2009-01-31

Kinnie Starr - Grandma's Bicycle


Artist: Kinnie Starr

Song: Grandma’s Bicycle

Album: Tidy (1997)

 

Kinnie Starr is a Canadian singer-songwriter from CalgaryAlberta. Her music, which blendship hop and alternative rock, has been described as "hip hop aggro groove".

Starr is vocal about her Aboriginal heritage (her father, Michael Starr, is mixed-blood Mohawk) both in her music and her life.

 

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Fourty days and fourty nights
Have gone by without a bird in sight
Can't believe the emptyness of the sky
Can't believe the fumes of the cars
As they pass you by
On the road to feed her all the seed of gra...
Of your grandma's bicycle
Grandma's bicycle

The soft feathers in the street
Just precide the sidewalk
For some mad weed into an early street
Down down down to pick 'em up
Put 'em in his pocket I followed him
About a, about a block
And inside he goes into the nearest stewartist shop

Goes like an indian, the feathers he sold
Then made some small coin and laughed at my face
When he told me what he told them
When he told me what he told them, he said:
"I am through with this old damn world
and its overwhelming bad taste"
"I am through with this old damn world
and its overwhelming bad taste"
"I am through with this old damn world
and its overwhelming bad taste"
"I am through with this old damn world
and its overwhelming bad taste"

And then he told me:
"The star below your eyes,
You behave yourself and keep an open mind
The streets are full of treasures
And you can always find traces of birds
The lovellyness they leave behind
I'm not the soar with them
We are the same kind
Then many waved goodbye
Floated up above the cloud line"

Waved goodbye floated up above the cloud line
Waved goodbye floated up above the cloud line
We waved goodbye floated up above the cloud line

Fourty days and fourty nights
Have gone by without a bird in sight
Can't believe the emptyness of the sky
Can't believe the fumes of the cars
As they pass you by
On the road to feed her all the seed of gra...
Of your grandma's bicycle
Grandma's bicycle

2009-01-29

Belle & Sebastien - I Could Be Dreaming


Artist: Belle & Sebastien

Song: I Could Be Dreaming

Album: Tigermilk (1996)

 

Belle & Sebastian know your anguish, certainly, and in turn offer you just the right recipe for sublime transcendental cravings. Listen to "I Could Be Dreaming" for instance...it has perhaps the most complex production of any song on the album, with instruments, mixings, and overdubs weaving a textured backdrop that fits seamlessly with the suggestive lyrics presented in a rambling, stream of conscious fashion so as to evoke our inner most desires -- those sames ones strangled by daily inhibitions, only to awaken during our reveries.

 

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I could have ordinary people chasing me from town to town
Mission impossible
They've got a spy for every blink of your eye

I’m feeling hunted
I’m feeling haunted
Theyve got a knife for every time you take the same train into work
A familys like a loaded gun
You point it in the wrong direction someones going to get killed

If you had such a dream
Would you get up and do the things youve been dreaming

Is he your husband?
Or just your boyfriend?
Is he the moron whos been beating you and keeping you inside?
Ive never done this kind of thing
But if I kill him now, whos going to miss him?

I went up to the school
I went up castlehill
For every step there is a local boy who wants to be a hero
Do you want to do it now?
Outside the butchers with a knife and a bike chain.

 

2009-01-26

Boards Of Canada - Happy Cycling


Artist: Boards Of Canada

Song: Happy Cycling

Album: Music Has the Right to Children  (1998)

 

"Happy Cycling" – 7:51 was included only on 1998 U.S. Matador release, on Peel Session EP 21/07/1998  and 2004 Warp album re-release. It’s an electronica instrumental song a bit repetitive and meandering.

 

The album “Music Has the Right to Children” has been successful:

n. 35 Pitchfork Media's Top Albums of the 90s

n. 91 Mojo Magazine's Top 100 Albums from 1993 to 2006

 

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2009-01-25

The Fiery Furnaces - Benton Harbor Blues


Artist: The Fiery Furnaces

Song: Benton Harbor Blues

Album: Bitter Tea (2006)

 

The Fiery Furnaces are a U.S. indie rock band formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 2000. The band's primary members are Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger.

