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Category: music
Caputo’s “Monsters”
Posted by – September 26, 2011
Keith Mina Caputo of Life of Agony is transitioning, and she just released this difficult, amazing song. It may be triggery for just hard to watch for some, as a few people on our message boards have pointed out.
Compelling, I think.
Two Tune Tuesday: Photographs (from the 80s)
Posted by – September 13, 2011
How can you not love a band that came up with “another Kodak whore, winking” and “see the red light rinsing another shutter slut wincing”? I know, I know, slut-shaming is bad, but I still love the sound of those lyrics. The song is more critical of the objectification of women in fashion than anything else.
& The AFOS song is kind of lovely in an awful, precious New Wave sort of way, no?
Two Tune Tuesday: Terry Hall
Posted by – August 23, 2011
Terry Hall’s best known as one of the voices of the ska band The Specials (although many will know “Ghost Town” only), but 80s types will know him equally well as the emo-before-emo voice of The Fun Boy 3.
(There was the brief stop with The Colourfield, too, most of which is horribly dated, except maybe this song because it was snagging sounds from another era already.) There’s something about the quality of his voice that still knocks me out.
Nine Years? What?
Posted by – August 21, 2011
Today would have been Joe Strummer’s 59th birthday. Somehow, it’s been nine years since he left the stage.
Two Tune Tuesday: Foster the People
Posted by – August 2, 2011
I kept noticing “Pumped Up Kicks” because the guy’s voice reminded me of Ray Davies’ and that’s just not a bad thing.
Trippy and sweet electronica, what isn’t often my thing, but sometimes it hits when there’s some kind of nice noise & a pretty voice.
Two Tune Tuesday: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Posted by – July 19, 2011
I miss Roddy Frame, but now I don’t have to.
(Of course it’s not Roddy Frame, but still.)
Two Tune Tuesday: Bud Powell
Posted by – July 12, 2011
Okay, no laughing, but since the three listening choices I have now that I work at a university with a conservatory are (1) world music, (2) classical, and (3) jazz, I’m trying to learn something about the latter. I’m not sure I get it, but I like this guy:
It was the tune “Tempus Fugue It” that I liked most, first — who can resist a Latin joke? — but you get the idea from these.
Two Tune Tuesday: Red Hot + Rio 2
Posted by – July 6, 2011
Red Hot is the organization that raises funds for HIV/AIDS, and has been doing so for a long while – Red Hot + Blue was the first of the compilation CDs & celebrated the songs of Cole Porter. This week, the 2nd Brazilian-inspirted Red Hot CD is out. The first one, Red Hot + Rio
This new one, Red Hot + Rio 2
Here’s a list of the best Tropicalia albums, but do get Red Hot + Rio 2
(& Yes, I know I’m a day late. Monday holidays screw me up.)
Jane Scott, RIP
Posted by – July 6, 2011
She was a rock journalist before anyone was paying attention:
In 1952, she joined The Plain Dealer and was assigned, typically for the time, to the society pages.
She found her lifework on Sept. 15, 1964, the day four lads from Liverpool came to Cleveland. No one at the paper was interested in covering the Beatles, and Ms. Scott volunteered.
How women’s careers are born: good luck & excellent timing. It would be nice if women got the kinds of careers they deserve instead of needing both, but too often – especially for the “first woman to ____________”, we seem to need a lot more than talent and hard work.
Two Tune Tuesday: Tears for Fears
Posted by – June 28, 2011
“Everybody Wants to Rule the World” is permanently a summer song for me, maybe because that’s when it came out or when it got a lot of airtime or because of the video, I don’t know. Some songs just go with seasons, too.
The lyrics of “Head Over Heels” always struck me as bittersweet and maybe a little (emotionally) masochistic.
I wanted to be with you alone and talk about the weather
But traditions I can trace against the child in your face
Won’t escape my attention
You keep your distance with a system of touch and gentle persuasion
I’m lost in admiration, could I need you this much
Oh, you’re wasting my time, you’re just, just, just wasting time
Something happens and I’m head over heels
I never find out till I’m head over heels
Ah, don’t take my heart, don’t break my heart
Don’t, don’t, don’t throw it away
Apparently summer’s finally here if these are the songs I find myself humming.
Apologies for Autoplay
Posted by – June 25, 2011
For whatever reason, my embedded playlist.com players are shooting straight to autoplay and I have no idea why. From what I can tell from their forums, they’d removed autoplay and there was a lot of pushback from users, so now they seem to have “over fixed” the problem, and it’s ONLY able to auto play.
I won’t be posting new playlists until they fix this option, & will disable the ones on my page for now (& only provide links, so you can still go listen to the music).
Apologies for anyone who was unpleasantly surprised (as I was).
Two Tune Tuesday: Grief, Grace, & Hope
Posted by – June 21, 2011
Friday night I listened to the Buckley; I knew Aeneas was going soon, & wow did I not want to let him go, but Buckley’s voice is so beautiful in this one; it’s more a cri de coeur than a song. Then yesterday, out of nowhere, I heard Matt Johnson’s voice in my head, found myself humming this song which I haven’t listened to in a long, long time:
In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch
All the thoughts unuttered and all the feelings unexpressed
Play upon our hearts like the mist upon our breath
It seems a particular good song for summer solstice, too, seasonal in its grief.
Two Tune Tuesday: Cars
Posted by – June 15, 2011
Guess who’s learning how to drive this summer?
Yes, more Garbage, but “Driving Lesson” is a hot, hot song, no? I would be remiss not to mention “Cartrouble Pt. 1″ too, so here are the Ants doing it live.
Thanks in advance to the friends who drive stick who are stepping up to take some the pressure off my lovely, patient wife. Did I mention I’m learning how to drive a standard? Well of course. Why make it easy?
He’s 29, Now.
Posted by – June 10, 2011
ME AT NINE, PERFORMING TO MADONNA IN SUMMER ’91! from Robert Jeffrey on Vimeo.
& Someone, somewhere in the world, thinks there’s something wrong with such a talented kid. Luckily, not his parents.
Two Tune Tuesday: Garbage
Posted by – June 7, 2011
Shirley Manson sings my heart in a way female singers almost never do.
