Carl Newman of the New Pornographers has a song by song commentary of the upcoming New Pornos record, Challengers (to be released August 21st 2007), on the Matador Records website. A short, but interesting read, it kindly offers up, from time to time, what he feels inspired these new songs, or what old favourites these songs resemble. Required reading for all of you out there sharpening your pencils to write a review of the upcoming and highly anticipated Challengers record. But I've had my interest [...]
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I had NO idea that this wonderful cover existed until 2am last night. This comes to you from The Rich Girls are Weeping, and can be found on the "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" single off LCD Soundsystem's first album. MP3: LCD Soundsystem - Jump Into the Fire ...
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Logging into Facebook has become an adventure. I remember back to the times of Facebook's blocky textures, simple concepts, and consistent mediocrity. More importantly, I remember when I could sign into Facebook and know what to expect from the collegiate networking behemoth. Anymore it seems that Facebook is endlessly searching for ways to blend new features into their template that send our digital sociality into a frenzy. Sure, I'll admit I'm actually clicking on random people thanks to the once disputed "News Feed", although it still has the ability to make us feel like characters in [...]
Logging into Facebook has become an adventure. I remember back to the times of Facebook's blocky textures, simple concepts, and consistent mediocrity. More importantly, I remember when I could sign into Facebook and know what to expect from the colle...
Harry Nilsson & Shelley Duvall - He Needs Me (Demo) What a gorgeous song.... Many of you will remember that bloody awful film 'Popeye'... You know, the one with that bloody awful Robin Williams in... Even the usually suberb Shelley Duvall seemed stifled in it. But the film did have one great redeeming feature, and that was the music written by Harry Nilsson. For me it was a case of great songs, shame about the film. Strangely though it seemed to be the music that most of the bad reviews focused on... [...]
Time for another installment of the Cover-Song Showcase Showdown, in which we dig up numerous recreations and bastardizations of a beloved song, and let you vote on which is the least offensive. Today's candidate Badfinger's 1970 lament "Without You," which has been taken on by artists ranging from Il Divo to Heart. We've got the two versions that hit No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts--by Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey, whose covers are mashed up in the above clip--in competition, as well as takes on the song from mop-topped American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken and Chicago-based provocateur [...]
Ce qui tombe. Plus douce sera la chute. Je parle de chute de studio. Ce qui n'est pas retenu. Jeté. Qui tombe. Le flocon du jour est étrange. Pourquoi un si beau flocon tombe au sol, alors qu'il semble fait pour l'apesanteur ? Pourquoi le faire choir alors que l'album final ne dure qu'une vingtaine de minutes? Comment pester contre cette sale habitude des majors de ressortir un album que l'on possède déjà avec deux-trois titres bonus qui nous le font racheter quand le petit plus est si beau ? Cette belle chute de neige est la chute de [...]
Fall In Philadelphia - Hall & Oates Levi Stubbs' Tears - Billy Bragg - Live @ Hamburg June 2006 Tighten Up - Soulive - Soulive cover the Archie Bell & The Drells classic live from Stockholm Jazz Fest, July 2005 Subterranean Homesick Blues - Harry Nilsson She - Pretenders w/ Emmylou Harris - Cover of the Gram Parsons song. [...]
Si l'on cherche souvent l'originalité dans une reprise, certaines chansons sont aussi bonnes chantées à l'identique, ou presque. Cela est d'autant plus vrai lorsque la chanson est parfaite. En matière de chansons parfaites, il y a un spécialiste nommé Randy Newman qui en a écrit un nombre absolument incroyable, du moins pour le fan absolu que je suis. Parmi ses merveilles, I'll be home a une place à part. Il l'a enregistré lui-même très tard (1977, même si une version Live est parue en 1971), bien après nombre de "reprises" dont celles-ci (1970-1973). Voilà donc un post avec [...]
