Buffy ,'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.
Bought at Amoeba:
An American Quilt 1967 - 1974 - the Bobbie Gentry collection on the always excellent Raven label. I badgered my co-editor Kim into writing about Bobbie's Delta Sweete album for the book.
The Best of Tony Joe White 'cuz, if SCoTS like him then I gotta have him.
And a Tom T. Hall double: 100 Children and I Witness Life.
Feeling rootsy tonight. Sorta fascinated by that whole swamp pop era in the late sixties early seventies.
Popping in here to give tina and Lyra Jane a heads-up that they should really go listen to Sufjan Steven's "Greetings From Michigan". It's like Belle & Sebastian meet the Decemberists and do a whole CD of songs about Michigan (with lotsa exclamation points!) Very pretty, very lyric-y, very melancholy.
to give tina and Lyra Jane a heads-up that they should really go listen to Sufjan Steven's "Greetings From Michigan". It's like Belle & Sebastian meet the Decemberists and do a whole CD of songs about Michigan (with lotsa exclamation points!) Very pretty, very lyric-y, very melancholy.
Mmmm. Melancholy.
Man. Emusic has no Sufjan Steven and iTunes only has A Sun Came.
Does that mean another trip to the music store? ... If I must.
As usual, I am on a new music buying spree of late - I had to buy the new Mountain Goats CD at their show last night - I mean, I had to. I haven't finished listening to it yet, but they played a lot of it last night and it sounded really really good. Talk about a sincere singer. Funny as well.
Thanks for heads up, erin.
I had an apostrophe fault! It should be Sufjan Stevens'(s). I don't think that Emusic has him.
And I got my CD check today!
Thanks for the rec, erinaceous. I'll add that to my list of things to get...
I am completely indifferent to Norah Jones but she was utterly charming on The Daily Show last night. Just a real down-to-earth person.
Almost forgot to mention -- I saw Franz Ferdinand last night. They were good, although not life-changing. I definitely see why Jim referenced the Fire Engines when mentioning them.Sort of a more mersh version of that jagged guitar thing the FE's did so well. FF had the moves down. Both guitar players did that floppy wiggling!hand in the air thing when they weren't strumming. The sold-out crowd at TT's luuurved them. The volume of cheers and woo-hoo's took the band by surprise -- they seemed genuinely embarrassed by it all.
I am completely indifferent to Norah Jones but she was utterly charming on The Daily Show last night. Just a real down-to-earth person.
She did seem like a genuinely nice person who was unaffected by her celebrity. Very sweet. And she admitted to being a fellow addict who isn't allowed to have cable because she would watch too much TV. I had cable once for a couple of weeks, but had to give it up when I found myself face down in the TV gutter, watching an "I Dream of Jeannie" marathon at 4:00 in the morning. It's nice to know that Norah Jones was there with me. Like Norah, I make the one concession of having someone tape the Daily Show for me.
tommyrot, you around? Just wanted to let you know that "Dinkytown" from your CD is getting heavy, heavy rotation on my iPod ...
a genuinely nice person who was unaffected by her celebrity
Hmm, but you would never say that about someone who was actually interesting, would you?