They're Showing Us on Both Screens
Oct. 10th, 2005 03:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cpolkOver the years I have searched for certain tracks to add to my mp3 collection, because they were important to me. because they represented certain moments in my life, or memories, or happinesses or unhappinesses.
ever since I knew what Mp3's were I'd been looking for Carmel - Bad Day. Little did I know just how obscure it was - I had the 12" single on vinyl. somehow this album never made it to CD. since it never made it to CD, the mp3 format would be damn near impossible to find.
Now, I might have the only mp3 in the world of this song. Well, until you download it, that is.
This song will always be about perching in the window that still had a working counterweight in number 13 at the Arlington with awful box wine, sobranie black russians, and singing this song out the windows once I'd had too much awful box wine. It's torchy, gospelly, bluesy and stayed in my heart for more than a decade without hearing it once. Now I can let rip any time I'm near my computer. where's my franzia?
I haven't been right on the screaming edge of music. The New Pornographers released Twin Cinemas weeks ago (and if you are in boston, they are playing in your town either today or tomorrow. Go. they're great.) I haven't run away to the record store to pick up the CD, but from the mp3s I stumbled over (I swear, ma, they followed me home) I must run not walk to the record store and get this album and listen to it over and over and over just like I did with the other two. I've got three tracks and I'm eager to hear this in proper listening order.
Get a load of this:
Use It - Did you like that Peanuts Cartoon soundtrack song, Linus and Lucy? I was reminded of that song in the percussive buildup of this one, with a left hand only piano line coupled with Kurt Dahle playing drums like he's beating them to death. it's a simple setup that occasionally breaks out in gleeful cacophany - I think this song is fun, but maybe a bit... disorganized.
Twin Cinema - Fuck, I'm grabbed by this seesaw sound and gently dissonant crunchy walking guitar line right off the hop. this song is bright and cheerful, with everything that's happy and wholesome about rock and roll polishing up a tune that has to have electric stage presence. It's also an irresistible chairdancing song. So far this one is my favorite, but I must hear the rest of the album to know for sure.
Jackie, Dressed in Cobras - A.C. Newman, Neko Case, and Dan Bejar are all "lead singers" for NP. and they exploit this abundance of golden throats with three part vocals to go overtop of the strangely flavored with new wave if new wave had a wall of sound that reminded you of Zumpano.
For Sosostris2012 - Here Is Juno Reactor - God Is God. I hope it's the right one.
ever since I knew what Mp3's were I'd been looking for Carmel - Bad Day. Little did I know just how obscure it was - I had the 12" single on vinyl. somehow this album never made it to CD. since it never made it to CD, the mp3 format would be damn near impossible to find.
Now, I might have the only mp3 in the world of this song. Well, until you download it, that is.
This song will always be about perching in the window that still had a working counterweight in number 13 at the Arlington with awful box wine, sobranie black russians, and singing this song out the windows once I'd had too much awful box wine. It's torchy, gospelly, bluesy and stayed in my heart for more than a decade without hearing it once. Now I can let rip any time I'm near my computer. where's my franzia?
I haven't been right on the screaming edge of music. The New Pornographers released Twin Cinemas weeks ago (and if you are in boston, they are playing in your town either today or tomorrow. Go. they're great.) I haven't run away to the record store to pick up the CD, but from the mp3s I stumbled over (I swear, ma, they followed me home) I must run not walk to the record store and get this album and listen to it over and over and over just like I did with the other two. I've got three tracks and I'm eager to hear this in proper listening order.
Get a load of this:
Use It - Did you like that Peanuts Cartoon soundtrack song, Linus and Lucy? I was reminded of that song in the percussive buildup of this one, with a left hand only piano line coupled with Kurt Dahle playing drums like he's beating them to death. it's a simple setup that occasionally breaks out in gleeful cacophany - I think this song is fun, but maybe a bit... disorganized.
Twin Cinema - Fuck, I'm grabbed by this seesaw sound and gently dissonant crunchy walking guitar line right off the hop. this song is bright and cheerful, with everything that's happy and wholesome about rock and roll polishing up a tune that has to have electric stage presence. It's also an irresistible chairdancing song. So far this one is my favorite, but I must hear the rest of the album to know for sure.
Jackie, Dressed in Cobras - A.C. Newman, Neko Case, and Dan Bejar are all "lead singers" for NP. and they exploit this abundance of golden throats with three part vocals to go overtop of the strangely flavored with new wave if new wave had a wall of sound that reminded you of Zumpano.
For Sosostris2012 - Here Is Juno Reactor - God Is God. I hope it's the right one.
