Giles ,'Selfless'
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.
I'm not sure about the singer's voice.
Neither was I - but it grows on you. And the hooks - like CRACK they are. The best song on the album, imo, is not on their site for download. It's called "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth" and I think the album is it worth it just for that. I've had to take a break from it though, I was overlistening. (because - crack!)
But, I then I downloaded Magnolia Electric Co.'s What Comes After the Blues (not realizing it was the same guy) which I like much better. It's a full band and his voice sounds much more confident. It's much more country-rock than other stuff I've heard of his. Still very Neil Young-esque but not so boring.
I've never listened to any Neil Young, but "Farewell Transmission" is off the Songs: Ohia album...Magnolia Electric Co. It's with a full band; I think you'd like it. At least that song, can't say anything about the rest of the album.
I've never listened to any Neil Young
:: weeps for p-c's deprived ears::
If you ever see After the Gold Rush or Everybody Knows This is Nowhere in a sale bin and feel like experimenting, they are great places to start and worth every nickle.
but "Farewell Transmission" is off the Songs: Ohia album...Magnolia Electric Co.
I am adding it to my emusic waiting list this moment.
Or Rust Never Sleeps or Zuma, which are also heartstoppingly great NY albums.
CYHSY
To which I say: Der??? What for is this acronym?
To which I say: Der??? What for is this acronym?
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. And see, I was TRYING to save myself the time of typing it.
(It's like "The Eternal Sunshine of the Way Too Long Band Name.")
Heh, I just got the e-mail mentioning that from the Pernice Brothers list. Pretty neat.
The Pernice Brothers are psyched.
And they gave me a new tagline.
(For the record, it is: "There is no love triangle, love rhombus, nor love trapezoid. There is only love.")
And see, I was TRYING to save myself the time of typing it.
I am inadvertantly mean.
Gang of Four interview & performance.
This one is billed as "A Bill Frisell Collaboration", which to my way of thinking is rather misleading as he isn't on the show. It's Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez. Granted they're promoting an album they recorded with Frisell, but Bill isn't in the studio! Playing the part of Bill Frisell (no pun intended) is John Platania, who to me (& I'm willing to bet to David), will always be "Van Morrison's guitarist John Platania."
There's a Richard Thompson one, too, which I haven't listened to yet. The page has a link to Linda on Fresh Air. I must have listened to this but don't remember. She's talking about David Thomas. No, I haven't heard this. (Though I did see David Thomas open for RT once at the Bayou. I think it was the Bayou. I saw RT at a bunch of places in and around DC. Anyway DT did a spoken word/performance art thing. 'Tweren't my cuppa tea.)
ETA: Linda's mother was "Vera Love, Specialty Dancer." I bet Georgie took her out on his spree.