http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyXz6eMCj2k
“Now you’re messin’ with a son of a bitch.”
New Tea Party theme song?
Music
Camera Obscura, Swans (2009)
(The video is just the album cover, so no point in putting it on here.)
It is absolutely triple-A rated ear candy.
I was having dinner at Noodles & Company (which is a pretty good chain) on Michigan Ave. a while ago and I heard over the noise this incredibly sweet pop song, with a girl singer, exactly my kind of thing, but I could not discern enough to track it down in the few seconds I heard out of it. I was downcast by this, figuring it was lost forever into the void. But then I went back there a few weeks later and was elated to hear it again. It was as delightful as I remembered it being. This time I was able to capture a few scraps of lyrics, and I was able to — get this — whistle the melody into my phone, so I wouldn’t forget it. I thought it might have been Camera Obscura, but I wasn’t sure, and my first efforts to identify it did not work out. When I got home I related this all to my son, who is by now well acquainted with my musical obsessions, and who has mad Internet noodling skilz. He quickly found it. So, a happy ending.
(I previously had another song by Camera Obscura on here called French Navy.)
Lyrics below the fold
The Art of the Remake IV
Remember the standard, written by yours truly: “If you are going to cover a song, rip it apart a bit and make it your own.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMU_pZ9r2go
Hurricanes: In Literature, Film, and Music
I thought it might be fun this weekend, especially for those on the east coast, to talk about books/movies/songs in which hurricanes and similar events play a prominent role. For starters:
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies, C S Forester. Features not only a hurricane, but a Marine bandsman who faces execution on charges of willfully playing the wrong note.
The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk. The troubled and inadequate captain of a WWII destroyer-minesweeper panics during a typhoon.
Big Water Rising, Tom Russell and Iris DeMent. A Mississippi River flood.
Lost and Found, The Kinks. Hurricane hits NYC.
More?
David Johansen, Girls (1980)
Girls, girls, girls. It’s all I think about.
UPDATE: Three more songs from the same show:
Cool Metro, Frenchette, and Reach Out (I’ll Be There).
UPDATE II: Turns out this show was from 1980. My initial guess was 1978, since that was the year the album came out. These clips are from the German show Musik Laden. There are a ton of great clips from that show on YouTube.