Harmony ,'Underneath'
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.
like that they're trying different stuff from their usual schtick, but I don't know if I like what they're trying.
What Jon said. There's nothing on it that I love at first listen except the token pretty song, "Modern Girl." But I think I'll probably like it more once I've listened to it a few more times.
At first listen, I loved The Fox, Entertain, and Jumpers. It took me a while to warm to Modern Girl but I love it now.
I like that they're trying different stuff from their usual schtick, but I don't know if I like what they're trying.
Translation from Jon-ese: "Led Zeppelin is not Indierock!"
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Corwood, I got your package yesterday. Many thanks!!
Cool musical blog about Stephin Merrit's musical inspirations. From Irving Berlin to Laurie Anderson to Kate Bush to Dr. Who to Doris Day to Gary Numan to Tom Waits.
Merritt on Waits:
Tom Waits as usual sounds like an erudite wino, who finds it so easy to write classic songs that he rarely bothers to do so, pounding on trash cans and singing/shouting short stories like Raymond Carver with repeated choruses. Heard one album, you've heard 'em all, but they're all good. [...] Also he remains one of the best lyricists in this increasingly difficult language...
Also ganked, Stephin Merritt's curious and fascinating list of the best recording for each year of the 1900s.
Did we know about this?
April 30, 2005 >
Work on Coraline Begins
Stephin Merritt has started work on a musical adaptation of the children's book Coraline by Neil Gaiman. The projected finish date for this is fall 2006. It will be presented at St. Ann's Warehouse, in Brooklyn, New York, as well as several other theaters around the country.
I like the songs on The Woods but I hate the production. Why send everything into the red like that when you have like the most powerful rock band in the USA? They're plenty fierce on their own; they're the last band who needs that kind of forcing the issue.