historicrocker

I apologise if everyone actually knows of them. I'm am slightly behind in terms of music.

This band is wonderful. I insist upon people looking them up...

mondo-nyc: American (Indie)Pop

"Where'd You Go?" reminds me particularly of Tilly and the Wall. Really just brilliant.

No that's okay they've replied now.

Tell me when your slot is if you get one. I am very interested to hear what you'll play.

I sent them two emails asking for a show, and they didn't get back to me. Which is a shame, as I have a really good taste in music.

Do you want me to have a word? We'll be doing later shows and I can go in and ask tomorrow...

"The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter" by Josh Ritter is quite something.

There are quite a few shows that have been quite interesting. It's certainly going to be eclectic. I have a 1pm- 3pm slot on Thursday and it's quite eclectic. I can't say I play anything in particular, mostly Frank Sinatra and some string-related pop bands. But if you are interested me and my friend have a lot of fun doing it even if we do ramble a little. We also do (reasonable) requests.

I reviewed a promo of Fionn Regan's "Be Good Or Be Gone" which I really quite liked. Wonderful lyrics as well.

Don't get me wrong, the Tom Waits original is far better and I will never tire of it. Norah Jones just has a lovely voice though. As for Katie Melua's Lilac Wine; I don't think it makes me feel half as lonesome as Jeff Buckley's version.

Inspired by the Pavarotti thread.....

Are there any covers as bad as Madonna's truly horrible version of "American Pie"?

I would like to draw your attention to Katie Melua's cover of "Lilac Wine".....

Girl Aloud's "I Think We're Alone Now" has to be up there.....

Will Young and Gareth Gates warbling version of "The Long And Winding Road".....

in fact, has there ever been a good Beatles cover?

David Bowie's weird and wonderful version of "Alabama Song" is almost unlistenable....

Lets hear your thoughts.

I quite like Katie Melua's cover in fact. I'd put her aside Norah Jones in her success in transforming something quite lonesome into something better. Norah Jones' "The Long Way Home" I might even prefer to the Tom Waits version from time to time.

Nobody can really dispute Shatner's cover of Common People.

I have lots of favourites but at the moment both of my favourites are by Camera Obscura. Their cover of Abba's Super Trouper is absolutely heartbreaking genius, and their cover of Sheena Easton's Modern Girl is a piece of brilliant Indie-Pop female empowerment. I may never have children because I will never love them as much as I love Camera Obscura.

Certainly agree with you there. I've been listening to a lot more ABBA these days as a result. And they really are a forgotten treasure. My favourite recent covers are the Magnetic Fields "Born on a Train" when it was covered by the Arcade Fire and "Leaving on a Jet Plane" by Ani DiFranco. I really am inclined to disagree with the person who claims the Arcade Fire's cover wasn't a patch on the old song. It trully is something wonderful.

Oh, I better be off again.

Whilst I was cleaning the hob in the kitchen I wondered how it would seem less like I was agreeing with you and more like I was sticking to my original comment. I was meaning in my initial post how the music industry is quite opportunistic and when the general pop music sound gets too grating and something new breaks through (consider how little albums like Up The Bracket and Funeral originally sold under the Rough Trade label), then their reputations received massive and resounding response several years later. The music industry is not solely record companies, but the industries that help to promote record companies as well, including big time magazines and television shows. All I was trying to say is how over time something manages to come along (like a film like Napoleon Dynamite in terms of film) that is not so ordinary and gets everybody buzzing around it. And it may have been that before then there was not a little dedication but very sincere at that in following these not so popular items of culture. I used the Funeral example because it seemed like everybody would understand quite what I meant.

I suppose.

