M Ward - Hold Time

You'd think that DetritusTV could come up with a suitable themed week after its time in exile, but no. We considered maybe top 5 music videos featuring an inappropriate sitar accompaniment (not a bad idea). Anyhows as its not a week of tenuously grouped vids we can play some of our recent favourites so here's M Ward.

McClow

Global Goon - Dead Weird Keks

Today DetritusTV plans to rectify our lack of Global Goon vids until this point. It features numerous colours, a busy hand that likes rolling down steps, playin' guitar, dancing and just generally having a pretty good time.

McClow



And for no reason at all except that its an animation here's one of DetritusTV's favourite ever non-music vids.

The Notwist - Where In This World

DetritusTV viewers will be glad to hear that we have secured passage from the beach. We saw a ship on the horizon and after swimming out to it we were taken on board. We are unsure of the destination as the crew don't seem to understand us and have never heard of our homeland.

They still use old radio transmitters and while spinning the dial we tuned into this track by The Notwist.

McClow

The Sea and Cake - Crossing Line

DetritusTV wandered about the beach today and walked to the top of the highest dune and back again. We're really tired of this Beckettian no man's land and would like to go home now. Still the conch continues to reveal a few surprises although we should have guessed it would have some music by The Sea and Cake.

DetritusTV would like less sea and more cake at the mo though.


McClow

Beirut - Elephant Gun

DetritusTV has resigned itself to indefinite exile on this beach. It seems to stretch on for miles and the few beach dwellers seem at a loss to understand our plight and that we need passage home. Thankfully though the conch that we found yesterday has few different tracks and we've been listening to them quite a bit. It has a song by Beirut and while its not of his new album March of the Zapotec (c'mon its a conch we found on the beach, it hasn't updated its playlist in a few weeks - so what) it is one of his best.

McClow

The Whitest Boy Alive - Courage

Our calls for help went unheeded and DetritusTV remains on this forgotten beachhead in Scotland. While foraging around the shore we found a portable music device that predates even the discman and we think the walkman too. It plays mostly ambient aquatic seascapes and is known as a conch.

The conch we found though had a track from the new Whitest Boy Alive album!

McClow

Glasgow Week - Mogwai

HELP US!! DetritusTV is still languishing on some forgotten beach on this isle called Scotland. The icy crossing is gone and we've been left gazing across the ocean at our distant homeland.

Another friendly beach dweller approached us today and recited some poetry by the Scottish poet Philip Larkin:

Seventy feet down
The sea explodes upwards,
Relapsing, to slaver
Off landing-stage steps -
Running suds, Rejoice!

While these lines alleviated our misery somewhat, it's transit home we need not poetry.

Fortunately this beach person also had some music on his discman and let us listen to two Mogwai tracks one being our favourite 2 Rights Make One Wrong.

Hopefully DetritusTV will make it home soon.

McClow

Glasgow Week - The Pastels

After a few days in Glasgow Detritus TV had sufficiently recovered from the ice sea crossing to attempt the return home. We traveled to the coast expecting to use the icy sea path again but lo... the ice crossing to our land had melted and we were left languishing on the shoreline pining for home.

A beach dweller then approached and we told him of our sorry tale, to alleviate our woes and to nicely tie in with our Glasgow week he let us listen to this song by The Pastels on his walkman.

McClow

Glasgow Week - The Delgados

Detritus TV was cold and shivery after its ice sea crossing and as we strolled the streets of this city of Glasgow we happened upon The Telltale Thistle Pub. We progressed inside and a familiar sound emanating from the tavern's wireless enveloped us. It was the sound of The Delgados.....

McClow

Glasgow Week - The Phantom Band

The other day part of the sea adjoining our isle completely froze over so DetritusTV took this icy opportunity and wandered into another land. We would recommend this form of international travel to all as its loads of fun sliding down frozen waves. We ended up in this city called Glasgow and were told by the locals of all the great music they have. These Glasgow people were right they have an amazing heritage in producing great popular music. So this week we will feature bands from Glasgow and we start with newcomers The Phantom Band. This group sound like a Scottish Smog one moment and the next Surfing harmonies divided by barbershop - Enjoy.

