maxo wrote:
> On Dec 22, 7:29 am, Boston Blackie (You've got to be freakin' kidding
> me, HE'S the NRA?)
mail.com> wrote:>> On 2007-12-21 23:02:19 -0600, maxo
gmail.com> said:
>>>>> Mother just regifted the new Krauss/Plant disc at me for holidays.
>>> Upon first listen, it's pretty delicious. Wonderful production, great
>>> harmonies, and it'll be wretched by march when it hits the malls and
>>> Starbucks. Thanx music industry!
>>> /me listens to Destroyer!
>>>
http://www.myspace.com/destroyer>> I got the album when it first came out. It's a tad uneven, but the
>> high points are well worth the price of admission.
>
> Ya, got it on right now. I think it's going to have a three week life
> before it compels me to have a mochafrappaccino. They do both sing
> splendidly, track 6, "Through the Morning", being a traditional, but
> compelling example.
>
> Not that I've listened to a ton of tunes, but here's maxo's short list
> of 2007 pop goodness:
>
> The Good The Bad and the Queen (Afrobeat meets Thatcher gloom)
> New Pornographers - Challengers (Perfect five dimensional pop)
> White Stripes - Icky Thump (Pure insanity!)
The Stripes are a musical marvel...almost everything is good...some
things great.
> MIA - Kala (Listen to this when flying into Singapore and remember to
> clap along)
> Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Assassination of Jesse James Soundtrack
> (Imagine MK and Robert Smith's love child)
> The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Like "Born to Run", but with knee socks
> and a Vicodin)
> The Choir Practice (Simply cute)
> Shins - Wincing the Night Away (Proof that the Kinks are better than
> the Beatles)
>
> The following albums would have been good had the artists not been
> sober:
> Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
> Lucinda Williams - West
>
Lucinda's so self-consciously and studiously 'southern' that she drives
me up a wall. It's like she read all of her reviews and decided the
trailer trash accent was her greatest strength and played it up. I
guess it's supposed to be sexy....
> Could have been great if the singer could sing:
> Feist - The Reminder
>
She's got...something, but it wears off pretty quickly. 'It'--just like
Lucinda (above)--is an almost studious quirkiness that is catchy on
first listen, but grows really old, really fast (really feist?).
> But as it is, it's sort of like Natalie Merchant, everybody's waiting
> for the OK to go, "gawd, she sucks!"
>
The second 'Maniacs' album was a masterpiece, IMO. NM is another of
those artists who started believing her own press releases. I quit
paying attention somewhere around the time she decided that she '...must
be one of the wonders of God's own creation' and the she was 'over our
heads'. ['Wonder' <
http://www.azlyrics.com/m/merchant.html> ] At that
point I decided she was instead, beneath my attention. She resurfaced
briefly a few years later with a single, the lyrics of which seemed to
only consist of the words 'thank you' repeated over and over...until I
wanted to 'turn it off and tear *off* the knob', to avoid ever hearing
it again.
> Art Rock Album of the year that you'll praise and listen to once:
> PJ - Harvey
>
> Album that's gotten most listens:
> Destroyer's Rubies (2006)
>
> It's what Dylan would have sounded like had he been born in '70 and
> listed to a lot of Bowie as a child.
>
Thanks for the guide. I've been a little too busy with...life, over the
last few years to pay as much attention as I used to do. I am usually
listening to music recently discovered--by me, at least--which is ten or
more years old. There's so much out there that it sometimes takes that
long to seep into my frontal lobes. Getting old, I guess.
I think I'll put on some Sonia Dada and rock out....
jak
