I can't believe NOBODY has yet named Man Tear's "Outside Amore". Am I really the only one who loves this song?
Man Tear - Outside Amore
Janelle Monae – Q.U.E.E.N.
Boards of Canada - New Seeds
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Vampire Weekend - Step
Defheaven - Dream House
My Top 5:
1. Arise Therefore
2. Lie Down In The Light
3. I See Darkness
4. Ease Down The Road
5. The Letting Go
But Lost Blues and Other Songs (Palace 1997 compilation) is, simply, my favorite record EVER.
Today I had to put my 15 year old dog to sleep. I had been postponing the decision for several weeks, but yesterday my mum called me in tears saying he couldn't stand up on his legs. I lived with him and my mum for almost a decade and when i moved to my house, my mum said he would take good care of him. But we both knew it would be the other way around.
His name was Jota and today it feels like he was the brightest privilege I ever had in my life.
It took me two hours to get up this morning. I called the vet and asked him to come over to my mum's house. She has this great beautiful garden. When we arrived, Jota was so happy to see me that he did his best to get up alone on his legs. He wasn't able to do it, but he made me so proud of him.
The vet checked him out and told me that the heavy painkillers he had been taking weren't working anymore. I took the decision, I felt so horribly lonely. I held him in my arms while the doctor gave him the shot. He was really peaceful. First, he fell asleep. Then his body started to weight like tons as if earth was demanding his body urgently. That's when i realized he stopped breathing. I buried him in the garden. During the whole procedure I heard a Mum's Green Grass of Tunnel playing in my head. I hummed the melody. It somehow helped me. Guess that's popular culture for you.
Mum's sleeping here tonight. I cooked for her. We had dinner. Then she fell asleep in the couch. I put a blanket on her. Then I came here and when I read Kate's story about her dog I decided to share this with you, guys. Don't get me wrong, I'm kinda of ok now. Tomorrow is another day. And I can't wait to make her breakfast.
What I think at anytime of the day, any day:
1) The Bends, Ok Computer, Kid A and In Rainbows are masterpieces;
2) Amnesiac and KOTL are great great records that i've come to love more and more;
3) Hail To The Thief is a bummer: great tracks with some minor ones.
4) Pablo Honey is mediocre.
Allow me to try to explain it to you.
Music fruition has never been and will never be an exclusively aural experience.
Before the invention of sound recording, music fruition has always been in presentia: you had to share the same space as the performer to hear him play. And therefore there was always a visual dimension to add to the aural fruition of music. Whether we're talking about a greek drama, an italian opera or a bluesman playing his guitar by the Mississipi, music fruition was always a multi-sensorial experience (unless you were blind or it was a pitch black night, of course).
The invention of sound recording and things like headphones were, of course, attempts to isolate the aural experience to other sensorial stimulations, but simple things like the temperature of the room or the position of your body in it when you're listening to music will have an influence in your aural experience.
Now think of pop music. When it's performed and not recorded, well, you've got stage production, lightning, costumes, etc. to fulfill the visual dimension of your multisensorial musical fruition. When it is recorded, pop music always produced things like sleeve artwork, posters, flyers, T-Shirts and other merchandising that gave an important visual significance to the aural fruition of music. Think of Pink Floyd for instance: its music has obviously an important visual dimension that is related to Hypgnosis design. In the eighties, MTV made music videos another important visual medium with one important and decisive difference: in opposition to merchandising, the aural and visual dimensions of pop music are co-present in music videos.
Then came the Web. And what happened? All these media (records, flyers, posters, etc.) lost their relevance and the visual dimension of the multisensorial musical fruition has converged to music videos. Today most kids may know Pink Floyd songs without identifying the cover of their records and the majority of the mp3 they have on their iPods are even missing their tiny and poor jpeg images.
So watching music videos is the new listening to music. And YouTube has become a music jukebox. With images. Even if that image is only a still image of the album cover where the soundtrack was taken from.
Wonderful record. But it's quite unforgivable that you didn't embebed the Hammer & Tongs video for "Lost Cause". It's one of the most beautiful ever produced. Here it is: http://youtu.be/qkNa5xzOe5U
Stereogum, tell me: how come nobody has a nice thing to say about this amazing song? Sometimes i think Mark Eitzel is cursed. Or the world is insane. Either way, i'm glad he's still recording such beautiful songs as this one here. God bless.
"Hairdresser on Fire" is not part of Viva Hate. It's a (terrific) B-Side of "Everyday Is Like Sunday" and was later included in what is perhaps Mozz's greatest record: Bona Drag, a first-rate compilation of singles and B-Sides that are far more entertaining and diverse than Viva Hate.
Doug: "Everyday Is Like Sunday" was released as a single before Viva Hate and is track #2 of the record.
This is misleading because the images do not come from the same movie and even if they did scenes are often shot with hours or even days between them. This is wrong and confusing.
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