Bitter Tea contains several instances of backmasking throughout. The backmasked parts in “Benton Harbor Blues” – single only available as a digital download - are gibberish phrases played backward and forward simultaneously, so it sounds the same when played backwards and forwards.

"Benton Harbor Blues", particular in its second mix, which omits a meandering two-minute intro, shows how effortlessly Matt Friedberger can come up with a simple, breezy, and likeable pop tune when so inclined. If Fiery Furnaces wanted a shortcut to a larger audience, this track points the way.

(…) "Benton Harbor Blues" is nearly as good, successfully branching out to a Motown groove - and its uncluttered remix at disc's end further ups the ante, providing a clarity approaching the amazing Single Again EP  (…).

"Benton Harbor Blues" comes in two versions here: the difficult version with weird noises and sonic digressions taking you away from the major-key melody. (Major key? Yes, for once). Then there's the three-minute pop radio version of it at the end. Believe it or not, this latter version of the song wouldn't even sound all that out of place on your local Adult Contemporary station. (Shudder? Not really). With "Benton Harbor Blues" it seems the FF's are grabbing their legacy. Eleanor sounds somewhat sentimental and troubled like Karen Carpenter. (As she often does, actually: "As I try to fill all of my empty days,/ I stumble round on through my memory's maze:/ of all my past, only the sadness stays"). There are often nostalgic lines like this in FF songs, but they are hardly ever backed by this kind of mellow groove, as they are on the last version.

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As I try to fill all of my empty days,
I stumble round on through my memory's maze;
of all my past, only the sadness stays.

I went moping down by the bridge;
I rode a bike in the snow to the mini-mart;
I thought of the ways that I've broke my own heart.

It's not for me to fill the blue sea with tears,
but when I think back on all the wasted years
all the good cheer and all the charm disappears.

I wore the exact same clothes for five days;
the bailbondsman gave me a smile;
I was thinking of only my sins all the while.

As I try to fill all of my empty days,
I stumble round on through my memory's maze;
of all my past, only the sadness stays

2009-01-24

Early B. - Bicycle Bicycle, Wheely Wheely












Artist: Early B.

Songs: Bicycle Bicycle, Wheely Wheely

Album: Wheely Wheely  (1985, single 1983)

Earlando Arrington Neil, better known by his stage name Early B., was an early dancehall and reggae deejay whose lyrics had a cultural bent, noted mainly in his hits Visit of King Selassie, History of Jamaica and Wheely Wheely, the latter an ode to bicycle-riding in Jamaica.

Early performed throughout the US & England, as well as Jamaica, until 1994, when he was tragically killed while onstage by a firearm inside the Windsor Cricket Club in Massachusetts.The dance was put on by Rasta deejay and close friend Brigadier Jerry, featuring Jah Love Muzik, the Twelve Tribes of Israel sound system from Jamaica.While rumors have circulated as to the reasoning behind the murder, his killers have never been found.

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Bicycle Bicycle

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Bicycle Bicycle

 

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2009-01-23

Kate & Anna McGarrigle - The Bike Song


Artist: Kate & Anna McGarrigle

Song: The Bike Song

Album: Matapedia (1996)

about “Matapèdia

Hard to believe it's been 20 years since the first McGarrigle album. Maybe it's because they've always floated so much on the fringe of things--not quite folk, not quite country, not quite fitting into any pigeonhole beyond lovely songwriting, harmonies, and singing. And now they're at it again with Matapedia, which includes the gorgeous "Goin' Back to Harlan" (recently covered by Emmylou), and tales of lives going by. This is the kind of music that should be made by (some) mature adults--thoughtful, often introspective, but with a joy in the passage of time. All the musical crap that seems to dog so much that's tagged as "adult"--which you could also call easy listening--has been filtered out by quality control, leaving arrangements that are lean, often sparse, and muscular, hitting middle age without any flab showing, but synapses still clicking furiously. Oh yes, and it's the perfect choice for those rainy fall days. --Chris Nickson

