The Gang of Four's drummer now teaches at the Art Institute of Boston, btw.
Don't worry, we're sure to spot Faith first. She's like this cleavagy slut-bomb walking around 'Ooh, check me out, I'm wicked-cool, I'm five-by-five.'
Willow ,'Get It Done'
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.
Theodosia - Oct 16, 2006 7:25:11 am PDT #4206 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"
tina f. - Oct 16, 2006 8:43:27 am PDT #4207 of 10003
I'm a bit so-so on the new Mountain Goats, too, but those albums always take a couple of weeks to really sink in.
My love for Darnielle knows no bounds, but I just don't like the new album. Too sad. Too mellow. To focused on one subject. Many of the lyrics are gut-punchers for sure - he's a badass at telling you how lonliness feels - the whole package is just not doing it for me. I'll give it another listen in a few weeks and see if things have changed.
In other news - I saw the Pavement documentary The Slow Century for the first time last night. It was really great, but it was also like the most boring Behind the Music ever. Very little drugs. No sex. No angrily quitting the band mid-performance. Just great music and relatively humble musicians talking about said music. What's up with that?
esse - Oct 16, 2006 9:22:58 am PDT #4208 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
hmm. I think I'm going to have to find a good record store. There's one that I sort of know of, but I haven't been that impressed with their selection when I went in before. but they could probably give me leads on where to go to look.
Jon B. - Oct 16, 2006 10:30:51 am PDT #4209 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
But an album I bought last week that I cannot stop listening to is the new Thermals.
Have you heard their previous albums? I think I like them more. The new CD is mixed funny I think, with the vocals too far in front.
esse - Oct 16, 2006 10:43:25 am PDT #4210 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I just listened to Power, Corruption, Lies and I think I went into like a music coma. It was so ridiculously good.
tina f. - Oct 16, 2006 11:30:02 am PDT #4211 of 10003
Have you heard their previous albums?
My recent obsession caused me to download all I could get off their subpop page - two tracks from Fuckin A and one from More Parts Per Million.
I really like everything I've heard and need to buy the albums. Though nothing could possibly be as catchy as "No Culture Icons."
The vocals on the new album remind me of John Darnielle a bit actually - a friend who is a big Mountain Goats fan initially sent me the link for the video because he saw a similarity.
I am going back to KC this weekend and cannot wait to browse through my much-missed record stores in Lawrence and KC.
IAmNotReallyASpring - Oct 16, 2006 12:22:34 pm PDT #4212 of 10003
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
evil jimi - Oct 16, 2006 3:20:28 pm PDT #4213 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
The Gang of Four's drummer now teaches at the Art Institute of Boston, btw.
Found out the other day that Steve Mallinder, former lead singer of Cabaret Voltaire, is now a Uni lecturer in Australia.
Has anyone not mentioned the passing of CBGB? Seems a real shame that it has to go.
DavidS - Oct 16, 2006 4:21:43 pm PDT #4214 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Has anyone not mentioned the passing of CBGB? Seems a real shame that it has to go.
I think there's some exhaustion with the prolonged death march, plus they haven't really been a cultural force for a long time.
But I will always remember being in college during those aformentioned '79-'83 years and reading the Village Voice at the library and drooling over the CBGBs schedules back then.
tommyrot - Oct 16, 2006 4:26:40 pm PDT #4215 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.
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco
this ain't no fooling around
This ain't no mudd club, or C. B. G. B.
I ain't got time for that now
What's a mudd club?