Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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.
Here's a great description of James Booker's style from the liner notes by Scott Billington:
And sometimes he'd play the most compelling music you'd ever hear, a dark magician tearing sheets of sound from the keys slamming the low notes so hard they sounded like a plucked bass. He'd play impossibly beautiful melodies against syncopated bass and chord patterns -- his own mutant version of stride -- that left everybody in the bar breathless and with every sadness in their hearts exposed.
Hec, insent.
Woo hoo!
Speaking of Duck Dodgers, I taped the Green Lantern episode last night just for any Buffista (looks at Jon) who might've missed it.
It took like a week, but I finally managed to download the thing. Then last night, I got home flipped on the TV and caught the last 30 seconds of it. TiVo to the rescue! My TV had been tuned to Cartoon Network, so I could rewind 30 minutes and catch it all on TV. I've still got the download, but there's something more satisfying about seeing it on the boob tube.
Hec, what's on the Triplets of Belleville soundtrack?
signed,
just got home from that movie 10 minutes ago
Hec, what's on the Triplets of Belleville soundtrack?
There are about four or five different versions/arrangements of the theme song "Belleville Rendezvous" (under the bridge with the trashcan lids and junk, French, English, Cabaret version, also one that's more instrumental with bits of vocals). Some jazzy underscore with a Django vibe. The chase scene music at the end, the french rock and roll song playing at the beach shack, the musette/accordion stuff during the Tour De France.
Before I forget, my Amoeba scouting report with special alerts for Hayden and Jilli.
Jilli, I saw an advance promo copy of the new Rasputina record - due out in March. Also there's a box set of Cure b-sides.
Hayden, have you seen the Rough Trade Postpunk 101 collection? The Rough Trade Rock and Roll collection is also unbelievable. Here let me track down the links for you...
Being compiled by hipster record store guys, this leans (expectedly) to punk, indie rock, and garage rock, but within that framework the contents are pretty diverse, spanning from pre-punk pioneers the Modern Lovers and Rocket From the Tombs to currently hip troublemakers the Dirtbombs, the Von Bondies, and the Hives, with all kinds of stops in between. In short, if you dig your rock & roll fast, wild, and noisy, this is the ideal soundtrack for your next shindig — after all, how many albums can you name that offer you choice cuts by the Pixies, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Pere Ubu, the Saints, the Beatings, Clinic, Thee Headcoats, and Guitar Wolf along with 38 more slabs of genius? (One of which, by the way, is the first authorized CD release of Crime's ultra-rare "Hot Wire My Heart.") Get it, crank it up, and if your neighbors don't complain to the landlord, they'll certainly thank you. — Mark Deming
Also, another cool postpunk comp In The Beginning There Was Rhythm with Slits, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire...
There are about four or five different versions/arrangements of the theme song "Belleville Rendezvous" (under the bridge with the trashcan lids and junk, French, English, Cabaret version, also one that's more instrumental with bits of vocals). Some jazzy underscore with a Django vibe. The chase scene music at the end, the french rock and roll song playing at the beach shack, the musette/accordion stuff during the Tour De France.
Oooh! I think I want that!
Pardon my cross-post in Jossverse:
I'm fiddling with a sidebar for the book on indie-comics and music crossovers. So far I've got:
Victor Banana's sdtrk for Like Velvet Glove Cast In Iron
Dame D'arcy singles
Aimee Mann's "Ghost World" song.
I seem to remember Alan Moore doing something for V for Vendetta. "This Vicious Cabaret"? Something like that.
Anything else come to mind? I'm trying to stick to indie comics here since there are a berjillion Superman songs.
This morning has been a very mellow-Sunday-music sort of day. The stereo's gotten more use today than it has in about six weeks (which is a conceit when you consider the out of country stuff). Right now it's got O Brother Where Art Thou; earlier was Shawn Colvin's "Cover Girl," The Best of Sting, and the Practical Magic and Providence soundtracks.
I feel very un-cool right now.
I just wanted to say that bicyclops is evil.
Mr. Bicyclops was kind enough to send me an extra CD with his excellent Frankenmix - the Philip Glass CD "Songs from Liquid Days" which I had mentioned earlier that I wanted. Except there was one extra track on it. It turned out that it was "Don't Worry, Be Happy" - I had also mentioned in a different context that I had never heard that song.
He's evil, I tells ya.
I have to admint, when I heard that song (after wondering what it was) I laughed outloud.
Anyway... bicyclops, can you send me a Word file (or whatever) so that I can reproduce your liner notes before I send off a copy of your Frankenmix to the next person? If you have such a thing, that is - otherwise I'll just reproduce it from your web page.
I don't have access to a color printer but I'm tempted to buy one so I can do bicyclops's cover art justice.