Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.

Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'


Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!

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.


Polter-Cow - May 20, 2010 9:46:09 am PDT #3033 of 6444
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Wow. That just kept going...and going...and going. I haven't heard the damn song, so I eventually stopped reading because I didn't care. It seemed pretty interesting, though.

Joanna Newsom took some getting used to, but I can dig her now.

From the little Joy Division I've heard, I much prefer Interpol.


Kate P. - May 20, 2010 10:41:22 am PDT #3034 of 6444
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

smonster, thanks for the link! That was fascinating. And long, but definitely worth reading (though I still haven't heard the song, and will probably endeavor to avoid it now).

At least as much for the parts that aren't about Ke$ha as for the parts that are.

Yes! I loved the part about "Single Ladies" in particular.


P.M. Marc - May 20, 2010 11:23:18 am PDT #3035 of 6444
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I love Interpol, but nothing they've put out has been as viscerally wrenching as Joy Division at their best.


Sue - May 21, 2010 3:40:24 pm PDT #3036 of 6444
hip deep in pie

David, did you see that Tom Waits is guest-editing the 200th issue of Mojo? [link]


Jon B. - May 21, 2010 4:32:38 pm PDT #3037 of 6444
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

There's been a Waits orgy on WHRB all day today!


DavidS - May 21, 2010 5:38:09 pm PDT #3038 of 6444
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

David, did you see that Tom Waits is guest-editing the 200th issue of Mojo? [link]

Cool beans. Expect something on Alan Lomax's field recordings.


Shir - May 22, 2010 10:11:37 am PDT #3039 of 6444
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Anyone here read Goodall, "Living in the Rock N Roll Mystery"?

While it's not really the direction I want to read about, it's still the only "real"/"proper" ethnography I heard of that's related to rock music.

(I'd post in Literary, but I thought that if anyone read it, they're probably reading this thread)


Shir - May 26, 2010 11:22:58 am PDT #3040 of 6444
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

To me, this is perfection, in every way.


DavidS - May 26, 2010 2:39:03 pm PDT #3041 of 6444
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Shir, have you heard Lanegan's two albums with Isobel Campbell? I love those.


Shir - May 26, 2010 8:02:04 pm PDT #3042 of 6444
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

I heard some of the songs in them, yes, but I mostly cling to his solo work.