(source of the title)
Some posts are for downloading, some posts are for clicking on links. This one is for reading. I usually try to spare you all from my incoherent mumblings, this is an exception.
***Ben Kweller - Thirteen***
I can't remember when this song first got dropped on my head. I'd dismissed it as not up to standard on Ben Kweller's new self-titled album, it wasn't "Penny on the Train Track." I was walking, my mp3 player on random play, impatiently flipping through songs when "Thirteen" came along and I gave it a second chance.
Ben Kweller told a story, and it was mine. I'd had a rough break-up in March (this year) and ensuing complicated situations, then more feelings, more strangeness.
The summer was my escape, I jumped in a car and drove away, the mountains carried me to listlessness and I was free. Still phantom emotions hid in the opera house, even in my own thoughts I was never alone. Then it came, "We've been in the rain / we've been on the mountain / we've been round the fire."
And the truth, the simplicity: "We danced in the moonlight at midnight / we pressed against back doors and wooden floors / and you never faked it / And frequently / We ignored our love / But we could never mistake it..."
I believe in pianos; a piano never lies.
Buy Ben Kweller at eMusic or from his website
***Voxtrot - Real Live Version***
I've fallen in love again, but a song can't break your heart. The first few words, " Love, spread out like seeds / Somebody walked away from landscape poverty" are in the smell of rain, a piano struggles to play along. By the time Ramesh Srivastava gets to his last repetition of "And it turns around like you / And it turns around like me" the world is over, and I'm left on wet concrete, "...always struggling."
Buy Voxtrot from iTunes / eMusic
(I removed the other songs I had up here so I can write about them individually in a way that does them justice)
Some posts are for downloading, some posts are for clicking on links. This one is for reading. I usually try to spare you all from my incoherent mumblings, this is an exception.
***Ben Kweller - Thirteen***
I can't remember when this song first got dropped on my head. I'd dismissed it as not up to standard on Ben Kweller's new self-titled album, it wasn't "Penny on the Train Track." I was walking, my mp3 player on random play, impatiently flipping through songs when "Thirteen" came along and I gave it a second chance.
Ben Kweller told a story, and it was mine. I'd had a rough break-up in March (this year) and ensuing complicated situations, then more feelings, more strangeness.
The summer was my escape, I jumped in a car and drove away, the mountains carried me to listlessness and I was free. Still phantom emotions hid in the opera house, even in my own thoughts I was never alone. Then it came, "We've been in the rain / we've been on the mountain / we've been round the fire."
And the truth, the simplicity: "We danced in the moonlight at midnight / we pressed against back doors and wooden floors / and you never faked it / And frequently / We ignored our love / But we could never mistake it..."
I believe in pianos; a piano never lies.
Buy Ben Kweller at eMusic or from his website
***Voxtrot - Real Live Version***
I've fallen in love again, but a song can't break your heart. The first few words, " Love, spread out like seeds / Somebody walked away from landscape poverty" are in the smell of rain, a piano struggles to play along. By the time Ramesh Srivastava gets to his last repetition of "And it turns around like you / And it turns around like me" the world is over, and I'm left on wet concrete, "...always struggling."
Buy Voxtrot from iTunes / eMusic
(I removed the other songs I had up here so I can write about them individually in a way that does them justice)
Labels: Ben Kweller, song piece, Voxtrot
Voxtrot, Georgie James, whimpy Congressional Dems, etc.
3 Comments Published by Kate on Wednesday at 5/23/2007 10:53:00 AM.
Voxtrot's first album, self-titled and all, was finally released yesterday to a big collective blogger sigh, seeing how we've all been waiting for this album for about/over year now. Another sigh too, because it's not quite as brilliant as I'd hoped. But still pretty good.Voxtrot - Kid Gloves
Buy Voxtrot from Amazon.com
Just an FYI - They'll be heading to the Black Cat in DC on June 13th (more dates).
Meanwhile, the reason I'm back to posting again is that finals are over and I'm back in Virginia, though still working on unpacking.
Limbeck - Home (Is Where the Van Is) (download or die)
Georgie James, who have been looking for a record label for a few months now, finally settled on Saddle Creek, and changed the planned name of their album without telling anybody. Supposedly before it was "Hello" but now it's Places, and it'll be released in September.
Georgie James - Cake Parade (live)
Buy Georgie James records/singles from Dischord records
Their Website / Myspace
Ted Leo's got some more tour dates, the Little Ones have a new EP coming out with a new track "There's A Pot A Brewin" and some remixes.
A final music-related plee: someone, anyone, please stop by the Satellite Ballroom on your tour this summer.
More of the inside scoop on Giuliani from one of his former NYC admin officials; McCain goes at it with Romney. Hillary can't decide what U2 or KT Tunstall song she wants for her campaign.
Congressional Democrats are whimps and that's all I have to say about that.
Bonus: Wilco - Impossibly Germany
(for a friend who's out of the country at the moment and won't be reading this post)
Labels: Georgie James, Giuliani, Hillary, McCain, Romney, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Little Ones, Voxtrot, Wilco
I'm kidding. However, I do have one admission, which is that lately my obsession with politics has been skewing my writing about music (this is what happens when you don't have co-bloggers, if you're interested send me an e-mail - I'm serious). Needless to say, I'm attempting to correct this.
News-wise: We have the Easy Tiger tracklist! (Source)
01 Goodnight Rose
02 Two (ft. Sheryl Crow)
03 Everybody Knows
04 Halloweenhead
05 Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.
06 Tears of Gold
07 The Sun Also Sets
08 Off Broadway
09 Pearls on a String
10 Rip Off
11 Two Hearts
12 Three Girls
13 I Taught Myself How to Grow Old
Now, some of you folks out there may think Ryan Adams is a bit pretentious, but you can't deny that as far as songwriters go, he's got an astounding work ethic. The album will be released on June 26th.
Ryan Adams - Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. (live)
After some time off from recording, serious touring, it likes like Lauryn Hill
is getting back on track with some UK tour dates...maybe this means a new Fugees album? In the meantime, if you love The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, there's some potential that you might love her MTV Unplugged Recordings, which I'm a huge fan of.
Lauryn Hill - Adam Lives In Theory
Buy the album, seriously.
Meanwhile, Shameless Complacency has a nice collection of White Stripes b-sides posted.
BONUS: Voxtrot - Stephen
News-wise: We have the Easy Tiger tracklist! (Source)01 Goodnight Rose
02 Two (ft. Sheryl Crow)
03 Everybody Knows
04 Halloweenhead
05 Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.
06 Tears of Gold
07 The Sun Also Sets
08 Off Broadway
09 Pearls on a String
10 Rip Off
11 Two Hearts
12 Three Girls
13 I Taught Myself How to Grow Old
Now, some of you folks out there may think Ryan Adams is a bit pretentious, but you can't deny that as far as songwriters go, he's got an astounding work ethic. The album will be released on June 26th.
Ryan Adams - Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. (live)
After some time off from recording, serious touring, it likes like Lauryn Hill
is getting back on track with some UK tour dates...maybe this means a new Fugees album? In the meantime, if you love The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, there's some potential that you might love her MTV Unplugged Recordings, which I'm a huge fan of.Lauryn Hill - Adam Lives In Theory
Buy the album, seriously.
Meanwhile, Shameless Complacency has a nice collection of White Stripes b-sides posted.
BONUS: Voxtrot - Stephen
Labels: Lauryn Hill, Ryan Adams, Voxtrot, White Stripes
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