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Post by riley on Aug 13, 2004 10:06:20 GMT -5
 Modest Mouse - Sad Sappy Sucker |
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Post by riley on Aug 13, 2004 10:08:30 GMT -5
Jesus - I think Shane is actually moving in with Drumstein in the Fall, but we have over 2 cares as of this week, so if you want to build something on our land (preferably a studio) that's fine. Perhaps you could bring that Muse mix along with you.
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Post by Thorngrub on Aug 13, 2004 10:32:05 GMT -5
The best video I've seen thus far whilst trapped in Suburban Hell housesitting is: MODEST MOUSE, (can't recall the song) . . . it featured these sheep diving into fishtanks and . .. . aw, it was just weird and cool, like.
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Post by Proud on Aug 13, 2004 10:34:28 GMT -5
that video = "float on".
but we all know the best video of all-time is twisted sister's "we're not gonna take it".
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Post by Thorngrub on Aug 13, 2004 10:36:42 GMT -5
"Float On" - ! yeah, that was it. Pretty freaking decent tune, too.
I remember I used to play my 45-rpm single of "We're Not Gonna Take It" on 33 rpm, s l o w e d w a a a a y d o w n and it was, *ahem*, funny as hell.
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Post by riley on Aug 13, 2004 10:53:05 GMT -5
Saw the Mouse video on-line somewhere. Cool video. Perfect song.
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Post by Mary on Aug 13, 2004 11:36:19 GMT -5
but i'm pleased to see you now rate the Birthday Party higher than solo Nick Cave. Funnily enough, the Birthday Party was my introduction to Cave, not the other way round. I started buying Cave's solo albums in order, and i got as far as the Good Son before giving up. woah woah let's not jump the gun here! I'm merely saying that the Birthday Party now holds equal charm for me (erm, perhaps "charm" isn't quite the right word) as the Bad Seeds - I'm certainly not making any claims about superiority!! I actually do own every single Bad Seeds album, including the live album and Backside of the Cave, a bootleg collection of b-sides and random covers and such. So I'm entirely fanatical about the Bad Seeds and I'd never say a bad word about them - i certainly think they've done loads of spectacular work after The Good Son. Indeed, my favorite Nick Cave album (in fact, my favorite album of all time, period), bar none, including all the Birthday Party stuff, is still Let Love In from 1994. If you don't have that one, Ritalin, you are really missing out - I don't think there's one spare minute of filler on that album, and it does an absolutely perfect job balancing and intertwining the two sides of Nick's persona. Do You Love Me Part 2 is also one of the absolute creepiest, most frightening songs anyone has ever written. Possibly Nick's most disturbing lyrics.... ever: There's a man in the theatre with girlish eyes
Who's holding my childhood to ransom
On the screen there's a death,
there's a rustle of cloth
And a sickly voice calling me handsome
There's a man in the theatre with sly girlish eyes
On the screen there's an ape, a gorilla
There's a groan, there's a cough,
there's a rustle of cloth
And a voice that stinks of death and vanilla
This is a secret, mauled and mangled
And the coins in my pocket go jingle-jangle
The walls of the ceiling are painted in blood
The lights go down, the red curtains come apart
The room is full of smoke and dialogue I know by heart
And the coins in my pocket jingle-jangle
As the greaat screen crackled and popped
The clock of my boyhood was wound down
and stopped
And my handsome little body oddly propped
And my trousers right down to my ankles
Yes it's onward! And upward!
And I'm off to find love
Do you love me? If you do, I'm thankful
what the fuck?? that is some seriously fucked up shit. Cheers, M |
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Aug 13, 2004 12:04:46 GMT -5
Jesus - I think Shane is actually moving in with Drumstein in the Fall, but we have over 2 cares as of this week, so if you want to build something on our land (preferably a studio) that's fine. Perhaps you could bring that Muse mix along with you. That's sweet about shane and drum. Does this make you feel awkward though - a third wheel, as it were - when you go out drinking in NS? More seriously (if that's possible) for free digs in Canada I'll bring you Matt Bellamy in person if you like. |
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Post by PC on Aug 13, 2004 12:08:38 GMT -5
Shane's moving in with Drum? I knew he was moving to "the city", but I didn't know who he would be living with. That's awesome.
All this talk about the Birthday Party has intrigued me. What's a good starter album?
And Mary, did you see my tribute to women in punk on the Influential Music board? I think you'll like it.
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Post by strawman on Aug 13, 2004 12:39:51 GMT -5
PunkChick...heres one that should have made a list of women in punk...if only for the song Don't Dictate...  Pauline Murray of Penetration...yeah right there in the first wave class of '76/77.... and the sad thing is so few people haven't listened to them...the debut Moving Targets is a punk gem... |
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Post by PC on Aug 13, 2004 12:42:52 GMT -5
It wasn't a "definitive" list or anything, I just did it for fun last night. But thanks anyway straw, I've read a little about Pauline Murray (and I've heard "Don't Dictate", but only that song by them) and she was cool.
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Post by Proud on Aug 13, 2004 12:47:20 GMT -5
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Post by Rit on Aug 13, 2004 13:05:13 GMT -5
feck! i listened to fecking "The Boatman's Call" today, and in no fooking way does it fecking compare with fooking Birfday Party. It's sure is fecking gentle, and "poetry-fookin'-filled" but that does not fooking make it a fooking feckin' meaningful work. i've rarely heard Nick sound as forced as he did on that album. Y'know, i know you said you ultimately prefer solo Nick Cave to BP, Mary, but i've decided that i don't. Because at least with BP, Cave was fierce and feckless in his commitment to sweaty, damnation rawk. As i said, i really liked The Firstborn Is Dead and Your Funeral, My Trial. basically, i don't like the stilted quality i see in some of Cave's solo werk.. such as in The Boatman's Call. fook! (er, i wasn't pissed off at all. even if the above reads that way  ) |
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Post by Rit on Aug 13, 2004 13:20:28 GMT -5
but i will go and get Let Love In right now.
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Post by Rit on Aug 13, 2004 13:29:37 GMT -5
meh, let me try a more reasonable criticism of The Boatman's Call. "Into My Arms" was beautiful, and i've heard that song before. Aching. Except for the minor matter of lyrics being stilted, like i said before. "Black Hair"'s the same.
But see, for every song like that, Cave goes and writes "Brompton Oratory", breathtaking and nothing to sneer at. "People Ain't No Good", Idiot Prayer" and "Brom Oratory" are my three faves off that album (mind you, at only one listening so far).
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