in, it might have stood a fighting chance.


The show’s creator, Scott Stuckey, got the show together in 2005. It airs sporadically on public access TV in Washington, though you can buy DVDs of episodes from the website. “Good music is good music no matter what your age,” he reasons. That’s true. But there are other reasons why a music show for kids works much better than one for adults.

First, stupid interview questions elicit the best responses. They’re more probing. They catch people off-guard and there’s no way bands will have a stock answer prepared for something like, “Where do you park the mothership?” (as Rufus once asked George Clinton). And they’re funny. I’m not interested in, “Tell me about your new album.” But I appreciate Rufus asking Shirley Manson, “Are you even happy when it’s a little bit cloudy?” I suspect she does, too.

Second, bands like White Stripes and Shonen Knife are childlike in so many ways that when they played the show, it looked like they’d come home. They loved it. Gigs should be made compulsory for under-10s and illegal for anyone older. Pancake Mountain’s Dance Parties prove this point.

And third, don’t you wish this was around when you were a kid? That you could say, “oh I was on TV playing drums with Iggy Pop when I was 6, and then Fugazi taught me to spell”. No? Shut up. You do a bit.

Here are some good bits from the show.

1. Metric hosting a Monster Hospital singalong.


2. Scissor Sisters doing karaoke to Aretha Franklin with Rufus.


3. Jenny Lewis really, really enjoying her Dance Party.


Buy DVDS for the young ones in your life, or else pretend you know some kids, buy it and then watch it yourself. It’s so good that it made me a bit sad for everything else. Rebecca

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FEIST IS LOVELY

Here at Polyester, Feist is near the top of our long list of lady loves. In fact, we’ve got an interview with her to post at some point soon, whenever a good afternoon’s transcribing is on the cards. It’s funny and everything.

Feist recently replaced the content on her website with a hand-written note, since she felt listentofeist.com had become “a robot with a paper mask of my face on it”.

Read the full note after the jump, because it’s very charming, and compounds that Feist crush that didn’t really need compounding in the first place.

And keep your eyes peeled for that interview.

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