A Child’s Garden of Grass
Last night my friend took me to the premiere for season two of one of the only tv shows I actually watch, Showtime’s Weeds (I’m not bragging, this is going somewhere… sort of). It was great, they played the first…
Captain Beefheart - Electricity (Live) 1968
Not all of rock’n’roll’s excesses comes from drink or drugs—an easy excess would be one of Poptones recent purchases - Grow Fins - a five CD box set of Captain Beefheart rarities and demos from 1965 to 1985. Poptones listened to this in one sitting for the period of one work day and began to see in colours and thought that shopping on Venus would be a good idea. Too much Beefheart into the system, even that of a casual user, is always advised. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grow-Fins-1965-1982-Captain-Beefheart/dp/B00000IXTB/sr=1-1/qid=1158935782/ref=sr_1_1/026-6323262-7540417?ie=UTF8&s=music
Third Week Is No. 1 Charm For Furtado’s ‘Promiscuous’
Nelly Furtado’s "Promiscuous" featuring Timbaland maintains the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 after taking the crown two weeks ago. The cut is also the chart’s greatest airplay gainer and remains atop the Pop 100 and Hot Digital Songs charts for a third frame each.
On the Hot 100, Gnarls Barkley’s "Crazy" continues its slow march toward the top, rising 3-2 for a new peak in its 10th chart week. Cassie’s "Me & U" moves 4-3, while Shakira’s "Hips Don’t Lie" featuring Wyclef falls 2-4 and also loses control of the Hot Latin Songs chart to Don Omar’s "Angelito" after seven weeks at No. 1.
Yung Joc’s "It’s Goin’ Down" holds at No. 5 on the Hot 100 and at No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs tally. The rest of the big chart’s top tier finds Rihanna’s "Unfaithful" climbing 6-8, Christina Aguilera’s "Ain’t No Other Man" sliding 6-7, Lil Jon’s "Snap Yo Fingers" featuring E-40 & Sean Paul Of The YoungBloodZ inching up 9-8, Chamillionaire’s "Ridin’" featuring Krayzie Bone dropping 7-9 and the Fray’s "Over My Head (Cable Car)" zooming 10-8.
Young Dro’s "Shoulder Lean," which features mentor T.I., is the Hot 100’s greatest digital gainer and jumps 31-17. The Pussycat Dolls’ "Buttons" featuring Snoop Dogg climbs 17-12 and 11-9 on the Pop 100, the group’s fourth top 10 hit on that chart since its February 2005 launch. The Hot 100’s top debut is Justin Timberlake’s "SexyBack" at No. 90.
On Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, Brad Paisley’s "The World" jumps 2-1 to interrupt a five-week reign at the top by Kenny Chesney’s "Summertime." Koji Kondo’s "Super Mario Brothers Theme" fronts the Hot Ringtones chart for a seventh week, while Daniel Powter’s "Bad Day" leads the Adult Contemporary chart for an 12th frame.
There’s still no stopping the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ "Dani California" on Billboard’s Modern and Mainstream Rock charts, where it remains No. 1 on for a 13th and 11th week, respectively.
Grizzly Bear’s Marla
Grizzly Bear - “Marla” Marla - “Of Course You Can’t Go Without That” (exclusive) I wrote before about Grizzly Bear’s Yellow House. I said they had taught their garden to sing. That’s a strange thing to say: how can a garden sing? It would have to be inhabited. With crickets and moths, maybe. Or nightingales. Or gardeners. Or with ghosts. I’ve carried Yellow House with me through many days and nights, on the streets and in my home. (When my mood was soaring or when I was drifting, woozy. Both of these things.) It is a music at once diaphonous and bodily, like a hand you can occasionally take and occasionally not. Like the way you can feel sunshine, sometimes, as you walk through a dusty band of it. There’s an insideness to the music, - close, murmured, tender, - brought outside. Or an outsideness - wild, fertile, ripe, - brought in. Things walking where they should and shouldn’t. The Grizzly Bear song “Marla” is perhaps the most haunted of any on Yellow House. A piano sounds, an attic whispers, and voices gather like spirits in a cup. The strings, arranged by Final Fantasy, dip and rise like an old…
like bugs when they break through a cocoon
Herman Dune - “I Wish That I Could See You Soon” (mp3 removed at label request). Herman Dune’s new album is made with major label lucre: horn section, expensive studio, backup singers. But it’s also made with familiar stuff: tambourine jangle, sneaker squeak, rhymes like high-fives. “I Wish That I Could See You Soon” hides nothing. It’s about wishing that I could see you soon. It’s about seeing a photograph and hearing trumpets; it’s about talking to yourself; it’s about wanting, wanting, wanting; about there being no way to say and nothing you can do. Part of me wants to rerecord it at half-speed, just murmur and lazy-strummed mandolin, singing all the sadness that the song submerges. Herman Dune don’t wallow even for a second: they consider the worst-case, they sing it, but then they move on to the more important stuff. To wishing. And wishing is fast enough to dance to. According to the dictionary: wish n. 1. To have or feel a desire: wish for the moon. [Giant is out in October. In the meantime maybe read Herman Dune’s MySpace diary post about a visit to Montreal, and dressing up with Julie Doiron at a Flaming Lips show….
Needn’t Be So Difficult
Detective Kalita - “Mary 16″ I assume that you like Sherlock Holmes, and that, like Holmes, you value a simple, elegant argument above almost anything else. Now, Holmes doesn’t need directions to Simplicity and Elegance, but for those of you who haven’t been there yet, the quickest route is via Brevity (Ave.). Brevity is a particularly important virtue in the detective game (not Clue, but yes, also in Clue), as well as in the other game favoured by Philip Marlowe (my favoured detective), chess. Marlowe always managed to be knee deep in a chess problem which acted as a perfect metaphor for the case he was investigating. The key, inevitably, was to find a solution in the fewest possible moves, to get the villain before the villain got him: a principle understood at a deep level by Humphrey Bogart, the actor who played Marlowe most memorably, and who was an expert-level chess player. Bogart was one of the few actors who might have actually been able to solve Marlowe’s ludicrously difficult chess problems. The problems tended to involve mate in at least seven moves (very long) and almost always required a knight’s oblique, deceptively innocuous, attack. “Mary 16″ achieves its…
Rihanna - Unfaithful (Tony Moran Club Edit) music video
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