'Selfless'
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.
Ad agency manufactures pop group: [link]
They could become the ultimate in manufactured music. Four girls in their twenties have been brought together by Saatchi & Saatchi UK, the advertising agency, as a pop group that can be bought “off-the-shelf” by companies to promote their brands.
Saatchi & Saatchi clients who pay to use the still-unnamed group will have a say in its name, the song style and lyrics, as well as the brands the group wear, drink and eat.
Definitely served Rip Torn.
Awesome.
I used to read NY Press as soon as it hit the stand, & 99% of the reason was for the film section
Yeah, that MZS is freakin' brilliant. Godfrey Cheshire is, too, but I don't read him nearly as often as I used to when I lived in NC. I don't read the NYPress enough to have an informed opinion about who the worst writer really is, but I'm shocked that they could have possibly hired someone more brainless than Armond White. That guy brings out my inner bully like no one else. Every time I read him, I have the unusual but compelling desire to give him the mother of all swirlies.
I haven't seen David R posting over here much lately, but I talk with him via email on a daily basis. I didn't know about his personal connection to MZS, but we've discussed his Sopranos analysis.
I've Googled to find out who... is it French-Frith-Kaiser-Thompson?
Yep. RT often throws it into his set, but it's a Henry Kaiser composition.
Aww, cute kid. Too bad it grew up and became a verbose, angry, annoying teenager.
So sad and true, that.
So, I, too, went on a cd shopping/eMusic downloading spree this weekend, and got:
The Decemberists' and Eric Matthews's contributions to an Elliot Smith tribute
I think theirs are two of the weaker tracks on that album, C.I, especially the Matthews' cover. I like the Dolorean ("The Biggest Lie" done country style - so freaking good) and We are Telephone ("Division Day") which should be somewhere on my round robin mix on buffistarawk2 if you don't want to waste a credit on it.
Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy - The Brave and the Bold
Report back on this one. It's on my Save for Later list.
if you don't want to waste a credit on it.
That's exactly where I am. I actually liked the Matthews cover pretty well, but was less than whelmed by the Decemberists'.
Report back on this one. It's on my Save for Later list.
So far, it's ok at best, pointless at worst. Better than Oldham's Greatest Palace Songs or whatever that Nash Vegas-sounding travesty was called, but overall not so great.
Better than Oldham's Greatest Palace Songs or whatever that Nash Vegas-sounding travesty was called, but overall not so great.
Awww, c'mon! The Devo cover is brilliant!
I'm currently logged in at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, VT. Photos of Maria & the kids are everywhere. Must dress for dinner. If I hear any tunes from the Sound of Music, I may have to kill myself.
The good thing that happened to me today:
Dear Patient WFMU Supporter,
Enclosed please find your long-awaited 2004 Marathon premium — Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics. If you reach back into the mists of time, you may recall Gaylord Fields offering this as a thank you for pledges to his show that year. Please accept our apologies for the delay in getting this to you. The band needed to jump through some complicated legal hoops in order to secure the rights to the nearly 40 songs on this CD. We hope you will find it, like all good things, worth the wait.
Enjoy Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics, and thanks again for your support of WFMU, not to mention your extraordinary patience.
The CD is so new, I had to submit the track names to the CDDB myself.
AAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGHHH!!!!!!
The new Tool single, off the new album due out in May, is out TODAY! And they've played it on the radio. I've heard the DJs talking about it in both future and past tense today whilst driving around, but I HAVEN'T HEARD IT YET! I have not been able to time my driving around (typically the only time I get to listen to the radio) whilst the song was actually playing.
For a Toolhead like me, this is absolutely the worst kind of torture.
How's the YLT CD, Tom? I ordered it from their website last week.
Sweet! I might just have to order that YLT cd, too.