"Sexual Wonderwall" is pretty awesome too.
The Gossip have a free iTunes download. That, and their KRS video podcast episode are both worth downloading.
That's disturbing. You're emotionally scarred and will end up badly.
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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.
Tom Scola - Aug 02, 2006 2:59:21 am PDT #3717 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 02, 2006 3:07:22 am PDT #3718 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So, according to Noel Gallagher, the freeze frame technique in Trainspotting was first used in the video for Sabotage. I watched MTV; I got what I deserved.
Well that pretty much justifies my feeling that both Gallaghers are among (amongst?) the biggest wankers on the planet, as the technique in the Sabotage video was (deliberately and lovingly) lifted from 70s cop shows.
Also, nobody deserves Noel, Buffy Not!Spring.
bicyclops - Aug 02, 2006 6:54:15 am PDT #3719 of 10003
Scratch one off the "People I've always wanted to see but haven't yet" list. I saw Tom Waits last night.
And thanks to Corwood for posting the tour info last month. Early July was hectic for me, and I might well have missed it had I not seen it here.
Hayden - Aug 02, 2006 6:56:22 am PDT #3720 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Excellent! Glad to help.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 02, 2006 7:03:07 am PDT #3721 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Scratch one off the "People I've always wanted to see but haven't yet" list. I saw Tom Waits last night.
I'm both jealous (but not inoridinantly, because I've seen him twice - pauses to cabbage patch briefly - and it was nice he was playing places he hadn't in a while/ever), and also genuinely happy for you. How was the show?
tommyrot - Aug 02, 2006 7:09:09 am PDT #3722 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've seen him twice - the first time was about 11 years ago, the second a few years after that. Both times he was amazing, and had put together an amazing band. A lot of his songs sounded so much better live (because of different arrangements) than on CD.
In summation, if you have a chance to see Waits live, kill anyone who gets in your way of tickets....
Frankenbuddha - Aug 02, 2006 7:15:13 am PDT #3723 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I've seen him twice - the first time was about 11 years ago, the second a few years after that.
Yeah - I saw him on the FRANK'S WILD YEARS tour and the MULE VARIATIONS tour. The prior show has a slight edge in my memories, both for the presence of Marc Ribot (who I also saw with the Lounge Lizards) and because Wait's did Tom Traubert's Blues solo at the piano AND a cover of Papa's Got a Brand New Bag complete with a Waitsian version of James Brown's footwork, but they were both awsome shows.
bicyclops - Aug 02, 2006 7:33:37 am PDT #3724 of 10003
The show was excellent, but maybe a little too short - I wasn't ready for it to end. Duke Robillard on guitar was excellent, but I wish I could've seen Ribot play w/ Tom. Tom's son Casey was on drums.
"Shore Leave" made my night. "Murder in the Red Barn" was a radically different arrangement from the album - a slow jazzy blues.
Only one new song. I was expecting to here more stuff from the upcoming "Orphans" box.
tina f. - Aug 02, 2006 8:47:05 am PDT #3725 of 10003
So, through no doing of my own, I have just obtained tickets to all three days of Lollapalooza here in Chicago.
It's something like 140 bands over eight stages or some crazyness like that.
Frankly, my festival going days are over - but I have no other plans so - what the hell.
I have started plotting a schedule (Stars, Be Your Own Pet, Built to Spill, Wilco, Calexico...) but my days are by no means filled. I would love suggestions if you feel like looking at the ridiculously packed schedule. I would like to see some stuff I haven't seen before. All recs welcome.
Sidenote: Split Lip has added a few more states and dates to their August tour - Oklahoma, Colorado, etc. check their web site for details if you are interested. Also - Katefate - they have announced that Kirk's-health-willing, they are headlining Stage 5 on Saturday night for Winfield. Just like old times.
DavidS - Aug 02, 2006 9:03:11 am PDT #3726 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Very cool on seeing Tom live. Duke Robillard, eh? Gotta be a bluesier sound than Ribot's latin-inflected textures.
Maybe you need a lawn chair for this festival outing, tina. Or possibly a harness and a lot of helium balloons. You can float lazily through the whole thing and rig up a gerbil feeder full of margarita.
Have any of you been getting the Under Review series of DVDs?
I got The Velvet Underground Under Review and it was excellent. Lots of fantastic clips of early shows, very knowledgeable discussion by people like Joe Harvard (who wrote the 33 1/3 book on them, and is a musician and takes you through Lou's licks), and Christgau. Interview with Mo and one the engineers.
I just saw one on Kate Bush that intrigues me, and the Captain Beefheart also looks cool. Anyway, I can recommend the VU one to any fan of the band. They just take it chronologically and go over each album individually and in thoughtful detail with lots of interesting insider bits.