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Harry Nilsson, The Point! (RCA 1970) Was discussing this record recently and a lucky search revealed that Nilsson's kid-fable pop musical about the pointless Oblio in the land of the pointy people was made into a real animated movie. Didn't know that! And of course, YouTube provides. It's in a real "Schoolhouse Rock," 1970s line-drawing style. Pretty cool. Here's my two favorite songs from the album -- I left in a little bit of the narration at the beginning and end of each track. You might recognize [...]
"I'm in the church and I’ve come / To claim you with my iron drum." -- John Cale, "Paris 1919" "How did I not hear about this until yesterday? What rock have I been living under?" -- Tom wondering how he missed the Snakes on a Plane buzz "Yeah, it did have its moments -- its moments of abject torture and its moments of just straight-up torture." -- Tom, making a few clarifications on a Clerks II review "You’re a Dave Kingman of comedy." -- [...]
What happens when a prolific mechanic/singer/songwriter from Winder, GA creates a comic book in which Peter Buck is a superhero? A record deal naturally! Back in the early '90s this really did happen after Buck told Twin/Tone Records co-founder Peter Jesperson about Jack Logan and his volumes of unreleased work. After hearing Logan's work, Jesperson was immediately smitten and pared the bulk of material down to 42 songs released on the tw disc album Bulk . Check out this lo-fi southern [...]
For those of you following along at home, I you'll be relieved to know (or something), that I finally got The Knife this weekend. I was browsing at End Of An Ear Saturday afternoon, and they were playing what I guess was Silent Shout , but I'm not sure. Anyway, I was totally grooving out, and when I checked the 'now playing' shelflette, I was stunned. The Knife? No way! And it totally came clear -- The Knife is not headphone music. Too much going on -- all those multi-tracked vocals and [...]
I know alot of other sites do semi-regular covers features, and so far I've been resisting the urge. Now, in the steamy home stretch of summer, I fear the tension between me and cover versions is just too great to deny. I can't take all these longing gazes, sleepless nights, and petty arguments springing from nowhere, any longer. While common decency won't let me do this on a regular basis, I need a release. So here, in an abundant, unthinking burst I give you more cover love than you can possibly handle. Hopefully things won't [...]
(Photo by stephanie librarian ) Sometimes covers can be great. Sometimes even better than the original, although these are few and far between. Today's songs aren't really better than their peerless originals, but are worth a listen all the same. Right now, Low are one of my absolute favourite bands. They thrilled me at their show last week, and the more of their music I listen to, the better it gets. They've done a number of covers: The Smith's Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me, the Bee Gees I Started A Joke, [...]
Damien Jurado - "Unknown demo". And Now That I'm Your Shadow is a blog maintained by one of my favourite singer-songwriters, Damien Jurado. To date he has posted three "new, rare" songs, "done over the phone". This is one of these. It's a song about loneliness, yes, over almost as soon as it begins. It's lovely. Like the last coat, your coat, lying on the bed at the end of the party. All by itself. Jurado's new album is due in October, but his first EP, Gathered in Song, has just been rereleased by Made in Mexico. Autographed copies are [...]
All you really need to universally understand my taste. Well -- this and the information that most of my favorite albums in the whole world are 30-plus years old -- except for that s/t Echo & The Bunnymen album and Ted Leo's entire ouevre. But I digress. Yes, if there's a record I might be in danger of wearing out, it's Harry Nilsson's The Point . I searched for ages to get a good copy on vinyl, though a remastered version was released on CD a few years back. It was about the familiarity and nostalgia [...]
The Squares, "The Edge" Los Campesinos, "You! Me! Dancing!" Harry Nilsson, "Vine Street" Full disclosure: I've known the Squares for years, and I mean that in the "hey, I went to college with these dudes" sense, not the "hey, I bet you could get some ratty indie ass if you started talking about how profound these guys' allegiance to Interpol's first album" sense. I mean, these are people whose beer I've drank, with whom I've argued about the [...]
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