PopTodd

Fiona Apple - When The Pawn...

Jeff Buckley - Grace

Rockpile - Seconds Of Pleasure

A 2002 mix from a friend

Uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to

be ugly in a fully grown adult.

Lack of involvement with the father, or over-involvement with the mother,

can result in lack of ability to relate to sexual fears, and in homosexual

leanings, narcissism, transexuality (girls from the waist up/men from the

waist down), attempts to be your own love object. Reconcile your parents to

you by becoming both at once!

Even Marilyn Monroe was a man, but this tends to get overlooked by our

mother-fixated, overweight, sexist media.

So:

Uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to

be ugly in a fully grown adult.

If you give in to them

Every time they cry

They will become little tyrants

But they won't remember why

Then when they are thwarted

By people in later life

They will become psychotic

And they won't make an ideal husband or wife

The spoiled baby grows into

the escapist teenager who's

the adult alcoholic who's

the middle-aged suicide. (Oy.)

So:

Uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to

be ugly in a fully grown adult.

panang curry with chicken

Either that or Ho-Moke Salmon,

Yum!

The Supremes - "You Keep Me Hanging On"

Sam & Dave - "Hold On, I'm A Coming"

Honestly, I think I prefer DJ's home recordings to anything that he did in the studio. I know that it's very self-consciously "indie" to do that, but there's something intimate about his basement recordings that really hits home with me. Despite the rough edges on the performances (to put it mildly).

So, Fun is probably my least-favorite album of his.

As to Wilco's version of that DJ song: Thanks! I'll check it out.

I would need to scan the review from the magazine or to type it again, as I didn't keep the file. And a translation isn't easy, French and English are really different languages, it'd be like writing another review.

 

But if I find the time I'll send it to you.

Thanks for the offer, but I really don't want to put you to any trouble. The translation part sounds like a pain. I was just curious to read your writing, that's all.

Maybe when you write something in English, that'd be good to see.

Thanks again.

Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream Of Trains

Thelonious Monk - The Best Of the Blue Note Years

Wilco - Being There

Velvet Crush - Teenage Symphonies To God

Kings Of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood

pl

 

i think he already did...

Duly noted, and thanks for correcting me. I didn't realize it. There are other examples, though. I do think a lot of people critique Jay's lyrics as being trite. Like I said, sometimes I agree and sometimes I don't. I happen to really like Jay so I don't want to be the one carrying the discussion further, but...

 

Here is Robert Christgau's (I think, unfair) review of Trace:

 

Finally the answer to a question that's plagued me for years. I'd pound my pillow at night, drift into revery at convocations on fun, plumb forget how my dick got into my hand, wondering why, why, why I could never give two sh*ts about Uncle Tupelo. But the answer, my friends, was blowing in . . . no, I mean hopes "the wind takes your troubles away." Name's Jay Farrar, never met a detail he couldn't fuzz over with his achy breaky drawl and, er, evocative country-rock--and needn't trouble with the concrete at all now that that smart-ass Jeff Tweedy is Wilco over-and-out. In the unfathomable Tupelo, Tweedy whiled away the hours writing actual songs, leaving Farrar the drudgery of mourning an American past too atmospheric to translate into mere words. As sentimental as Darius Rucker himself, Farrar is only a set of pipes and a big fat heart away from convincing millions of sensitive guys that he evokes for them. (Grade: C+)

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Congrats! Sweet feeling, isn't it? Getting one of your songs covered is the highest form of musical flattery! May your ego grow by leaps and bounds! (Cause every good musician needs a big ego

Ain't no doubt.

Not enough big egos in the music biz.

Thanks, all.

So are you getting paid?

They aren't selling anything, so... not yet.

Seriously, hearing this version of my song:

"I Do" by Becky Rose & The Oak View Playboys

http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaShYlC3aw

Doesn't quite click that... this was the original (demo) that they based it on:

"I Do" demo by Todd Leiter-Weintraub

http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSjYFa-Zw

And then, I took it in this direction....

Here's my final, band version:

"I Do" by Hop On Pop

http://iacmusic.com/songs.aspx?SongID=1482...;ArtistID=10003

All are streaming audio.

And, I'm sorry if this seems like a promo, but the cover came up on my iTunes, and it kinda shocked me when it struck me that "I wrote that song!"

Dinner (out... or in, if one of you can cook) and romance seems to always be a good idea.

