Swinging song from one-man (Jon Crosby) band VAST.
Hard to describe. Singer-songwriter. Minor chords.
Saturday, 28 July 2012
Metronomy - "The Bay" (The English Riviera)
Strange. Starting off with minimalistic plink-y-plonk.
Then singing... it reminds me of something that escapes me.
Close harmony vocals at times. Very synthetic.
Other songs : "The Look", "She Wants", "Corinne"... okay. Sometimes the synthy 8bit sound reminds me of Castlevania. Or any Nintendo game.
"Trouble Underlined" has a wonderfully wet burbling to it.
Then singing... it reminds me of something that escapes me.
Close harmony vocals at times. Very synthetic.
Other songs : "The Look", "She Wants", "Corinne"... okay. Sometimes the synthy 8bit sound reminds me of Castlevania. Or any Nintendo game.
"Trouble Underlined" has a wonderfully wet burbling to it.
Friday, 27 July 2012
Chris Rea - "Steel River Blues" (The Blue Jukebox)
A sax, a slow voice, whispered hihats.
Soothing in its melancholy.
Soothing in its melancholy.
Gregory Page - "La Valse De Virginie" (Love Made Me Drunk)
First thought: Yann Tiersen.
Second thought: Yann Tiersen.
Third: this is *so* Yann Tiersen.
Mr Page probably has to deal often with this reaction...
(Oh? I've blogger about him before? There is "Gregory David Page" in my labels. Assuming it is him.)
Second thought: Yann Tiersen.
Third: this is *so* Yann Tiersen.
Mr Page probably has to deal often with this reaction...
(Oh? I've blogger about him before? There is "Gregory David Page" in my labels. Assuming it is him.)
Thursday, 26 July 2012
the Paris Review - all interviews
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews
amazing stuff.
update 2019-07-23 - reading "The Paris Review - Interviews vol. 1"
Dorothy Parker
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
amazing stuff.
update 2019-07-23 - reading "The Paris Review - Interviews vol. 1"
Dorothy Parker
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Coldcut - "Philosophy" (album)
I like their "Re:volution" album a lot... or do I like the Ninja remix of those songs?
Their "Philosophy" album... it really doesn't do anything for me. Silly '90's songs.
Their "Philosophy" album... it really doesn't do anything for me. Silly '90's songs.
Sunday, 22 July 2012
Rock 'n Roll junkie
Neerlands knuffeljunk... have I seen this documentary?
Sweet and friendly, in a rough, shoot-it-up-your-vein way.
Also, it proves I do not like his (former) manager. Not honest:
- "you fired some of them"
- him: "well.." (ramble ramble nonsense nonsense difference-of-opinion, had-to...)
If you had to fire them, you had to fire them. Have the balls to admit it. Don't try to pretend it was "just one of those situations where there was no other way out of it." Bullshit. Grow a testicle, please.
Sweet and friendly, in a rough, shoot-it-up-your-vein way.
Also, it proves I do not like his (former) manager. Not honest:
- "you fired some of them"
- him: "well.." (ramble ramble nonsense nonsense difference-of-opinion, had-to...)
If you had to fire them, you had to fire them. Have the balls to admit it. Don't try to pretend it was "just one of those situations where there was no other way out of it." Bullshit. Grow a testicle, please.
Debra Cowan - "Alcohol" (Fond Desire Farewell)
slow carnavalesque, alcoholic, a waltz for the slow self-side of society.
Madeleine Peyroux - "Between the bars" (Careless Love)
so sad, so beautiful, so lonely in the night
(supposedly a cover from an Elliot Smith song with the same name?)
("You won't but you might"... ouch....)
Drink up, baby
Stay up all night
Things you could do
You won't but you might
The potential you'll be
You'll never see
Promises you'll only make
Drink up with me now
And forget all about
Pressure of days
Do what I say
And I'll make you okay
And drive them away
Images stuck in your head
People you've been before
That you don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still
Drink up, baby
Look at the stars.
And I'll kiss you again
Between the bars
Where I'm seeing you there
With your hands in the air
Waiting to finally be caught
Drink up one more time
And I'll make you mine
And keep you apart
Deep in my heart
Separate from the rest
Where I like you the best
Keep the things you forgot
The people you've been before
That you don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still
(supposedly a cover from an Elliot Smith song with the same name?)
("You won't but you might"... ouch....)
Drink up, baby
Stay up all night
Things you could do
You won't but you might
The potential you'll be
You'll never see
Promises you'll only make
Drink up with me now
And forget all about
Pressure of days
Do what I say
And I'll make you okay
And drive them away
Images stuck in your head
People you've been before
That you don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still
Drink up, baby
Look at the stars.
And I'll kiss you again
Between the bars
Where I'm seeing you there
With your hands in the air
Waiting to finally be caught
Drink up one more time
And I'll make you mine
And keep you apart
Deep in my heart
Separate from the rest
Where I like you the best
Keep the things you forgot
The people you've been before
That you don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still
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