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nubi_faeBelated happy birthday to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tikimama, the devistatingly gorgeous, non-Decemberists-listening hip chick.
Here are six more songs to keep us hip, this time, I'll try to keep the list at less-than-five-years old. I'll try not to mention Stevie Wonder or Tori Amos this time.
Track 1: "Waltz, No. 2 (XO)" by Eliott Smith. I heard this for the first time two years ago shopping for shoes. Eliott was still alive. I wish he were still alive. I really love how the song just churns along with the "boom, chuk-chuk" of the 3/4 pattern. Each time the chorus come along, everything stops with, "I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you anyhow," then back into the rest of the song again. I've always wished Rose Polenzani covered this song.
Track 2: "Olga's Birthday" by Rose Polenzani Those of us who followed her since her days of being the star student at what I call "the No Exit Cafe School of Performance," know that a whack of her name on Google brings up several fansites and many glowing reviews. She deserves it. Those of us remember when she took the stage one January evening in 1996 with a new song, which refrained, "Olga, you've been sinnin'. Tomorrow, I'll take you away from this. Olga, hitch up your boots 'n' shit. I've brought you Jesus for your birthday." I've never forgotten that song since.
Since the 1999 release of Anybody, I've taught myself the open-D tuning Rosie plays it in and I've played it at home just to see if I could do it. The cool thing -- the astonishing thing -- is that there are other girls and boys, much younger than I, hearing "Olga's birthday" for the first time, getting their guitars and learning it too.
Track 3: "Center of the Sun" by ConJureOne w/vox by Poe One of a few guest vocals Ms. Danielewski performs, giving something to tide us Angry Psychos over until her management's contract is up or resolved. If you think this track is genius, please, for the love of all that is just, get Haunted. You will cry with her.
"Center of the Sun" is airy, groovy, danceable and good enough to simply just listen to.
Track 4: "Boom, Like That" by Mark Knopfler The story of Ray Kroc's rise to power, from Kroc's POV, without a hint of irony or sneer. Catchy as hell. Beware, you'll have to defend your hipster cred for liking a song by that "Money for Nothing" guy.
Track 5: "Sugar Water" by Cibo Matto I knowterriblelynne will roll her eyes at this one, as we share a dichotomic interest in this Japanese duo. The lyrics make sense to me at least. If you catch me singing to myself, "La-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la," that's "Sugar Water." The video's pretty effing cool, too. (The vid's work-safe, even for a brief neck-up, non-sexy shower scene.) The other material on M&C May Not Be.
Track 6: "Genius in France" by "Weird Al" Yankovic Instead of parodying a Frank Zappa song, which would have been quite expensive, Al writes a whole new song, cramming nearly every possible Zappa lick, phrase and style (minus the humour du toilette) into nine minutes. Complete with solos from Dweezil Zappa, "Genius in France" is a great tribute to one of America's greatest rock composers.
Tuseday, a real LJ-type update. Promise.
tikimama, the devistatingly gorgeous, non-Decemberists-listening hip chick.
Here are six more songs to keep us hip, this time, I'll try to keep the list at less-than-five-years old. I'll try not to mention Stevie Wonder or Tori Amos this time.
Track 1: "Waltz, No. 2 (XO)" by Eliott Smith. I heard this for the first time two years ago shopping for shoes. Eliott was still alive. I wish he were still alive. I really love how the song just churns along with the "boom, chuk-chuk" of the 3/4 pattern. Each time the chorus come along, everything stops with, "I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you anyhow," then back into the rest of the song again. I've always wished Rose Polenzani covered this song.
Track 2: "Olga's Birthday" by Rose Polenzani Those of us who followed her since her days of being the star student at what I call "the No Exit Cafe School of Performance," know that a whack of her name on Google brings up several fansites and many glowing reviews. She deserves it. Those of us remember when she took the stage one January evening in 1996 with a new song, which refrained, "Olga, you've been sinnin'. Tomorrow, I'll take you away from this. Olga, hitch up your boots 'n' shit. I've brought you Jesus for your birthday." I've never forgotten that song since.
Since the 1999 release of Anybody, I've taught myself the open-D tuning Rosie plays it in and I've played it at home just to see if I could do it. The cool thing -- the astonishing thing -- is that there are other girls and boys, much younger than I, hearing "Olga's birthday" for the first time, getting their guitars and learning it too.
Track 3: "Center of the Sun" by ConJureOne w/vox by Poe One of a few guest vocals Ms. Danielewski performs, giving something to tide us Angry Psychos over until her management's contract is up or resolved. If you think this track is genius, please, for the love of all that is just, get Haunted. You will cry with her.
"Center of the Sun" is airy, groovy, danceable and good enough to simply just listen to.
Track 4: "Boom, Like That" by Mark Knopfler The story of Ray Kroc's rise to power, from Kroc's POV, without a hint of irony or sneer. Catchy as hell. Beware, you'll have to defend your hipster cred for liking a song by that "Money for Nothing" guy.
Track 5: "Sugar Water" by Cibo Matto I know
terriblelynne will roll her eyes at this one, as we share a dichotomic interest in this Japanese duo. The lyrics make sense to me at least. If you catch me singing to myself, "La-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la," that's "Sugar Water." The video's pretty effing cool, too. (The vid's work-safe, even for a brief neck-up, non-sexy shower scene.) The other material on M&C May Not Be.
Track 6: "Genius in France" by "Weird Al" Yankovic Instead of parodying a Frank Zappa song, which would have been quite expensive, Al writes a whole new song, cramming nearly every possible Zappa lick, phrase and style (minus the humour du toilette) into nine minutes. Complete with solos from Dweezil Zappa, "Genius in France" is a great tribute to one of America's greatest rock composers.
Tuseday, a real LJ-type update. Promise.
