Comments | silver_notebook: Listen to my love for you

silver_notebook

Listen to my love for you

Apr 13, 2006 13:47

Nomi, who has a sublimely gorgeous journal, asked about new music that people were loving, and I thought I'd post an extended version of my response. Being an old codger with limited funds, a slight unease when in many music outlets, and often clueless as to where to start looking, I've been mainly listening to stuff I've had for years, and even more ( Read more... )

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stephenlank April 13 2006, 08:22:03 UTC

You should check out The Organ. To me, the band sounds like Debbie Harry had five lesbian daughters but she's not sure if Johnny Marr or Morrissey is the father.

Best songs on the CD are Brother, I Am Not Surprised, and Memorize the City.

I'm a bass hungry whore silver_notebook April 14 2006, 04:25:50 UTC

In the light of your enthusiasm for them, what hurt about this comment was that according to that link, they played less than ten minutes walk from my home earlier this week!

Although they appear to give no music samples on their site, I found Memorize the City at the SxSw site. I completely go with your description: their sound is so evocative of that era and they do it well (though I'd happily hang Morrissey before most half decent DJs). They also bring to mind Martha and The Muffins, 'Echo Beach', with all those jangly top notes. Much as at the time I liked lots of that stuff, by the end of the eighties I was so hungry for music that got to my belly as opposed to being all above the eyebrows. It's why things like The Pixies and all that happy dance music seemed so good: it wasn't as composed and contrived. Listening to the 'The Organ' along side 'The Noisettes', I like them both, but 'The Noisettes' gets me in the belly, and would get me mad and sweaty while 'The Organ' would just get me bouncing around. If I still had an open ( ... )

anonymous April 13 2006, 14:42:19 UTC

WooHoo! I got a shout-out!

silver_notebook April 14 2006, 04:25:53 UTC

Confused. Who are you? Ho hum.

metrocentric April 13 2006, 15:43:19 UTC

A colleague of mine still believes that I'm well-acquainted with the comediennes enough to be the originator of the 'Yeahbutnobutyeah' and 'Imnotbovveredlookatmyfacedoilookbovvered?' characters, because I was parroting their lines from the radio programmes some time before they got on telly. I should feel guilty about this.

That's the thing about Radio 4 - either you listen to it. Or you don't.

Us anachronistic Radio 4 kids are somehow so ahead of everything silver_notebook April 14 2006, 04:26:00 UTC

Ha. I never even realised they'd made it to TV!

umbriel April 18 2006, 03:40:34 UTC

Hi there, I'm on a bit of spring clean at the moment.
Thought I'd get around to actually adding you on the recommendation of porphyre, hope you don't mind.

silver_notebook April 21 2006, 07:28:18 UTC

Of course not. Intelligent friendly people are most welcome here; although, of late it's been a rather neglected zone. I have a 'photo' filter (a very small number of posts and nothing very exciting, as I don't have a digital camera), which UK based people don't go on instantly or automatically. I like to get an idea of who it is that I'm showing my friends (who don't even know I sometimes post their pictures on the internet, as they don't know I have a journal) and myself to, in case there's any overlap in our lives. I thought I'd explain so that you don't feel I'm being 'unwelcoming'.