'Life of the Party'
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.
they sound kind of like Elliott Smith fronting Belle and Sebastian. Which is not a bad thing, just not as compelling as her songs.
Exactly.
I've learned to like them more - but yeah - you just kind of want them to hurry on up so you can hear the next one of hers.
Very suprisingly - I am enjoying his side band's album a lot. (Though there are one or two skippable tracks.)
Your new mix looks great, btw.
I saw that last time I was in Tower! How are the tracks other than the Decemberists song?
Ummm... I don't know. I was in a rush and only listened to that one track.
Did you like their CD? Because wow - were they not good live when I saw them. But what a kind of fascinating band.
Huh. WMBR got the CD last September. I listened to it at the time and didn't think much of it. Then I saw them last Friday opening for the Mountain Goats and they were great! Very few draggy moments and a couple of cool covers to boot (Soft Boys and Eno). I bought the CD at the show because I didn't remember ever having heard them (it wasn't until I saw the copy at WMBR last night that my memory was jogged). Anyway, I love the CD now. I've played it a couple of times already. The singer definitely has a weird Tom Verlaine / Richard Hell / Mark E. Smith vocal thing going on, but there are worse sins.
Funny -- it's like we had the opposite set of experiences.
Nekkid Portia?! [note to self: watch Sirens]
Meep! Meep!
Sleater-Kinney. Touring. In DC.
I haven't seen them in a couple years. All the tickets (or two, anyhow) are belong to me.
I just have to say - I hate Bjork. Hate her, would not be overly concerned if she never sang another note in her life. Think she's the new Yoko Ono, only, you know, without the whole breaking up the Beatles thing.
I hate Bjork. Hate her, would not be overly concerned if she never sang another note in her life.
Dude, I have a couple of mix CDs that might pass you by if you keep talking trash about my girl from Reikjavik ;-).
I am not a huge solo Bjork fan - but I loooove me some Sugarcubes.
I saw the Sugarcubes open for PiL and New Order in
thinks way back
1988?
And Bjork had this flower on her belt that was a water gun and kept spraying the audience with it. I thought she was the coolest thing ever.
I thought she was the coolest thing ever.
Still my opinion. Love Bjork and all her Bjorkfulness.
You know it took me until just this second to remember what PiL stood for...(I refused to look it up - and was willing my brain to cough it up.)
Public Image Ltd.
How could I forget that? Insert whine about getting old here.
Insert whine about getting old here.
You are so old and forgetful, tina! I am going to have to punish you for aging by removing your PiL and Bjork CDs when you're not looking.
I saw Sleater-Kinney with Martha C. last year -- they were opening for Pearl Jam and they scheduled all of one solo show in NYC, and it happened to be in our neighborhood. They ROCKED. Enjoy the show!
Angus, I hate La Boheme, but I am thrilled thrilled for your sister. What does she think of this whole ridiculous business at Covent Garden?
Also, David, if that's your music queue rationale, I need some mixes FedExed to me, stat.