Hallelujah All The Way Home
wordpress 2.6 is out and features a tumblr-like bookmarklet and youngmosstongue has the first album by legendary new zealand band the verlaines Hallelujah All The Way Home as well as bucketloads of other good stuff
Archive for mp3
anyone else but you
I haven’t seen Juno but according to wikipedia Anyone Else But You, the first track on the first album by The Moldy Peaches (which was released on September 11, 2001), is central to the film and a version is performed by the two main characters. The song was also used in a mobile phone TV-ad in France featuring Zinedine Zidane during the World Cup in 2006 (which Italy shouldn’t have won because they didn’t deserve to beat Australia) and in an Academy Award-nominated documentary about quadriplegics who play wheelchair rugby, called Murderball. I can see the first connection, but the other two have me stumped.
Anyway, it’s a good song. Listen to it.
list of things lost (addendum)
elsewhere i am writing on loss and i have started a list there of all the things i’ve lost - at three thirty this morning i woke up remembering another item to add to the list : the patti smith piss factory single on the original mer label (and the stanley single by snatch!) were in that box of singles i sold for $100 at newtown markets when i was a desperate student in the late eighties … damn! i wonder how much that would be worth now … and also : i love that song … i lie there for about half an hour thinking about it in the dark night … the original piss factory single on the mer label … bought by me in 1976 … in the rough trade shop in london …
:( …
i no longer have it … damn damn damn!!
ah well … but i was there … priceless … as the credit card ads say
and i can listen to the song anytime i want
(elsewhere i have written - as have others - about why patti smith mattered)
attention : will oldham fans
tarry not will oldham fans young and old for this free 192kbps download
Bonnie Prince Billy Live with Harem Scarem, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 12, 2006
At this show, Oldham performs with Harem Scarem (not to be confused with the Canadian rockers), a group of fine vocalists with an array of instruments that easily compliments the songs.
featuring : a minor place, i see a darkness, master and everyone and other immortal classics.
another one goes by
what! another walkmen post? i just can’t help myself. the blogosphere is wildly excited about a new walkmen song red river (which is on the spiderman 3 soundtrack - you can hear it on the very annoying spiderman3 myspace site which i am not going to link to). but the saftmasheen song of the week is a different walkmen track : from their most recent and much maligned third album another hundred miles off. this classic slice of postpop is called another one goes by, and in keeping with its title had escaped my attention.
go here to hear it - if you listen to it three times in a row, you’ll be completely addicted.
warning : some seriously dylanesque hamilton leithauser vocal stylings are evident from time to time. but hey … you’ll be singing it in the shower, you’ll be whistling it on the way to the supermarket, and you’ll curse the fact that you have gone out with out syncing your ipod and now you can’t listen to it until you get home.
