Flaccid Ego in Your Hand: 4/6 show
Next weekend is the annual WLUW Record Fair! It promises to be a good time -- lots of vinyl and CDs for sale, as well as other stuff. Check out the link above, and then come next weekend. And you can save money by bringing a copy of an ad (print out this one)
Some notes on what I played:
The Talking Heads I got into the Talking Heads when the movie Stop Making Sense came out, which was really quite a while ago. On this album, Remain in Light, the Talking Heads experimented with complex polyrhythms. When David Byrne didn't want to continue in that vein, the rest of the band decided to form the Tom Tom Club so they could continue with it. (At least, that's the story I heard.) I discovered this song, "The Great Curve", on a mix CD made for me by JJ back in college. What I didn't realize about it till I was playing it on the radio is that it's about 6½ minutes long. But it's an awesome song.
The Fiery Furnaces are known for some pretty quirky work, but this song, "Tropical/Iceland", really sounds to me like a remake of something from the fifties. It's got a good light pop sound to it, overlaid with a new indie rock sound — a combination that creates that cover song sound.
There's a lot to say about CocoRosie, but I don't have it together yet. I'll have to listen more. Everything I've heard from them so far is interesting but bizarre.
*: new stuff
(r): requests
| artist | song/album | label |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees | Peek-A-Boo (Silver Dollar Mix) / The Best of Siouxsie and the Banshees | Polydor UK |
| Grandmaster Flash | The Message / The Message | Sakharis |
| *Jarvis Cocker | Black Magic / The Jarvis Cocker Record | Rought Trade |
| *Kaspar Hauser | Glass Case Full of Dead, Stuffed Birds / Quixotic/Taxidermy | Backwardmasking |
| Fiery Furnaces | Tropical/Iceland / EP | Rough Trade |
| Stephin Merritt | Ukelele Me! / Showtunes | Nonesuch |
| *Air | Left Bank / Pocket Symphony | Astralwerks |
| Nouvelle Vague | Bela Lugosi's Dead / Bande A Parte | Luaka Bop |
| *Joakim | Lonely Hearts / Monster's and Silly Songs | IK7 |
| The Aluminum Group | Angel on a Trampoline / Plano | Wishing Tree |
| The Revelons | The Way (you touch my hand) / Anthology | Sepia Tone |
| *CocoRosie | Japan / The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn | Touch and Go |
| Martha Wainwright | How Soon / Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole | Zoë |
| The Talking Heads | The Great Curve / Remain in Light | Sire |
| *Tinariwen | Cler Achel / Aman Iman: Water is Life | World Village |
| *LCD Soundsystem | Us V Them / Sound of Silver | DFA/Capitol |
| The M's | Plan of Man/Future Women | Polyvinyl |
| *The Arcade Fire | The Well and the Lighthouse / Neon Bible | Merge |
| Gore Gore Girls | Mary Ann / 7x4 | Self released |
| Magnolia Electric Company | Don't Fade on Me / Fading Trail | Secretly Canadian |
| Hank Williams | Long Gone Lonesome Blues / 40 Greatest Hits | Polydor |
| Velma Perkins | I'll Always Love You / Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation | Numero Group |
| Antony and the Johnsons | You Are My Sister / I Am a Bird Now | Secretly Canadian |
| *Ted Leo and the Pharmacists | The Sons of Cain / Living with the Living | Touch and Go |
| The Judybats | Margot Known as Missy / Down in the Shacks Where the Satellite Dishes Grow | Sire |
posted by Tony at 11:52 AM
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