Tap Tap Thursday Presents: Phoenix by Ed
July 9th, 2009
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Le Groupe: PHOENIX
La Chanson: 1901 from the album “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”
La Revolution! PHOENIX is no longer a city in Arizona. Phoenix is no longer a mythical firebird. After playing this week’s TTR track, when you hear someone say Phoenix, you will only think of the French rock band and their pop-perfect hit song “1901.”
Don’t know Phoenix? Get to know them!
- Formed in the late 90’s in Versailles, they began as a backing band for Air, and were contemporaries of Daft Punk.
- You’ve heard them in the Sofia Coppola movies “Lost in Translation” and “Marie Antoinette”, in which they make a cameo.
- For the new album “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix,” they recorded over 1000 pieces of music during the last 2 years.
- They spent a large chunk of the album’s budget renting out a hotel room in NYC, and a boat on the Seine in Paris for inspiration. Not studio time or hard drives, just “inspiration.”
In short, they are very cool. With “1901,” they take distinctly French synth sounds and rhythms, prop them up with multiple hooks and buoyant melodies, and emerge with a powerful piece of pure musical bliss. Watch the video at myspace.com/wearephoenix and wearephoenix.com. Or catch them on their culture-shock tour this year, where they’ll be going from the Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium to the Austin City Limits Fest, with some Jakarta and Tokyo thrown in. Zut alors!
THE PHOENIX CONTEST
UPDATE: Congrats to the winners! Grand Prize winner: Chris_Liquid. Runner-ups: kyasa085, ocethawsm, furry321, pbfreek, timaster
You can be a phoenix with Phoenix. You can rise up from the ashes of your terrible scores and entries from previous TTThursdays, and soar to victory in the Phoenix “1901″ Contest.
This is a MAX POINTS contest. Play “1901″ from Friday July 10th at 12:01PM PDT to Sunday, July 12th at 11:59PM PDT, and every point you submit to the global scoreboard will be added to your personal bucket. At the end of the contest, we’ll take the top 50 players with the most points, and draw the winners. The remaining list of winners will be burned, and once again you will be in the ashes.
5 runner-up winners will receive a Phoenix album and a poster autographed by lead singer Thomas Mars and guitarist Christian Mazzalai. One grand prize winner wins TWO VIP TICKETS to see Phoenix live on their US tour in September (some exclusions apply).
Bonne chance, and vive la Tap!
July 9th, 2009
I have to say i am a little disappointed with Tapulous. When are we going to get more of the music hits like “LoveGame” “Gives You Hell” and “I Know You Want Me.” These past three Tap Tap Thursdays have been depressing.
July 9th, 2009
Jay – we mix it up every week. A couple top US tracks, a couple top European tracks, and a couple tracks that are just good music. With millions of users there is going to be a lot of different tastes…
July 9th, 2009
1 of the many tracks i hav been waiting 4 !
July 9th, 2009
tap tap revenge is great. And it’s cool having new music every week but I think we should get some hits from michael Jackson on here. And wats up with all the emo music? Try some classic rock and other genres as well
July 9th, 2009
Give us a hint, what’s next week’s music?
July 9th, 2009
Ah sorry Tom, I can’t give hints… I’m so bad at that.
July 9th, 2009
About next weeks music, well for next week’s tap tap thursday there just might be no……..,, Maybe something cool will come for next week’s TTTapthursday. I dont know maybe we’ll get a huge artist(s)
Riiiight ed?
July 9th, 2009
PS: Ed your good at hints stop being so modest
July 9th, 2009
What no way… you guys always figure things out somehow.
July 9th, 2009
WHAT THE @!@# IS WRONG WITH ALL YOU GUYS? TAPULOUS IS MIXING IT UP, AND THEY ARE DOING ONE HECK OF A JOB! I DONT SEE YOU GUYS RUNNING THE COMPANY. GREAT JOB TAPULOUS, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!
July 10th, 2009
Lol I was just listening to this song and it rocks.Love Phoenix
July 10th, 2009
I agree with other posters on this one, why have we been getting music that stinks for the past few weeks? And also if you try to mixi-it-up then why haven’t we seen MJ or Celtic Thunder?
July 10th, 2009
Ed- I absolutely agree with the mix it up thing because there are diffrent tastes, just no weird al ok.
July 10th, 2009
Wait… weird al is coming next week. I guess we’ll have to change that..
July 10th, 2009
Nice choice of song – I like seeing bands I’ve never heard of. Just wondering, Ed, why do I never see you or another Tapulous employee in a game room?
July 10th, 2009
Kaboom – We’re there sometimes… I’m edzme, Zach is zachtap, and Amy is lookin’ for challenges: amytap
July 10th, 2009
Amy is looking for challenges? That’s awesome..
July 10th, 2009
yeah, challenge me on this featured track! The song rocks. As Ed said, I’m amytap.
July 10th, 2009
Are we ever going to be able to create are own Tap Tap songs? Like, if we like a song but it’s not on here are we ever going to be able to create it ourselves?
July 10th, 2009
Also, when is TTR 3 coming out?
July 10th, 2009
GREAT, I’m all for Weird Al, even though I was just joking!
July 11th, 2009
But why did you tell the whole community that Weird Al was coming next week? I love surprises! Again I think he’s great!
July 11th, 2009
trekluver — i was j/k… I wouldn’t leak what’s actually happening
July 11th, 2009
I certainly wouldn’t mind Weird Al though…
July 11th, 2009
Sorry. Hard to read everyone around here. But Weird Al Would be pretty fun!
July 12th, 2009
i cant wait 2 c 2mros song
December 29th, 2009
disappointed with tapulous yet again
im a user which most people know ‘b2bomer’ and that’s for all the right reasons being nice and stepping up to whats not right but when i requested to be a moderator ‘mod’ i get no reply Ive heard all the seppo BS “there’s to many mods” “we cant make anymore” well idc you can demote one for all i care and replace them with me because im one of the last people you want to know when it comes to hacking this is my final nice attempt….. im giving tapulous a chance here …. so use it
December 29th, 2009
basically i will be lagging the tap tap revenge 2-3 chat rooms every single day until further notice
and i know how much you all hate lag
January 4th, 2010
watto – Hacking is not welcomed here, and it is definitely not a way to get mod status.