Isn't Skafish in Urgh?
My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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 - Nov 16, 2006 5:46:40 pm PST #4411 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
DavidS - Nov 16, 2006 5:49:07 pm PST #4412 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Uh-huh.
Ahh yes. Athletico Spizz. Ooh, I forgot Magazine was in it. The first post-punk supergroup. (Although so many famous musicians passed through London SS that it seems like it deserves some notation even though they never recorded. Half the Clash, Half the Damned, Chrissie Hynde...)
Jon B. - Nov 16, 2006 8:10:57 pm PST #4413 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Just back from seeing Centro-Matic. If they were most any other band, I'd say it was a great show, but for them it was just average.
Best thing at the merch table: a scatter chart of all their albums (they have a shitload). One axis ranked the albums from "Home brewedosity" to "Gleaminess", while the other axis ranked them from "Laidbackosity" to "Rawkedness".
sumi - Nov 17, 2006 4:05:15 am PST #4414 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Is Urgh out on dvd? Because I saw that it was on -- but I don't get that channel.
Tom Scola - Nov 17, 2006 4:07:27 am PST #4415 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It's never been released on VHS or DVD. I assume that securing the music rights would be quite difficult.
tommyrot - Nov 17, 2006 5:38:16 am PST #4416 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.
Happy Gordon Lightfoot's birthday everybody.
Hayden - Nov 17, 2006 9:16:27 am PST #4417 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Aw, I didn't realize it was so soon after Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald Day.
Sean K - Nov 17, 2006 9:19:17 am PST #4418 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Happy Gordon Lightfoot's birthday everybody.
If you could read my mind, love
What a tale my thoughts would tell
Just like an old time movie
About ghost from a wishing well....
Hayden - Nov 17, 2006 11:40:16 am PST #4419 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Jon B. - Nov 17, 2006 11:58:16 am PST #4420 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I have no problem with Newsom's voice, and I really enjoyed Milk-Eyed Mender, but I'm not yet convinced by Ys. At first listen, the songs meander without really going anywhere. The arrangements are lovely, but there's not enough movement in the songs to maintain my interest.
Of course, I think Devandra is the Emporer's New Clothes.
t on edit after reading further
But Newsom has a deeper purpose here. She's told interviewers that Ys is a kind of confessional-allegorical epic, a "shadow world," whose every lyric corresponds to events in her personal life. It's startling to think that this torrent of imagery—all those swooping birds and stableboys and livestock and "felten and grey" mountains—is part of an elaborate personal mythology, and I'm sure that in the coming months and years the Internet will crackle with efforts to break the code.
See, I don't buy it. I think at best, she's embellishing her craft; at worst, she's making shit up after the fact.