Happy Gordon Lightfoot's birthday everybody.
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'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.
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.
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.
sumi - Nov 17, 2006 12:00:00 pm PST #4421 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Have you guys heard of Juana Molina? A friend of mine was telling me about her but I had never heard her or heard of her.
Hayden - Nov 17, 2006 12:33:06 pm PST #4422 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I haven't heard Ys. yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
Of course, I think Devandra is the Emporer's New Clothes
See, I loved Cripple Crow a lot for being a lovely blend of tropicalia and American folk music.
Edit - Sumi, nope.
megan walker - Nov 17, 2006 12:39:58 pm PST #4423 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Nice Slate article on Joanna Newsom's new album.
It's funny you should mention it, because I just ran into a friend this afternoon who was listening to this on her iPod, and I had never heard of her.
Hayden - Nov 17, 2006 1:34:19 pm PST #4424 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Like Jon and a few other people here (I remember that Tina put one of her songs on a mix), I liked The Milk-Eyed Mender, too, but it took me a little while to get past that voice.
tina f. - Nov 17, 2006 3:24:48 pm PST #4425 of 10003
I remember that Tina put one of her songs on a mix
Not this Tina, CI. (Edit: Btw,nice Hight Hat, dude!) I have never been able to get past her voice despite all the uber-hipsters at my Lawrence record store being giddy as school girls about her.
I am working on my Top Ten of 06.
Here is what I've got so far.
1. the hold steady • boys and girls in america
2. the decemberists • the crane wife
3. the thermals • the body, the blood, the machine
4. yo la tengo • i am not afraid of you and i will beat your ass
5. drakkar sauna • jabraham lincoln
6. tapes n tapes • the loon (this was released in 05 and re-released in 06)
7. cold war kids • robbers and cowards
8. tv on the radio • return to cookie mountain
9. calexico - garden ruin
10. belle and sebastian • the life pursuit
might still make the cut:
built to spill • you in reverse
richard buckner • meadow
m. ward • post-war
kind of like spitting • the thrill of the hunt
destroyer • destroyer's rubies
arctic monkeys • whatever people say i am, that's what i am not
bruce • we shall overcome: seeger sessions
meh:
bobby bare jr. • the longest meow
mountain goats • get lonely (much as it pains me to say it)
justin timberlake • futuresex/lovesounds (somebody break that guy's heart again!)
I feel like I am forgetting something big....