Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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.
I insist that you look at her Texas Instruments!
And it's at this point that I recommend a wonderful punk band called The CalTrans-Vestites, and their song, "Courtney's a Whore," with the refrain, "and I don't wanna see her hole."
They also have a kicking song called "Romance isn't dead (It's just moved to a gay community.)"
Gandalfe, you know David Sylvian put a new album out recently called Blemish, yeah?
Oh, yeah, of course. scribbles in notebook Yeah, definitely, I have that.
Does anyone know anything about Morcheeba?
Hi Shawn! I know I'm not around enough, the curse of a non-internet workplace (and general fatigue and crap). But I miss you.
Woo hoo! Angus & moonlit mixes have arrived in the USA! Haven't had a chance to listen yet.
A lot of my friends are musicians. A lot of my friends are lawyers (and I work at a law firm.) Both groups like to tell jokes about themselves. I usually like the musician jokes better. From my friend Alec:
Q: What's the difference between a large pizza and a singer/songwriter?
A: A large pizza can feed a family of four.
Gandalfe, you know David Sylvian put a new album out recently called Blemish, yeah? It's very good (well, I like about half of it, put it that way).
I'm not sure if this is out in the US, but if you know a store that's good with imports you might find it - not sure if you can get imports on-line or not.
Sylvian's album's (a studio album and a live album from the subsequent tour) with Robert Fripp are really amazing too, but much noisier than his solo work.
Gone to Earth is really good, too. And there's a Japan-reunion-by-another-name album called Rain Tree Crow (or Rain Crow Tree - memfaulting on which).
I really like the recent Pretty Girls Make Graves album.
Does anyone know anything about Morcheeba?
Shawn does. She sent me some on the trip hop mix.
So – the new Wilco, “A Ghost is Born” – wonderful. It moves away from the noise experimentation of YHF, but for the last track which honestly I could live without, but there’s some incredible instrumental experimentation going on. I have a feeling that like YHF it’s going to take many listenings for me to fully appreciate it. Some folks I know don’t like the electric guitar noodling on “Muzzle of Bees” but I kind of love it – it’s Sonic Youth style noodling, not jam-band style, which I have no tolerance for. And they’ve still got some shorter poppier numbers – “Handshake Drugs” should be a single. (Yeah, I know that one was on the EP but I love that song)
Does anyone know anything about Morcheeba?
SA, I got CDs from you today! And....one has a Morcheeba song on it.