'Sleeper'
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.
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.
Yeah I`m all about the lyrics. And more importantly, the passion. I don`t even have to quite get what you`re saying so long as you sing it with passion. But as a songwriter myself, I care most about the lyrics. Absolutely.
The SO otoh listens purely to the music, and listens technically at that. We have our broadest disagreements over punk and rap.
Oooh. I'd totally back you up on both of those, Liese. And I think there's important technical and stylistic artistry being displayed in both those forms of music.
And then there are The Roots who transcend it all!