5/15/06
"A Dog With Sharper Teeth" Daisy Chainsaw
if i were ever to start my own band it would probably end up sounding a lot like this tune: an uninspired, guitar driven birthday party rip-off with a girly twist. knowing me i'd skip the 'guitar driven' part because that's how i do and it's my band. of course, in regards to this song, the guitar is precisely where all the charm lies. listen, i don't expect my band to go anywhere, okay? it's just something i do for fun. god. get off my case.
"Avalanche" Leonard Cohen
this song is intense and thought provoking and i do like it, yes indeed. i've listened to it a few times now i'm still not sure of what exactly it is supposed to be about, but i think i have a pretty good idea so far. something along the lines of not wanting to be "saved" by people who don't understand you. i'm sure it's deeper than that, i'll give it the thesis treatment one day. anyway, i can never profess to liking it because this boy who i am in non-adult-love with is a huge l. cohen fan and i don't want him thinking that i only got into this because of him. i'm about 85% sure that that simply is not the case, i like it because it's good. it's not my fault that i happen to fall for boys who happen to like things that i happen to end up also liking. good taste run-off is an accidental side effect of being around interesting people and is absolutely not some obsessive single white female shit, okay? at any rate, which ever road led me to thinking that 'avalanche' is a pretty great song, the mere existence of 'obsessive single white female blvd' makes it too risky for me to come out of the cohen closet. one never knows what others may assume.
"Happy Birthday" The Birthday Party
i don't really have a diatribe for this one. remember the daisy chainsaw song? yeah. in many ways, i feel like this is what an urban rock band should sound like.
"Tomorrow" Espers
good music to stretch to, or drink wine to. some late 20's early 30's ex-cool kid shit, like having crunchy babies whose hair you never comb and who you dress in dirty hoodies and bring with you to outdoor music festivals. or like growing a big beard and wearing the same pair of very expensive burnished leather shoes everyday. oh, you get where i'm going with this.
"Walk in the Park" Icy Demons
this is so tediously long and shitty that it's even pretty annoying when you're stoned as shit. what's amazing is how it manages to also be so shitty and underground sounding that it's actually kind of awesome and fun to listen to anytime.
"The Mess Inside" The Mountain Goats
this is not one of his better songs, but i love this guy's music. so much so that i can freely admit that i think i'd love the man, mr. john darnielle, mr. the mountain goats if i ever met him. real love. deep and possibly obsessive love... and not because i'm a fan or a groupie or a starfucker. it would be because we'd have undeniable chemistry. anyway, i'd rather not have to explain why i like his music so much because it would sound cheesy as shit. what am i saying 'sound'? it would be cheesy as shit. let's just say that i'm a sentimental person and leave it at that.
"The Last Trumpeter Swan" Deerhoof
now that they are no longer puritanically unacceptable, tight jeans on young people should never go out of style. i truly hope that that whole 90's thing was a fashion fluke that never happens again. tight jeans are hot, period. boys, girls, doesn't matter. go forth future young ones, feeling confident about your packages and your thick asses. it's good. it's all good. this band, on the other hand, i was pretty into for a second, but then got over just as quick. they are, in some ways, like tight jeans: fashionably provocative in a gritty and darkly slutty way, but 'fashionably' is the operative word here. tight jeans are sexy because you get to look at them. like, pho tastes good and all, but would you want to listen to it all day?
"Psycho Killer" The Talking Heads
fuck you if you don't like this band, or at least this song. you must be dead inside and totally not worth knowing.
"Angel's Share" Vetiver
New Weird America. blah blah blah. i checked it out. i get it. i really do. if i hadn't already made the deerhoof mistake (a thousand times over) i'd probably let this one into my heart too. but i did. and i won't.
"Subway Train" New York Dolls
new york in the mid-to-late 70's was so cool. i would have liked to have been there. definitely more so than london at the same time. i'm pretty interested in this era. i've read several books and watched oodles of documentaries on the subject. that's a lot of effort for me. trust. for this reason, i can't not like this band. this song in particular, i find to be more palatable because it lacks the kitchiness of a lot of their other ditties. but over all i think they are too novel and i'll always regard them as the beginning of the end in a lot of ways. buster poindexter? i don't think so.
"Silence Kit" Pavement
i recently went to an Animal Collective show and this douchy, preppie, jock guy from my high school was there. one of the kids i really resented back then for being so mundane and uninteresting and yet well liked by the general populous. during our 'hometown- hey we went to school together' conversation, he got on some condescending tip and asked me if i was "familiar with the band Pavement?"
mother fucker. i was 'familiar with the band pavement' back when you were listening to the new Hootie album on your way to soccer practice. yeah, he basically ruined both Pavement and Animal Collective for me. is that immature and shallow? i don't care.
"The Puppet" Echo and the Bunnymen
here's another one. i recently saw some band at some hipster function. i can't remember what they were called, but they (the singer especially) sounded just like Echo and the Bunnymen. i really hate this trend of blatantly ripping off old bands (Echo and the Bunnymen, New Order, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Talking Heads, etc.) and re-packaging their whole schpeel for kids who don't care enough to do their homework. it sells the kids short and encourages laziness. xerox copies are never as good and honest and real and the original, kids.
