Ha! I've been doing the same with a couple of albums, just trickling them in. That Yo La 3-disc set from the past year was next in my radar. At least, the tracks from it I don't already have, 'cause I have all the studio albums & a bunch of EPs.
She's not just a blob of energy, she's also a 14-year-old hormone bomb.
Spike ,'The Killer In Me'
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.
Hayden - Feb 01, 2006 7:22:23 pm PST #2107 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Hayden - Feb 01, 2006 7:23:00 pm PST #2108 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Hey, didja see Britt Daniel on Veronica Mars tonight?
tina f. - Feb 01, 2006 8:03:31 pm PST #2109 of 10003
Hey, didja see Britt Daniel on Veronica Mars tonight?
Oooh the freakishly tall elf man (not that he is really all that tall but he is elfish and therefore tall for an elf). I heard he was going to be on. (He and RT are friends or at least both from Austin, yes?) I am still waiting for the t*rrent to become available because my sad no-cable-having self cannot get UPN on the teevee.
That Yo La 3-disc set from the past year was next in my radar.
I got everything off it that I didn't have from elsewhere last month. So good. One of my favorite things to do is just select all my YLT in my iTunes hit shuffle and read/doze/jam out. Love them.
tommyrot - Feb 02, 2006 4:28:41 am PST #2110 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.
NYT article on Belle & Sebastian: [link]
Tom Scola - Feb 02, 2006 4:41:29 am PST #2111 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Questionable Content on Bell & Sebastian: [link]
tommyrot - Feb 02, 2006 6:14:23 am PST #2112 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.
The entire soundtrack to Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo is available as mp3s. [link] Also (at same link) Neil Young with Devo doing "Hey Hey My My."
Hayden - Feb 02, 2006 6:43:35 am PST #2113 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
He and RT are friends or at least both from Austin, yes?
I'm pretty sure they're friends. And I love me some Yo La, too.
Mr. Broom - Feb 02, 2006 9:00:36 am PST #2114 of 10003
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Broken Social Scene on Conan. Good performance. Five guitars.
DavidS - Feb 02, 2006 9:05:34 am PST #2115 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Of Montreal review in LA Weekly:
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Of Montreal make some of the happiest music this side of the Wiggles, blending all kinds of vaguely psychedelic pop — late-’60s Beatles, T. Rex, Berlin-era Bowie, Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat — into a tequila sunrise of good vibes. And last Friday night — at the start of a two-week stand climaxing this Saturday — front man Kevin Barnes took the stage at Ex_Plex and proposed. I don’t mean that he floated a theory, or proposed to rock our faces off; I mean that he proposed. “Will you marry us, L.A.?” he asked, the band playing “Here Comes the Bride,” Barnes in a wedding dress. Naturally, the capacity crowd roared back in the affirmative.
Part of the practically defunct Elephant 6 collective (the Athens, Georgia, collective also known for the Olivia Tremor Control, Apples In Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel) — Of Montreal have remarkably outlived the late-’90s retro-pop fad. You know: that era when certain indie kids dealt with the death of grunge by retreating into their parents’ vinyl collections, where everything was cheery and people’s heads were free of knit ski caps. (Some E6 music had the creepy quality of someone trying to convince himself he’s full of glee: “I’m happy, dammit!”)
Of Montreal’s latest album, The Sunlandic Twins (Polyvinyl), kind of sounds like Brian Wilson’s Smile as produced by Nile Rodgers of Chic, a funked-up indie-pop vibe the band capably reproduces onstage. At Ex_Plex — strung with paper streamers and Christmas lights to resemble a junior-high prom — the front man led his four-piece band through Of Montreal oldies and stuff from The Sunlandic Twins, Barnes changing outfits several times, from a rhinestone-encrusted denim shirt to a ’50s-ish peach raincoat. Fans threw their hands in the air and waved them like they just didn’t care. But care they did; Barnes had temporarily transported them into his utopia of the mind. It feels good there.
By MIKAEL WOOD
DavidS - Feb 02, 2006 11:08:58 am PST #2116 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The new issue of Mojo is out with the Kinks on the cover, and the Kinks covered on the CD. I liked (more than I expected) the collection of Who covers in the last issue, so I'm looking forward to mine arriving in the mail box.
From browsing at the newstand, however, I saw they had an article on Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden. Anybody a fan? They had an intriguing sidebar on other ambitiious 80s epics including Kate's The Dreaming and OMD's Dazzleships (which we wrote about in LitG).