Fool’s Gold and their Surprise Hotel

by Brandon on August 19, 2009

FoolsGold

… long after

♫ Fool’s Gold – Surprise Hotel

Blog vultures like myself will be well acquainted with this jam by now, but some of you TBE readers may not have heard it. While it is not mind-blowing or repeat-button demanding, “Surprise Hotel” has been pleasing my ears every time it has come up the past few weeks. Weather turning a sunset-drenched drive home into a tropical dance party or just providing a little upbeat funk to a dreary day, the funk is there. Fool’s Gold is an L.A. based project started by two friends who wanted to explore their shared love of African music. Recruitying with members of We Are Scientists (can we get a new album please?), Foreign Born (never been sold on them), and The Fall (don’t know ‘em), they formed Fool’s Gold. The singer, Luke, sings in both English and Hebrew if you were wondering why you couldn’t understand some of those lyrics. I can’t understand any of them but maybe that’s just me. Their debut comes out sometime with only one other track on their MySpace it’s hard to tell what to expect.

Bury your face in MySpace

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  • Mike

    you don't know the Fall? why should anyone bother reading your musical opinions? It's like someone writing about religion without knowing who Jesus is.

  • Brandon @ TBE

    Why would you bother leaving a comment without leaving a real email?
    Thats like filling out a ballot and then dropping it in the trash. At
    least I own up to my (uninformed) opinions. Bite me.

  • http://www.sinohotel.com/english/travel/china_tour.html China Tour

    great post, really like what you are saying.

  • zeynep

    hey can someone give me the surprise hotel lyrics please i want to sing it out loud

  • Brandon @ TBE

    I'll second that request!

  • zeynep

    hey can someone give me the surprise hotel lyrics please i want to sing it out loud

  • Brandon @ TBE

    I'll second that request!

  • Dana

    Hey, so I searched for Fool's Gold and this came up– I'm Israeli, and I can give you the lyrics, presumably you want them phonetically so you can sing outloud? but then you wouldn't know what they meant right? decide, one or the other :)

  • http://www.TheBurningEar.com/ Brandon @ TBE

    Hmm, phonetically, or properly written or english translation. Decisions decisions…. You would be my favorite Israeli commenter if you wanted to do all three :) But maybe phonetically isn't necessary 'cause we can hear Luke singing it? Anyway, an awesome offer Dana, and I'll be stoked to read whatever you want to write up for us at TBE.

  • adamgollam

    Really have to hear Luke out if he sings in Hebrew because I have never experienced that before and it has the probability of being interesting.
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  • Alx

    Apart from that, we've got some excellent music there :D If anyone can share some well-translated english version, that'd be really nice ;)

    xxx

  • http://www.TheBurningEar.com/ Brandon @ TBE

    Another vote for translation! Thanks Alx :)

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  • Fred

    Hi Dana! I know, you’ve post this 1 year ago, but we never know… I’m looking for the lyrics phonetically to sing them outloud. Can you help me?
    Excuse my bad english, I’m french.
    Thank you so much if you can do something.

  • http://www.TheBurningEar.com/ Brandon @ TBE

    Any luck Fred?

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  • Ricardo

    translated lyrics can be found with a google search now, still no luck on the hebrew lyrics though :/

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