McClow

Peverlist - Roll With The Punches

DetritusTV was sat at work today but was distracted by the rally cries and cheers that drifted in the window from a protest taking place outside. The photo above is a picture that we quickly took out the office window, very symmetrical protesters. As the hum of the crowd faded into the distance DetritusTV was online and saw that similar gatherings were occurring all over Europa, will 09 be the next 68.

If so some good marching music would possibly come from Peverlist, or not, who knows.

McClow

Galaxie 500 - Snowstorm

DetritusTV thinks its surely the time for the return of our popular regional weather report series. Took the above photo on the way home on the 120 bus this evening and yes the Northside of Dubh Linn has a fair bit of snow, the aurora came out for a bit not many people noticed though. Temperatures are down in the minus figures we'd guess.
And to tie in with this most snowy of posts here's indie heroes Galaxie 500.

McClow



And found this great footage of one of my favourite songs of theirs, Tugboat

Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Mysteries

One half of DetritusTV had the worst Monday. Regular viewers may recall the Gnarls Barkley post and the accompanying text which was much to the chagrin of McClow at the time. But now its his turn to perpetuate this theme except with a better vid.

McClow

Lali Puna - Faking the Books

DetritusTV is glad it wasn't part of the fevered scramble that gripped this land last Friday. Middle management offices and cubicles alike cast aside their work concerns for a few hours that morn and incanted the name of Bruce in a hushed reverence as they apprehensively glared at the ticket timer online.

"You must wait 16 minutes, you must wait 21 minutes. Sold Out - but wait a totally unexpected new date has been added put me done for 5 more tickets - 16 minutes - 25 minutes" and so on.

And while the economy collapses around us its always heartening to see that people will pay literally hundreds to see an aging multi-millionaire rock star churn out the hits again and again and again.

Anyhows heres the mighty Lali Puna

McClow

Windy and Carl - Undercurrent

The lamented Silver Medalist returns from hiatus with promises of gold, frankspencer and mirrors. New Year blues prompted yours truly to do a "Bon Iver" and relocate to a log cabin and attempt to make my own private internet out of string, blu tack, and thinly veiled contempt for Liverpool FC, but alas the project failed after I could only get around 256kps speed with such a flimsy base infrastructure. The heroic McClow was left pulling the wagon on his own on Detritus TV, and that he did with furious abandon. The period of reflection was not a wasted one, as I have returned invigorated with glittery new youtube baubles. Now, let's be quiet and savour the dronecore of Windy and Carl.



Silver Medalist

Pete Rock & C. L. Smooth - They Reminisce Over You

DetritusTV didn't bother to wear its' glasses today, so had to peer a little closer when viewing the concert listings in the local record store. As the blurry characters slowly emerged a name was decipherable among the fog of letters. DetritusTV was glad to see that name was Pete Rock playin' next month. Pete Rock with Cl Smooth were legends but their place in the rap pantheon has never seemed assured for reasons beyond us. On youtube one poster describes this as the Greatest Track
EVER. ThomasMichealMeyer we think you may be right.

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You

DetritusTV may be just made of a cathode ray and a few circuits but we had formative years too when the wires were connected. So we were please to be reminded of this time by the C86, early Teenage Fanclub soundin' The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.

Its distilled indie pop and even has a Super 8 vid but we like it.

McClow

Animal Collective - My Girls

DetritusTV is certainly surprised that the catchiest tune its heard this year is from Animal Collective. We've had it on repeat for the last few days and its instant likeability is seriously hampering efforts to progress into the Merriweather Pavilion.

McClow

The Beatles - A Day In The Life

DetritusTV is certainly in favour of lists as they provide the perfect distraction, their assembly being the pinnacle of procrastination. It is however, a long time since DetritusTV perused a list as extensive as JBev's ultimate countdown of Beatles tracks. It's basically a countdown, from in his opinion the worst Beatles track through to the best and in addition he writes quite extensively about each song. While his choices are at times random especially the endless dismissal of the White Album (the weird & bad tracks are what made it even more enjoyable) it is an entertaining read.

So here's the No.1 which is a good choice and link to list too.

McClow

http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/01/05/playing-the-beatles-backwards-the-ultimate-countdown/

Sid Vicious - My Way

One of Detritus TV's favourite videos is Sid Vicious's cover of Sinatra's My Way.

BBC Radio 4 are playing a documentary tonight about Sid and it can be found here.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00grqms

McClow