Just got home from the Fiery Furnaces rocking the muthafucking house at a free show at Red's Scoot Inn. No keyboards in sight and every song rewritten around a Black Sabbath-worthy riff. Eleanor's Patti Smith impression has improved immensely, too. Me = in heaven.
Nice acronym, Mom!
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Hayden - Mar 17, 2006 8:55:48 pm PST #2650 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Mr. Broom - Mar 17, 2006 10:14:53 pm PST #2651 of 10003
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Okay, that sounds actually good. I've had such a hard time liking anything by them that wasn't on the self-titled EP, and the dependence on upwards of twelve keyboards per track was one of my exaggerated gripey reasons for it.
Jon B. - Mar 18, 2006 4:40:36 am PST #2652 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Tom Scola - Mar 18, 2006 5:52:49 am PST #2653 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
For those of you who haven't been to the Go Home Productions page lately, the Abba & the Bunnymen mashup is pretty awesome, as is the Peach/Strokes/Theme from the Munsters.
Hayden - Mar 18, 2006 8:41:57 am PST #2654 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Hey, Broom, check out the first Fiery Furnaces album if you haven't. It's fairly low on the keyboard quotient.
And Billy Bragg is playing the Yard Dog today, but we are supposed to go elsewhere.
Theodosia - Mar 18, 2006 9:13:49 am PST #2655 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Hey Corwood -- you've still left me off the mix sched! I've been assuming I'd be put on the end...?
Hayden - Mar 18, 2006 7:15:46 pm PST #2656 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
D'oh! Of course. Did I leave anyone else off?
Hayden - Mar 18, 2006 7:17:05 pm PST #2657 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Week 1 (posted by March 5):
Lisah, Corwood, Tina
Week 2 (posted by March 12):
Jon, Michele, Hec
Week 3 (posted by March 19):
SA, Erin, Kate
Week 4 (posted by March 26):
DX, Sue, Perkins
Week 5 (posted by April 2):
Joe, Sean, Theodosia
DavidS - Mar 18, 2006 9:35:24 pm PST #2658 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Belated Musical Gossip: I always loved the Mamas and Papas song "I Saw Her Again Last Night" - though I was taken aback by the caddish sentiment Denny Doherty expressed ("I shouldn't string her along..." "I never think about her...").
Still, it's an absolutely great slice of mid sixties harmony pop.
I didn't realize he was singing about Michelle Phillips. His co-bandmember, and wife of the cowriter of the song, John Phillips - another bandmember.
She was kicked out of the band briefly there because she began dating Gene Clark of the Byrds (and his first solo album that we review in LiTG is supposedly a reflection of that affair), but then came back to the group.
I just can't imagine the amount of masochism it would require to come back to the group and sing that song on-stage with your ex-lover (the fuck!) and husband. Just to make the whole thing complete, Cass Elliot, the fourth member of the group had carried a torch for Doherty for years and was just as devastated by the affair.
Makes Fleetwood Mac look like pikers.
Apocryphal Gossip: The zine Twangler once theorized that Dolly Parton's song "I Will Always Love You" was written to Merle Haggard instead of Porter Wagoner as was generally assumed.
True Gossip: Merle married Buck Owens ex-wife (and songwriting partner) Bonnie.
Side Note: When Michelle Phillips was kicked out of the band, she was briefly replaced by their manager Lou Adler's wife, Jill Gibson. Lou Adler later went on to produce Rocky Horror Picture Show and give Ple and Victor something to do in their teen years.
Okay I'm all done now.
DavidS - Mar 18, 2006 9:43:04 pm PST #2659 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Things I Noticed At Amoeba
Betsy notice: Stephin Merritt has a collection out now titled Showtunes.
Violent Femmes have a double-disc special edition of their first album out now.
Springsteen seems to be releasing official bootlegs of some of his famous shows, starting with Hammersmith Odeon 1975. I've got the Winterland show bootleg that he did on the Darkness tour and it's easily the best Springseen record I own. So I approve of this development.
I might have to get the Devo 2.0 album. (They hired a bunch of kids to play their songs in some curious mix of School of Rock and Kidz Bop.)
I bought The M's, the new Belle and Sebastian, the Fountains of Wayne collection of b-sides and rarities and Kate Bush's Aerial. Still working through them, though B&S sounds good, as advertised.
I'm curious about the Isobel Cambell & Mark Lanegan duet album.