I got another suggestion:

Tonio K. - Life In the Foodchain

Imagine a sneering Elvis Costello with more of a Los Angeles punk attitude. Kinda like if Elvis C. were Jello Biafra. Jello's outrage with Elvis' melodic sensibility, but a bit harder-hitting.

Yeah, that's it.

HEY SUE!!!

If you're reading this, I'd love if you could ask Jeff if he remembers that Halloween '89 show at the Blue Note, with fIREHOSE.

Does he remember the gynecologist costume and the Mount Rushmore costume that won the prizes?

Anyway, that concert changed my life, and it would be nice to think that the guys in the band remembered that show, too.

(Melodramatic, I know, but as a musician, it's the truth. Discovering them changed my whole approach to music.)

Thanks.

I haven't been to Columbia since '91.

I wanna bring the kids.

Although, I'm quite sure that it's nothing like it used to be. Even my fraternity has gone under. (Yeah, I was in a frat -- ZBT. Whatchya gonna do?)

HA!

Poppy!

I left Mizzou, just before you got there. And I saw UT at the Blue Note, too. Only I saw them at the original location, before they moved over to 9th St. It was a complete hole-in-the-wall on the outskirts of downtown (not far from the high school); nothing like the beautiful space that they have now.

I could sure use me some Shakespeare's, right about now.

Tom Z

I've mentioned this to a few folks here...UT played within an hour or so from me dozens of times but I never went to see them. I was too caught up in planning to follow another band (which I'm sure you all know who) all over hell's half-acre. Everytime I think about this I want to punch myself in the face.

They toured a lot, and had a tendency to play the same places, multiple times within a relatively short timeframe. While I do think that this helped them to build a following, of sorts, it also turned off quite a few folks who wrote them off as just some local yokels, playing the same gig, again and again. I know that I did. I only saw them that first time by chance.

I second this recommendation. It also reminded me of Nick Drake in some way. I said about the same thing when I reviewed it a few years ago for a French magazine.

 

Other artists also enjoyed this album. Josh Rouse said it was his favorite of 2002. And Jenifer Jackson (a fave singer of mine) enjoyed it as well.

 

The only blame that Joe deserves, it's to not have promoted his album enough, and take too much time for recording another. It's as if he did his best to be forgotten.

 

Same goes for another singer songwriter, John Cunningham.

 

PopTodd, go the latter's site, http://www.johncunningham.co.uk and listen to anything you can from his masterpiece called Homeless House. He also has a myspace. It will remind you of Nick Drake as well, as well as Robert Wyatt and the quiet Lennon side. It's intoxicating melancholia, wet, aerial, misty, endlessly graceful.

Thank you so much for the rec. And, please post your review of the Pisapia album; I would love to read it. (Translated into English, if you could. I am an American and, thus, speak only English. )

Also, I am creating a Tom Z

Don't understand why people say John was unnecessary, if you listen to the records, there's usually a rhythm guitar strumming underneath the lead guitar.

I believe it's that Jay filled the space with a single guitar more than adequately, all by his lonesome. Sort of a hillbilly Bob Mould.

Noice.

I saw them back in '93 and they were excellent. Both John and Exene still were in full voice.

Is Billy back with them for this tour? It was Tony when I saw them, who is no slouch himself. But there's just something about seeing a band with their original lineup that makes it extra special.

I saw them twice: once at the beginning, and once at the end.

First time was Halloween, 1989, before No Depression even came out.

I really didn't care much if I saw them or not, but they were opening for fIREHOSE and, well, I had heard good things, so why not? They hit the stage, and I wanna say opened with either "Whiskey Bottle" or "Graveyard Shift". In either case, my jaw hit the floor. So powerful, so LOUD. And there were just three of them up there. Harmonies were tight and Jay absolutely shredded. Yeah, he stood in one place, but the music did the moving for him.

Second time was at the Vic in 1993, on the Anodyne tour.

It was probably one of their last shows. They were still awesome. But this time, they had a new drummer (Ken), who was a solid replacement for Mike, but just not the same. They had also augmented the lineup with a second (and completely unnecessary) guitar player, and, maybe a multiinstrumentalist. The split was a lot more apparent, obviously but they still sounded great. But ironically, not as huge as they did the first time. Still a rock-solid band.

Not just recession.

Not a depression.

But... The End Of Days.