Friday, November 22, 2002
stumpydisc: november 2002/2
1>fashion fight pause-hot hot heat. maybe I'm not such a good writer, because even as hhh are one of my favorite bands these days, all I can come up with to say about this track is "all ist klar, herr kommissar?"
2>first we take manhattan-jennifer warnes. in which ms. warnes warps from a soft-rock singer of crappy songs to an expert interpreter of other people's, complete with stevie ray vaughan on guitar. jagged and bitter, but no pill.
3>first we take manhattan-leonard cohen. the original, after the fact (a la dylan's "mississippi"). and just the same, a revelation. age has roughened, and improved, his voice, not the opposite.
4>fly like an eagle-seal. steve miller didn't know how to fly; seal was icarus.
5>forgive-rebecca lynn howard. she's not choked up, oh no, 'cause she's got lawyers.
6>from tha chuuuch to da palace-snoop dogg. one of the neptunes' finest works of '02, this is broken machines playing r-and-b. snoop's ever oblivious, just makin' the scene with the gangsta lean, baby.
7>groovejet (if this ain't love)-spiller (f/sophie ellis-bextor). she's ace in a housey setting. she trumps herself on a pop record, though.
8>hate to say I told you so-the hives. grunge '92 = garage '02. and these swedes might be nirvana.
9>him-rupert holmes. see this explication.
10>house of jealous lovers-the rapture. interpol's evil twin?
11>hurt-johnny cash. the man in black meets the man in - leather? bondage gear? - and does the unthinkable, making a reznor song sound more painful than before.
12>I am mine-pearl jam. good pearl jam, which is sometimes good enough.
13>I hate rock'n'roll-the jesus and mary chain. hundreds of shoegazers died for their sins. the crown for "velvet underground of the '80s" goes to them, the pixies, or sonic youth. take your pick.
14>(I know) I'm losing you-rod stewart. where did he misplace those testicles?
15>I walk the line (revisited)-rodney crowell f/johnny cash. an expert re-interpretation by a guy who should know - he was john's son-in-law for 10+ years. glad to know there's no hard feelings, then.
16>if I was your girlfriend (live at paisley park)-prince f/miles davis. there aren't too many times when a pair of honest-to-god geniuses collide. this was one.
1>fashion fight pause-hot hot heat. maybe I'm not such a good writer, because even as hhh are one of my favorite bands these days, all I can come up with to say about this track is "all ist klar, herr kommissar?"
2>first we take manhattan-jennifer warnes. in which ms. warnes warps from a soft-rock singer of crappy songs to an expert interpreter of other people's, complete with stevie ray vaughan on guitar. jagged and bitter, but no pill.
3>first we take manhattan-leonard cohen. the original, after the fact (a la dylan's "mississippi"). and just the same, a revelation. age has roughened, and improved, his voice, not the opposite.
4>fly like an eagle-seal. steve miller didn't know how to fly; seal was icarus.
5>forgive-rebecca lynn howard. she's not choked up, oh no, 'cause she's got lawyers.
6>from tha chuuuch to da palace-snoop dogg. one of the neptunes' finest works of '02, this is broken machines playing r-and-b. snoop's ever oblivious, just makin' the scene with the gangsta lean, baby.
7>groovejet (if this ain't love)-spiller (f/sophie ellis-bextor). she's ace in a housey setting. she trumps herself on a pop record, though.
8>hate to say I told you so-the hives. grunge '92 = garage '02. and these swedes might be nirvana.
9>him-rupert holmes. see this explication.
10>house of jealous lovers-the rapture. interpol's evil twin?
11>hurt-johnny cash. the man in black meets the man in - leather? bondage gear? - and does the unthinkable, making a reznor song sound more painful than before.
12>I am mine-pearl jam. good pearl jam, which is sometimes good enough.
13>I hate rock'n'roll-the jesus and mary chain. hundreds of shoegazers died for their sins. the crown for "velvet underground of the '80s" goes to them, the pixies, or sonic youth. take your pick.
14>(I know) I'm losing you-rod stewart. where did he misplace those testicles?
15>I walk the line (revisited)-rodney crowell f/johnny cash. an expert re-interpretation by a guy who should know - he was john's son-in-law for 10+ years. glad to know there's no hard feelings, then.
16>if I was your girlfriend (live at paisley park)-prince f/miles davis. there aren't too many times when a pair of honest-to-god geniuses collide. this was one.
# posted by Thomas : 3:02 PM
