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January 21, 2004 at 7:54:00 AM CET

[music, albums]

New Stereolab album


Apparently there is a new Stereolab album out on February, 2nd. It is titled Margerine Eclipse. I suppose Margerine stands for Mary Hansen, one of the band members who was killed about a year ago in a car/bicycle accident. Strangely enough Stereolab's label Duophonic does not have anything on the new release on their website whereas the album has leaked to the p2p networks a while ago. That's the modern times. The consumer is more up-to-date than the distributor.

I found an mp3 of the song Margerine Rock at Kingblind. Somehow Stereolab had lost me quite early in their career around 1995 or even before when they started integrating film scores, Brazilian music and other stuff in their music. Their sound carpet which used to be low-fi and simple became too thick and colourful for my ears.

Now this new song is very much in the vein of their early records around Peng! when Mary Hansen wasn't yet in the band. It's joyful repetitive minimal pop with its roots going back to Neu!, Velvet Underground, Beach Boys etc. And Lætitia Sadier's voice is sexy as ever. I think this will be the first Stereolab album in ten years that I will get for myself.

P.S. Paul at The Rub also wrote on this album recently and there is a detailed track-by-track anaylsis here at Amazon UK (It's a disgrace. Amazon still doesn't respect customers enough to offer their reviews a permalink.)


 
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January 20, 2004 at 7:02:00 PM CET

[deutsche blogs]

Traurige Alkoholikerschicksalsgeschichte des Tages


 
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[journal]

41


 
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January 18, 2004 at 11:47:00 PM CET

[meta]

irgendwann glaubt jeder an seine eigenen lügen


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[humour]

From the ILM Flaming Lips - Zaireeka thread:

Since I can only hear out of one ear, whether the music is coming out of eight speakers or two, it's ALL MONO. Needless to say Zaireeka parties have been kind of more blah than for other folks because of it. If you love the sound of a voice saying "1...2..4!3.." followed by a chorus of "fuck!"'s, then you'll love a State College Zaireeka party. -- Anthony Miccio (anthonymicci...), January 16th, 2004.

Anthony - if you spin round really fast then you'll get it in octophonic sound. Or something. -- Llahtuos Kcin (auspiciousfis...), January 16th, 2004.


I actually e-mailed Dave Fridmann about it once and he recommended I spin around in an office chair, or put the CDs in different rooms and just walk around. The first option seems like it would inspire dizziness more than anything (which might actually make the album sound more psychedelic - what the hey), and the second require me to actually buy this album...and 2 more CD players. -- Anthony Miccio (anthonymicci...), January 17th, 2004.


 
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January 16, 2004 at 9:07:00 PM CET

[music, lyrics]

Weblog theme, part 3


These are some of the lyrics of the song I was asking about here:

It was January, 1963 When Johnny came home with a gift for me He said I bought it for you because I love you And I bought it for you because it's your birthday, too He was so very nice, he was so very kind To think of me at this point in time I used to think of him, he used think of me He told me to close my eyes My gift would be a great surprise I saw tears were in his eyes He never meant to hurt me Oh, God, Johnny, don't point that gun at me There's so many ways our lives have changed But please, I beg, don't do this to me Johnny, don't point that gun at me Can I save my life at any price? For God's sake won't you listen to me?

 
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[music, artists]

For all those who missed German Punk and New Wave


Trend is a band from the heart of Germany making music somewhere in between Gang of Four, Fehlfarben and Jesus Lizard (they are fans I think). Fehlfarben you probably missed. They were the best German band ever and they reunited recently. Anyways check these two mp3s (via chill):


 
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[music, links]

Musicians' weblogs, online diaries and stuff


That's those I have spotted. Do you know of any others?

P.S. A more comprehensive list can be found here.


 
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[music, lyrics]
She's like heroin to me She's like heroin to me She's like heroin to me She cannot miss a vein

From Gun Club's Fire of Love


 
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January 15, 2004 at 10:51:00 PM CET

[literature]

Tragik des modernen Menschen


Er wollte etwas tun, etwas verändern. Aber jene, die verstanden, veränderten nichts. Und jene, die etwas veränderten, verstanden nichts. Dabei war David sich nicht einmal sicher, ob er etwas verstand. Er war sich nur sicher, daß er nichts verändern würde.

Peter Stamm - Alles, was fehlt aus dem neuen Erzählungsband In fremden Gärten

Das war aus einer der drei Geschichten, die Peter Stamm heute abend im Literaturhaus Frankfurt im Westend mit einem ganz klitzekleinen Schweizer Akzent (er kommt aus einem kleinen Ort nahe dem Bodensee) vorgelesen hat. Es war so voll, dass wir als latecomer im Foyer sitzen mussten und Stamm nur auf einer Leinwand sehen konnten, auf die seine Lesung über eine Kamera übertragen wurde. Dafür war es umsonst.

Die oben zitierte Passage ist in gewisser Weise typisch für Stamm. Sie balanciert ganz haarscharf am Abgrund der Banalität entlang. Ist aber letzten Endes genial in ihrer schlichten Wahrheit. Ein bisschen erinnert mich Stamm's Tanz am Rande des Trivialen an Neil Young's Beziehung zum Kitsch. Lieder wie Heart of Gold, A Man Needs a Maid oder Words (alle von Harvest) mögen als schmalzig und affektiert erscheinen. Sie sind es aber glaube ich nicht. Neil Young ist wirklich so. Er konstruiert da nichts fürs Publikum. Er macht die Musik für sich. Vielleicht auch als Selbsttherapie anstatt einer Psychoanalyse. Und er ist sich nicht zu schade dazu, seine innersten Gefühle mögen sie noch so klischeehaft sein, nach außen zu kehren.

Die interessanteste Frage war die nach der Methode, wie Stamm seine Romane und Erzählungen schreibt. Und die Antwort war eigentlich klar. Er geht von irgendeinem Detail aus (ein Ort, eine kleine Begebenheit etc.) und spinnt dann weiter ohne selber zu wissen, wo die Sache hinläuft. Früher hat er wohl versucht, Romane zu planen mit exakten Vorgaben in welchem Kapitel die Hauptfigur sich verliebt. Das hat ihn aber dann sofort gelangweilt. Er braucht den Kick des ungewissen Ausgangs einer Geschichte. Ansonsten schreibt er sie nicht. Das merkt man gut bei Das Experiment im neuen Buch. Wo mich das Ende auch etwas überrascht hat.


 
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