Thursday, May 20, 2010

Song of the day

"You Are Waking", by Jamie Lidell. Roughly half way through Jamie Lidell's new album, "Compass", just as one is starting to think about how much further he can go with this Smoother Than Stevie schtick before it starts to get just a little bit, erm, well, boring, along comes this song, which, after a deceptively calm thirty seconds or so, morphs into a genuine get-yr-balls-out-and-swing-'em-around big rock'n'roll number, featuring pretty much every type of big guitar action known to man. God bless him, it even has a bridge lifted straight from the power ballad playbook. And look at that drummer go.

My knee hurts.