Rock Snobs
Hey guys. It's been a long time, but I've been in a bit of a music funk lately. I bought five CDs over the last week, so I'm feeling a lot more funkified.
Running through my favourite blogs this morning and found this link at Gawker.com. It's called Snobsite.com and is the online home of an upcoming book entitled The Rock Snob*s Dictionary. Check it out if you've ever wondered what "coruscating" meant.
Running through my favourite blogs this morning and found this link at Gawker.com. It's called Snobsite.com and is the online home of an upcoming book entitled The Rock Snob*s Dictionary. Check it out if you've ever wondered what "coruscating" meant.
posted by Jen Star | 10:15 a.m.
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So what did you buy?
Let's see...
Stars, Heart
Stars, Set Yourself on Fire
Zero 7, When It Falls
Queens of the Stone Age, Lullabies to Paralyze
Portishead, Dummy
I love the Stars albums so very much. The Zero 7 is lovely, and the Portishead was on sale for $9.99.
QOTSA was also on sale for cheap, and it's pretty good, but I haven't given it much listen time. I loved Mark Lanegan's voice when he was fronting Screaming Trees in the early '90s, so I buy the QOTSA stuff for him. The other singer I can take or leave.
I borrowed/burned the Stars album "Heart" from the library but have yet to give it a full listen.
I've been listening to the new Beck quite alot lately as I bought it last week. It's a great album tying together alot of the stuff he has done in the past.
Other than that it's still all about The Great Lake Swimmers and their gorgeous Bodies and Minds album. I can't get enough of it.
What's it like? What has you so hooked? Is it the lyrics or the melodies or the guitar work or what?
I think I owned Odelay back in the day, but it was right during my transition from cassette to CD, so I don't think I still have it. I remember liking it, but not loving it, as it was extremely popular with the hipsters at my high school. Recently I inherited mp3s of Mutations and Sea Change, and I'm surprised at how much I'm liking them. Sea Change is so lovely, and right up my alley. He's not somebody I need to hear everything from, but I'll definitely keep my ears open in the future!
I should have known he was cool when he appeared on Futurama:
"People say my broken friend is useless, but I say his mind is free. There's lots of things my mangled robot friend could beeee!"
The album is very organic. They sing about the sea and the wind and I always feel like the music is blowing across the breeze or something.
It's all very hushed and atmospheric. I've heard that they are not so good live because they are so quiet that the inevitble talkers ruin the show.
Tony Dekkers voice is haunting and ethereal and when they occasionally beef up the sound with a string section or a church choir it just adds to the experience. Without question I will be playing something from the album at music club so you can see what you think then (as long as nobody talks!)
Yeah--because nobody ever talks when we're playing our music!
It sounds lovely. I'll try to position myself in front of a speaker.
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