More Stuff I Got Feb 27
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Tags: Learn To Sing Like A Star, Collaborations, The White Stripes, Louis XIV, Broken Social Scene, Apostle of Hustle, 50 Foot Wave, Kristin Hersh, Lupe Fiasco, Isley Brothers, Mos Def, Common, Jill Scott, Modest Mouse, The Thermals, The National Anthem of Nowhere, Folkloric Feel, Illegal Tender, spoon+water+love+, lyrics, lisa lobsinger owes me five bucks
Lyric of the day: "You spoon water like love/and I will take it/if you can take it..." - The Thermals, How We Know.
Things going through my head right now:
The best pop lyrics are as ambiguous as fuck; they're a secret code that we rarely crack yet continue to worry at, like a dog with its favourite bone. I'll be damned if I know what spooning water like love is all about, but Hutch Harris sings it with such a clear certainty that it may as well top any literal declaration of love.
Modest Mouse's 'Float On' is the best song in the universe, and has been for the last few years; a friend of mine maintains that it's the only song she wants played at her funeral, and I'm so pissed that she thought of it first.
Things I got:
Jill Scott, Collaborations: it features new stuff by Common, Mos Def, The Isley Brothers and other R&B stalwarts. I was able to get this one for free, which I'm grateful for, because as talented as she is (did you hear her on Dave Chappele's Block Party? She friggin' owned that show...), her albums tend to disappoint. Middle-of-the-road, anonymous R&B, made even more insipid by the likes of Chris Botti (die now, please) and Darius Rucker (sorry, Hootie; you can live, but you gotta leave...). The tracks with Common, Mos Def, and Lupe Fiasco work wonderfully, though.
Kristin Hersh, Learn To Sing Like A Star: I'll admit freely that the only thing separating Hersh's stuff from other Lilith fare (get it? GET IT? I AM CLEV-UR.) is her voice, which is sexy in a rape-victim-gets-her-bloody-revenge kinda way.
I did not just say that.
This is not to say that this album is bad in any way; it's just that I'd prefer she devote more time to 50 Foot Wave (a band caustic enough to liquefy your brain), because the music world needs more loud, aggressive females, specifically ones as talented as Hersh. Also: she has a song on this one called 'Christian Hearse', because she, too, is CLEV-UR.
Apostle of Hustle, The National Anthem of Nowhere: I only picked this up because Lisa 'Li'l Kim' Lobsinger sings on one track, which is BOGUS because, as it turns out, all she does is provide backing 'la la la's. Curse you, Lobsinger! How dare you get my hopes up! The album's not as bad as I thought it'd be, though, a lot of the same driving rhythms that buoy up Broken Social Scene's efforts, if a little restrained. Leaps and bounds over their debut, Folkloric Feel, which bored me to tears.
Louis XIV, Illegal Tender ep: it took hearing a mash-up of 'Finding Out True Love Is Blind' with The White Stripes' 'Dead Leaves...' for me to get into these guys. It also didn't hurt to find this second-hand for five bucks. Me like sexy rock.
It's almost payday, girls are actually talking to me, and the Flames are starting to play like a team again. This would make it a good day, if only I didn't have to go back to work now. Stoopid job...
Comments:
I actually just got into Louis XIV too. The full length is decent, better than a lot of that NYC stuff that came out that year.
AND I'm trying to review Apostle of Hustle. I'll race ya.
posted on February 28, 2007, 12:34 am
looking forward to ur reviews on Jill Scott and Louis XIV.
posted on February 27, 2007, 7:05 pm
