I recommend Wilder than the Wind, Everything We Touch, Julian and Hard for a Man. I also like their song Games for Girls, it sounds a bit Ting Tings-ish.
Jayz when defending Tidal “People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water” kind of showing how out a touch he is . As for Say Lou Lou I will pass. Edit: I didn't know my cousins band were on Spotify.
Hard for a Man and Wilder than the Wind are less..... pop-y and more dream pop-like I guess, so you may prefer them to Everything We Touch which is more mainstream pop I think. I dunno. Although I do love the vague Japanese elements in Everything We Touch!
Processed cheese slices was my introduction to the delicious world of cheese (I didn't eat cheese when I was younger) What's your view of the Decemberists? I've recently got into them. Love this song: [video]
As an ex-expatriate (been out of the country since 1998 and only came back to my hometown in 2013) who has been living in 4 different countries since then, I agree with you Black. Seems that, if you're a white collar worker supposedly giving something to the country you're in, you're classified as an expat. Otherwise, you're an immigrant. Of course, the expat non-doms who live here, take advantage of all of our services, pay little or no tax are heralded as being good for our economy, whereas the army of young Polish people who do menial work (and very well in my experience) are classified as immigrants just bringing down the productivity of this country ............. Something wrong there somewhere. When I was working in South Africa, they had very stringent exit checks. If you overstayed your visa, you were due a trip to see some very scary people (I know - due to a clerical error by my country I experienced such - wouldn't want to do it again) who made it pretty clear that this was a no-no .......... We should do the same.
Here's a quite different one, I quite like it. Though if the lyrics are meant to be taken literally, then it's quite a rude song... or maybe I just have a dirty mind [video]
Aren't Poles white too? (and Romanians, Bulgarians, Lithuanians, Czechs... etc) Is there a surfeit of British people doing minimum wage jobs, undercutting the local economy, or claiming unemployment benefits where you are? Or are they RICH white folk? Usually, British "ex-pats" are pensioners living on their British pensions, or adequately paid multi-national employees. We have a lot of foreign ex-pats living here in the same fashion and nobody minds. Where people get a bit excited is when the locals are expected to work for a pittance, which means they would be worse off than being on the dole(including associated benefits), and are called lazy when compared with young Eastern Europeans, who are prepared to put up with lower standards of living in order to work. Seems a retrograde step to me, which seeks to undo generations of improving British workers' living and working standards.
Every place I have lived, it is the absolute norm for western expats to work one or two 'illegal' jobs on the side of the job that they are there to do officially. Usually private language-tutoring jobs etc, which easily allow the avoidance of paying tax. The funny thing is, I have lost count of the number of times I've been sat in a bar with some guy who readily bemoans the state of immigration in the UK, US, Australia etc, without them realising at all the irony of themselves being an immigrant (and a tax-dodger).
White, yes, "rich", no. Don't get hung up on the label I gave, that is besides the point and you know what I meant. Anyway, as I just put in the previous post, undercutting the local economy is exactly what many expats do in East Asia. it is the norm. So much so that if you are caught doing it now, it means immediate loss of visa and extradition.
Undercutting the local economy illegally should be punished by the relevant sentence. We are encouraging legal undercutting.
And of course the bottom line is, Britain became a rich country by screwing over most of the countries we now take immigrants from. Shouldn't forget that. If we hadn't been such dicks throughout our history, perhaps these other countries wouldn't be in the state they are today.
