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[music, links] February 28, 2003 at 12:45:00 AM CET
My favourite music weblog right now is Just from reading the last couple of posts I get the impression that Jay is someone with almost exactly my taste of music. He likes Rocket from the Tombs, The Clean, Mississippi John Hurt, Sonic Youth, Velvet Underground etc. And he thinks the Clash are overrated. Absolutely. I never understood their appeal. Totally unoriginal mainstream rock. An interesting forgotten band to check out seems to be The Hackamore Brick which apparently released one album in 1971. Velvet meets Patti Smith or something like that. Jay is off to Japan for ten days. But he'll be back. link (no comments) ... comment [music, links] February 19, 2003 at 11:21:00 PM CET Small talk on music My last hundred messages at I Love Music. Quite embarrassing. I think I should stop babbling on music for a while... And just listen. For example to the new Go-Betweens which is phantastic. link (no comments) ... comment [music, links] February 14, 2003 at 8:06:00 AM CET A Big Theory of Culture: A Talk With Brian Eno (via wood s lot) link (no comments) ... comment [music, links] February 7, 2003 at 6:51:00 AM CET Elsewhere If you approach it in the right frame of mind, Draft 7.30 is the sort of album that will take you to other universes. Keep an open mind.
- Brad Zellar on Sun Ra:
Either I gradually learned to hear the world the way Sun Ra heard it, or he was hearing it the way I do, but I love the way his best music clanks and stumbles along, the weird and realistic way it meanders between grace and gracelessness; the way it mimicked the stutter-stepping, bursts of noise and silence, and general caterwauling of my consciousness.
Waking Ear on the new Cat Power You Are Free:
The middle portion of the record, featuring "Fool," "He War" and the riveting "Smashing Paper," is the strongest, giving us full bursts of the fight Marshall has in her. The trio of songs is so dramatically different from what we've heard before from Cat Power -- so aggressive, upbeat and catchy -- that it's disappointing to go back to the morose lullabies that occupy the last six tracks of the album.
- No Matter What You Heard on the new Bonnie Prince Billy album Master and Everyone:
Its as if the album is the story of the hills and valleys of a relationship that is, when at its best, the sweetest thing imaginable, but when at its worst, enough to tear a man apart.
- Glorious Noise on a Mark Eitzel concert at the Knitting Factory, NYC:
Afterward, I was standing behind Mark at the bar and I spoke to him – he's the most approachable guy in the world. I told him how much I'd loved the show, and also "West," and this one song from it, but I couldn't remember the name of it. He was friendly, but he said he didn't remember the song. So I sang part of it into his ear – a few of the best lines. "I don't remember!" he yelled at me over the noise. "I don't remember any of the songs I write!"
- Six live mp3s from Logh (tangmonkey album review), the Swedish slow-/sadcore band at it's a trap! (via dj martian), the Scandinavian music website/-log.
link (one comment) ... comment [music, links] February 4, 2003 at 3:56:00 PM CET This is Not A Music Blog says letting loose with the leptard whom I just rediscovered in my referrers. You know I am just a short-sighted egosurfer who does not look further than his own navel... That's an interesting statement which concerning my little blog I would have to change slightly into "I'd like this to be a music blog but I know this is rubbish as I don't know fuck all about music". That sentence is too long and therefore I won't use it as subtitle. Any complaints? The leptard (I hope that shortening is not too impolite) has almost written a blog in a blog to explain the name of his blog. I couldn't read all of it but I liked the idea of inventing a word which sticks in your mind. The word leptard somehow makes me think of Def Leppard. I must admit though that I don't really know the music of the guy/band with said moniker. And I don't want to know it. I am a pretentious snob you know. At least concerning music. Anyways I wanted to say thank you to the leptard for finding such nice words to describe my totally vain try to put words around music. I remember that I stumbled upon his blog when he wrote something about a Nick Drake tape where Nick Drake spoke about a party he attended if I remember well. Nick Drake was the sad hero of my youth. And I was thee person in the world who loved his music most. Nick Drake and me were one and the same (German false friend: eine und dieselbe) person for a year or two. Though I never learnt how to play the guitar. Enough of this now. I'll finish this futile post with a great quotation of the leptard concerning a Pere Ubu song. I'll never forget the first time I heard 30 Seconds Over Tokyo on John Peel. It was giddy dangerous music that made most rock seem parochial and complacent. Listening to Ubu was like having one of those dreams where you're about to fall and then wake up, except... you don't wake up.
