But what is the WORST Bond theme?
Mashup of The Beatles' 1966 album, Revolver.
Two recent themes combined on track 14 of the mashup, "You Only Live Tomorrow", a combination of Nancy Sinatra's "You Only Live Twice" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" -- blechhh!! It's one thing to have a bad idea, but how could the deejay have listened to the finished track and not said, "Okay, that didn't work, back to the drawing board (mixing software, whatever)"? And let me save some trouble for those of you who listen to the first minute or so of it and hate it but think, "maybe it'll get better": it doesn't. At least it's not earwormy, too.
ETA: Just trying to make it easier to find. The change has been made.
The Revolver guy asks that people link to [link]
I listened to the rest of it. Nothing else as bad "You Only Live Tomorrow" but nothing that makes me want to here it again either. I like the idea of "Got To Get You In The Mood" ("Got To Get You Into My Life" mashed with "In The Mood"), but the execution is meh.
Finally, if I dig the latest Rilo Kiley CD, would I be pleased with their other releases?
I second what LJ said.
Execution of All Things
is fantastic - better than the current one. But stay far away from their first album,
Take-Offs and Landings,
it's not so good. Even if one of the songs on it ("Wires and Waves") was used in a Buffy ep
(Older and Far Away).
All settled into Chicago I am, working non-stop. (But not today due to nasty head-cold having.) The constant working has enabled me to buy a brand new iPod. Glory, glory hallelujah. I got the new 60GB iPod photo with the color screen. It still kind of makes me shiver when I see it. It shows the album cover in color when a song plays - it's smaller than a stamp - but still - pretty neat.
I was lucky to see Jeff Tweedy solo the other night. A funny, heartfelt performance in front of a hardcore-fans-only audience (the show sold out in less than 30 minutes, I got the last three tickets for that night). Lots of covers (including two Dylan tunes) and lots of stuff off of
Ghost is Born
and
A.M.
And two Uncle Tupelo songs: "Acuff Rose" and "Gun" - I was especially happy to hear the first.
Besides me and Lyra Jane, has anyone else picked up either Bright Eyes albums? I got both recently and they are really good. My heart votes for
I'm Wide Awake...
as the better of the two. At least, it's the one I find myself listening to more. It is the country-ier one (three songs feature vocals from Emmylou Harris) and I just find it a lot more raw and emotional.
Back to the Tweedster (look over here hayden!!) - Wilco and apparently Son Volt are playing on the same bill (along with many many other bands including Calexico and Neko Case) for the first time since Uncle Tupelo broke up. This is a big deal folks - and you will never ever believe what illustrious local they have chosen for this momentous occasion. Lawrence, Kansas.
I'm so not kidding.
So looks like I am going home in June for sure. Just when I decide to move...Next thing you know KU will the national championship (ha!) and Free State beer will gush from every faucet in Lawrence.
Hey Tina! I'm glad you're ensconced in Chicago. I wonder if there'll be a fist-fight at the show. My money's on Tweedy. But that might be influenced by the fact that he liked my book.
I'm listening to Blue Ash - one of those 70s bands that crazy nutjob hardcore power pop fiends are always talking about. I picked up their recent CD compilation and there were 44 songs on it. I checked their original albums - maybe 10 songs per album. The songs I'm liking (a lot) weren't even on their albums. Apparently they had more than 200 songs in the can, and only got to release two albums worth.
They play stellar jangly power pop. They can crank it up and rock (kind of like Sloan) or do spot-on perfect Beatle jangle. They remind me more of the Flamin' Groovies than The Raspberries, or Big Star (who they get compared to). Nothing unusual in the lyrics, but that's often the way for power pop. But fantastic hooks, and playing. Big surprise because I wasn't that into the one Poptopia track I'd heard.
Irrelevant! Must see CONCERT.
No, I get that. But for those of us who may not be able to, a new album is a wonderous thing. I adored the last studio album - was it called Spiritchaser or some such?
eta Indeed it was. Got team long term memory - whoot!
Ah, I hadn't considered the "not playing near me" aspect, and that makes my enthusiasm and dark-lord-ish paw-waving insensitive. Sorry. :( But I hope there's an album as well. Hope hope hope. I'd heard there was (on the same odd UK website that announced the tour), but I haven't been able to find a confirmation at 4AD or on DCD's website, so I don't know. Poop.
I am up late, doing the most important preparation before a trip - the selection of the music. A task make infinitely easier since I got an iPod, but still, I am on the iTunes store, buying more music.
This is freaky - you know how the iTunes store has playlists? They have this section called "iTunes Essentials" which are lists of "essential" songs by a certain artists or in a certain genre. I am in the "'80s College Rock" playlist, and the part called "The Basics" there are 24 songs, all of which I own. The next part is called "The Next step," and I own all but one or two of those songs. The final part is "Deep Cuts," where I finally see some songs and artists I'm not familiar with.
Reminds me of the one year when the Villege Voice "Paz and Jop" results were released - I happened to own all of the top five albums, and none of the remaining 45.
Speaking of DCD, I just saw this press release:
March 1st, marks a very special new release from City Canyons Records - Peter Ulrich's ENTER THE MYSTERIUM. But beware: Once you cross into this realm, you many never be able to return to the world as you knew it. Prepare to be taken on a journey through a mixture of sounds including world music, ethnic music, art pop, dream pop, ancient and medieval music, new age and dark wave.
Prior to ENTER THE MYSTERIUM, Ulrich was perhaps best known for his long-time collaboration with the legendary Dead Can Dance, the fabulously creative band of the eighties that explored new frontiers of music. Ulrich joined the group in 1983 and appeared on albums like Garden of Arcane Delights, Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun and Spiritchaser, and was a touring member of the group until 1990. He also collaborated on Ivo Watts-Russell's This Mortal Coil project, contributing the song "At First, And Then" to Filigree And Shadow, and also played on the legendary label 4AD with labelmates Michael Brook and the Wolfgang Press as an incidental percussionist. Ulrich's Pathways & Dawns, released on Projekt Records in 1999, featured former Dead Can Dance bandmate Brendan Perry as a producer and arranger. Delighted reviewers of Pathways & Dawns compared Ulrich's work to medieval madrigals, baroque exotica, Todd Rundgren and Brian Eno all in the same sentence, a tribute to the infinite variety of Ulrich's music.
ENTER THE MYSTERIUM is similarly diverse but with brilliant pop influences that should cause it, while losing none of its stunning originality, to appeal to a broader audience. MYSTERIUM features words and music by Ulrich, vocals by Ulrich and Ulrich playing both traditional instruments and a selection of exotic instruments from all over the world. Ulrich's music in MYSTERIUM music recalls "Dead Can Dance" but has an exotic flavor of its own, blending seamlessly an array of musical genres into a lush tapestry of sound and sensation.
But to understand this unique sound, you must enter Ulrich's world of light and shadow, a world of black and white magic, a world haunting, mysterious, sometimes frightening but in the end uplifting--a world powerfully mapped out in Ulrich's new album.
As an added treat, particularly for those who have tired of the pabulum that passes for music on commercial radio, the release of ENTER THE MYSTERIUM coincides with the reuniting of Dead Can Dance for a world tour this spring. Surely the rebirth of creative, risk-taking new music will be as refreshing and warming to music-lovers' hearts as that first spring flower poking through the frost.
You can visit City Canyons Records online at [link] You can also check out a few tracks from the album online at: [link] and >[link]
