Simon ,'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.
This made me laugh and laugh and laugh.
Right there with you.
Though listening to the Cranes makes me want to deafen myself with knitting needles. I hate that woman's voice so much.
Frankenbuddha, were you at the Swans show at the Somerville Theater a few years back? I remember it being like a pressure cooker in there, but I think it was more a result of the music than any actual possibility of violence from the crowd.
There's a band (I think local to Chicago) called Anal Cunt.
There was also an English punk band called The Fucks. For a while they had a group of female backup singers called The Fuckettes.
Has anybody heard the extra tracks on Barenaked Ladies' "Everything to Everybody"? If so, what are they likely to be? The band goofing around between takes, or the demos that were recorded before they went into the studio, or what?
Anal Cunt is from Boston. They have a song called "Everyone In Allston Must Die." (Allston is a neighborhood in Boston very close to Boston University and thus appears to some as a desolate wasteland of bars, vomit, drunken fratboys shouting "woo hoo!" at random intervals as they stagger in front of your car, and vapid girls shrieking, "Ohmigod, I'm soooo drunk!".)
"Ohmigod, I'm soooo drunk!"
Ah, the mating call of the dumb sorority girl....
All this talk of shoegazer bands takes me back to college. I really liked the Lush album, and Ride got a lot of airplay on our teeny radio station.
The other Catherine Wheel songs I recall (and really like) are "I Want to Touch You," and "Judy Staring at the Sun," which was on a later album, and featured Tanya Donnelly on backup vocals.
So I'm seeing Better than Ezra tonight. I'm happier than I have any right to be. I'm going to try very hard not to be the guy who's all OMG I HAVE ALL YOUR ALBUMS!!!!1 but I make no promises.
So I'm seeing Better than Ezra tonight. I'm happier than I have any right to be. I'm going to try very hard not to be the guy who's all OMG I HAVE ALL YOUR ALBUMS!!!!1 but I make no promises.
One of these days I'm going to send some band a ransom note saying "I HAvE alL yOuR ALbUMS. foLLoW tHEsE DiRECtiOnS EXacTLy IF U wAnt tO sEe tHEM aGaiN."
Betsy, I don't know anything about BNL, sorry.
One of these days I'm going to send some band a ransom note saying "I HAvE alL yOuR ALbUMS. foLLoW tHEsE DiRECtiOnS EXacTLy IF U wAnt tO sEe tHEM aGaiN."
And on a completely different topic ... I was looking at a random magazine in line in the drugstore today, and it had a picture of Mary-Kate Olson CD shopping with a caption about her music tastes. It said she likes "diverse music-- Counting Crows, Rolling Stones, and the Dave Matthews Band."
Anyone wanna explain what's diverse about that list? It all looks like pretty MOR rock to me.
Young guys and geezers?