link (no comments) ... comment [music, links] February 3, 2003 at 8:21:00 AM CET Calexico and Cat Power Via ToT:
link (no comments) ... comment [music, links] January 23, 2003 at 7:36:00 AM CET Badger is back One of the first weblogs which ever linked to me is in full blossom again after a couple of weeks of rather sparse posting. Badgerminor has been posting lots of stuff on music in the morning and in the afternoon during the last two days. I have always been perplexed how similar our musical tastes were. It might not be as surprising that we both love Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot but we also share dislikes. He writes that he lost interest in the Smashing Pumpkins after Gish which still is my favourite of theirs. Hypnotic and psychedelic at the same time (in 1991/92 My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and Gish were the sonic spaceships for my mind odysseys). The tracks I downloaded from the new Zwan album didn't do anything for me as well: ok tunes but nothing remarkable. He doesn't like Sigur Ros, I hate their pretentious sounding overproduced ambientish artificiality (German Amazon review). Last but not least Radiohead's most critically acclaimed album OK Computer left me totally cold, Badger says "it sails right over his head". I'd really like to know what he thinks of the new Massive Attack. There is something profound about it in the sense that it perfectly captures the current tense and sinister atmosphere though the vocal deliveries of O'Connor and Horace Andy are not really my cup of tea. P.S. I am just listening to 100th Window again and realizing that I don't like 3D's voice neither (at least in the 1st song Future Proof). Maybe the only voice I ever liked in Massive Attack was Liz Fraser's. Though Daddy G was a nice change to the others. Bizarre that I like Massive Attack's music a lot but I don't like their singers. Did Tricky ever sing for them? I don't like his voice neither... link (one comment) ... comment [music, links] January 10, 2003 at 12:54:14 PM CET music & art exchange I like imaginative initiatives which bypass our society's fuel, money by replacing it with social and creative intelligence. This warms my heart: what's the deal with the singles club, anyway?
(via Douglas Wolk's blog)
We here at Dark Beloved Cloud really like singles: little recordings focused on one great song that's not part of an album, with extra stuff that complements that great song somehow. And, as much as we love selling records and CDs, we also really like giving people music in exchange for something other than money. Hence, the Dark Beloved Cloud Singles Club. Every month, you'll get a 3-inch (small!) CD (like the current Singing Catalogue). They're songs exclusive to these singles, and they're by some pretty amazing bands. Small, simple, cute, great. And how do you get them? Well, the one way you can't get them is by paying for them. You can subscribe to the dbc singles club for six months by sending us your name, your address, and six hand-decorated 3" x 3" cards. They will, in turn, become the "cover artwork" for six other subscribers' singles. The first two are already here--Family Fodder's "Tender Words" and the Cantilever compilation. (Let us know if you want your subscription to include them.) Next up is Oedipus's exquisite 16-minute dream-murmur "Hybrid Phase Yellow." Beyond that, there'll be brand-new singles by Kimya Dawson, Nothing Painted Blue, Sarah Dougher, Ninetynine and some special surprises. P.S. Dear reader, I'd like to draw your attention to the "recently modified" box on the right-hand side sandwiched in between the search and the links. From now on I will copy and paste news items I found in other places on the web into the topic music, news. They won't appear on the main page as they are just copied stories and they would clutter the weblog but they will be online in the topic. The most direct link to them is via "recently modified". Today's news are dominated by Wilco... link (no comments) ... comment [music, links] January 9, 2003 at 12:28:33 PM CET elsewhere sha!zam
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notes from slipping acres link (no comments) ... comment [music, links] January 7, 2003 at 8:30:03 AM CET zipped mp3 albums Via largehearted boy I found this site which has lots of interesting complete albums to download. The difficult decision now is which album to download first. Just look at the post-punk section. It is amazing. The only album I own of the following is the Feelies one. Post-Punk
Various Artists - “In The Beginning There Was Rhythm” (2002) The Raincoats - “The Raincoats” (1980) Wire - “Chairs Missing” (1978) Wire - “154” (1979) This Heat - “Deceit” (1981) 23 Skidoo - “Seven Songs” (1982) Liquid Liquid - “Liquid Liquid” (1981-83) The Pop Group - “Y” (1979) Public Image Ltd. - “Public Image/First Issue” (1978) Public Image Ltd. - “Metal Box” (1979) The Au Pairs - “Playing With a Different Sex” (1981) The Slits - “Cut” (1979) Gang of Four - “Entertainment!” (1979) Gang of Four - “Solid Gold” (1981) Pere Ubu - “The Modern Dance” (1978) Pere Ubu - “Dub Housing” (1979) Suicide - “First Album” (1977) The Feelies - “Crazy Rhythms” (1980) The Soft Boys - “Underwater Moonlight” (1980) Tom Verlaine - “Dreamtime” (1981) Minutemen - “Double Nickels on The Dime” (1984) Swell Maps - “Collision Time Revisited” (1989, Compilation) The Mekons - “The Mekons Rock’N’Roll” (1989) link (6 comments) ... comment |
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