Hang on, are we saying the Pogues aren't folky? I'm pretty sure Shane and the boys would object to that most strenuously.
Stiff Little Fingers are from Ireland but they're pure punk.
Mal: You are very much lacking in imagination. Zoe: I imagine that's so, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
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.
evil jimi - Aug 27, 2004 11:02:18 am PDT #4743 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Hayden - Aug 27, 2004 11:02:25 am PDT #4744 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Just listened more carefully to A Grand Don't Come For Free, and I think I have the whole story down. I'm coming around to Jim's side on this; it's some sharp and affecting song-writing. I especially like the choice to re-write the final narrative in the middle of the song when it headed somewhere too nihilistic.
Gandalfe - Aug 27, 2004 11:08:55 am PDT #4745 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
No, the Pogues were definitely folky, but TMTCH were, uh, moreso. And less punky.
I'm flailing now, aren't I?
Hayden - Aug 27, 2004 1:27:42 pm PDT #4746 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Got 4th row tickets to see Brian Wilson perform Smile in late October. Hell, yeah! I accidentally bought three extra tickets in the 7th row of the SC section, which, it looks like, are actually 7th row tickets dead center. If anyone wants to see Brian Wilson in Austin, let me know. I'll sell these extra tickets at cost.
Lee - Aug 28, 2004 10:16:12 am PDT #4747 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Does anyone know anything about the Britiah rapper The Streets? Is he any good, or just hype?
Jesse - Aug 28, 2004 10:29:28 am PDT #4748 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
DXMachina - Aug 28, 2004 10:30:49 am PDT #4749 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Conversation starts here:
Jim "Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan" Aug 9, 2004 8:30:26 am PDT
followed by Angus's challenge.
Lee - Aug 28, 2004 10:45:37 am PDT #4750 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Gee, you'd think I skimmed or something...
Thanks!
Glamcookie - Aug 29, 2004 8:09:41 am PDT #4751 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
A friend made me a Streets CD and I just couldn't get into it. Lyrically it was pretty good but I just wasn't feeling the songs or the vocal delivery. Not my thang.
ION, Sebadoh on Thursday! It's been a looooong time. (Long enough that I've managed to forget about the travesty that was Harmacy.)
DavidS - Aug 29, 2004 2:40:55 pm PDT #4752 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
One of the book contributors, Mike Applestein, has an online blog and did the zine Caught in Flux. Here's a cool issue of CiF, where people relate how they discovered music. My co-editor Kim Cooper, relates a particularly saucy tale of 70s debauchery. Most of these stories would probably sound familiar to music fans here. Claudia Gonson (Magnetic Fields) has a cool rememberance about discovering music through her childhood friendship with Stephin Merritt.