Re: In which I contribute nothingminervacatDecember 8 2005, 13:52:27 UTC
i'm so out of the loop - i get almost all my new music from random people on livejournal, or oh_peccadillo - that i have no idea if twin cinema is a band name or an album or anything. so you should tell me what you think, instead.
also, just out of curiosity, is this entry showing up on your friends' page? i can't see it on mine (i am one of those dorks who has herself friended) and i'm wondering if livejournal is being wonky again.
Re: In which I contribute nothingminervacatDecember 8 2005, 14:03:54 UTC
yeah, that's what happened to me! DAMN YOU, LIVEJOURNAL! WHAT THE HELL?
oh, yeah, right - that album. thanks, i needed the memory jog this morning. coffee has not yet hit the brain. well, i don't own twin cinema; i liked them well enough when i saw them in concert this fall, but i don't know, their stuff doesn't grab me as much as, say, neko's solo/with the boyfriends stuff does. there's something about their sound that just ... not rubs me the wrong way, but like there's one note that's wrong and i enjoy listening to it if it's there, but i wouldn't seek it out? but then again i've never sat down and listened to it straight through; maybe i would like it better than. i liked mass romantic well enough, so who knows?
okkervil river is good on disc and absolutely mind-blowingly amazing in concert. i really feel like they're not worth listening to, in terms of studio arrangements, if you haven't seen them going nuts on stage at least once. totally changes your perception of their sound.
This was tough - I'm sort of out of touch with new music lately. But here are five I enjoyed:
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard Beck - Guero Laura Cantrell - Humming By The Flowered Vine stellastarr* - Harmonies for the Haunted
If I get the job I'm in the running for at a certain magazine that rhymes with "Fender", expect me to have a much better 2006 list.
oh, man, i've had most of that fiona apple album for so long that i forgot it was actually, you know, a 2005 album. but yeah. that was a good one.
i've heard good things about the stellastarr* album, too, but i don't know really know much about it/them. you have a pretty good handle on my taste, right? what can you tell me about them/him/her/it?
Well, they're NYC-based and they amassed a huge local cult following because they played 90% of their shows at Luna Lounge, where there's no cover, so people were more likely to go see them a whole bunch.
Think sort of Pixies-ish bass-heavy punkish (seriously, they even have a hot female bass player in the time-honored tradition of hot female bass players) with a Ric Ocasek-esque lead singer and a dash of the heavy metal power ballad.
Mary Gauthier, Mercy Now (this album is just amazing and moving in ways I can't even describe.)
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (oh, my, god. The Library of Congress engineer who found this unlabeled in a box at the LoC deserves a medal. And everyone who worked for months to get the recording beautifully restored did a wonderful job. This is more of a holy grail of music than last year's SMiLE and now it is released on CD and so beautiful.)
Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine (The years between the first recording and the album release allowed the songs to mature and Apple to get some distance on then and come back and attack them in new ways. It has all the pain of a breakup album filtered through a few years. And it is better (but less raw) than those first sessions.)
Danielle Howle, New Live (finally "Kill My Love For You," "Will You Come See Me," "Love is a Fall" and "Jesus Won't Wait" make it onto an album. And the new live cuts of old songs are also outstanding.)
and various concert boots that don't actually count as albums. if they did, my number one would have been OH MY GOD THAT SOUNDBOARD QUALITY RECORDING OF THE DECEMBERISTS SHOW FROM CHICAGO IN OCTOBER HOLY SHIT. *grin*
like i said to blerg, above, i've had the songs from that fiona apple album for so long that i forgot it came out this year, officially. wild.
WELL WE WERE GOING TO SEE GAY COWBOYS TOMORROW BUT APPARENTLY THIS FUCKING PLACE IS A PODUNK EXCUSE FOR A SHITTY TRIO OF CITIES OMG.
if i still lived in a real fucking city, i would be seeing gay cowboys tomorrow. the research triangle is oppressing my committment to indie film boys kissing! *HATE*
erin mckeown toured with doughty for a while this fall, and i've heard really good things about her plus if doughty likes her that's a double plus recommendation, so i'll definitely check that one out. yay.
My new-music abilities have fallen WAY off this year. Like, I'm not even sure I bought three albums that came out actually in this year. But I'll try...
1) "Baby" by the Detroit Cobras - nnngh, rawr... Growly-voiced famile lead singer, kick-ass garage-y covers of old R&B songs, and a fantastic live show. They rock.