This is a convoluted part which tends to mean (depending on how I'm feeling when I explain) that I didn't quite like Fevers and Mirrors half as much as everybody else I gave it to did. It was suprising though, because everybody makes the mistake of thinking that the music that they listen to is so intimately kept aside that a wide scale of popularity would be quite unexpected. That's what I meant, although it was put pretty basically and I can't say I was going out of my way to make much sense. I do like to think that everybody can enjoy a musician's work on some level, just like when I was watching my old flatmate watch an entire two hours of the Arcade Fire on television after me spending three years in the past enjoying them when they were not so well known. It was kind of satisfying, if patronising. The music industry seems to anticipate the exhaustive trends of pop music in order to make a big sell on an indie record and get massive credentials. I have no idea why I had to bring any of that up. Your comment must have made me first quite indignant and then argumentative. I don't know why they follow one another but they do.

My keyboard quit working for a while for who knows what reason, but I had a few thoughts during the process of mousing around my music library. I downloaded some of the new albums of this year, including Cassadaga by Bright Eyes and I thought I'd just say a few things.

Anyhow, this morning's been solely for enjoying Rilo Kiley's new album and I have to say despite all your (I mean generally) sell-out comments that are two a penny, this is to me the usual Rilo Kiley with a bright new twist. Less steeped in melancholy like the last few albums (though that was never such a bad thing), the new album allows the horns and vocals to fly through the clouds and have kept me bouncing on my bed all afternoon until I realised that the wood might break. Special mention must go to "Smoke Detector" which I think is fantastic since it less objectifies Jenny Lewis as this perfect image. She's just somebody looking for a good time and sometimes the blacklights and the smoky back areas in night clubs get to her. And it's fun, just really fun. I just like that the album is no longer fixated upon being somewhere and looking outside. It's being everywhere and looking all around. That's what it feels like, and it feels good. And Jenny's new country-esque vocals I think are trully lovely.

Bright Eyes, I love as well. I first listened to them in the form of Fevers and Mirrors which I made the surprising discovery would capture the attentions of the rest of my school entirely. I preferred I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning though. And I think that with Lua and Handle Me With Care on Jenny Lewis' solo album really inspired the new Cassadaga album. Spent many a time walking home listening to Four Winds and just remarking on how completely different all that sound is. And it's wonderful. Lime Tree is this beautiful and soothing piece, and none of the songs seem to keep you in one place, just let you float past and not get too involved in all the meaning. It's better like that.

I could go on but I thought I'd just toss all this up and out of my thoughts so that I can fall asleep more content.

Under The Blacklight by Rilo Kiley. Oh, I love it.

I haven't listened to any but the two Silver Lining and the Moneymaker. I will pick up my album tomorrow. So excited now.

Well if you have some place you want to go...

That sounds exhausting... But travelling is nice I suppose. So where can I get a hold of a ticket for this show? I bet it's sold out. It'd be just my luck..

I miss Caribou. I think we should write a letter for them to come back one more time.

Other than that I would like to see a show featuring Montmartre. That would be nice.

Has anyone been buying music by pop artists, out of curiosity? Or maybe an interesting score or something...?

Let me see,

I bought "Autumn Song" by the Manic Street Preachers, which was brilliant, Modest Mouse' "Building Nothing Out of Something" and "Adhils Aboretum" by of Montreal.

As for the music on the radio, I quite like it.

Ahh, I haven't been here in a while, but I seem to find some level of magnetism in your posts, so I'll have to write something. I didn't like the Moneymaker for a while then I realised just last week how completely different and entirely colourful and new everything is. As for the rest of what I've heard it's not so different from before but still has this refined quality which always gives a new dimension to Rilo Kiley's new releases. So I'm happy to be quite fond of this new Rilo Kiley, though their new sound might be a little more lustful and dark than before. And any word of a tour would be music to my ears.

i think the arcade fire are a band who are great at what they do and can't really be criticised. ain't never heard anybody cover a talking heads song like them and i won't accept some criticism from somebody who likes kylie minogue or heavy metal because it's not their field. how's that for a slice of justice? i like kylie minogue and heavy metal, actually. just not as much. just can't be fecked with people discussing something like this.