You listen to any of those songs, Nibs?
Category Archives: Friday Music Day
FMD 4-10: Gimme
...all yr money
and I'll make origami, honey.
Now that I've listened once or twice through, "Pedestrian at Best" still seems the standout from Courtney Barnett's album.
I was surprised that I had her name spelled right, straight from the start.
GFMD: 4/3/15
I'm gonna try to leave town early. Probably not gonna linger here.
Enjoy some music.
FMD: 3-27-15
Share some randomness with the nation.
FMD 3-20
I forgot to think about anything to say.
This isn't anywhere near my favorite Massive Attack song, but I've listened to it a lot this last week nonetheless.
FMD 3-13: Minimal
My sister who lives in Alaska is visiting us for the next two days. Sorry if there's not much today. I may not even get in a Random ten of my own.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ3t0ZbFaGw
FMD: Pepper’s readings
Pepper emailed me this quote from Eula Biss's book Notes from No Man's Land:
Each of us has certain clichés, I suspect, to which we are particularly vulnerable, certain songs we are compelled to play over and over again, certain words that undo us with their simple syllables. For years now I have been unable to think clearly if the lyrics of “Sweet Home Alabama” are within my hearing, or “Take Me Home, Country Roads”, or even “Long Walk Home”.
My only other though was asking for more WGOM canon nominations, but I like Pepper's idea better, even if I don't exactly get what kind of power these songs have over Bliss. Does she like them? Hate them? Are they super-earworms?
If you can figure it out, share your own. Or just any random ten. Whatevs.
FMD: Texas is a landlocked state
I took advantage of my cold to listen to some new music. Aided by a Saturday trip to the library.
Some quick takes on passing listens:
Mitski Bury Me at Makeout Creek.
Mitski Retired from Sad, New Career in Business.
Mitski Lush (less about this one).
There's love for her around here, but I didn't have the same immediate reaction as everyone else. Her music reminds me a lot of Angel Olsen (I'm sure Will Oldham has already asked her to sing on an upcoming album), but more dangerous. I'm not sure her best songs hit the highs of Olsen's, but the albums are better overall. There's no drag at all... hit hit hit (as in "punch" or "jab"). I hear a bit of Regina Spektor in Mitski's vocal acrobatics, but Spektor could have turned each of these songs into 6-minute meanderings. I went to bed last night listening to "Shame"... uh, wow.
PS. Can someone translate "胸がはち切れそうで "? Or even give a phonetic transcription?
Continue reading FMD: Texas is a landlocked state
FMD: Feb 20
Note to self: Check out Mitski, a possible new entrant to the WGOM Musical canon.
Wilderness Music Day
This afternoon, I'm leaving for a weekend getaway for EAR and myself.
Camper Cabins at Afton State Park, my folks are taking the kids.
Sometimes walking in the woods in winter can be good for things like what Saul Williams talks about here:
Not until you've listen to Rakim on a rocky mountain top
Have you heard hip hop
And let a open wide country side illustrate it
Riding in a freight train
In the freezing rain
Listening to Coltrane
My reality went insane
....
The trains and planes can corrupt and obstruct your planes of thought
So you that forget how to walk through the woods
Which ain't good cuz you ain't never walked through the trees
Listenin' to nobody beats the biz and you ain't never heard hip hop
Not often hip-hop though. More techno and industrial. I liked Carl Craig's Paperclip People or Coil.
But the forecast is a high of 4F, and that's too cold for my headphones. The wires stiffen and pull the earbuds right out my ears.
Not that walks through the park with someone are for headphone listening anyways.