Phileas' Dreadful Choice of Music - Whitley

Music is getting pretty terrible these days. Shizz In My Pants? Shit in my pants is more like it. I can't believe crap like that is getting airtime than other artists who actually have a proper story in their lyrics, let alone a better melody. And so you can realise that good artists are becoming harder to come by. At least there's a few artists still out there putting out songs with at least a hint of a melody, and one of them's Whitley.

I've actually heard Whitley in an ad, more specifically, the Foxtel HD+ ads (hint hint, nudge nudge at the Marketing dept.: it's working. You've got a customer partially due to those ads).

Don't let the whistling and the dialouge fool you - beneath the commotion, you've got a good, catchy song underneath that compliments the whole ad very, very well. Ad at the jump.

Here's the full song. There wasn't an official music video, so credits to Julia Mahoney for creating the "unofficial" video, which could be mistaken for the real deal.

The song has that pure folk-y feel, yet not pop-pish, yet catchy. It's one of those songs that you rarely find, like Croatia as a tourist destination. Maybe the wannabe-teens of today may troll my blog and spam: "WhAt A N00B JiZZ in my PANTS is 133t... and I can troll forums and think I'm soooooo cooool!" And until record companies stop giving all their money to fufil the void of trashy songs (and DRM research, bleh), we will be swamped with crap to our ears and good, hearty songs like these will be lost forever.

More about Whitley - he's a musician who has released his first album, The Submarine, in 2007. He's finally getting recognition these days, and one of his songs, Shot to the Stars, which is as good as Lost in Time, has finally gotten playtime on TV. It's featured on an episode of Army Wives, a television series made and being played in the United States. So that's a biggie for him.

But, besides that, he's one of those small artists, performing in various places around Australia, etc. But I see potential in him and Lost in Time is now in my coveted Top 25 Played Songs list, which comes in at 35 times played.

Next time on PDCM: "Hey, show some love, you ain't so tough, come fill my little world right up, right up..."