Just because it isn’t Tuesday, it doesn’t mean I haven’t been blowing my money…
Zebulon – Rufus Wainwright – Dead of night pitch black heart break without catharcism, without hope, withour cheer. Just a dull (not as in boring, as in unsharpened) vocal and a note by note piano banging out the remnants of the melody line and when Rufus raises his voice it is pure anguish. Who would like this? Manic depressives like me.
Give Me What I Wanted – Rufus Wainwright – Upbeat Morrissey rip if Morrissey loved Verdi -OMG, light hearted???
Find Your Love – Drake – An awkward r&b sible released so we could all say B.o.B is doing this shit better right now. It sure aint hip hop, it is more like the hip hop change up r&b modern dance production blah blah. I don’t actively dislike it but that’s the best you can say.
Funnel of Love – The Fall – The closest we will ever get to Mark e. Smith covering Bruce. It’s not that it sounds like “Tunnel of Love”, it is that the song is informed by a rock and roll construction that is at odds with the rest of (what I’ve heard of) the rest of Your Future Our Clutter, I can vaguely imagine Springsteen writing the lick.
Y.F.O.C./Slippery Floor – The Fall – The theme tune from the album is the epitome of entropic waste and a perfect musical soundtrack to both the UK General Election and the atrocious and terrifying series of dumb luck that saved 100s of lives on Time Square. Like so many of Smith’s moments: it seems to degrade sound to its particles.
Bad to Me – Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas – “The birds in the sky would be sad and lonely if they knew that I’d lost my one and only…” Nature is on his side…
Come Stay With Me – Marianne Faithfull – An ode to pre-marital bliss… recommended to lana Mir.
Something Better – Marianne Faithfull – Put down Mick’s (small) penis and walk towards the door.
Grand Mal – Elliott Smith – An XO outtake and the original name of the album. I guess it is a demo because it is just acoustic guitar, but it has a direct lightness and speedy simplicit and thoug (hey, this is Elliott) it isn’t cheerful it still sounds cheerful. Alyson, doesn’t that translate to big sickness?
Eyelash Curlers & Butchers Knives (What’s the Difference) – Jeffree Star – This guy looks like a rock star from the early seventies but comes on like a dance nerd in love with power tool, it’s like they should rebuild Paradise Garage in Jeffree’s honor.
Dang A Lang – Trina – I dissed this yesterday for the rap but the chorus if a reggae sunburst of energy and fun and saves the song from itself.