Perfume Genius - Mr Peterson

This is a tragic sad song about a school teacher who throws himself off of a building.

Mr Peterson sounds like a pretty sweet teacher, letting the kids smoke weed and getting them into Joy Division but clearly had some issues he was dealing with. Certainly not your average ball breaking high school teacher who thinks learning can only be accomplished by squashing the fun out of the entire experience. Teachers like this certainly stand out form the bunch, and this song make me think of the few that I had back in the day.

I'm betting he was an art teacher. Anyway check out this song and Perfume Genius, it's a really amazing album, and I'm loving it lately.


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The Horrors - Who Can Say

The Horrors 2009 album, Primary Colours, was one of the stand out highlights for me.
Although I didn't hear a hell of a lot of it on the radio or on friends stereos, it certainly signaled a change in direction for the band.

Channeling their inner Cure and Joy Division, The Horrors produced a mind-blowing album that left me wanting more.

Seeing as it's Halloween week, I thought I might as well up up some of The Horrors to get the spooky theme going.

I struggled so hard with what song to pick off the album, as they're all so damn good. But I finally went with Who Can Say. But you can bet the rest of the songs will feature soon enough.


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Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Joy Division burst onto the UK music scene in 1979 with the moody debut album, Unknown Pleasures. Frontman Ian Curtis has one of those voices that just grabs your attention the second you hear that deep baratone.

Recently founding member Peter Hook hit the road and played some 30-year-anniversary gigs to commemorate their amazing debut album.

Love Will Tear Us Apart is one of my favourite songs, and is arguably one of the greatest songs ever. The haunting lyrics about a love that's too hard to control, that's it's tearing two people away from each other - it's almost like a little insight into Curtis's head as he battled his epilepsy, depression, a failing marriage, and struggled to come to terms with their every growing success, which eventually lead to him committing suicide.

If you haven't seen the movie about Joy Division and Ian Curtis, Control, the I suggest you get it and check it out. Such a tragic story about a great musician who left us far too early.


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