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I have been listening to music pretty much non-stop since yesterday. This is unremarkable because . . . well, I do that every day, but I'm bored, so here are some thoughts on some of the things I've been listening to.
Don't expect profundity.
• My new music crush is Rupa & the April Fishes, and Un Americaine a Paris is my favorite song of the moment despite not understanding a word of the lyrics. I think I've said before that I love fusion genres, and this is a prime example. It's French gypsy cabaret, and it's just entrancing. It also helps a lot that the vocalist, Rupa Myra, is gorgeous.
• I think I actually prefer Destiny's Child before they became a trio. I downloaded their greatest hits, and though I did wind up liking a couple of their big hits (Independent Women is catchy), my two favorite tracks wound up being Bills, Bills, Bills and, especially Bug a Boo, neither of which were dominated by Beyonce.
• The Civil Wars really need to release a full length studio album, though it should probably be a live studio album, because they do have an EP, and the version of Poison & Wine from it is vastly inferior to the live recording from their Eddie's Attic session in Decatur, Georgia. Eddie's Attic, incidentally, is where I saw Sarah Bettens and Vienna Teng, and is one of my favorite venues.
• I do not understand the superstardom of Peter, Paul, and Mary in the Sixties, even taking into account that one out of every ten people over the age of fifteen was stoned or in an electric kool aid funky satan groove.
• Same thing for John Denver, execpt replace Sixties for Seventies.
• Sarah Fimm continues to be awesome. I received a response from a drunken email I sent to her weeks ago asking her to do a remix of my favorite song, Virus, and she said she'd put it on her list of things to do. That doesn't mean she actually will, but that she even bothered to respond is really, really awesome.
Further proof of her awesomess is another (mass) email I received with a contest asking her fans to create fansites, and the grand prize winner would get a song written and performed by her about any event in your life that you so choose. I won't be doing the contest because I'm lazy, but I squeed a little in my pants when I saw that.
• Soul Meets Body is the only good Death Cab for Cutie song. This is fact. Do not argue.
• James Marsters as Spike is pretty good. Rest in Peace from the Once More with Feeling soundtrack is a good song and probably my favorite from the entire episode. James Marsters as James Marsters is absolutely terrible, though. His solo albums are aggressively bland. His single effort while fronting Ghost of the Robot was not terrible, though.
• I think Christina Aguilera has a spectacular voice, but I just can't make myself care about her no mater how much I try. I downloaded Back to Basics because she describes it as an album full of music from the 20's, 30's, and 40's with a modern twist, and though I can hear exactly what she means by that when I listen to it, it still falls flat to me.
• Artists named (Female Name) (Conjunction) (Definite Article) (Noun) have a high probability of awesomeness.
Cite: Marina & the Diamonds, Florence + the Machine, Rupa & the April Fishes, and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.
• I never realized how attractive Joan Baez was, and still is. I also wasn't very familiar with her outside of her cover of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, but I downloaded a greatest hits compilation, and was bowled over by Diamonds and Rust. Gorgeous, gorgeous song.
Don't expect profundity.
• My new music crush is Rupa & the April Fishes, and Un Americaine a Paris is my favorite song of the moment despite not understanding a word of the lyrics. I think I've said before that I love fusion genres, and this is a prime example. It's French gypsy cabaret, and it's just entrancing. It also helps a lot that the vocalist, Rupa Myra, is gorgeous.
Click to view• I think I actually prefer Destiny's Child before they became a trio. I downloaded their greatest hits, and though I did wind up liking a couple of their big hits (Independent Women is catchy), my two favorite tracks wound up being Bills, Bills, Bills and, especially Bug a Boo, neither of which were dominated by Beyonce.
• The Civil Wars really need to release a full length studio album, though it should probably be a live studio album, because they do have an EP, and the version of Poison & Wine from it is vastly inferior to the live recording from their Eddie's Attic session in Decatur, Georgia. Eddie's Attic, incidentally, is where I saw Sarah Bettens and Vienna Teng, and is one of my favorite venues.
• I do not understand the superstardom of Peter, Paul, and Mary in the Sixties, even taking into account that one out of every ten people over the age of fifteen was stoned or in an electric kool aid funky satan groove.
• Same thing for John Denver, execpt replace Sixties for Seventies.
• Sarah Fimm continues to be awesome. I received a response from a drunken email I sent to her weeks ago asking her to do a remix of my favorite song, Virus, and she said she'd put it on her list of things to do. That doesn't mean she actually will, but that she even bothered to respond is really, really awesome.
Further proof of her awesomess is another (mass) email I received with a contest asking her fans to create fansites, and the grand prize winner would get a song written and performed by her about any event in your life that you so choose. I won't be doing the contest because I'm lazy, but I squeed a little in my pants when I saw that.
• Soul Meets Body is the only good Death Cab for Cutie song. This is fact. Do not argue.
• James Marsters as Spike is pretty good. Rest in Peace from the Once More with Feeling soundtrack is a good song and probably my favorite from the entire episode. James Marsters as James Marsters is absolutely terrible, though. His solo albums are aggressively bland. His single effort while fronting Ghost of the Robot was not terrible, though.
• I think Christina Aguilera has a spectacular voice, but I just can't make myself care about her no mater how much I try. I downloaded Back to Basics because she describes it as an album full of music from the 20's, 30's, and 40's with a modern twist, and though I can hear exactly what she means by that when I listen to it, it still falls flat to me.
• Artists named (Female Name) (Conjunction) (Definite Article) (Noun) have a high probability of awesomeness.
Cite: Marina & the Diamonds, Florence + the Machine, Rupa & the April Fishes, and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.
• I never realized how attractive Joan Baez was, and still is. I also wasn't very familiar with her outside of her cover of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, but I downloaded a greatest hits compilation, and was bowled over by Diamonds and Rust. Gorgeous, gorgeous song.
