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Monthly Archives: June 2007
Franklin Bruno–”Blue’s the Only Color”
Franklin Bruno–”Blue’s the Only Color“ (from A Cat May Look at a Queen) It’s when I hear songs like “Blue’s the Only Color” that I realize that I too often give praise too easily–that I’m all too happy to deem a song “perfect” or a “real work of art” that isn’t quite either. It’s for [...]
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Jarvis Cocker–”I Will Kill Again”
Jarvis Cocker-”I Will Kill Again” (from Jarvis) I love when the ballad is turned on its head. The piano is played traditionally on this song. Simply. There’s nothing groundbreaking about it–it’s just pleasant, calming, even lovely. Thousands of love lyrics would fit beautifully upon this music, lulling lovers to a restful sleep in each others’ [...]
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Rufus Wainwright–”Release the Stars”
Rufus Wainwright Release the Stars Not Ready to Love from Release the Stars The Tower of Learning from Poses Rufus Wainwright’s newest work, Release the Stars, is typical of Rufus’s entire catalog of songs–sophisticated lyrically and musically, offering several different variations on love, hate, self-doubt, and self-aggrandizement with his own special elixir of pathos and [...]
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The Icky Thumpeth – White Stripes News
As you have no doubt already heard, the new White Stripes album is presently streaming in a low-quality audio format on a website hosted by that venerable bastion of all things music-related on television, MTV. To listen, simply click here. For the visually inclined, here’s the video for their lead single off Icky Thump, called [...]
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A Post-Rockist Wedding
Tom Waits – Frank’s Wild Years (from Swordfishtrombones) Randy Newman – A Wedding in Cherokee Country (from Good Old Boys) Jens Lekman - If You Ever Need a Stranger (To Sing at Your Wedding) (from When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog) Elvis Presley – Hawaiian Wedding Song (from Are You Lonesome [...]
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(A Storm in) Heaven in ’07