 

Matapedia is arguably the girls' finest album, it's more masterful than their classic debut although it lacks that album's iconoclastic & legendary status. It's a well-performed and conceived album and it's pervasive mood is one of autumnal reflection. Aside from the smooth production and that shimmering twilight mood, the best thing about Matapedia is that both Anna & Kate are in top form as songwriters. Anna's closing 'Bike Song' is the most pointed example of the autumnal & twilight mood that pervades the album (…)

 

(…) "The Bike Song" also looks at relationships from an almost weary perspective, asking an age old question: "What is it that I had to be / To make you fall in love with me." The mellow chime-like melody is a sharp contrast to the lyrics, and the song seems to tie the CD together.

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All those lovely nights
I flirted with the stars
Was it all for nought
For nothing was gained

Brightest heavenly body
After Father Sun
That great big Moon
Is my ball and chain

So what if the sky's on fire
If another damned day's gone by
What is it that I had to be
To make you fall in love with me
To make you fall in love with me

In matters of the heart
I radio the truth
Depending on the stars
To shine and comply

But where are you my mother
Why won't you turn full-face
Shine down upon your daughter
Now that she's crying

So what if the sky's on fire
If another damned day's gone by
What is it that I had to be
To make you fall in love with me
To make you fall in love with me

So what if the sky's on fire
If another damned day's gone by
What is it that I had to be
To make you fall in love with me
To make you fall in love with me

2009-01-22

Cornell Campbell - Natty Dread Anthology


Artist: Cornell Campbell

Album: Natty Dread - Anthology  (2005)

 

Cornell Campbell aka Don Cornell or Don Gorgon (born 23 November 1945, Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae singer, best known for his falsetto voice, and his recordings at Studio One in the late 1960s and his work with Bunny Lee in the 1970s.

Cornell Campbell is Jamaica's answer to Curtis Mayfield. Most comprehensive collection of the singer's output ever released.

Wicked anthology of one of the sweetest voices in reggae riding some of the tuffest riddims! The essential Cornell Campbell is all here.

A great compilation for those who are new to his music and collectors. Disc one is a compilation of his 70's hits and disc two is a collection of the 80's songs. Most of those tracks are produced by Bunny Lee so the quality is guaranteed. 
I wouldn't call Cornel Campbell, a competition to Bob Marley or even close, but this CD collection is a must have For all Reggae fans.

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2009-01-21

The Smiths - Back To The Old House


Artist: The Smiths

Song: Back To The Old House

Album: Hatful of Hollow (1984), Louder Than Bombs (1987)

 

The Smiths released their second album, Hatful Of Hollow, in November of 1984. The album is basically a compilation, consisting of two BBC sessions (John Peel, 9/21/83 and 4/7/83), as well as singles released from the previous album and unreleased tracks. The album is worth it simply because of guitarist Johnny Marr's stunning guitar work alone.

Back To The Old House is an acoustic piece with melancholy guitars and vocals; it was published in 1984: is the B-Side of "What Difference Does It Make". You will find this song better than the original album version due to Marr's guitar and Morrissey's lyrics.

Slight, sober and simple yet highly evocative lyrics for this song. Going back with his thoughts and feelings, the protagonist (almost certainly Morrissey himself) struggles to resist the nostalgic temptation to revisit one's past locale, a house where he once lived and fell in love for the first time.

 

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The Smiths tend to be thought of as a band one grows out of--music you listened to as a depressed adolescent and then abandoned when you overcame it all. Such a notion denies them their place in the rock pantheon, not only as an inspiration to countless indie-rock outfits but also as the band that challenged the received wisdom of rock & roll machismo. Fronted by the fey, sexually ambiguous Steven Patrick Morrissey, who married painfully honest lyrics--almost embarrassing in their self-effacement--with arch humor and a melancholic delivery, the British band was quite an anomaly to an America still emerging from the bloated-rock tyranny of the likes of Journey and REO Speedwagon. Hatful of Hollow, released as an import in 1984 and domestically in 1993, is a collection of singles, many recorded live for various radio shows. More-muscular versions of most of the tracks here can be found on the collection Louder Than Bombs, but Hatful has a vitality to it that the studio-bound, somewhat antiseptic Bombs lacks. Check out Johnny Marr's delicate acoustic guitar on the aching "Back to the Old House" or the band's looser workouts of such now-classics as "This Charming Man" and "Still Ill." (...) Steve Landau

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I would rather not go
Back to the old house
I would rather not go
Back to the old house
There's too many
Bad memories
Too many memories
There ...
There ...
There ...

