this is not a love song :

D A D : Nineteenhundredandyesterday

Welcome back, Ladies, Gentlemen and Others This week, I'm featuring a band that most of you won't know - they're a Danish band, calld D A D. The name originally was Disneyland After Dark, but good ol' Disney threatened legal action, so they changed the name. Disney, like Sony, are a complete bunch of dorkmeisters, in my opinion Anyhoo - the featured song is from what has become one of my favourite albums 'Everything Glows', from 2000. The band have 11 studio albums out, 3 live albums, and 3 compilations, as well as a host of singles. As it happens, I'm lucky enough to have The Overmuch Box, which is all of the studio albums, plus a remastered release called 'Standin' on the Never Never' from 1985, which hasn't been available on CD before. I'm after the 3 live albums now

So - anyway - as my regular listeners know, my best friend is Danish, and she introduced me to this outfit way back when, years ago, and they have grown and grown in my estimation and kinda in my heart too - they aren't *amazing* musically - but they're a bloody good, solid, constantly developing Rock band, who write some bloody *excellent* songs, lyrically. And they *are* getting better and better with each album. If you stroll with me through the Overmuch Box, you'll hear them growing - it's a bloody good trip, I must say

Alright. Here they are on Amazon, BUT - do yourself a BIG favour and follow my example, get the Overmuch box set from the D A D official website, you'll save yourself megabucks, you'll get a fucking excellent and entertaining collection of CDs (and a nice thick booklet with history, lyrics & all the usual goodies), and a very groovy T shirt or two if you feel like it I just can't praise this band enough. Most of you will know that I have a *lot* of music in my collection, it's my 'thing', and I wouldn't be going on this much about a band if they weren't something special. From rough, ironic cowboy-junky rock to shit-hot, clever songwriting outrock that really doesn't pull any punches....9/10 on my musicometer - and puhlease watch these 2 fantastic youtubes of them rocking out at the Roskilde music festivel in 2005 - damn, I just LOVE bands that can play the audience! Man, I *so* wish I'd have been there!!! :