Oh and Miscellanous. You were talking upthread on criminal songs and so on. I think Michael Jackson singing "Pretty Young Thing" is a really creepy example. Also in near misses, Bob Dylan was nearly arrested for being homeless. [link]
Actually, when the person who called the police described Dylan as an "eccentric-looking old man", the caller was not wrong. But it says something that if the eccentric looking old man had NOT turned out to be Bob Dylan, and had really been homeless, this would have been a criminal offense - "being too far from skid row while poor" perhaps. Someone should write a folk song about that.
Soulsavers, the new album: [link]
That Rolling Stones one was great, Jon but did you check out the Kiss one? Oh lordy. [link]
Not a good week. Jim Dickenson R.I.P.
He produced tons of bands from Screamin' Jay Hawkins to Big Star to the Replacements to Scruffy the Cat to Mudhoney. He also played keyboards on records by Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones and others.
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I just read that this morning. Not just a great producer, but the greatest producer. RIP.
My friend Judith Beeman used to do a Big Star zine and a fan sent her a bunch of clips from in and around Memphis, including a long interview with Jim Dickinson. Just him and some good ol' boys drinking scotch and smoking cigars and talking about everything Memphis and musical, from playing with Aretha to Alex Chilton.
His work with the Dixie Flyers backing Aretha is fan-fucking-tastic. A great pianist.
If one is under the influence and is blown away by an album is hearing for the first time, should one wait until one is sober before raving about it here?
Where is the fun in that (for us, I mean)?
Anyway, I highly recommend the new album by Zola Jesus: [link]
Up until now I've only heard two tracks of theirs, from when they were on WFMU.
I'm gonna be lazy and copy a post at emusic:
Totally out of nowhere home-recorded debut album by one Nika Roza Danilova. I commented on the 17dots blog post wherein I found out about it: "So far, this is reminding me strongly of the Cocteau Twins' first album 'Garlands' -- the general feeling of dread, the sense of a singer possessed by some larger-than-human thing she can't articulate, the sound horribly mangled by trying to fit within the confines allotted to it." To be precise, it's a sound made of mechanical clanking, absurd amounts of reverb, severe clipping, very powerful female vocals, pop melodies with their backs broken. // Recommended if you like: Early Cocteau Twins, Danielle Dax, the Jesus & Mary Chain, early Siouxsie & The Banshees, Jarboe, Suicide, Cortney Tidwell...
eta: She's 18 years old, from Madison, and recorded this in her bedroom IIRC....
If one is under the influence and is blown away by an album is hearing for the first time, should one wait until one is sober before raving about it here?
Was it Inna Gadda Da Vida?
