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This Is, Indeed, a Disco
This ain't no disco? Oh really? That Talking Heads lyric was always misquoted (as David Byrne complains in his new book) but from the look of the charts, this is, indeed, a disco. The two biggest hits of the summer (certainly my two favorites) are straight-up, unashamed, and wonderful disco songs.
Daft Punk already has my vote for album of the ( Read more... ) -
I'm back....
I am, finally, returning to good old LJ. While I do post publicly here, many posts, including my most recent, are limited to friends-only viewing. If the post below this is from October, you're either not logged in or not on my friends list. Comment here or email to be added. -
Creeeaaaak
No one seems to have broken in, at least, and the windows are intact. But that looks a dead bird over there and I hear mice. The rug will have to go, and probably the furniture -- yes, definitely, looks like the mice got into the couch.
It'll take some work to spruce it up but it's nice to be back in the old place. Solid words and writing, not like ( Read more... ) -
She Had the Will (Etta James, 1938-2012)
I'm playing Etta James today. Not her old stuff. I'm listening to two records that might not exist at all had she not been such a tough woman. I like her 50s and 60s stuff just fine, but for me, her music reached its peak when she was hitting bottom. We lost a lot of great musicians at the end of the 1960s, and we mythologize them and listen to ( Read more... ) -
Nite Flights Finally Land
It doesn't matter how much music you listen to or how knowledgeable you think you are. At some point, you'll stumble across someone and wonder how you could possibly have not known about them. Better yet, you'll listen to this artist's work and say to yourself, "ooooh, so that is where (Bowie/Eno/Iggy/Nick Cave/Joy Division/etc) got it from ( Read more... ) -
Zipcar: Beware!
mary_wroth signed up for a Zipcar account recently so I joined her account, since that way I can have a car when I'm in the city without having to drive mine back from Ithaca and worry about parking and such ( Read more... ) -
Halloween Harmonitronica
I have a few new harmonitronica pieces online, all created with some new equipment I'm testing out. I'll write more about this separately, but I have outgrown (or rather, my music has outgrown) the basic delay pedals I've been using. They weren't flexible enough, didn't offer enough loops, or enough control over the loops, and too much of the ( Read more... ) -
Discreet Music, Continued: Ignorable Versus Boring
An email correspondent asked what I meant in my previous post when I said that Discreet Music is not boring, since it's not something you could really listen to all the way through. Perhaps a better word would have been "monotonous," but I stand by my statement.
Robert Fripp characterizes Eno's definition of ambient music as "music as ignorable as ( Read more... )
