I often start a post with this phrase, but I'm not sure if it's ever been more true: I had no idea what to expect when I put this CD in the player. The cover of Heaven Is For Easy Girls, as you can see, features The Awkward Stage's Shane Nelken pinning a corsage on a blow-up doll (something tells me that won't go so well). But what came on was this. The Awkward Stage - The Morons Are Winning. Great melody, great arrangement, impeccably rhymed lyrics. Seriously, those lyrics are just mind-boggling, despite the seemingly trivial sentiments: "winning year...
Heaven Is For Easy Girls is a pop album for anyone who didn't grow up to marry their high school sweetheart. In a perfect world, the rest of us would mature into adults, leaving behind our innate social awkwardness and romantic uneasiness with our head gear braces and acne medication. But the [...]
"There is a war on and all of the morons are winning." Shane Nelken, the principal songwriter of The Awkward Stage (and the man responsible for that fantastic line) has spent time as part of Carl "AC" Newman's band. Carl Newman is part of The New Pornographers. AC Newman and The New Pornographers produce some of the sweetest guitar pop music in existence. Do you see where I'm going with this? Needless to say, The Awkward Stage also produce some of that fine Canadian pop. [...]
Elliott Smith covering Hank Williams, Jr.'s "All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down" paints the song with an original hue. Smith's wistful version makes the Williams' original sound downright accusatory. Elliott Smith : 1997-05-15, Portland [mp3,ogg,flac] "All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down (Hank Williams, Jr. cover)" [mp3] John Darnielle has played a couple of in-store solo shows this week to promote the new Mountain Goats album, Get Lonely . At the San Francisco [...]
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