When you cycled by
Here began all my dreams
The saddest thing I've ever seen
And you never knew
How much I really liked you
Because I never even told you
Oh, and I meant to

Are you still there ?
Or ... have you moved away ?
Or have you moved away ?
Oh ...

I would love to go
Back to the old house
But I never will
I never will ...
I never will ...
I never will ... 


2009-01-19

Butthole Surfers - Dracula From Houston


Artist: Butthole Surfers

Song: Dracula From Houston

Album: Weird Revolution (1998)

 

"Dracula From Houston" is a song by American alternative rock band Butthole Surfers, from their 2001 album Weird Revolution.

Some copies of the album came with holographic jewel cases with the baby's limbs moving and shooting a beam at other planes on the cover.

Weird Revolution stands as Butthole Surfers' dance and rap album. 

(…) All the album's songs sound the same, but each is a well-crafted and cynically calculated collage, and the multitude of sonic events helps forget/forgive the utter triviality of the exercise. 

(…) The derivative element is embarrassing/captivating in Dracula From Houston, that opens quoting the guitar line from the Velvet Underground's Sweet Jane, and then soars in an exuberant, Brit-poppy chorus that beats the Oasis at their own game. Haines' spoken rhymes may sound monotonous, but the backing vocals are infectious and the harmonies even intricate. 

The song is featured on the soundtrack of the TV series "Scrubs". It also appears in the movie and soundtrack of Step Into Liquid.

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Got no future and a great big past
Little bitty guy on the rim of my glass
Gotta meet the plane so I can get my monkey
Teach him to be cool but a little bit funky
Got no credit and I got no fear
Got about a buck, so I can buy a beer
Gotta see a doctor about the words that I said
Gotta get a bike and I gotta paint it red

(Chorus 1)
Oh no, we gotta go
We're not goin' to live forever
Why, why, we gotta die
You know that we'll be together
Hey, hey, we gotta say
I could never be a saviour
You don't have to be there
'Coz I'm never, never, never coming home

Three feet deep in a slow motion wreck
I was walkin' the walk an' I was talkin' to the best
I was wrinkled an' shriveled an' steppin' out of line
Playin' the end against the middle an' losin' every time
I was veinious an' heinious an' cripple an' sad
Thought I was invincible, the baddest of the bad
Then I woke up one mornin' and stepped out of bed
Had to get a bike. Had to paint it red

(Chorus 2)
Oh no, we gotta go
We're not goin' to live forever
Why, why, we gotta die
You know that we'll be together
Hey, hey, we gotta say
I could never be a saviour
An' I know that you'll miss me
'Coz I'm never, never, never coming home

Crazy (I'm crazed, I want to tell you about it) (x5)

(Chorus 1)

Staring at disbelief out at the gloom
I was forced with remorse to learn the bassoon
I got real good in about six years
Started playing around for a couple of beers
Then one day I was playing at the gig
An' in walked the monkey with a couple of funky friends
He came right over an' said "this is what you do"
"You're gonna get a bike. You're gonna paint it blue."

Ahhhh

 

2009-01-18

Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place


Artist: Radiohead

Song: Jigsaw Falling Into Place

Album: In Rainbows (2008)

 

Jigsaw Falling Into Place was released as the first single from In Rainbows on  14 .01.08, following  the album's "standard" physical release on December 31, 2007, the song was previously known as "Open Pick", a title it was given provisionally when it was performed during Radiohead's 2006 tour.

