Pulp – “Mis-Shapes” from Different Class (1996)
Pulp – “This Is Hardcore” from This Is Hardcore (1998)
I might not be the Britpop enthusiast that Phil is, but I do like me some Pulp. Their 1996 classic, Different Class, would make a wonderful musical. Wouldn’t this opener sound great with a full chorus, dancers, a flashy light [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 29, 2009
Britpop favorites
March 27, 2009
Two songs I adore
There’s no theme or commentary to today’s post other than it’s Friday and I adore these two songs.
Can – “Mushroom” from Tago Mago (1971)
Califone – “Sawtooth Sung A Cheater’s Song” from Heron King Blues (2004)
What sounds good to you this Friday?
More Califone on SWR
More Can on SWR
Buy the ‘fone
Buy the ‘an
Posted by Glenn
March 24, 2009
Drumkit favorites, part ii
Elbow – “Grace Under Pressure” from Cast of Thousands [2003]
Hey kids, don’t you love britpop? I do. At least sometimes. You know, when it’s great and reminds you of summer and driving cars and having the windows open and being young and powerful. Elbow has always surprised me with all the sensitivity britpop should have [...]
March 13, 2009
Anthology of American Folk Music, pt. 3 of 3: Songs
Welcome to the third and final installment of our humble series on Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. For those of you who’ve missed the previous installments, please scroll down to our two previous posts.
Volume 3 of the Anthology, Songs, features blues and non-narrative songs, many mysterious in origin. The strangest and most otherworldly [...]
March 12, 2009
Anthology of American Folk Music, pt. 2 of 3: Social Music
Before we get started on the second volume of the Anthology of American Folk Music, some information about the image above. When Harry Smith’s 1952 Anthology was reissued in the 1960s, no doubt to capitalize on the burgeoning folk music revival, the albums were plastered this Depression-era photograph, taken by social realist artist Ben Shahn, [...]
March 11, 2009
Anthology of American Folk Music, pt. 1 of 3: Ballads
For the next three days I will be discussing the Anthology of American Folk Music, which I have recently acquired in a handsome-as-hell reissue package. These 6 CDs have been called “the holy grail of folk music,” but I prefer to think of them not as an impossible gleaming cup floating in a shaft of [...]
March 6, 2009
“Barracking, blundering, pillaging, plundering”
TV on the Radio – “Dreams” from Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes (2004) & “Shout Me Out” from Dear Science (2008)
TV on the Radio are one of those bands that people 25 years from now will listen to and say that’s what the ’00s were like. TVotR’s “life-during-wartime bellow that nailed our post-post-9/11 ennui” has been [...]
March 4, 2009
“I’m sure that it’s hard being you”
Clem Snide – “The Curse of Great Beauty” from The Ghost of Fashion [2001]
Clem Snide frontman Eef Barzelay is almost too literate to be taken seriously. But he’s just so damned clever. I think this song is not necessarily a great introduction to the band’s sound, but I can’t get this song out of my [...]
March 2, 2009
Harmonica Favorites, Pt. 3
Talk Talk – “The Rainbow” from Spirit of Eden [1988]
Talk Talk used to be another Duran Duran until they holed up in a church and refused to let EMI hear anything from their fourth LP (Spirit of Eden). Imagine, if you will, a horrified record executive listening to this commercially unpalatable nonsense, flabbergasted at a [...]