"Pictures of You" The Cure
that fateful day during the second semester of my freshman year in art school, the day that my best friend/drug buddy moved out of the dorms after having a mental breakdown and getting expelled, i listened to this song on repeat and cried a little. i enjoyed reading 'The Rules of Attraction' too.
if i were ever to start my own band it would probably end up sounding a lot like this tune: an uninspired, guitar driven birthday party rip-off with a girly twist. knowing me i'd skip the 'guitar driven' part because that's how i do and it's my band. of course, in regards to this song, the guitar is precisely where all the charm lies. listen, i don't expect my band to go anywhere, okay? it's just something i do for fun. god. get off my case.
"Avalanche" Leonard Cohen
this song is intense and thought provoking and i do like it, yes indeed. i've listened to it a few times now i'm still not sure of what exactly it is supposed to be about, but i think i have a pretty good idea so far. something along the lines of not wanting to be "saved" by people who don't understand you. i'm sure it's deeper than that, i'll give it the thesis treatment one day. anyway, i can never profess to liking it because this boy who i am in non-adult-love with is a huge l. cohen fan and i don't want him thinking that i only got into this because of him. i'm about 85% sure that that simply is not the case, i like it because it's good. it's not my fault that i happen to fall for boys who happen to like things that i happen to end up also liking. good taste run-off is an accidental side effect of being around interesting people and is absolutely not some obsessive single white female shit, okay? at any rate, which ever road led me to thinking that 'avalanche' is a pretty great song, the mere existence of 'obsessive single white female blvd' makes it too risky for me to come out of the cohen closet. one never knows what others may assume.
"Happy Birthday" The Birthday Party
i don't really have a diatribe for this one. remember the daisy chainsaw song? yeah. in many ways, i feel like this is what an urban rock band should sound like.
"Tomorrow" Espers
good music to stretch to, or drink wine to. some late 20's early 30's ex-cool kid shit, like having crunchy babies whose hair you never comb and who you dress in dirty hoodies and bring with you to outdoor music festivals. or like growing a big beard and wearing the same pair of very expensive burnished leather shoes everyday. oh, you get where i'm going with this.
"Walk in the Park" Icy Demons
this is so tediously long and shitty that it's even pretty annoying when you're stoned as shit. what's amazing is how it manages to also be so shitty and underground sounding that it's actually kind of awesome and fun to listen to anytime.
"The Mess Inside" The Mountain Goats
this is not one of his better songs, but i love this guy's music. so much so that i can freely admit that i think i'd love the man, mr. john darnielle, mr. the mountain goats if i ever met him. real love. deep and possibly obsessive love... and not because i'm a fan or a groupie or a starfucker. it would be because we'd have undeniable chemistry. anyway, i'd rather not have to explain why i like his music so much because it would sound cheesy as shit. what am i saying 'sound'? it would be cheesy as shit. let's just say that i'm a sentimental person and leave it at that.
"The Last Trumpeter Swan" Deerhoof
now that they are no longer puritanically unacceptable, tight jeans on young people should never go out of style. i truly hope that that whole 90's thing was a fashion fluke that never happens again. tight jeans are hot, period. boys, girls, doesn't matter. go forth future young ones, feeling confident about your packages and your thick asses. it's good. it's all good. this band, on the other hand, i was pretty into for a second, but then got over just as quick. they are, in some ways, like tight jeans: fashionably provocative in a gritty and darkly slutty way, but 'fashionably' is the operative word here. tight jeans are sexy because you get to look at them. like, pho tastes good and all, but would you want to listen to it all day?
"Psycho Killer" The Talking Heads
fuck you if you don't like this band, or at least this song. you must be dead inside and totally not worth knowing.
"Angel's Share" Vetiver
New Weird America. blah blah blah. i checked it out. i get it. i really do. if i hadn't already made the deerhoof mistake (a thousand times over) i'd probably let this one into my heart too. but i did. and i won't.
"Subway Train" New York Dolls
new york in the mid-to-late 70's was so cool. i would have liked to have been there. definitely more so than london at the same time. i'm pretty interested in this era. i've read several books and watched oodles of documentaries on the subject. that's a lot of effort for me. trust. for this reason, i can't not like this band. this song in particular, i find to be more palatable because it lacks the kitchiness of a lot of their other ditties. but over all i think they are too novel and i'll always regard them as the beginning of the end in a lot of ways. buster poindexter? i don't think so.
"Silence Kit" Pavement
i recently went to an Animal Collective show and this douchy, preppie, jock guy from my high school was there. one of the kids i really resented back then for being so mundane and uninteresting and yet well liked by the general populous. during our 'hometown- hey we went to school together' conversation, he got on some condescending tip and asked me if i was "familiar with the band Pavement?"
mother fucker. i was 'familiar with the band pavement' back when you were listening to the new Hootie album on your way to soccer practice. yeah, he basically ruined both Pavement and Animal Collective for me. is that immature and shallow? i don't care.
"The Puppet" Echo and the Bunnymen
here's another one. i recently saw some band at some hipster function. i can't remember what they were called, but they (the singer especially) sounded just like Echo and the Bunnymen. i really hate this trend of blatantly ripping off old bands (Echo and the Bunnymen, New Order, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Talking Heads, etc.) and re-packaging their whole schpeel for kids who don't care enough to do their homework. it sells the kids short and encourages laziness. xerox copies are never as good and honest and real and the original, kids.
"Pictures of You" The Cure
that fateful day during the second semester of my freshman year in art school, the day that my best friend/drug buddy moved out of the dorms after having a mental breakdown and getting expelled, i listened to this song on repeat and cried a little. i enjoyed reading 'The Rules of Attraction' too.
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