The Song Fight Bulletin Board

hello songfight people! i have not been on the bbs for a long long time, but just at the moment I am. Here are things to look at (I mean listen to) if you want to be listening to the same things that I have been listening to recently:

joanna newsom - the milk-eyed mender
the arcade fire - funeral
the rolling stones' exile on main street interspersed every-other-track with liz phair's exile in guyville
john vanderslice (all things by him are neato)
low - the great destroyer
madvillain - madvillainy
die romantic (they sound like add, and are almost as awesome!)
tom waits - real gone

anyway
all highly recommended
but I was posting because:
I just saw this
http://www.bootlegrobot.com/february/
and haven't listened to it much
but thought of SF of course
since yalls could appreciate
the effort.

mc_frontalot wrote:die romantic (they sound like add, and are almost as awesome!)

I also think the Arcade Fire sound like ADD, and are awesome.

mc_frontalot wrote: the rolling stones' exile on main street interspersed every-other-track with liz phair's exile in guyville

what a wonderful idea! 8)

It is a good idea! I think the idea must have been hers (Liz's) when she recorded Guyville. Lyrically, the songs are not all clear responses to the corresponding stones' tracks, but musically they kind of are. Almost always in the same key, each track having a similar rhythm or feel or even reworking the main riff. It is a crazy effect, especially if you know the Liz record very well and are only listening to the Stones record for the first time (=me).

I only have a couple songs by John Vanderslice, but one of my internet friends vouches strongly for him. Now that you do the same, I may look more into him.

(The song that I've heard most is Time Travel is Lonely, and I enjoy it greatly.)

Joanna Newsom is a beautiful beautiful person.

WeaselSlayer wrote:Joanna Newsom is a beautiful beautiful person.

with an ugly ugly voice! OH SNAP!

haha, just kidding...it just sounds like a demon....which isn't bad.

well, is anyone looking for great music? everyone should listen to these songs. i have been loving them recently.

coming up - paul mccartney - from his weird 1980 synth/new wave mccartney II album. fake horns (? you can never tell in the 80s), falsetto, and paul mcartney trying to be cool...and, unfortunately, succeeding in a strange way.

pierre - carole king - wonderful song from her children's album. based on the words maurice sendak. the child's "i don't care"s, never cease to be charming despite being repeated several times throughout the song.

orange lace - skip bifferty - amazing piece of lullaby-psyche. delicate harmonies and an electric guitar pretending to be a tuba.

round and round - dear nora - they call this "cuddlecore", but don't let that term deny you of the pure lofi-pop that exudes from this gem.

chilly down - david bowie - from the often loathed labrynth soundtrack. wait for the chorus.

ain't no great day - biff rose - wonderful randynewmonesque vaudeville-meets hippie piano playing singer songwriter, plus none other than van dyke parks himself playing the moog.

wraith pinned to the mist and other games - of montreal - from their upcoming album...I've really disliked their last couple of albums, but this song is pretty magical, and sounding nothing like traditional of montreal.

alone again (naturally) - gilbert o'sullivan - another piece of pop perfection. lonliness at its dandiest.

criminal charges - high density - i can't get over how good this is.

lollipop music - wimple winch - hot, compressed bubblegum psyche. sexy falsetto. should have been a #1 hit in the 60s.

slung low - erin mckeown - another hot piece of pop. I don't really know how to descirbe it.

love tonight - the fraternal order of the all - an uncanny impression of smile/petsounds-era brian wilson, but on midi...don't let the "m" word scare you, though. the rest of the album contains other spot-on parodies of 60s music that could pass for orignals (despite the midi factor)

mercy mercy pudding pie - the teeth - an engaging, epic waltz.

it's all too much - the beatles - more psychedelic beatles. trance-inducing, but not in the lame eastern-george harrison trying to be cool way...even though he did write it.

maonic eye - jenny toomey - from her 'sings the songs of franklin bruno' album, which is pretty amazing. it's all the bruno but without the fat (literally! oh!)

(i thought) you wanted to know - chris stamey/dbs - great 80s(?) power pop.

nicegeoff wrote: wraith pinned to the mist and other games - of montreal - from their upcoming album...I've really disliked their last couple of albums, but this song is pretty magical, and sounding nothing like traditional of montreal.

You didn't like 'Satanic Panic in the Attic?' I love that album.

dairy queen - strawberry cheesequake blizzards

Did everyone forget about this thread all of a sudden? Front's forgiven because he doesn't come here often. (...and because he's Front.)

you can't listen to the delicious stylings of a strawberry cheesequake blizzard from dairy queen.

Maybe you can't.

shhhh...

c.layne wrote:shhhh...

ahhhhh, now that it's quiet, I can hear it.

*rocks out*

nicegeoff wrote:erin mckeown

The mad djembe lady! I remember seeing her, oh... five-ish years ago at the Somerville Theater. You know who else is cool, but only very tenuously related? Vance Gilbert. Yep.

c.layne wrote:you can't listen to the delicious stylings of a strawberry cheesequake blizzard from dairy queen.

man, these things are insane good. except i go to fosters freeze, which is closer. i salivate standing in line thinking about them.

the Jazz wrote:

nicegeoff wrote:erin mckeown

The mad djembe lady! I remember seeing her, oh... five-ish years ago at the Somerville Theater. You know who else is cool, but only very tenuously related? Vance Gilbert. Yep.

Are you thinking of Karen Savoca as the mad djembe lady? I've never seen Erin playing one, not that I'd put it past her.

Vance Gilbert is faboo. One of the best performers I've seen.

Actually, the time I saw her she was doing a set with Voices On The Verge, and she played what looked like a djembe in one or two of the songs. I was just so impressed that I think of her as the djembe lady.

I met Vance Gilbert once at a random bar mitzvah. Apparently he lives in the next town over from me.