Many of my Facebook friends I’ve never met, but some I know very well and I know Robert Nevin better than most. We became best friends back in, what? 1985? 1986?, when we were working at Krauss Realty. Weekends. A very strange job, answering phones from people who might be interested in buying a condo. A fine idea in principle but… nobody ever rang. We would spend 12 hours reading, listening to music, no internet back then, discussing politics and girls and music and girls and girls and music. We went to see Rowan Atkinson on Broadway, went to see the Kinks at the Beacon and interviewed Ray Davies together.
Distance dims friendships, as does marriage of course, and so it was with us, but when I told Robert I wanted to write about music again, it was him who suggested rock nyc.
This is what he was listening to a month ago…
See My Baby Jive – Wizzard – Like the Move without the psychedelics or ELO without the attitude, TREX without the tree trunk, glam without the pedeophilia, Roy Wood’s most joyful wall of sound steal is at work here. Listen and learn! – A
Birth in Reverse – St. Vincent – Ooom pah pah, much catchier than her earlier stuff and let’s be honest, thank David Byrne who taught Annie a lot and she learnt it. This ain’t Talking Heads, it doesn’t sound like Talking Heads, and yet it has a similar hi lo tech beats and art vibe, and it also has a smart melodic oom pah to it – B+
Papa Was a Rodeo – Magnetic Fields – I really loved the album at the time but now it feels like a gimmick and all those songs the 69 Love Songs I loved, well 68 of them, I never listen to all all, and the 69th isn’t this, it is “Busby Berklee Dreams” – B
So Now What – The Shins – Yeah, yeah, yeah -this band will change your life? Maybe something off Chutes And Ladders might, this is just sad – C+
The House That Built Me – Miranda Lambert – The crazy -exgirlfriend calms down and twangs along for a solid country ballad which could teach many a youngster and also Carrie Underwood, how to underplay your hand – B+
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