2) "Awake is the New Sleep" by Ben Lee - I think that came out this year, early on. Anyway, it's an excellent album, all moody and love-y and heartbroken, and he's so wee! and Australian! and be-bedheaded!
3) "Lost in the Lonesome Pines" by Jim Lauderdale and Ralph Stanley - again, this came out rather early in the year, but it is some QUALITY bluegrass. "Zaccheus" brings out all that is good in gospel bluegrass (this is high praise coming from an Agnostic), and the banter between Jim, who is 45, and Ralph, who is 82, on "She's Looking at Me" is hilarious. Plus, they put on a mean show at Ralph's Memorial Day-weekend festival
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Re: I R LAMEhumpingbearsDecember 8 2005, 15:06:12 UTC
OK, if, in fact, the new Loretta came out this year, then that totally counts, because that album? IS HOTTTT. Ohmygod, I love that album so, so, so much.
Oh, and I also relaly like th new White Stripes album, Get Behind me Satan. I sort of forgot about that, but it's pretty great. I am especially fond of "The Nurse" (which features a marimba!!!) and "My Doorbell", which just flat-out rocks.
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also, just out of curiosity, is this entry showing up on your friends' page? i can't see it on mine (i am one of those dorks who has herself friended) and i'm wondering if livejournal is being wonky again.
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oh, yeah, right - that album. thanks, i needed the memory jog this morning. coffee has not yet hit the brain. well, i don't own twin cinema; i liked them well enough when i saw them in concert this fall, but i don't know, their stuff doesn't grab me as much as, say, neko's solo/with the boyfriends stuff does. there's something about their sound that just ... not rubs me the wrong way, but like there's one note that's wrong and i enjoy listening to it if it's there, but i wouldn't seek it out? but then again i've never sat down and listened to it straight through; maybe i would like it better than. i liked mass romantic well enough, so who knows?
okkervil river is good on disc and absolutely mind-blowingly amazing in concert. i really feel like they're not worth listening to, in terms of studio arrangements, if you haven't seen them going nuts on stage at least once. totally changes your perception of their sound.
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Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
Beck - Guero
Laura Cantrell - Humming By The Flowered Vine
stellastarr* - Harmonies for the Haunted
If I get the job I'm in the running for at a certain magazine that rhymes with "Fender", expect me to have a much better 2006 list.
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i've heard good things about the stellastarr* album, too, but i don't know really know much about it/them. you have a pretty good handle on my taste, right? what can you tell me about them/him/her/it?
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Think sort of Pixies-ish bass-heavy punkish (seriously, they even have a hot female bass player in the time-honored tradition of hot female bass players) with a Ric Ocasek-esque lead singer and a dash of the heavy metal power ballad.
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i'll check them out the next time i have cash to spend on music. mostly i think i just like their name, but if they're good, so much the better!
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if they did, my number one would have been OH MY GOD THAT SOUNDBOARD QUALITY RECORDING OF THE DECEMBERISTS SHOW FROM CHICAGO IN OCTOBER HOLY SHIT. *grin*
like i said to blerg, above, i've had the songs from that fiona apple album for so long that i forgot it came out this year, officially. wild.
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aside: did you say you are going to see gay cowboys tomorrow? how? it doesn't look like it is coming out here until next week.
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if i still lived in a real fucking city, i would be seeing gay cowboys tomorrow. the research triangle is oppressing my committment to indie film boys kissing! *HATE*
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1) "Baby" by the Detroit Cobras - nnngh, rawr... Growly-voiced famile lead singer, kick-ass garage-y covers of old R&B songs, and a fantastic live show. They rock.
2) "Awake is the New Sleep" by Ben Lee - I think that came out this year, early on. Anyway, it's an excellent album, all moody and love-y and heartbroken, and he's so wee! and Australian! and be-bedheaded!
3) "Lost in the Lonesome Pines" by Jim Lauderdale and Ralph Stanley - again, this came out rather early in the year, but it is some QUALITY bluegrass. "Zaccheus" brings out all that is good in gospel bluegrass (this is high praise coming from an Agnostic), and the banter between Jim, who is 45, and Ralph, who is 82, on "She's Looking at Me" is hilarious. Plus, they put on a mean show at Ralph's Memorial Day-weekend festival ( ... )
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and of course i love the ben lee. for "catch my disease" if nothing else, except that everything else is also excellent.
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Oh, and I also relaly like th new White Stripes album, Get Behind me Satan. I sort of forgot about that, but it's pretty great. I am especially fond of "The Nurse" (which features a marimba!!!) and "My Doorbell", which just flat-out rocks.
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