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Thursday 21 April 2005
music me in review
THE BRITISH HAVE INVADED yet again. Very good at their outreach programs, they are.
Music!
I mean music. Here are some thoughts:
- A new album from Turin Brakes,
- My first exposure to The Decemberists,
- Revisiting Ian Dury.
So Turin Brakes - Great acoustic duo, singer/songwriter stuff, no one recommended this band. Some of my favorite tracks are Feeling Oblivion, The Door and title song from that album, The Optimist.
I somehow stumbled upon them several years back on my own. I love them and will be in the UK while they’re touring. I hope to catch them live.
The Decemberists - Jeremy Keith recommended this band in my “Music Me” post last month.
I love this band. I absolutely adore the song “California One Youth and Beauty Brigade” and, oh, there are others.
Take a long drive with me, on California One, California One . . . Take a long drown with me, on California wine . . .
So easy.
And from the song “Red Right Ankle”
This is the story of the boys who loved you
Who love you now and loved you then
And some were sweet, some were cold and snuffed you
And some just laid around in bed.Some had crumbled you straight to your knees
Did it cruel, did it tenderly
Some had crawled their way into your heart
To rend your ventricles apart
This is the story of the boys who loved you
Jeremy pimped his own band in that post, a bit with the alt.country flavor and pleasingly so to one who lives in the wild American West. Salter Cane have a tune or two that are definitely playlist-worthy. “Long Gone” shows off the musicianship. But, the sorrowful, melodic “Love Stranger Than This” appealed to my morose side today:
I long for the water, something so good, to just come and wash me away.
With his “Reasons to be Cheerful, Part III” post, Andy Clarke encouraged me to revisit Ian Dury.
My experience of Dury wasn’t broad but it was definitive. “Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick” played long and hard in my New Jersey town, and my teenage years are perfectly defined by Dury’s anthem “Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll.”
Here’s a little piece of advice
You’re quite welcome it is free
Don’t do nothing that is cut price
You know what that’ll make you be . . .Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Are very good indeed.
Listening now, more closely, I realize how ahead of his time Dury was, yet how perfectly he defined that time. The song I’ve recently discovered, “Reasons to be Cheerful,” exhibits not only Dury’s great talent for showmanship, but a rap rhythm the black boys in my ‘hood wouldn’t discover for at least a decade.
I’m still working through the list that friends shared last month. There’s so much good here, and I like the feeling that I have more to choose from. But it’s still not enough! Please, please, keep sharing it all right here.
Filed under: music, pop culture
Posted by: Molly | 2:20 pm |
April 21st, 2005 at 2:26 pm
Two of my favourite Dury lines…
“Going public with my private parts” and
“I’m leaving my bat and my balls to the nation”
(Not at all rude that geezer!)
April 21st, 2005 at 6:14 pm
Two words: Simply Red. Or perhaps Girls Aloud?
April 23rd, 2005 at 2:47 am
I would recommend you two nice country-folk-rock(?) albums you might like:
Maplewood (eponymous album)
Josh Rouse - Nashville
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