'Safe'
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.
Poking my head in to say that my record-store-employee housemate scored me a promo copy of the new Tom Waits album, Real Gone, and after listening to it for the past two weeks pretty much non-stop, I'm convinced it's his best since The Black Rider.
Run, don't walk, when it's released on 10/5.
Yes, the new Tom Waits is very good. I played something from it on my show last Friday.
Secret message to Jen: I know I owe you an email. Sorry I'm so lame.
In sadder news:
N.Y. Radio Legend Scott Muni Dies at 74
He was one of those DJs who had a voice you never forget.
RIP, Scottso!
He was probably my least favorite of WNEW's announcers back in the day, but he always had the best guests. There was this guy named Lennon who used to drop by now and then.
eMusic has been revamped. They have music critics to review music, and they are going to focus on non-mainstream (and non-major label) music.
That's so funny because I canceled my subscripption in part because there were no reviews, and sent them an email telling them so when I left.
Apparently they listened to me.
You know that unbearably catchy Kinks song that they're using to advertise HP digital camera stuff? What is the title and/or what album is it on?
(Something about "picturebooks".)
It's "Picture Book", and it's on Village Green Preservation Society.
That's the album I used to cover in the one-album cover band. It's a doozy.
Thanks!
Now I'm poking my head in to report that my housemate brought home a promo copy of the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album tonight, and it's so godawful that I'll probably never listen to it again.
I'm so depressed. And not in the good way I usually am after listening to Nick Cave.
Secret message to Jon: It's OK that you're so lame. No rush.
So to recap...
Tom Waits, still great.
Nick Cave, sucking like a Minnesota hooker.
Okay, now but did everybody know that the songs on The Boatman's Call were about PJ Harvey?
Also, in solidarity with my gothesque friends, I taped videos off my TiVoed eps of The Alternative tonight. The superlush visuals of Dead Can Dance's "The Carnival's Over" (or some such title) and Siouxsie's video for "The Passenger." (Okay, admittedly, I had ulterior motives on that particular video.)