Me and My Mistress the Princess - 4/25 show

I finally got the Zerostars new album, Basement Stories — hot off the presses, I might add. I've been looking forward to it, and it does not disappoint. There are some great new tunes on it; I particularly like the moody, folky "Family Tree", which is something of a departure for them. The song I played today is more in their usual style, which is power-pop leaning toward chamber-pop. The song ("Uptown") also feature a great rock-out break toward the end.

Next week is my sister's birthday, so I played a song for her today — The Kinks' "Come Dancing". It's a song we both loved in the 80's. It's also a song written about an older sister, from the point of view of a younger brother, and it's probably partly for this reason that the song will forever be linked in my mind with my sister. She listened to my show on the internet today, so she could hear the song (she knew I was playing something, but she didn't know what). It was the perfect song.

It made me try to think about other songs about siblings. Yoko Ono's "Sisters" is more about metaphorical sisters — women in general. Juliana Hatfield's "My Sister" is a good example of a song about siblings, as is Kate Bush's "The Kick Inside" (though it's best not to think too hard about the meaning of that Kate Bush song). The Mortal Coil covered a song called "You and Your Sister", though it's more of a love song, incidentally mentioning a sister. Aside from "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (covered excellently by Rufus Wainwright on the Zoolander soundtrack), I can't think of another song about a brother, though I'm sure there are some.

Any suggestions?

Meanwhile, my playlist:

*: new stuff
(r): requests

artist	song	album	label
Rufus Wainwright	Foolish Love	Rufus Wainwright	Dream Works
The Aluminum Group	Post It	Little Happyness	Minty Fresh
*She & Him	I Was Made for You	Volume One	Merge
*DeVotchKa	Along the Way	A Mad and Faithful Telling	Anti-
*The Heavy	Brukpocket's Lament	Great Vengeance and Furious Fire	Counter
Chin Up Chin Up	The Architect Has a Gun	We Should Never Have Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers	Flameshovel
Kate Bush	The Infant Kiss	Never Forever	EMI Manhattan
*Elf Power	The New Mythology	In a Cave	Ryko
Nina Simone	My Baby Just Cares for Me	My Baby Just Cares for Me	Duchesse
Koop feat. Cecilia Stalin	Baby	Waltz for Koop	Quango
*The Kills	Getting Down	Midnight Boom	Red Meat
The Judybats	Being Simple	Pain Makes You Beautiful	Sire
The Kinks	Come Dancing	State of Confusion	Arista
Spanky Wilson & the Quantic Soul Orchestra	You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover	I'm Thankful	Tru Thoughts
Michelle Shocked	On the Greener Side	Mercury Poise: 1988-1995	Mercury
David Bowie	Fill Your Heart	Hunky Dory	Virgin
The Postal Service	We Will Become Silhouettes	Give Up
Camille	La douleur	Le fil	EMI
Neko Case	Soulful Shade of Blue	The Tigers Have Spoken	Anti-
*Why?	The Hollows	Alopecia	Anticon
*REM	Man-Sized Wreath	Accelerate	WB
Balkan Beat Box	Joro Boro	Nu Med	JDUB
*Haale	All These Miles	No Ceiling	Channel A
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir	Broken Front Teeth	Scotland Yard Gospel Choir	Bloodshot
Laurie Anderson	Baby Doll	Talk Normal (Anthology)	Rhino
(r)Wilco	Heavy Metal Drummer	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	Nonesuch
*Zerostars	Uptown	Basement Stories	Self-released (zerostars.com)
*Make Believe	Wearin' Torn	Going to the Bone Church	Flameshovel
The Husbands	You Know What Sadie?	There's Nothing I'd Like More Than to See You Dead	Swami
Bonde do Role	Solta o Frango	With Lasers	Domino/Mad Decent
Saint Etienne	Spring	Foxbase Alpha	Warner Brothers

Labels: music, playlists

posted by Tony at 8:46 PM