Kim Bodnia
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I didn't know Mr. Skin was a member here.
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Sounds Scandinavian maybe? Which is not surprising given the tradition of Northen-European immigration in the Western provinces... Anyway, I am going to explore her music and Brood's, hopefully I can catch a Mangan concert soon. Thank you
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Marisa Tomei? Still totally relevant and hot.
I know, but I didn't like what they wrote on the back cover of The Wrestler DVD, they describe her character as "a forty year old stripper" made me realise she is not a twenty something anymore. I liked her in the Devil Knows You're Dead...
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yes, or at least semi-professionally. I book him every chance I get for a local music hall and he's been over to my place for food. And yes, daughter lives in TO, is going to the concert and will hopefully be surprised
Sorry, don't really like RAA for some strange reason. Find Elliott Brood much better at the same kind of thing.
I thought he'd be mostly a Vancouverite.
There is a song on Nice, Very Nice, where there's a Vancouver lyric, the song is "Teenage something" and mentions the word EMO and trips to a local record store. Anyway, the song is actually a duet, do you know the name of the artist who sings with him? I thought she had a nice voice.
Never heard of Elliott Brood before...
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Got a surprise planned for the daughter at this weekend's Toronto show. If all goes well, the entire Queen Elizabeth Theater will be singing Happy Birthday.
Not sure I follow you, does this mean you know him personally, is his daughter celebrating her birthday in Toronto? In a related topic, I did notice a similarity between his music and The Rural Alberta Advantage's.
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Dan Mangan - Oh fortune.
Great sold out show last night. Got a call out from the stage!
Excellent, as always Mr. Mangan. I've been listening non stop to "Some people" from his Nice, Nice, Very Nice.
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Buzz might be the only character from the nineties still relevant / popular nowadays, which probably can't be said of Carrey or Tomei. And Robert de Niro is far from a Ronin incarnation in that film he did with Bradley Cooper, Limitless.
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A question to people who are more versed than I am, isn't "Art of Almost" the most uncharacteristic song in the album? I explain: it has the most electronica, compared to the other songs which are more accoustic and reflective. In fact, the first opening seconds of Art of Almost reminded me of The King of Limbs.
On the other hand, isn't "Born Alone" the loudest, rockier song in the album? There's a chance I'm wrong with these impressions, reasons why I want to hear from other users here. Thank you for confirming / contradicting this thoughts.
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R.E.M. Collapse into Now
Dan Mangan Nice Nice, Very Nice
The Wilderness of Manitoba ~ When you left the fire
Wilco ~ The Whole Love
Wilco ~ Summerteeth
Blind Pilot ~ We are the tide
Blind Pilot ~ Three rounds and a sound
Nada Surf ~ Lucky
BR Counting Crows ~ August and Everything After, live at Town Hall
John Wesley Harding ~ The sound of his own voice
R.E.M. ~ Lifes Rich Pageant
Neutral Milk Hotel ~ In the Aeroplane over the Sea
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The most criminally underhyped band from Brazil is Los Hermanos. They started as just a goofy alt-rock band with Portuguese lyrics and evolved into the sweetest indie rock-meets-samba band ever. Check our their last two Ventura and Cuatro, if you like that kind of thing.
It's only a couple of songs I've heard from those Brazilians, so far I like them. Seems like the album to get is Bloco do Eu Sozinho although since this is a Brazilian import it's prohibitely expensive in North America and Europe, my best chance is hoping that maybe I'm going to Brazil soon and picking up a copy down there. Unfortunately the local iTunes doesn't carry them either. I'll eventually get my hands onto that Sozinho anyway. Last year I discovered a Brazilian band by the name of Pato Fu and through the Internet I managed to get some albums, DVDs, albeit ridiculously expensive, like 40 for an unplugged DVD. Oddly enough I was in Brazil in 2001, the year Sozinho came out, and I overlooked Los Hermanos...
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There was a time when I was addicted to a song by The Wallflowers, One Headlight.
What a great band, I regret their disappearance from the musical map.
In his solo career, Dylan has been doing very country, americana kind of stuff, and even though it's good, I miss the days when he rocked.
That song, along with 1973 by The Smashing Pumpkins, are probably the two songs that made the decade to me.
At the time I wasn't into R.E.M., Wilco, or Neutral Milk hotel, so I don't know things would have turned out if I had listened to Bittersweet Me, E-Bow the letter (R.E.M.) for the first time in 1996 instead of 2010: or if I had listened to In the Aeroplane over the Sea in 1998 instead of 2011.
