Tag: music, songs

[music, songs] July 18, 2005 at 9:56:00 PM CEST

Swell - At Long Last

There is this clacking sound in the beginning which is repeated many times throughout this song. It makes me think of loose shutters hitting each other in a summer breeze. Slightly spooky but kindling the curiosity as well. And then there is the heavy fuzzy electric guitar coming in for the second time in the last minute of the song. Cutting through the air, cutting through my heart. It hurts and it releases at the same time. Put it full blast on your car hifi. But be careful and watch the road. Or don't. Not a bad choice for a last listen. I am in a weird mood these days. Neither good, nor bad. There are all these memories of little events in my life coming back to me like in flashs. I hope it means something.

Here is the link.

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[music, songs] July 11, 2005 at 9:05:00 PM CEST

Das Tal der Nackten Männer

Here is a link to the mp3 of the song I mentioned yesterday. Somehow I cannot access my webspace at Arcor anymore, that's why this is just a yousendit link which will expire in a week or so. It's a ten minute guitar ballad with a vibe similar to Neil Young's Cortez the Killer. A road song which also evokes Dylan's mouth harp blues.

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[music, songs] July 10, 2005 at 8:33:00 PM CEST

Muss ich unbedingt mal ablaufen

Kaiserberg
Schweizer Straße
Botanischer Garten
Königsberger Allee
Prinz-Albrecht-Straße
Soldatenfriedhof am Zoo
Sedanswiese
Hochfeld
Böninger Park
Trautenaustraße
Bethesda-Krankenhaus
~~Esch-Haus~~
Neudorf
Modellbootanlegesteg am Wolfssee
Hochfeld
Duissern

Das sind alles Stationen/Orte, die in Tom Liwas Das Tal der Nackten Männer erwähnt werden. Ich habe meine Unschuld übrigens auch in Duisburg verloren.

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[music, songs] June 13, 2005 at 10:34:00 PM CEST

Here Come the Warm Jets, the song, is stuck in my mind. And I still can't make the connection to the woman on the card of 8 of clubs in the crouch on the back cover. Though I have tried so hard.

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[music, songs] March 10, 2005 at 11:03:00 PM CET

Another life-changing song

Pick Only One: Red House Painters

Since Katy Song seems to be the popular answer to this thread, I just wanted to tell a story related to the song (by the way, I mainly lurk, so you won't recognize me). Anyway, I interviewed Kozelek in 1996 and it was the day before he was leaving for a tour, so when I called, I was supposed to leave a message on his answering machine, and then he would pick up when he heard my voice. Turns out that a lot of his friends/enemies/whoever were calling him, and he was only interested in doing the interview, and nothing else. I didn't know that, so I called a couple of times and finally called the label to find out what was going on, since he didn't seem to be home. Finally I called back and left a message and we spoke. Anyway, the point of the story is that in the message, it said "Katy and Mark aren't home right now . . ." When we finally spoke, he told me that he was living with the Katy from the song. Considering how sad that song is over the break up, I was so incredibly happy for the guy. I'm not sure if they are still together.

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[music, songs] March 9, 2005 at 8:25:00 PM CET

When songs still mattered...

MARY BLACK: Having got off to a steady start with her first two albums, Joni's third, "Ladies of the Canyon," achieved chart success both sides of the Atlantic and produced the hit single "Big Yellow Taxi". Joni remembers how the song came to her.

JM: It was a regional hit in Hawaii. It was written about Hawaii and they recognized themselves. They seemed to be the only people that could recognize that they lived in a paradise. There were many paradises but locals don't tend to notice that they live in paradise. You know what I mean?

I went to visit Graham Nash actually. They were on tour there and it was my first time. And I came in at night and went directly to their hotel, and when I woke up in the morning I threw back the curtains -- we were on the 20th floor and I looked and I could see green hills and beautiful white flying birds with long tails and as far as the eye could see below that, I saw a parking lot. I was heartbroken. We were in Waikiki which is the most developed, and at that time was really paved over so I wrote that song then. And also the Hawaiians because of their tradition of slack key, really loved the guitar on that piece and it kind of leaked into Hawaiian music. If you listen to contemporary Hawaiian music, a lot of it sounds like "Big Yellow Taxi," unfortunately. I think it kind of overinfluenced the genre. I tend to like their music better before they heard "Big Yellow Taxi." (Sings mock Hawaiian words.) Whatever that means! (Laughs.)

BBC radio 2 February, 20th 1999

A powerful, little song, because there have been cases in a couple of cities of parking lots being torn up and turned into parks because of it.

Joni Mitchell in the Los Angeles Times, December, 8th 1996

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[music, songs] March 6, 2005 at 1:47:00 PM CET

Song of the day

The Go-Betweens perform their new single Here Comes a City in the studio.

Simple, energetic and absolutely lovely. Some great transcendental guitar solo by Grant McLennan in the second half. Robert Forster is hilarious as always. What an original. Amazing that they can still pull it off after all those years. I am very much looking forward to the new album and the concert end of May.

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[music, songs] February 17, 2005 at 8:05:00 AM CET

Music from the other side of the world

Buked & Scorned has a phantastic Jean Paul Sartre Experience song online: Own Two Feet. The guitar sounds so tender and frail, it is unbelievable. Dreamy psychedelic kiwi heaven. There is no better way to start a day.

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[music, songs] January 14, 2005 at 12:57:00 AM CET

Have you got a fast connection plus some listening time?

The Mystical Beast has a wonderful instrumental 20 minutes+ track by Rhys Chatham called Die Donnergötter online. He describes it as sounding like Neu! + Feelies. Not too bad of a comparison. It reminds me of Godspeed with a slightly less apocalyptic mood (I guess they came later). Plus some Television maybe. An excellent listen if you are in the mood for self-indulgent stuff. There must have been a prog-rock band covering similar ground but I can't nail it down.

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[music, songs] November 30, 2004 at 10:49:00 PM CET

Hang the critic, #1

The only misstep is "Feel Every Beat," a lightweight rap featuring none other than Sumner on vocals.

John Bush on Electronic's first album at the AMG

Not only that my fave dance pop album (I know about a dozen) only gets 3 out of 5 stars. This phrase on the most enthralling song on it takes the cake. That keyboard line I could kill for. With the reverb near the end. One of those hooks where you have to put scotch tape on my lips to keep me from whistling it synchronously (more or less).

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