I had a dream last night which had, as its soundtrack, a Nick Cave song. A new, never heard before Nick Cave song that was hooky and poppy. Never heard before because I'm almost dead certain my subconscious made it up.

Unfortunately, I can't remember the words at all.

Jilli, heh. Projekt's Dark Cabaret playlist looks pretty much like Hec's, only a little shorter.

Oh, that's funny.

Here it is:

Evil Night Together	Jill Tracy
The Wine	Clare Fader
Coin- Operated Boy	The Dresden Dolls
Temptation	Holly Cole
Diamonds Are Just Glass	Kamikaze Ground Grew
Nobody's Baby Now	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Little Water Song	Ute Lemper
It Was Her House That Killed Nessarose	Hannah Fury
Leslie Anne Levine	The Decemberists
Junk Shop Clothes	The Auteurs
Daybender	Bela
Coming Attractions	Circus Contraption
Dream (For Dana)	Smoke
You Leave Me Cold	Jill Tracy
Trust In Me	Holly Cole Trio
Sally's Song	Danny Elfman
Alice	Tom Waits
The Fine Art Of Poisioning	Jill Tracy
The Vampire Waltz	Hannah Fury

Just gave a quick listen to "This Bird Has Flown" the 40th anniversary Rubber Soul tribute album. Most of the versions I have no use for -- they're too true to the originals to be interesting -- but there are a few exceptions. Most notably, the Fiery Furnaces do a version of Norwegian Wood that would be completely unrecognizable save for the lyrics. They really make the song their own.

Sounds like a Dylan song to these ears.

Daybender Bela

"Nobody gives two fucks for Bela." (I really loved Ed Wood.)

the Fiery Furnaces do a version of Norwegian Wood that would be completely unrecognizable save for the lyrics.

Does Eleanor or Matt sing it? 1965/66 was probably the peak of Lennon's love for Dylan, & "Norwegian Wood" is one of the most direct products of that so it's not surprising that you had that reaction, Corwood. He said without having heard the recording...

I don't have a copy here (heard it when it was up on Fluxblog), but I seem to recall thinking that it sounded very specifically like they took the words to "Norwegian Wood" and sang them to "Ballad of a Thin Man" (perhaps, or maybe another contemporary Dylan tune). I can't see where it was unintentional.

Just gave a quick listen to "This Bird Has Flown" the 40th anniversary Rubber Soul tribute album. Most of the versions I have no use for -- they're too true to the originals to be interesting

I bought the tracks I wanted off iTunes after hearing the Fiery Furnaces track on Jon's show last week. I really like Low's "Nowhere Man," but the rest - yeah - too traditional.

I am just home from seeing the New Pornographers at the Metro. Never ever have I seen a band twice and had such totally different experiences. When I saw them on the Electric Version tour they were boring and played a super short set and Neko Case whined the whole time. Tonight, they were just incredible. A.C. Newman was funny and talkative (I kind of love him). Destroyer opened (not bad, made me want to buy a CD because I sense they could really grow on me) and Dan Bejar (is that right? too lazy to double check) came out and did just about every song he's written with them. "Testament to Youth in Verse" was especially good. They did two encores of three songs each including an Electric Version "superset" as they called it for the first encore. They took a zillion requests and played just about every song they knew, I think. I only bought tickets because nice people I had just met wanted to go - otherwise I would have skipped it. For once, trying to be social and make friends has paid off!

Everything they did from Twin Cinema really cemented that it's a very good album. Yay for Pornographers!

Edited to fix stuff.

Yay for Pornographers!

NaTLbSB.

Hey wise folk: Mekons are now on eMusic! What do I really, really need? Have been wanting to check them out for a while, where do I start?