A bit of an upbeat number, it comes off lyrically as a cautionary tale and, despite being written years later, a companion piece to "Nude", and despite seeming like a natural crowdpleaser was among the In Rainbows songs least-often performed live in 2006.

Key lyric: "As the magic disappears/ No longer wound up like a spring/ Before you've had too much/ Come back and focus again" (Pitchfork)

The lyrics talks about the fears and emotions of two people who experience their first meeting.

"Jigsaw Falling into Place" is about a set of observations and different experiences, partly of the chaos witnessed by Yorke when he used to go out on the weekend in Oxford. Yorke said "The lyrics are quite caustic—the idea of 'before you're comatose' or whatever, drinking yourself into oblivion and getting fucked-up to forget ... [there] is partly this elation. But there's a much darker side”  Marshall, Julian (2007-12-08). "Rainbow Warriors" NME 

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The black-and-white music video features the five members of Radiohead playing the song in a room with footage taken using "head cams" (the cameras are attached to the helmets). The video was directed by Adam Buxton and Garth Jennings. It was uploaded to the band's new YouTube page on  28.11.07. It is the first Radiohead video to feature the whole band since 2000's "Idioteque" video, and the first video for a single to feature the whole band since 1996's "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" video, though the 1997 video for "Paranoid Android" did feature an animated cameo from the band.

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Just as you take my hand
Just as you write my number down
Just as the drinks arrive
Just as they play your favourite song
As the magic disappears
No longer wound up like a spring
Before you’ve had too much
Come back and focus again

The walls abandon shape
You’ve got a cheshire cat grin
All blurring into one
This place is on a mission
Before the night owl
Before the animal noises
Closed circuit cameras
Before you’re comatose

Before you run away from me
Before you’re lost between the notes
The beat goes round and round
The beat goes round and round
I never really got there
I just pretended that I had

What’s the point of instruments
Words are a sawed off shotgun

Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out

Before you run away from me
Before you’re lost between the notes
Just as you take the mic
Just as you dance, dance, dance

Jigsaws falling into place
There is nothing to explain
Regard each other as you pass
She looks back, you look back
Not just once
Not just twice
Wish away the nightmare
Wish away the nightmare
You’ve got a light you can feel it on your back
You’ve got a light you can feel it on your back
Jigsaws falling into place

2009-01-17

Sage Francis - Crumble


Artist: Sage Francis

Song: Crumble

Album: A Healthy Distrust  (2005)

 

Sage Francis is one of the most controversial, gifted, and innovative MCs today. For nearly a decade, his relentless DIY approach--equal parts eloquent poet and vicious MC--brings a style that smashes genre boundaries. His music is rooted in classic hip-hop, but he comes across like an amalgam of Dylan, Lou Reed, Chuck D, and George Carlin. Introspective but aggressive, politically incisive but funny as hell, "A Healthy Distrust" is Sage's first Epitaph release. Eclectic and complex. Features collaborations with Will Oldham, Saul Williams, Danger Mouse, Alias, and Joe Beats.

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They've said it every year but this times it seems like
The end is near and i'm in line to see the light
How far does this black tunnel go
I got a car but the gas is running low
And as long as i've known the bumps and creeks of this house
It's starting to make the types of sounds that only comes from people's mouths
You cant tell me it's still settling
Built on an indian burial ground killing everything
The childhood scar on my chin is back again
That old jump over my own leg dance move has to end
I've seen better days in my night terrors
I was a bike messenger without a bike and i would write letters
Ask directions TO YOUR whereabouts
Before the slow walk the rest of the show-offs were pealing out
To many hares only one TORTOISE
Thats why I left this city, toO fast paced for this HO-HUM TOURIST
By the time i developed the pictures
They're as blurry as my memory of constant life fixtures
If distance is a girl's best friend
Tell them bitches in the rough who think that love comes with DIAMONDS
Slave labor, you made me work for what I couldnt have
Diamonds cut, BUT coal burns and nothing lasts forever
wonder why I bothered saving any of your letters,they're just aged paper
Crumble
Slave labour, you made me work for what I couldnt have
Diamonds cut, but coal burns and nothing lasts
Wonder why I saved your urn of ashes

