Mal ,'Serenity'
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 went off Suede pretty soon, but their first 3 singles (which is more or less disc 1 of Sci-Fi Lullabies) are astonishing. Just brilliant. I saw them just before the first album, and they were electric, too. Once Bernard Butler left they plunged downhill, though.
Hec, any chance of trading, oh, a kidney, for a copy of that Soul box?
Songs about artists, BTW: the whole of Songs For Drella (Warhol)
Wow, I'm gonna have something somebody would give up vital organs for? In a non- "If I had tits, I'd never leave the house," context. This is new.
THere was a minor fuss when the first Suede album came out, BTW, at the fact that they left so many of their best tracks (The Birds, Where The Pigs Don't Fly and My Insatiable One which was always rated as their best song of all) off in favour of some mildly lame tracks.
R.I.P., Robert Moog
Dr Moog built his first electronic instrument - a theremin - aged 14 and made the MiniMoog, "the first compact, easy-to-use synthesiser", in 1964.
Was just coming here to post that.
I had the honor of meeting him on several occasions and even had Friday night Sabbath dinner at his house once. He was not only an innovator but a kind and generous man.
There's lots more information, and many tributes, here: [link]
And a more thorough article via the AP is here: [link]
U2's "The Ground Beneath Her Feet"
God, Kate put that on her Buffistamix CD, and I just LOVE it.
Yay! It's such a great song. I agree that the Rushdie book isn't all that great--I enjoyed it well enough at the time, but I barely remember anything about it now--but Midnight's Children is in another category altogether. It's one of my most favoritest books.
In other news, my brother played me some Sufjan Stevens and some Iron & Wine last night, and I liked them both quite a bit. Will have to put them on the list of to-buy-if-I-ever-have-money-again. (Although in the category of most-sought-after literate-indie-rock, the Decemberists are still ahead of both of them.)
Also, Lyra Jane is spot on with her suggestion of the Sugarcubes' "Birthday" as the quintessential birthday party song, though it's gotta be the version with that awesome bass line. You know, the something-something 7" mix. Or something. I dismember.
Long, good article on the Pixies reunion: [link]
In other news, my brother played me some Sufjan Stevens
I'm listening to Sufjan Stevens right now !