Things could have turned out differently, I don't know how much of a radical or minor change, had I driven to Wilco-R.E.M.-Neutral Milk Hotel in the nineties instead of Wallflowers-James-Smashing Pumpkins, and I don't remember exactly, did Tragic Kingdom already exist at the time?
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My copy arrived in the mailbox today. Also received Summerteeth.
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Not sure if this qualifies as nostalgia, to me it does. All of us were 10 years younger, while Bono and Co. were in their thirties.
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This morning I was listening to "When I was young" which is available as a download from Nada Surf's website. The album is called The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy, and appears January 24.
The first half of the song is an accoustic, quiet ballad, but in its second half it quickly turns into a powerful rocker reminiscent of the band's grungey days. The song is also streaming on NPR.org.
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I'm confused -- how is that about Wilco?
Two reasons,
First, Jonathan Wilson is accompanying Wilco in legs of their European tour, opening various concerts.
Second, the article mentions that Jonathan Wilson has been trying "to resuscitate the spirit of the sixties" by inviting musicians from other part of the country to take part in "improvised" performances in his Laurel Canyon residence. The article says that Wilco has travelled to Laurel Canyon to participate in these performances.
Sorry about the confusion and I hope this is clarifying.
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It's only a collection of events and personages, no action neccesary on your part. Just a way to express my nostalgia of the nineties. Actually, this couldn't be a specific date in the decade, soon after writing this I realised that the events are chronologically unconnected (all have in common the timeframe of the nineties). I think it was a great decade, marked by people in the entertainment business (Carrey, Tomei...), in politics (Clinton, Yeltsin...) and I had forgotten the spelling of "Stephanopoulos"
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A review of Gentle Spirit in a French web portal. The singer-songwriter provides the following description of Laurel Canyon:
"When I moved here, I didn't know the history of Laurel Canyon very well. I settled in a house in front of those where Houdini and Jimi Hendrix used to live. Very soon I understood why the landscape was a source of inspiration: the air is fresh here (and) it only rains four weeks per year. This isn't Hollywood, you can go outside and take a walk all day without crossing a single soul (person)."
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There is growing anticipation for the WIlco concert in Madrid, November 1st. La Vanguardia, the nation's fourth largest newspaper, published on its website an article titled: "Wilco returns to Madrid to present 'The Whole Love'".
Translation of the first two paragraphs:
"The North American band Wilco returns to Madrid, November 1st, to present their new album entitled 'The Whole Love'. Jonathan Wilson will open this concert which is scheduled for November 1st at Madrid's Circo Price Theatre as part of the (Autumn) cycle of Heineken Music Selector".
"It is the group's eight album and the first they publish under the newly unveiled dBpm Records. They return to Madrid to offer a concert where tickets were sold out a few hours after they were put on sale".
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Canada has been producing very beautiful new music. There are two acts: The Wilderness of Manitoba, and The Rural Alberta Advantage, that have become personal favourites, to the point where I'd buy anything those two bands put out to market.
Despite their name, the Wilderness of Manitoba are Toronto-based, and early in the year they released When you left the fire. (Try the songs 'Hermit', 'Summer fires' and 'Orono Park').
The Rural Alberta have a more rocking sound, with the lead singer drawing comparisons to Billy Corgan. The drumming of Paul Banwat is one of their strongest assets. (Try the song 'Muscle relaxants').
Since my favourite band no longer exists (R.E.M.) it's Canada where I've been finding much of my new music.
I hadn't heard of the Deep Dark Woods until this post, may be time to explore them also.
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Kate and Anna McGarrigle
"Complainte pour Ste Catherine". Nice song, I had forgotten about it, thank you for reminding me of them, I have the CD somewhere in the room...
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Down with Wilco by The Minus 5 has a heavy Beatles-like sound.
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Michael Stipe once said that Automatic for the People was their punk album.
Nineties propulsor
in Tongue-Tied Lightning
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I see, thanks for elucidating. That company was founded in 1999 according to the wikipedia entry, so it's still a nineties topic. From what I've heard Scandinavian film (television maybe) has featured this type of images, for various decades now, without the public scandalising.
On a separate note I recently acquired Groundhog day, I had never seen it in cinemas nor television before, but I like the air of nineties that transpires all over the film. I am not a fan of Bill Murray either, but I did notice a striking resemblance with Tom Hanks.