You should grab a couple tracks from the AC Newman album that emusic has: The Slow Wonder. Especially "Under the Table."
Cool! Thanks for the tip....
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.
You should grab a couple tracks from the AC Newman album that emusic has: The Slow Wonder. Especially "Under the Table."
Cool! Thanks for the tip....
Um... why have I not listened to anything by The New Pornographers until now?
Have you perhaps been entering this thread with your eyes closed and fingers in your ears for the last 4-odd years?
Have you perhaps been entering this thread with your eyes closed and fingers in your ears for the last 4-odd years?
Well, I have done much skipping... plus, you know, too much stuff gets mentioned....
(Please insert mental image of "shame, shame, shame" fingers here.)
I blame my 40 Gig iPod filling up for reducing my incentive to find new music. I've been accumulating music at a prodigious rate since I got my 60 Gig iPod....
Y'know, you might find it a bit raucous, but there's this here Southern feller by the name of Elvis Presley who's been driving the teenagers wild.
(I kid!)
Was he that guy in that iPod ad?
Is Stephin Merritt a racist because he doesn't like hip-hop?
I gotta admit, I dislike hip-hop and Beyoncé and Outkast, too.
Is Stephin Merritt a racist because he doesn't like hip-hop?
He likes early Run DMC. And he refers to Holland-Dozier-Holland in song. And he worships the Brill Building, which - admittedly mostly jewish songwriters - but lots of black performers. Mostly he's just a moldy fig. He prefers old pop to new pop. He likes ABBA, but so did Joe Strummer.
I don't doubt that he could talk about Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life" for hours, or speak knowledgeably about Otis Blackwell's songwriting.
The other article in Slate, about "poptimism", is pretty invigorating: [link]