Speaking of the book, Amazon awaits the first reader reviews...
Plus Nice review at The Rock and Roll Report
And a good write up at Rock Critics Daily blogspot, by Ted Cogswell. (Scroll down to the bottom, 11/1/04).
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
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.
DavidS - Dec 07, 2004 12:34:02 pm PST #6317 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
joe boucher - Dec 07, 2004 1:07:03 pm PST #6318 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Hayden, did you get the whale info I sent? (Music connections: Laurie Anderson & Stanley Crouch. Oh yeah, almost forgot: John Bonham, too.)
And on a completely non-musical note (except for that figure of speech), election recount update. For those of you who haven't been following, the Ohio vote was certified today by its Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, who in his spare time served as co-chair of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign in Ohio in 2004. Or maybe he multitasked.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 07, 2004 4:31:04 pm PST #6319 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Cool news about Kate Bush, Hec.
Kind of sorry we didn't do The Dreaming in the book, now.
My introduction to Kate, and still my favorite by virtue of it being her weirdest.
Sue - Dec 07, 2004 6:02:55 pm PST #6320 of 10003
hip deep in pie
That's very cool about Kate Bush. Even though The Red Shoes did not rock my socks off after the five year wait.
ETA: I agree that The Dreaming would have been great for the book. Hounds of Love blows my mind, but The Dreaming was always unsung, even though it's beautiful and more than a little freaky and dark.
JohnSweden - Dec 07, 2004 6:08:51 pm PST #6321 of 10003
I can't even.
That's very cool about Kate Bush. Even though The REd Shoes did not rock my socks off after the five year wait.
Yeah, I have all her stuff. Love the early albums even though it was probably Running up that Hill that grabbed me and shook me about and made me go back.
Sue - Dec 07, 2004 6:35:44 pm PST #6322 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Frankly it was listening to her stuff while really high that made me appreciate it the most.
DavidS - Dec 07, 2004 7:14:43 pm PST #6323 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hounds of Love has some dark stuff too, like "Waking the Witch." My doctor ex-gf was a huge fan and explained that whole album to me.
Sue - Dec 08, 2004 3:29:10 am PST #6324 of 10003
hip deep in pie
"Waking the Witch."
The whole "Ninth Wave" part of the album is just intense. And sonically it's pretty amazing. It's a real trip.
However, the whole Kate Bush oeuvre is very tied to a particular time, place and people in my life, and I can't listen to it without those associations. I would love to listen to it with fresh ears again.
Hayden - Dec 08, 2004 5:09:48 am PST #6325 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Joe, I got the word on the whale book, but I've been too busy to think of a smart reply. I'll send out notice when the synapses start firing.
Lyra Jane - Dec 08, 2004 6:42:58 am PST #6326 of 10003
Up with the sun
Current musical theory, for your discussion:
Most music is bad. Most music that is not bad, sounds exactly like other music that is not bad. Of that music, only the best is worth listening to. Most music that doesn't sound like anything else, is still bad. Only music that does not sound like anything else and is not bad is worth loving.
(And -- Pixies tonight. Yay.)