I used to hate Tori Amos' voice (oh, those high breathy "aaahhhahhs"), but grew to love her. I tend to prefer covers of Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell as opposed to them singing.
Pretty fascinating dissection of "Tik Tok" and why it sucks. [link]
Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
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.
smonster - May 20, 2010 4:09:18 am PDT #3031 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Jesse - May 20, 2010 6:36:47 am PDT #3032 of 6436
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Wow, that was incredible. At least as much for the parts that aren't about Ke$ha as for the parts that are.
Polter-Cow - May 20, 2010 9:46:09 am PDT #3033 of 6436
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wow. That just kept going...and going...and going. I haven't heard the damn song, so I eventually stopped reading because I didn't care. It seemed pretty interesting, though.
Joanna Newsom took some getting used to, but I can dig her now.
From the little Joy Division I've heard, I much prefer Interpol.
Kate P. - May 20, 2010 10:41:22 am PDT #3034 of 6436
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
smonster, thanks for the link! That was fascinating. And long, but definitely worth reading (though I still haven't heard the song, and will probably endeavor to avoid it now).
At least as much for the parts that aren't about Ke$ha as for the parts that are.
Yes! I loved the part about "Single Ladies" in particular.
P.M. Marc - May 20, 2010 11:23:18 am PDT #3035 of 6436
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I love Interpol, but nothing they've put out has been as viscerally wrenching as Joy Division at their best.
Sue - May 21, 2010 3:40:24 pm PDT #3036 of 6436
hip deep in pie
David, did you see that Tom Waits is guest-editing the 200th issue of Mojo? [link]
Jon B. - May 21, 2010 4:32:38 pm PDT #3037 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
There's been a Waits orgy on WHRB all day today!
DavidS - May 21, 2010 5:38:09 pm PDT #3038 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
David, did you see that Tom Waits is guest-editing the 200th issue of Mojo? [link]
Cool beans. Expect something on Alan Lomax's field recordings.
Shir - May 22, 2010 10:11:37 am PDT #3039 of 6436
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Anyone here read Goodall, "Living in the Rock N Roll Mystery"?
While it's not really the direction I want to read about, it's still the only "real"/"proper" ethnography I heard of that's related to rock music.
(I'd post in Literary, but I thought that if anyone read it, they're probably reading this thread)
Shir - May 26, 2010 11:22:58 am PDT #3040 of 6436
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".