'Eisblumen'

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Animated emo power-ballad where the girl plugs a tree into a computer to resurrect her dead boyfriend? That's clearly what it takes to get to number 5 in the German charts these days!

(Stick with it - it only really ramps up the wtf after 1.30)

some kind of buffet

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

buffetlibre.net are doing another massive 'rewind' collection for free. the basic principle is quite good electro(ish) acts and djs have a crack at doing a load of covers of old(ish) songs and it's reasonably listenable for the most part. the last one was pretty good, even if the frankmusik cover of 'every breath you take' was quite mesmerisingly bad as 'good artists covering not-totally-rubbish songs' go.

anyway, i thought you lot might be interested seeing as it's free and everything. from listening to it thus far i can say the au revoir simone cover of 'here is the news' is pretty good and there's a far-from-unpleasant remix of 'let me be your fantasy.'

you can download it all on their site, here: http://www.buffetlibredjs.net/ (scroll down for the .zip)

edit: the freezepop cover of 'only you' by the flying pickets (listed as yazoo for no doubt complex reasons) is pretty much awesome.