I've got an insecurity box for your mail
Tracing the name on the return adress as if it was made of braille
Pretended it was your finger but careful to not break a nail
The one that sealed the coffin shut. When it opened caused a paper trail
But since then I buried your dead sea scrolls
And emptied my head of these old trivial memories that i seem to hold
Now you're a foot note with cement shoes
In case you wonder what that sinking feeling has been ever since I left you

2009-01-16

Morrissey - Such A Little Thing Makes Such A Big Difference


Artist: Morrissey

Song: Such A Little Thing Makes Such A Big Difference

Album: Interesting Drug (ep, 1989), Bona Drag (1990)

 

Interesting Drug was the fourth solo single released by Morrissey.

Bona Drag is a compilation album by Morrissey released on October 25, 1990. The album features an array of Morrissey's most popular songs from his early solo career, most of which had not been released on any previous album. The album name meaning nice outfit is an example of the subculture slang Polari explored further on the album's first track "Piccadilly Palare". The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on 06/12/2000.

One of the less well-liked B-sides from Morrissey's first few solo singles, it stands up as a good tune backed by ironic and slightly bizarre lyrics.
Live, Morrissey turned a line on its head, proclaiming "How I love all of the complicated things of life". He has also never sung the final amusing verse at a live performance.

This song is probably referring to the incident where the British police "investigated" Morrissey in the wake of "Margaret On The Guillotine".

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A little thing

Such a little thing
But the difference it made was grave
There you go
Wielding a bicycle chain
Oh why won't you change?
Change and be nicer?
Such a little thing
A gentle tone of kindness
Or written words on paper - can you write?
How I love all of
The very simple things of life
(God's good air)
How I love all of
The very simple things of life
Such a little thing
A fumbling politeness
Oh the difference saved me
Wielding a bicycle chain
Why won't you change?
"I WILL NOT CHANGE
AND I WILL NOT BE NICE"
Most people keep their brains
Between their legs
(Don't you find?)

Leave me alone, I was only singing
Leave me alone because I
Was only singing
Leave me alone, I was only singing
Leave me alone
You have just proved again
MOST PEOPLE KEEP THEIR BRAINS
BETWEEN THEIR LEGS

 

 

 

2009-01-15

The Smiths - This Charming Man


Artist: The Smiths

Song: This Charming Man

Album: This Charming Man (1983, single), Hatful of Hollow (1984)

 

Morrissey declared that this song "refers to a low-life street character. I'm sure there are worse things that you could be rather than a jumped-up pantry boy, but it just seemed very rhythmical at the time." Talking to NME in 1984 he also claimed that the scene depicted by (1) were based upon his own experiences: "I found that on those very rare occasions when I did get invited anywhere, I would constantly sit down and say: 'Good heavens, I couldn't possibly go to this place tonight because I don't have any clothes... I don't have any shoes.' So I'd miss out on all those foul parties. It was really quite a blessing in disguise."

It is undeniable the reference to a specific homosexual scenario, even though Morrissey once stated: "Really it was just a collection of lines that were very important. They seemed to stitch themselves perfectly under the umbrella of This Charming Man."

According to a bisexual reading: "The punctured bicycle symbolizes our protagonist's bisexuality. It is punctured because his attraction to men has been repressed up to now. The desolate hillside represents the state of general unhappiness of his life. He is confused and asks 'Will nature make a man of me yet?' because he wishes to fit into our society's popular perception of what it is to be a 'man' (macho, heterosexual, etc.) but knows deep down that he cannot.

The charming man in the charming car is the sexual breakthrough our protagonist has been hoping for. The driver is the ultimate gay icon and comforts our protagonist by telling him not to 'pamper life's complexities' and to join him in the exiting bisexual lifestyle he should be leading. Immediately on entering the world of liberated sexuality, our protagonist feels free to dicuss his worries about appearance ('I would go out tonight...') and flirts openly with the driver of the car. The driver suggests his passenger forgets about the previously punctured side of his sexuality ('return the ring') and our protagonist is confident in the wisdom of this ultimate gay man ('he knows so much about these things').
The overall impression is that of hope for the triumph of human sexuality over the repression of our culture."

