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Don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm vehemently against symbolism in any of its forms. After all, David Bowie's another one who uses a lot of it in his lyrics and it never bothers me at all. Surrealism in any form (be it in lyrics, poetry or avante-garde film) is something I can definitely enjoy, but it's a mood that I really have to work myself towards if you know what I mean. Plus, I never really pay an awful lot of attention to lyrics in any case.
Gotta disagree slightly with you over David Byrne's solo career as well. Look Into the Eyeball's a decent album, and I'm a huge fan of Rei Momo, but otherwise I agree - his solo output tends to be hampered by over-ambition, even if I still think there's the odd good song dotted throughout the rest of his albums. |
Preview Songs From the Feelies New Album
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...1feelms600.jpg The notoriously non-prolific Feelies are finally releasing their first new album in 20 years this Tuesday. After 20 years of fighting with record labels, breaking up, reuniting & periodically touring, Hoboken New Jersey's favorite sons, the Feelies have defied all odds and released a studio album. The nerdy, nervous and noisy band emerged as the best live band of the post punk movement in New York and earned their reputation on the basis of three album releases in the Eighties: Crazy Rhythms, The Good Earth & Only Life. Their take-no-prisoners live shows in the early 80s had the Feelies poised for future indie music stardom, along with their more successful musical peers like R.E.M. & U2. The Feelies' fights with their record label over creative direction earned them a reputation as being "difficult" & instead of achieving rock stardom, the Feelies spent the last two decades off the musical grid. Now after two decades of near misses & false starts the Feelies have actually cut an album & are set to tour extensively. Here Before is scheduled for release this Tuesday April 2 & here's three preview songs from that album. The Feelies- When You Know The Feelies- Should Be Gone The Feelies- Again Today |
Thank you for the previews! I love The Feelies and cannot wait for this newest release... I actually was lucky enough to see them a couple years ago at 9:30 club and they were phenomenal. They played extended rather noisy versions of lots of their songs, I remember a great version of The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness. There's something about their music that gives it that something special, it's got a relatively typical college/alternative rock sound to it up front, but there's a skittish, nervous undertone in a lot of their songs that really sets them apart to me. And it often sounds like a burst of distortion will tear the music into something like The Wipers or Pixies, but it stays buried in the music. I loved that show because it absolutely came out, and I was one of the youngest people in attendance... most of the audience was probably late 30s to early 50s. But the thing I noticed was, I went to a Dinosaur Jr concert a bit later that had a crowd much more representative of my age group, early 20s, and the crowd at The Feelies must have been 10 times as into the music! Good stuff all around.
And thanks for the European Indie Pop, Sophie Hunger sounds right up my alley. I must admit though, I don't get jj at all. Despite the fact that it really seems like it should be something I would enjoy, I can't get into them. |
I'm wondering if I should revive this journal. It had a lot of readers before over it's 21 month lifespan.
I forgot about Aural Fixation when I left Music Banter for a year to deal with a family crisis. What do you think? |
As long as you're able for the work there's no reason why not. Your output on "Warehouse" has been phenomenal and extremely well received. There's no reason at all why you should not run two journals, as long as you believe you can devote the time to them. After all, I'm currently handing four! My one word of caution would be to make a committment to update both reasonably regularly: there's nothing worse than starting a journal and then dropping it in favour of another, except for reviving that journal and then ending up having to drop it again.
More musical insight and fine writing from you can only benefit this forum. If you feel you can handle it, I'd say definitely go for it! |
I've thought about it and there really isn't any difference in the format of the two journals, so I'm probably better off concentrating on on just one of them. I've got some other journal ideas that are really different from the essay/review format of Aural Fixation and Warehouse of Songs and I think I'm going to concentrate on developing those ideas instead of resurrecting an old journal.
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Joseph Spence: The Complete Folkways Recordings, 1958 is a really great collection of some of his stuff |
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