Ginger:
Anyway, if The Swimming Pool Q's are local to bicyclops, then bicyclops is local to me.
Native Atlantan, and still in the area.
Anne Richmond Boston and Jeff Calder are friends of a friend.
Cool!
Oh, Pacey! You blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?
Spike ,'Help'
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.
bicyclops - Feb 08, 2004 3:33:09 pm PST #775 of 10003
DavidS - Feb 08, 2004 4:48:22 pm PST #776 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Anybody know anything about Shalini Chatterjee?
She lead the group Vinyl Devotion. Married Scott Miller (Game Theory, Loud Family), ran off and left him for Mitch Easter. Did an album titled Shalini. Then did a Krautrock tribute record (wittily titled Anneu'ed). Seems like this is somebody I'd be interested in. Jon? Hayden? Tina? Misha? Anybody. Rio?
Ginger - Feb 08, 2004 4:54:00 pm PST #777 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Native Atlantan, and still in the area.
Anne Richmond Boston and Jeff Calder are friends of a friend.
I'm not a native, but I've been here almost 30 years, which in Atlanta is pretty close. I've met Anne Richmond Boston and Jeff Calder at parties and Anne sang harmony on my friend's last record, but I couldn't claim to know them.
bicyclops - Feb 08, 2004 5:34:19 pm PST #778 of 10003
Anybody know anything about Shalini Chatterjee?
I think there used to be some MP3s on her page, but I don't see any now. I'm pretty sure I've got a couple of the ones that used to be there saved somewhere - maybe at work.
DavidS - Feb 08, 2004 5:48:18 pm PST #779 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm pretty sure I've got a couple of the ones that used to be there saved somewhere - maybe at work.
Any good?
bicyclops - Feb 08, 2004 6:12:11 pm PST #780 of 10003
Hmm... can't find 'em here - will check at work tomorrow. I think what I had were by Vinyl Devotion - a couple good pop tunes, but didn't impress me enough to buy the albums. Haven't heard the Krautrock or the more recent stuff with Easter.
Jon B. - Feb 08, 2004 6:31:44 pm PST #781 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Never heard of her.
Michele T. - Feb 08, 2004 7:53:21 pm PST #782 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Comics: you have to put in the Tori Amos/Neil Gaiman connection, of course (does he count as indie?) and I'd also cite, in a slight tangent, the "Heroes and Villains" Powerpuff Girls CD, which, as you know, RAWKS.
DavidS - Feb 08, 2004 8:18:06 pm PST #783 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Comics: you have to put in the Tori Amos/Neil Gaiman connection, of course (does he count as indie?) and I'd also cite, in a slight tangent, the "Heroes and Villains" Powerpuff Girls CD, which, as you know, RAWKS.
Oh yeah - did Neil and Tori ever actually do anything together? I know he's written some songs that were recorded by a folkie RenFaire kinda group.
DavidS - Feb 08, 2004 8:33:29 pm PST #784 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So. Random thoughts while watching music on Televison all night.
Grammies: Prince still rocks. Plus, did you see that smirky fuck-I-can't-believe-that-bitch-ain't-sharing-the-mic-with-me look on his face during his Beyonce duet?
Grammies means you can create the world's most expensive garage band covering The Beatles. Also, I get to poke JZ in the side and go, "That's Vince Gill. You like him. He's the one who berated the CMA audience for booing the Dixie Chicks."
Missy Elliott is fucking OUT THERE. Shit, her stuff is cool and sooo avant garde really. Possibly the most interesting musician of the last five years.
VH-1 Classic, We Are The Eighties: They do a whole set of new wavey hits by first generation punks. Pretty interesting explaining what was going on to JZ. "That's Debbie Harry's solo album Koo Koo that she did with the guys from Chic. I've never seen this video before. Oooh, look it's the "Genius of Love" Video. Cool animation. That's by the rhythm section of the Talking Heads. Huh - look it's Captain Sensible doing 'Wot.' This was a huge hit in England, though it's basically doofus brit rap. Actually he's one of the all-time great punk bass players and guitarists too. It's a total freak hit."
VH-1 Country. I've been watching this for a couple months now and come to a conclusion. I get the folks that bitch that it ain't "real country" - it's not. The only bit of Hank in there is their hick accents. But you know what it is? It's power pop with Telecasters instead of Rickenbackers. With better lyrics. Yep. I'm watching folks like Brad Paisley ("Little Moments"), Chris Cagle ("Chicks Dig It"), Terri Clark ("I Wanna Do It All"), Dierks Bentley ("My Last Name"), Keith Urban ("Who Wouldn't Want To Be Me"), Martina McBride ("This One's For the Girls") and...it's just good pop music with guitar bands. Interesting. I've been thinking of New Country as sort of along the lines of sixties Motown. But this is guitar band pop with Tele's.
Also, Toby Keith is not just a jingoistic jerk. He's a smarter songwriter than his "let's kick some Arab ass" politics -- he's not your average redneck. He's right in the Merle Haggard mode. (cf., "Okie From Muskogee")
Also, I like the Rodney Crowell song where he namechecks Tom Waits and Seamus Heaney. ("Earthbound").