'Objects In Space'
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.
Holy Cow! Amanda Palmer has raised over a million dollars on her kickstarter! [link]
You donate $1,000 and you have to provide your own donuts ?? Come on now.
How come I haven't heard of Regina Spektor until I heard her interviewed on public radio?
I have no idea.
I was listening to Aretha Franklin's "Ain't No Way" this morning and what strikes me about that track is as excellent as Aretha's vocals are, the cherry on the sundae is the background vocals. Those background singers are doing exceptional work there - unless that's all producer stylings.
Any other songs you can think of where the background singers really make a song GREAT?
Any other songs you can think of where the background singers really make a song GREAT?
The cover of "Stairway to Heaven" performed by Barry Crocker and the Doug Anthony All Stars.
Oh! And on "Return of the Mack"! They're hilarious!
The background singer - the high descant one - on Ain't No Way is Whitney Houston's mother.
flea,
no WAY
Yep! Cissy Houston. [link]
So I just downloaded the I Feel So Far Away anthology album by Moe Tucker. Damn, her version of "Heroin" is good.
I bought Life In Exile After Abdication when it came out (around 1990?) and really liked it. I've also seen her live once or twice around then.
She's awesome.
(She's most famous for being the drummer of The Velvet Underground, in case you didn't know.)
You know that she’s a Tea Partier now, right?
Fuck. No, I didn't know that.
Actually, that surprises me, considering her song "Spam Again" about working at Kmart for a greedy boss who pays his workers shit and how if the workers tried to organize or ask for benefits they'd get fired.
eta: Now that I think of it, I don't think she actually talks about workers organizing in that song. It was "Don't ask for a raise or benefits" or something like that.