From "The World of Morrissey"   

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Punctured bicycle

On a hillside desolate
Will Nature make a man of me yet?
When in this charming car
This charming man
Why pamper life's complexities
When the leather runs smooth
On the passenger seat?

I would go out tonight
But I haven't got a stich to wear1
This man said: "It's gruesome
That someone so handsome should care"

A jumped-up pantry boy2
Who never knew his place
He said: "Return the ring"
He knows so much about these things

He knows so much about these things

I would go out tonight
But I haven't got a stich to wear
This man said: "It's gruesome
That someone so handsome should care"

This charming man

A jumped-up pantry boy
Who never knew his place
He said: "Return the ring"
He knows so much about these things

He knows so much about these things

 

1 This line comes from A taste of honey by Shelagh Delaney: 'I haven't got any clothes to wear for one thing'.

2 This is a reference to Sleuth, a movie starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine and scripted by Anthony Shaffer. In a dialogue Olivier accuses Caine at gunpoint to be 'a jumped-up pantry boy who doesn't know his place'.

2009-01-14

Boud Deun - Broken Spokes


Artist: Boud Deun

Song: Broken Spokes

Album: The Stolen Bicycles (1998)

Formed in 1994 in Warrenton, Va., the instrumental quartet Boud Deun has built a reputation for its virtuoso playing and spirited live performances. The group attracts listeners of all ages and interests. Boud Deun's music reflects rapid-fire playing reminiscent of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, the lyricism of the Dixie Dregs and the dark angularity of King Crimson, but one can also hear punk, bluegrass and classical elements. 

Guitarist and composer Shawn Persinger graduated from the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, Calif. in 1992. His influences include Leo Kottke, AC/DC's Angus Young and John McLaughlin. Bassist and composer Matt Eiland played saxophone as a child, switching to bass guitar at age 15. He played in Weak Old Rice, a DC-area metal fusion band, in 1991-1992. He is a jazz studies major at the Shenandoah University Music Conservatory.
Violinist Greg Hiser studied from 1985 to 1987 with Andrej Grabier, Concert Master of the Wichita Symphony. He has performed around Washington, DC with bluegrass bands New Mountain and Virginia and the Blue Dots. Drummer Rocky Cancelose has studied at the Drummers Collective in New York City.
The group released Fiction & Several Days on its own E.H.P. label in late 1995. Cuneiform issued Astronomy Made Easy in 1997. A General Observation: The Live Album was released in 1998 on E.H.P., as was The Stolen Bicycle on Cuneiform. ~ Jim Dorsch, All Music Guide

The Stolen Bicycle, their 2nd Cuneiform release, is simply their best yet. The playing is as sharp & superb as ever, while the compositions [which includes their 38 minute/16 part "Churches"] are ever-more notable and intriguing. I don't want to be accused of over-loading the hype machine, but without any prompting, I have heard them called the best band in America many times, & it's kinda hard to to say much beyond that

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2009-01-13

Enzo Jannacci - Bartali


Artist: Enzo Jannacci

Song: Bartali

Album: Fotoricordo (1979)

 

E lì si gusta questo brano perfetto e coraggioso, questo testo che solo una personalità immensa come Conte può permettersi di scrivere a cantare senza ritrovarsi femministe armate davanti al cancello di casa. Questa canzone che Jannacci nell'antichità ha portato al successo come interprete e Conte, in un'antichità solo un poco più recente, ha riesumato perfettamente come autore. Questa canzone che oggi li vede lì entrambi quasi a servirla. Quasi sia lei, oggi, a fare un piacere a loro. Algida e vera, e immutata nel fondo, a lasciarsi cantare dai migliori che l'abbian mai cantata.

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altre cover:

Bruno Lauzi – dall’album “Alla Grande” (1978)

Pierangelo Bertoli – dall’album “Canzone d’Autore” (1979)

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