Last February

This group was featured last here on The Archenemy a few weeks back and then back in February during Valentine's Day 2012. I've found that I really liked their music, although I'm about six years late for the album. I posted a screenshot of the image and had someone comment that with their iPod being filled with electronic dance music, this is the only non-EDM song left on there.

That's a great achievement if you ask me for any band to be left alone when their competition is being replaced with grinding sounds and beats that can't be physically achieved using a real drum set.

From their 2004 album Hot Fuss, The Killers' "Somebody Told Me."

Well somebody told me/ You had a boyfriend

Who looked like a girlfriend/ That I had in February of last year

La Playa (The Beach)

At my house, we have satellite television subscription. We subscribe to a Spanish television package and thus have a selection of both English and Spanish-language networks and channels. To bring our costs down, we decided to lose a bit of both. The only con of that is we have large gaps in our English channels now, which gets to be disappointing when you realize you don't have TLC or the BBC America.

Well, to get over this, I started to write down what channels to make so we only see the ones we have. And while doing this, I came across a Spanish channel running music videos. When I heard the following song, I actually stopped and waited until the song was over before I continued. That's how much I liked it.

So for this long-coming post (today is August 19th), here from Spanish pop group La Oreja de Van Gogh (Van Gogh's Ear), is "La Playa" ("The Beach").

Te voy a escribir la canción mas bonita del mundo.

Voy a capturar nuestra historia en tan solo un segundo.

...

Por mucho que pasen los anos de largo en su vida

I Want to Ride it!

If I could get a degree in staying up all night long, I'd get that fucker. It's all I do now. Awake at day; dirty nasty things at night. But I am productive, don't you know. For example, it's 2:18 AM as I write this and I scanned my computer for viruses, so I'm pretty much set tonight. I've also applied for many scholarships, so I'm good.

This song comes from yesterday (the 26th) while working on something, I think a Tofu drawing at 1 AM. From Queen off their 1978 album Jazz, "Bicycle Race."

You say black/ I say white

You say bark/ I say bite

You say shark/ I say 'Hey man!'

Jaws was never my scene/ And I don't like Star Wars

Take Me...!

Top 40 stations, a mainstay in American culture. They bring you songs in a range from one to forty, and every know-and-then from artists such as Katy Perry to Usher to that dasterly-dastard David Guetta (whoever that is). The song in this entry I heard as I was coming out of the bathroom.

Then I started singing "Take me to your best friend's house; fuck me up and fuck me down; Yeah!" much to brother's chagrin, who called me a fag afterwards. But it really doesn't matter-- it's no one's business but mine. 

Anywho, from their 2011 début album Never Trust a Happy Song, the recently formed California-based indie rock band GROUPLOVE, here is "Tongue Tied."

Don't take me tongue tied/ Don't wave no goodbyes

Don't take me tongue tied/ Don't kiss me goodnight

Don't!


Say hello to running white guys.
  Diga hola Al Archenemigo. (Say hello to The Archenemy.)
And I'm one of the guys in a masks.
Moral of the story: do drugs and three Joe Fridays in lucha masks will come after you.

Taking Control (Music Nudity)

This summer is a music discovery session. I've found bands that I've never given a second thought at or songs that didn't think we me. Life works in mysterious ways, given that it can sometimes be a big venereal-disease carrying whore.

Besides, these people have been around since 2001 I think. From the Amazon section of The Archenemy, here is from their album Hot Fuzz, The Killers with "Mr. Brightside."

Now I'm falling asleep/ And she's calling a cab

While he's having a smoke/ And she's taking a drag

Now they're going to bed/ And my stomach is sick/ And it's all in my head

But she's touching his chest now/ He takes off her dress now

Let me go!