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Album: In Colour
Year: 2006.
If I enjoyed the Concretes debut album in fits and starts, I loved their second album, 2006’s cheekily-titled In Colour, from beginning to end. While perhaps not a edgy as the debut, I think that In Colour was more consistent overall.
On some songs, they just added little dabs of colour, but on the album’s centerpiece, the 6 minute, horn-laden “Fiction,” they added great gobs of that colour.
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Album: The Concretes
Year: 2003
For awhile in the early 2000s, MTV2 revived 120 Minutes, and — just like in the late 80s — I would occasionally record it looking for things that hadn’t previously crossed my radar. That’s how I first came across acts like Broken Social Scene, Secret Machines and where I first saw the amazing animated video for “You Can’t Hurry Love” by the Concretes.
That video is one of my all-time favorites, depicting what I assume are The Concretes interacting with icons from the 1970s & 1970s: Eno, Ono, Elton, Buckingham & Nicks, and probably some others that I’m missing. It’s the perfect video for one of my favorite songs of this millennium.
[Read more…] about Certain Songs #245: The Concretes – “You Can’t Hurry Love”