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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Mid-Year Faves |
| Date | Sat, 08 Jul 2006 03:08:02 -0400 |
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From: "floatingunder" <underthefloat@msn.com>
> I never owned anything by Rouse until 5 months ago or so. Now via
> emusic and purchases I've made I have most of his discs. If forced
> to pick I think I'd say I like Subtitulo best. But then again, I've
> become a pretty big fan. At the moment my fav song on it is "Quiet
> Town". Anyway, Subtitulo springs to mind as my fav of the year.
I came to Rouse very late in the game myself -- his song "Love
Vibration" is used as the basis of a Bollywood-style musical number in
a fantastic film called THE LOVE CRIMES OF GILLIAN GUESS (also the
place where I discovered Broken Social Scene) -- but after listening
to the full output, I think he's yet to make a bad record. But
there's just a sort of effortlessness to SUBTITULO that I really
enjoy, and which has never been part of his music before.
> I have The Drift but have still only sampled tiny bits of it. I'm
> so mood dependent on listening to some things and I just have not
> treaded in very deep yet. I understand it also has the sound of a
> distressed sounding donkey and later Scott doing a weird Bugs Bunny
> voice. I have no point to make regarding this....
It's actually a Donald Duck impersonation...think of which perpetually
angry but haplessly ineffectual member of the current regime is also
named Donald and all will become clear. It's one of the funniest and
weirdest bits of political satire I've heard in ages, and maybe my
favorite bit of the entire album.
>
> Like Walker, another old fav and unheard of from a long time...Tom
> Verlaine has two new releases that I like but I have not lost my
> mind over them yet. Time will tell.
These aren't holding up for me. Perfectly nice, but nothing
outstanding: one album, half instrumental/half vocal, might have been
less fatiguing.
One recent addition: Karl Larsson, leader of the thoroughly excellent
Swedish indie act the Last Days of April, has a very solid solo record
out now, PALE AS MILK. Think of A.C. Newman's THE SLOW WONDER in
relation to the New Pornographers -- same kind of songs, less
elaborate presentation -- and you're not only close to how it compares
to his band, but to the sound of the album itself. I think it's on
eMusic, but the last time I looked, it's missing a couple of songs,
and good ones at that.
> A tidbit:
> Tommy Stinson is now playing with the reformed Soul Asylum. I never
> LOVED Soul Asylum's records as much as other MPLS bands but live
> Pirner was fun to watch. The idea of Stinson playing off Pirner
> might be cool to see.
If anyone sees this in the next couple of weeks, please report.
Charity is seriously tempted -- she saw SA several times between SAY
WHAT YOU WILL and HANG TIME and remembers them fondly as an absolutely
scorching live act back then -- but she's absolutely hated everything
they've done since about 1990. We're expecting it to be a total
nostalgia trip, but which era?
S
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