Bad News: too good

Look, I mentioned this in passing yesterday, but it’s all I’ve been listening to since I first heard it, so I’m sharing the wealth and putting it on here. The ideal way to play out the end of a long week.

Mike Skinner seems to have discovered a new talent in Elro, while further developing his relationship with Robert Harvey (Going Through Hell, Take The Long Road And Walk It) whose smooth chorus gives some breathing space amid the amazing lyrical flow of the initially somewhat bashful and apologetic rapper attempting to defend his behaviour at 200 words per minute.

You say nothing, but it’s clear to me that you’re fearing me ‘cos I’m weird, but, weird to me is not weird to you, but I accept I’m strange but the best must change, but I’m just engaged, I’m tired of games, I’m not deranged. I’m just, coming up with a new strategy to please and please hear me out, it’s beyond a doubt: I desire your effects and affections, I’m aware that the problems complex and, and I when I get to the best I can be but the best I can be doesn’t seem to fit the script and I’m less than appealing, sometimes feel there’s a mess and I’ve tested your patience; blatant, selfish acts can detract from men who mean well when there are egos attached. I can change myself, not the past.

Yeah, punctuating that was quite difficult.

Take The Long Road And Walk It

Ah – The Music. This’ll wake you up on a Monday morning (which – according to my rudimentary calculations – is when most of you will be reading this post).

I stumbled across the music of The Music back in 2001 when, somehow having some spare cash, I puchased a hazy escape from real life by buying their charmingly-entitled You Might As Well Try To **** Me EP. That, I believe is something of a collectors item right now.
Anyway, this song comes from the following year:

and I bring it to you today because tomorrow, The Music’s Singles & EPs 2001-2005 album is released.

Eagle-eyed viewers may note that lead singer Robert Harvey appears on The Streets’ single If You’re Going Through Hell, which in turn appeared on this blog earlier this month.

And might I also recommend their 2008 single Drugs for a cool Verve meets Depeche Mode kinda vibe?