Monday , November 16, 2009
Heavy Rotation, Special Springtime Edition: Pavement, the Duke Spirit, Turquoise
Liz Phair, "White Chocolate Space Egg"
One thing I really enjoy in life is yelling at people who think Liz Phair stopped making good records after Whip Smart. I used to be wrongheaded like that, but then my ex-boyfriend pointed out how whitechocolatespaceegg is one of the few albums in the world that pretty much always feels exactly suited to your mood. It's true! The title track is extra-perfect in springtime, especially on the very first post-daylight-savings evenings of the year, when you get home from work and it's still light out and you turn up the stereo loud and open the windows and let the sun in and feel like a human again after hibernating all winter. Try it! (Liz)
Pavement, "Robyn Turns 26"
Laura Faulds put this on a mixtape for me when she was 15. I have no idea why I decided to include it here; it just kinda spontaneously popped in my head earlier when I was scrubbing the kitchen sink in preparation for my little sister's first time visiting me in L.A. But yeah, I really like when it Malkmus sing-speaks the words "Maybe she should move to Boulder, eat granola, rockandrolla," cuz that's something I sometimes wonder of myself. Boulder's one of my favorite places on the planet and I'm sure it's a dream in spring. Also, I like to rockandrolla while eating granola - preferably Bear Naked's Fruit and Nut, or that pumpkin flax stuff in the bulk bins at Nature Mart. (Liz)
The Duke Spirit, "Red Weather"
I usually hate driving, but come springtime I find myself actually enjoying it -- such is the power of the change of seasons. This is the kind of quasi-lazy rock song I like on the stereo on those rare occasions. It begins kind of amble-y and too cool for school but it builds into a really great squall that somehow gets me past the speed limit. Speeding ticket on I-90, here I come! (Kat)
Neneh Cherry, "Kisses on the Wind"
This whole song is about walking down 125th Street in Harlem looking super-fly on your way to, I don't know, bowling, the Studio Museum in Harlem or the only H&M in the city that doesn't make me homicidal. The whole record of Raw Like Sushi holds up super-well; it will make your nascent springtime ten times more awesome if you rediscover it. (Kat)
Turquoise, "Woodstock"
Out of all the bands in the world that are not the Kinks, Turquoise are the band that sounds the most like the Kinks. As I mentioned yesterday, The Kinks are the paragon of Springtime Rock Bands; therefore, Turquoise are the penultimate Springtime Rock Band (A+ for semi-correct usage of "penultimate," Laura Jane!) Something interesting about Turquoise is that their music automatically infects its listener with a whopper of a case of color-graphemic synaesthesia, because how can you listen to a band called Turquoise and not hear the music as being turquoise? Strangely, this same phenomenon applies to neither Pink Floyd nor Redd Kross. Another interesting factoid about this song is that it predates the occurrence of the actual Woodstock Festival by two years, which is spookily coincidental. Are Turquoise psychic? (LJ)
Tony, Caro & John, "Eclipse of the Moon"
A good way to describe the sonic sensationz of TC&J is "what I wish Fairport Convention sounded like instead of sounding like lame Celtic shit." Seriously, what is the deal with people loving Fairport Convention so much? Do the same people who like Fairport Convention also like The Chieftains? They should, because they are virtually the exact same band. In other news, this song sounds like hoppity-skipperloo-ing through the English Countryside, "mucking about" and "having a laugh" and "taking the mickey" and "thinking about the BBC" and "calling Paul McCartney 'Macca'" and doing other non-lame, non-Celtic springtime-y things British people do. (LJ)
Tags: Celtic shit, Colorado, extra-sensory perception, Fairport Convention are lame, granola, Liz Phair, Macca, mixtapes, mucking about, Nature Mart, Pavement, springtime, synaesthesia, The Kinks, Turquoise, Woodstock
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I haven't thought about "Robyn Turns 26" since, like, two days after I put it on a mixtape for Liz Barker when I was 15. I am so stoked I've been reminded of it! "Robyn Turns 26" is like the gift that keeps on giving. My favourite Malkie-rap is when he says, "Where the fuck have you been, Girl?"- it's so nerdy/awesome.
By Laura
on March 26, 2009 1:42 PM
At the risk of sounding like a crazed Zappa fan...if you think Fairport sounds like the Chieftains, you're listening to the wrong albums. The albums they've made during their extended reunion period are a bit staid and boring, but the stuff from when they first formed, particularly Unhalfbricking and especially Liege and Lief, are brilliant. Those albums sound like a cross between The Band and Jefferson Airplane. Plenty of bands re-formed and made horrible albums, so don't hold it against Fairport that their later period puts people to sleep.
By Chelsea on March 28, 2009 2:39 PM
It's not Fairport's fault; it's mine- I just can't get into them! It's the same thing with me and the Soft Machine. I wish both bands sounded exactly like "Path Through The Forest" by the Factory.
PS: I don't REALLY think Fairport sound like The Chieftains (I doth exaggerate), but they sound more like the Chieftains than I wish they did.
By Laura
on March 28, 2009 2:54 PM
Somehow I can't see the Chieftains abiding this nonsense: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAS4ltt7DzI
By Chelsea on March 28, 2009 11:02 PM