It's BLUEBERRY BOAT DAY.
In other words, get Thine Arse to a Record Store, and buy a copy of the Fiery Furnaces Masterpiece.
It is a Masterpiece.
You're still here.....
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Okay, music for today.
Before I get to that, a few notes -
1) Be sure to check out the new sexed up AMG, which should be live at some point today.
2) the Boys & Girls over at GYBO have completed the follow up to London Booted - Parkspliced - notable are mashups of the title track w/ the Beach Boys "God Only Knows", a healthy dose of Marvin Gaye inserted into "Badhead," and Lenlows fantabulous B-Side featuring Peter & The Wolf. I may end up posting a track or two from this later in the week.
The Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Mr. You're on Fire Mr. (Liars Cover) - Karen O covering Angus. 'tain't that sweet. Well, there's nothing sweet about this song, a B-side from the Pin Single. It finds the YYY's revisiting the production style found on the Machine EP, washed in feedback and muddled into a flat sort of tonelessness that, when combined with the tape loops and electrobleeps found here, manage to turn Liars original screamfest, the song that prompted a P-fork review to remark that Liars eat ground glass, into a slowed down, dubbish sort of number, punctuated by Karens trademark yelps. I didn't like this the first time I heard it, but since then, I've just kept on coming back. There's something here, some indefinable quality, that makes what is, objectively, a lousy recording of a halfassed cover, sound like something much better.
[Buy it from Insound!]
The Hong Kong - Mazerati - Few things are so great as the experience of discovering a song capable of making you bounce around the room - the tightly wound, hyperactive ADD kid inside of you breaking free and refusing to sit still. Mazerati is such a song. From the Hong Kong's debut, Rock the Faces, the blondieesque vocals and bubbly basslines, this is what al summer music should be.
Bliss.
No buy link for this one because I can't seem to find anywhere online to buy it. I got my copy at a show. Anyone have a lead?
Tomorrow: TTIKTDA Reader submissions make their debut. (P.s. those of you I emailed? please do resend those tracks. Dropload hates me and I really do want to listen to them - I have the space in my mailbox to recieve attachments of up to 10 megs, so no worries there.
Now GO BUY COPIES OF BLUEBERRY BOAT.
10 OF THEM.
I don't care if you don't have 10 CD players, or even 10 friends. Just do it.
posted by Keith @ 7/13/2004 02:16:00 AM
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The Hong Kong cd can be purchased at www.othermusic.com.
Oh, really? Despite what every music blog says, I think the album is really shitty. I hate the music, and honestly, it sounds like 9 years playing around with synthesizers and keyboards -- and then their mom comes in and starts singing and suddenly their guitar-playing dad is in on the action.
Their melody and coherence is sorely lacking and I really wanted to like the album, honestly -- but it's twitchy and nervous and not my thang, you know.
But this is all just my opinion. I am probably in the minority.
the hong kong is also at http://truthflies.com/
i agree, can't get it. no disrespect... i've heard two songs, and it just isn't working for me.
OMG! YOu like the Fiery Furnaces too!!! SO AWESOME :)
Hooray Fiery Furnaces! did you see the awesome review Pitchfork gave them? Its great how so many bloggers beat pitchfork to the punch!
i talked to them when they played south by southwest here in austin.
they were looking for a record deal.
and as far as i'm aware, they didn't get much attention that night.
also, they were real assholes.
Wow... the new AMG is terrible. It's like they tried extra hard to make it less useful. I mean, why put everything on one page where I can easily scroll through it when it could instead be on a half-dozen irritating tabs!
Agreed on The Fiery Furnaces... I bought two copies of Blueberry Boat, saw them yesterday in NYC, and made them a fansite at http://www.blueberryboat.com - check it out :D
I bought it. Because of you. Because I wasn't sure whether I wanted the first one or the second one. So I went with Blueberryboat because it was a masterpiece according to you. So feel cool, because your impact matters.
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