I don't know about you, but I've often pondered the existential question that all of us, if we're honest, must someday answer: If you attended Bayside High, which Saved By The Bell character would you be? Finally there is a quiz to help you make that all-important determination with great questions like: Everybody's got a dark side. What's yours? a) I've moved a lot because my dad's in the military, so it's difficult for me to make friends. b) I was addicted to caffeine [...]
Michael Polnareff's La Poupée qui fait non , a 1966 ode to either a toddler that is in her nay-saying phase, or a beautiful girl who like to keep her options open, has been covered many times, in many ways. Even by Polnareff himself: he did an Italian and a German version of the song. Best known cover is by Cristina , the wife of ZE Records boss Michael Zilkha. Back in the eighties, ZE was the label who released Lio, John Cale and Kid Creole & The Coconuts. Cristina Monet was a Harvard educated theatrecritic, who made [...]
Ian Ball of Gomez has several solo shows available at the Live Music Archive. Ian Ball : 2006-04-04, Northcote [mp3,ogg,flac] "Down Down (Status Quo cover)" [mp3] Ian Ball : 2006-04-03, Northcote [mp3,ogg,flac] "Breakfast in America (Supertramp cover)" [mp3] Sound Tribe Sector 9 : 2001-10-02, Syracuse [mp3,ogg,flac] "Baraka" [mp3] Cowboy Junkies : 2006-10-28, Kent [mp3,ogg,flac] [...]
This 2006 documentary (surrounding the final year of LUNA's career as a working band) has come up several times in conversation within the past week. I figure that alone merits yet another LUNA post on the Drunkard. As a huge fan of the band's catalog it was both an interesting documentation of the inner-workings of the group, as well as a bit depressing and anti-climatic. Dean Wareham looks especially less than enthused to be on stage in some scenes, and readily admits on camera that he too [...]
Song of the Day - 10/5/06 You could say I've been having a bit of a phase lately. No, it's not some new indie band or anything like that, but rather with dream pop. Dream pop (shoegazing) is best characterized by bands like Low, Luna, Mazzy Star and one of my new favorites, Mercury Rev. From what I can gather, Mercury Rev was a changing lineup of extremely talented musicians. Consisting of players like [...]
It was 1967, and the Summer of Love had had immense consequences. Take the young, gorgeous French filmstar and the ugly, talented French songwriter. Her marraige was afloat, he fell for her mightily. Those two were Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg, whose working relationship developed into a love affair. Bardot was starring on tv in the Bardot-show , a kind of MTV clipshow avant la lettre. Serge wrote some of his best tunes for her, which were performed with lots of costume changes and outlandish backdrops. One of the songs Serge wrote for BB was Bonnie & Clyde [...]
My introduction and love of sixties French Pop began a few years ago when a friend turned me on to the decadent sounds of Jacques Dutronc . His frenetic pop music followed me via iPod on a twelve day honeymoon trek through Greece and the outlying coastal islands thus becoming the de facto the soundtrack to the trip. Upon my return to the states I was hooked [...]
(Photo by MuseBellamy ) More covers today, the first courtesy of Foewheel , an interesting blog which occasionally throws up something really cool. As in today. Everybody knows that Jeff Buckley is really, really good. Anybody who's anybody will be able to tell you that Grace is one of the finest records of the last twenty years, one that pulls together a searingly emotional vocal style with incredible instrumentation and orchestration, and not only that but some of the most inch-perfect songwriting combined with a couple of the best cover versions you'll [...]
Frequent Drunkard readers, you all knew this post was inevitable. Yes LUNA fans, you can now get (mostly) all of your favorite covers in one place. This digital-only release from Rhino , entitled Lunafied, collects the band's well chosen/diverse covers from over the course of their career. Here's the deal though: You have to either get it through iTunes (mp4 format, boo) or you can get them through Rhino's website in the form of -- get this -- wma files. That's the rub. While poorly executed in my opinion (what, no [...]
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 [...]
Hi all. Slowly easing my way back in. There will be some changes here. Going forward, you'll probably see less frequent posting from me; I just can't spend all my free time listening to and writing about music. I may even talk about some of my other interests from time to time. And hopefully we'll see more contributions from the boys over there. Joe's moving down to Austin and has promised that his new set-up will allow him to play a bigger role. Fingers crossed, Joe! Isn't [...]
The first eye belongs to a pretty girl I used to like. The second eye belongs to my grandmother whom I love very much. The third eye belongs to me. I remember taking this picture a few months back. The eyes on the tree strikingly looks like the real ones, the part that is even more stunning is that each one seemed to resemble the eye that belonged to someone I knew. Small things sometimes intrigue me to no ends. Small ideas associated with the small things branch out and make them big. I've [...]
6 Cardinal Colors: Orange Charles Mingus, Song With Orange. Henry Mancini, Orange Tamoure. Henry Mancini, The Orange Float. Frank Trumbauer Orchestra (with Bix Beiderbecke), Clarinet Marmalade. Nat King Cole, Orange Colored Sky. Love, Orange Skies. The Band, Orange Juice Blues. Luna, Orange Peel. Pietro Mascagni, Gli Aranci Olezzano. Dawn Upshaw, The Girl With Orange Lips. Jimmy Dorsey
Today is Independence day for the U.S.A. and it is a hot, steamy one down here in the Florida penisula. The Shuttle Discovery is due to launch (barring weather and foam insulation problems) and there will be fireworks tonight. The area I live in has an intra-coastal waterway (Banana River, Indian River) - in between the waterway and the ocean is where I live. The map shows it better than I can describe. Fireworks go off over the waterway and provide a very nice show for sure. I hope everyone has a good Fourth [...]
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