Archive for November, 2006
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
I Don’t Wanna Be Down
Real Live Girls via someone’s bar-top cassette recorder. Not sure of the venue or date. For
better or worse I think this is pretty true to what we actually sounded like on a decent night.
A Devastationalist love song — i.e., terror, alcohol and the feeling that there’s something very
wrong with this picture.
Du mußt dein Leben [...]
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
Big Scorpio
From “The Hangover Sessions.” So-called for painfully obvious reasons. This was a live acoustic recording I did at Stuart’s to get down the batch of songs that would lead to the formation of the All-Girl Band. “Ironically” (is there anything more insane than putting those irony-quotes around the word ironically?), the Girls never cottoned to [...]
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Tundra — Casey Dienel
Something a little more obscure and contemporary to balance things out. From Casey Dienel’s debut album, “Wind-Up Canary.”
I marvel in awe at the humble idiosyncrasy of songs like this. And the little details kill me, like the tulle she “bought at JoAnn Fabrics.”
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
7 Devastationalist Wonders
1. For Tammy Rae — Bikini Kill
A tsunami of white noise that sounds like it was recorded in a basement using tin-can/string technology hides an unbearably fragile melody and the sad truth that romantic love can’t keep the awful outside world at bay forever, no matter how loud you play.
2. Creep — Pretenders
Overwhelming [...]
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Bruiseology — The Waitresses
I don’t think I want to just start randomly posting Devastationalist Masterpieces here — hell, if that were the case, I could just upload the entire contents of my iPOD. But this song is exceptional because the whole concept of Bruiseology (!) is such an incredibly self-aware formulation of the Devastationalist’s Dilemma. (And not just [...]
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Co-Coward — Bettie Serveert
If there were a Devastationalist Hall of Fame, “Dusty in Memphis” would no doubt be one of the first things you’d see displayed under glass in the grand entrance rotunda (after you made it up all those tear-stained marble steps, past the imposing 50-foot statue of Nico and her harmonium). But not all Devastationalist [...]
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Friday, November 24th, 2006
Devastationalism’s Greatest Hits
In an earlier post I talked about how I liked a certain song of mine because I thought it came closest to capturing the Devastationalist spirit. But of course, there are Devastationalist Masters out there in the world, the hems of whose garments I am not worthy to even touch.
Maybe in future posts I [...]
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Friday, November 24th, 2006
Odessa Tarzan
Sometimes I do the music for the soundtracks of friends’ movies, most often for the indescribable productions of Matthew Licht & Nick Danger. This was the “theme song” of their most recent cinematic venture.
Vocals
[Click to play, right-click to download MP3. Doesn't [...]
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Friday, November 24th, 2006
Feast Your Eyes
A glimmer of light amid the ruins. Doing good unto others is the surest way to gain the insight you need to clean up your own messes. The Girls always referred to this song as “Descendathon,” owing to the relentless plummet of its musical structure, and that’s inevitably how it appeared on set lists.
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Friday, November 24th, 2006
Nothing You Can Say
Despite what you may have heard, being a Devastionalist is not all ducks and bunnies.
[Click to play, right-click to download MP3. Doesn't always work with Mac/Safari.]
I see the marble that you keep up on the shelf
All buffed and polished in the [...]
