The New Pornographers: new music! - Boing Boing
Following on Neko Case's latest solo album, the excellent "The Worse Things Get...," she's reunited with her supergroup bandmates in The New Pornographers to record Brill Bruisers, coming out August 26. Check out the infectious first track and play with the album art below!
Lead singer AC Newman says, "This is a celebration record. After periods of difficulty, I am at a place where nothing in my life is dragging me down and the music reflects that. We wanted Xanadu and we wanted Sigue Sigue Sputnik, which translated into sparklier and faster.”
I like it.
Lou Reed's estate is selling off some of his equipment on eBay: [link]
So: death
I have this sorta-Eastern philosophical view that we should think about the fact that we're going to die, that nothing is permanent, etc--rather than trying to not acknowledge death like most of us do in the West.
So I'm making a playlist about death. I mostly want songs about the singer contemplating their own death, or the fact that everyone is going to die. I don't really want songs about other people who have died or are going to die (although I have a few of those in my first stab at a playlist). Being an atheist, I don't want songs about heaven or becoming a spirit or whatever, but I do have two great songs with a "pushing daises" theme: Belly's "Feed The Tree" and Camper Van Beethoven's "Flowers." The songs don't have to be dark--see the excellent "I'm Gonna Die" by Future Wife.
Anyone have any suggestions? Here's my first draft of a playlist:
Playlist: Death 20 songs, 1:20:32.968017578125 total time, 124.9 MB
Title
Artist
Album
O Death
Camper Van Beethoven
Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
A Skull, A Suitcase, And A Long Red Bottle Of Wine
Robyn Hitchcock
Invisible Hitchcock
Ocean Breathes Salty
Modest Mouse
Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Where Do You Go When You Die?
Robyn Hitchcock
Storefront Hitchcock
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
The Smiths
The Queen Is Dead
(Don't Fear) The Reaper
Blue Oyster Cult
The Essential Blue Öyster Cult
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
The Flaming Lips
The Soft Bulletin
Try Not To Breathe
R.E.M.
Automatic For The People
The Ledge
The Replacements
Pleased To Meet Me
Johnny's Gonna Die
The Replacements
Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash!
Let Me In
R.E.M.
Monster
Hurt
Johnny Cash
American IV - The Man Comes Around
Do You Realize??
The Flaming Lips
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Mercy Seat
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Tender Prey
Asleep
The Smiths
Louder Than Bombs
Pennyroyal Tea
Nirvana
In Utero
Feed The Tree
Belly
Star
Flowers
Camper Van Beethoven
Key Lime Pie
I'm Gonna Die
Future Wife
We're Gonna Die
Johnny Cash, "25 Minutes To Go."
Oh man, I haven't heard "Feed the Tree" in years. I had that CD somewhere, and I loved that song.
I'll think about this tommy, but I'm not sure I have a lot self-focused songs -- more stuff like "People Who Died" by Jim Carroll, etc.
