Ooh. I should track that down to give it a listen.
I'm very very excited because there's new Streets and new Sufjan Stevens and new Cat Power! It's a great week for indie-pop.
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
esse - Apr 11, 2006 10:46:27 am PDT #2920 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Hayden - Apr 11, 2006 10:54:50 am PDT #2921 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Are all his reviews that pretentious and condescending? Or is did he put that on especially for Placebo?
Xgau is not for nothing considered the dean of American rock criticism. For every goofy review the man turns out (and the number of these is increasing in his old age), he's turned out hundred to thousands of brilliant appreciations of artists who never would have sold unit one without him. David likes to joke about the man, but I'll bet it comes from a mostly affectionate place.
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2006 12:11:03 pm PDT #2922 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
new Sufjan Stevens
For serious?! What state has he done this time?
erinaceous - Apr 11, 2006 12:14:50 pm PDT #2923 of 10003
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
sumi - Apr 11, 2006 12:23:35 pm PDT #2924 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
I heard that he was doing Oregon next.
Jon B. - Apr 11, 2006 12:24:26 pm PDT #2925 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
For serious?! What state has he done this time?
The only new thing I know about is an album of Illinois outtakes due out in July. [link]
esse - Apr 11, 2006 12:26:01 pm PDT #2926 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
For serious?! What state has he done this time?
It's not a new state. It'a The Avalanche: Outtakes And Extras From The Illinois Album, coming out 7/25, but the link has a track available.
ETA: Aaaaaaand Jon beat me to it.
Hayden - Apr 11, 2006 12:30:53 pm PDT #2927 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I'm sorry to report that the Who have apparently recorded a new mini-opera.
DavidS - Apr 11, 2006 2:47:49 pm PDT #2928 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
David likes to joke about the man, but I'll bet it comes from a mostly affectionate place.
That's true. I built my record collection from his Record Guides of the 70s and 80s. (And Trouser Press and Greil Marcus' Stranded.)
As with Greil, I've been in conversation with Christgau (in my head anyway) for more than 20 years, so most of my grumbling about them is just raggedy end of a disagreement that's never been satisfied on my end. But I agree with Christgau's assessments a lot. And in part for the reasons he notes in the Placebo review - he does go back and listen to the music even though he's prone to dismissing goth bands out of hand. Which is no way to make friends with Jilli, but at least he's honest enough in his opinions to own that bias and get past it to listen to the music itself.
Spidra Webster - Apr 11, 2006 7:37:45 pm PDT #2929 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
You know how you sometimes get a CD and it wasn't what you were expecting so you just file it away? That's what Kenny Roberts' "Jumpin' and Yodelin'" was for me. A friend bought it off my Amazon wishlist and it ended up not being quite what I had in mind at the time. I was doing some random playing on my iTunes list and "She Taught Me How To Yodel" came on. Holy shit, can that guy yodel! Virtuoso yodeling can sometimes be very boring, very mechanical. And at other times it's just jaw-dropping. Especially if you've ever yodeled yourself and realized how hard it is to get it fast complicated Alpine yodels to sound quite that clean. /esoteric