Reach For The Sky – Beth Orton – “…and save your soul”. From sheet music found after Judee Sill’s death, this unreleased song is a glorious gospel piano based spiritual. And it is very, very Sill. I was trying to figure out her chord blocking and found myself completely baffled as to what she was doing (and the key seems to be shifting without shifting). This might take the Nessing touch.
Stolen Car – Beth Orton – Speaking of Beth. Why did she fall off the face of the planet in the second half of the decade? Beth, D’Angelo and Fiona Apple took an extended vacation -she had a child in 2006 which might have something to do with it! I love the way this song stops and starts and I love the story telling. Do you know the album Central Reservation. It’s like an electronic fairty tale -but a grimms Brother fairytale.
4 Chords Of The Apocalypse – Julian Casablancas – An inspired rip of “That’s How Strong My Love Is” comes across as a spiritual by someone who doesn’t believe in God.
Sermons – Cold War Kids – The opening sounds like an out of tune organ at a small town Church in the middle of winter. Queen Robot had this to say on songmeanings.com: “I believe that this song is asking for a higher power’s forgiveness for sins committed during the collapse of our society”. Say Amen somebody.
All System Go – Love Via Dance Machine – A sermon from the future from time traveling testifier Eric Gravas. With some advise that goes beyond dance to out music by the end.
Five Minutes More – Frank Sinatra
Chase The Tear – Portishead
Chapter 2 – Love Via Dance Machine – There is an acoustic version on youtube (url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_6PTk1nGz8) and the revelation is the bridge which is just plain magic and which I’d missed entirely. Plu the same they hermonize to the money shot “supergirl” is awesome.
American Honey – Lady Antebellum
Transmission – Joy Division
Robocop – Kanye West
I’m Against It – Groucho Marx
Passionate Kisses – Lucinda Williams – I really loved Lucinda around this time, maybe even earlier with Happy Woman Blues, but definitely here where she’s singing, you know, pop much. “Shouldn’t I have this? Shouldn’t I have all of this and passionate kisses from you…” Long time ago. Now she’s a big time artist.
LOL 🙂 – Trey Songz – Yeah, it’s a novelty but it’s a good novelty. Sexy and fun.
If We Ever Meet Again (Feat. Katy Perry)
Just Snap Your Fingers – Marshall Crenshaw
Heaven Can Wait (Nsaj Thing remix) – Charlotte Gainsborg
The Monkey Time – Major Lance – Dated and timeless at the same time, it’s as seedy disco as northern soul can ever imaginable but irressistably danceable and the sorta stuff that could turn, in England in the sixties, the DJ into the star player on the dancefloor. Things swing from here to… Gamble and Huff, the sound of Philadelphia, all that stuff. A different kind of sermon for a Wednesday afternoon.
Comments are closed.