I think this warrants a “wow.”
Rilo Kiley’s Incidental Pop Album
A rather old article, whose content no longer really interests me, but which nonetheless answers all the sorts of questions I wondered a year and a half ago, and so I feel I should link for my former self’s sake: Was Under the Blacklight a shameless money grab? Are they proud of it? Is there still a Rilo Kiley anymore?
Song and Video by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes.
[after a whirlwind trip through my life stateside i am taking the redeye back tonight and feeling reflective and happy, happy like a stoned dog]
from a spoken interlude 2/3 through the song:
Him: Do you remember that day you fell out of my window?
Her: I sure do, you came jumping out after me.
Him: Well you fell on the concrete, nearly broke your ass, you were bleeding all over the place and I rushed you off to the hospital, you remember that?
Her: Yes I do
Him: Well there’s something I never told you about that night
Her: What didn’t you tell me
Him: While you were sitting in the backseat smoking a cigarette you thought was gonna be your last, I was falling deep, deeply in love with you, and I never told you till just now.
Sometimes all of life feels this way. No one can strum the chord the way Rosie can, either. It makes me glad that she found this song for herself.
First Band on the Moon, the Cardigans’ second US release way back in 1996, is an abiding love of mine. All Music Guide has it:
“Lovefool” is slickly produced chart pop hiding a rather more subversive nugget, a neat encapsulation of what the Cardigans were all about.
‘cuz we need you, on the front linesI’m not sold on the idea of the man as Treasury Secretary, but “Hey, Paul Krugman” is a damn good song. [via Cam]
not just writing for the New York Times.
“This is the dawning…” so eminently danceable and joyous, if kooky!
YouTube comments on Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5,Bernstein, read/interpreted over the video itself, to fantastic effect. Imagine if they did this with the comparative-riffraff of popular music videos:
It was actually Shostakovich’s big “Fuck you” to Stalin. When will some use composer do the same to GWBush?
Holy Shit the conductor’s going crazy LOL. He conducts so weird and they’re still freakishly in time!
She & Him singing ‘Change is Hard’ on Craig Ferguson. So fantastic - I’m on a She & Him binge since Zooey’s little announcement.
I love Tom Waits. I love Tom Waits and I never listen to him because the dark corners of Mule Variations scare me so much on nights home alone, and though Rain Dogs is a tremendous piece of artistry, I always find myself distracted one third of the way through.
This song, “I Wish I Was in New Orleans (In the Ninth Ward)” is tremendous. We hardly hear the growl of Tom counting in his lush piano work with street swings behind, and the song sets up like some sort of lush slow dance. And maybe it is, but the alcoholic whose voice we hear – straining for sweetness on the first note - just under a minute in, is not the chanteuse we expect.
Like so many of Waits’ songs, it reminisces about booze and brothers-in-arms, but it’s hard to tell why he struck this tone for this town. It’s a nod to jazz, what with the saxophone work, perhaps, but what else is it?
