Have I mentioned how much I love Bone Machine?
There is much to love there. Although it also has the feel of a dead end to me. He couldn't strip his sound down anymore or it would just be him yelling into the microphone.
"Dead end" isn't quite the phrase I'm looking for, but it was road I think he could only travel once. He really had no choice except to add more instruments back into mix.
I don't remember.
No bootleg for you!
"Goin' Out West" as they enter the bar and head out to the back to fight.
That would have been my next guess, as that was the "big hit" from the album. But I couldn't think how that would fit with the movie.
I think I need to watch Fight Club again....
Whenever I listen to the New Pornographers, I end up thinking, "I can't hear Neko! What's the point?"
You need to listen to the songs where she sings lead!
No Neko collection is complete without "Santa Left a Booger in my Stocking" from the ATHF Xmas CD.
No Neko collection is complete without "Santa Left a Booger in my Stocking" from the ATHF Xmas CD.
Totes!
Neko and Meatwad - what an odd pairing.
ION, I think I need to buy a copy of Game Theory's
Tinker To Evers To Chance
album. I acquired two songs from that album from somewhere (from someone here?) and lately I've been listening to "Nine Lives To Rigel Five" a lot. Too bad the thing's out of print - on Amazon the cheapest used copy is $35.
Tinker To Evers To Chance
I have that. It was like a "Best of..." Game Theory's catalog is ripe for reissue. I've got most of it on vinyl, but so much is oddly hard to find these days. Until then, there's always mp3 blogs.
So, when it comes to music, what to you appreciate more, the music or the lyrics? For me, the music tends to grab me much more (most of the time, anyway). I was thinking about this while listening to "Libertine" by Utopia. When I first heard that song on the radio, I became obsessed with it - the music really moved me, even though I thought the lyrics were just so-so. I still really like the music....
I tend to go for music, but when I catch lyrics that say something, they can grab me too (over pro forma music). But music definitely catches me first.
Oh, did I mention I ate spaghetti with Game Theory? Two friends and I got to the club really early - they only let us in because one friend was on the guest list. The only people there were the bar staff and the headline band, Game Theory. The bartender and the members of the band asked if we were the opening act. Then the band invited us to join them in their spaghetti and garlic bread dinner....
(This was in Madison, January '88. Was kinda' dead because the UW was still out.)
Total lyric ho.
Its only recently that I've begun to find joy in individual instruments at all.