Monday , November 16, 2009
Heavy Rotation: Alex Chilton, Jaguar Love, Sunn O)))
Alex Chilton, "Bangkok"
Like a sex offender, this song is both sexy and offensive (or, as I like to call it, "the best of both worlds"). "Bangkok" makes me momentarily forget how dweeby-looking Alex Chilton is in real life; I picture the dude singing this song as being a cross between Sawyer from LOST, Ian Svenonius and Merzbow. A compelling Alex Chilton factoid you must be dying to know is that he shares a birthday with both Seth Meyers and Elizabeth Barker! Live and learn, my babies, live and learn. Last but not least, the part where he goes "Mar-ga-ret Trudeau/Jackie O" makes me want to commit suicide and kill people because it's SO FUCKING HOT. In the words of Emeril Lagasse: BAM! (LJ)
Jaguar Love, "Bats Over the Pacific Ocean"
ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH, this song is so good! Jaguar Love is Johnny from the Blood Brothers (who mean a lot to me) and some dude from Pretty Girls Make Graves (who mean nothing to me); I maybe never would've known about them if it weren't for Fluxblog, who you might want to buy a t-shirt from, even though he was a big jerk about No Age. If I ever made mix CDs anymore, "Bats Over the Pacific Ocean" would be track 3 on every last one of them. It hurts as good as it heals. (Liz)
The Blood Brothers, "?????"
If I'd been born 10 years later, there's a 93 percent chance that the Blood Brothers would be my favorite band in the world. Instead they're like my 47th favorite band, which is still pretty awesome and I hope they feel really honored. "?????" isn't actually the title of this song; I have no idea what it's called. And I can't find out by Googling the lyrics, 'cause they're all just the same six lines from another Blood Brothers track ("Celebrator") repeated ad infinitum over acoustic guitar. Life is so mysterious sometimes! (Liz)
Metric, "Sick Muse"
I mentioned this earlier on my Twitter, but I am really into the new Metric album, Fantasies. It's a really great spring/summer modern pop record -- it's bouncy, but it has enough bite to keep things interesting by way of super-elastic beats and satisfyingly sharp guitars that are post-punkish but still dance-y enough to have a good time. Sometimes I wonder if Emily Haines ever lies in bed at night and feels like she missed her epoch because she's kind of the natural successor to Kim Deal, Kim Gordon and Liz Phair all rolled into one glorious product of the alterna-nineties: detached, wry, sharp-eyed and too smart to rely solely on her obvious hotness. I once saw her at a bar in NYC and she had a super-cool "I'm a smart, foxy tomboy" vibe going. I got to listen to a bunch of dudes the next table over debate whether or not it was her, and then they debated some more on whether or not they should go up and say something semi-lame to her. It was like listening to the Three Stooges crammed into the bodies of a bunch of skinny white dudes with glasses; no wonder courtship is dead. By the time they got their act together, she was out the door. Emily's so cool that she waits for no dude, friends, and neither should you. (Kat)
The Status Quo, "Black Fields of Melancholy"
Sometimes I wish that I was in charge of Kanye West's entire life. If I were Kanye West's "existence guru," I would tell him to do all the things he's too stupid to do on his own, such as a) wear hella Dior Homme, b) mention nogoodforme.com in more magazine interviews, and c) use this song's introductory guitar lick as the sample driving his next #1 hit single. Seriously, World! Can you imagine how catchy of a bubblegum rap anthem that would be? Since I am such a famous, relevant person, hopefully my writing of this blurb will now inspire legions of rappers to explore the multitudinous possibilities of 60's psych. I have held this opinion since at least 2004, and it feels good to finally get it off my chest. Another point about "Black Fields of Melancholy" is that it always breaks my heart like an effin' china teacup when I play it for losers and they think it's "Pictures of Matchstick Men." I'm not kidding- that sounds like a snide comment, but it actually makes me really sad. (LJ)
Sunn O))), "Sin Nanna"
Although this is relatively tame for Sunn O))), I feel almost bad putting this on here. But then again -- what other fashion blog would ever put a relentlessly doom-y drone metal band on their jukebox? This band can be ridiculously pretentious, but they can also be so sick and awesome and complex and surprising, using elements of drone, psychedelia, and ambient in their music and pretty much blowing away the mistaken assumption of metal as an aesthetically conservative backwater. Jim Jarmusch used some Sunn O))) songs on the soundtrack of his latest film, the really cryptic-yet-crammed-with-hot-people The Limits of Control, and finally I got a sense of how genuinely cinematic they can be. (Jarmusch also used songs by Boris, Earth and the Black Angels, which makes him the most musically with-it filmmaker on earth, I think.) Sunn O))) also subtitled a Metallica cover they did as "I Dream of Lars Ulrich Being Thrown Through the Bus Window Instead of My Master Mystikall Kliff Burton." I don't know why, that makes me laugh so hard, probably 'cause I think Lars Ulrich is such a tool. Go see Sunn O))) live and watch your ears melt with the noise. Apparently in terms of live volume they make My Bloody Valentine sound like a bunch of babies. (Kat)
Sunn O))) needs Rick Owens in their life, don't you think?
Tags: 60s psych, Alex Chilton, alterna-nineties, Bangkok, bubblegum rap, courtship, doom, Emeril Lagasse, Emeril Lagasse's first nogoodforme shout-out, Emily Haines, Fluxblog, Jackie O, Jaguar Love, Jim Jarmusch, Kanye West, Lars Ulrich is a tool, Laura Jane should run Kanye West's life, Margaret Trudeau, Metric, No Age, sex offenders, Sunn O))), The Blood Brothers, The Status Quo (band not concept)
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That Alex Chilton song always makes me go "Bangkok is NOT in Indonesia and never was!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" A dude put it on a mixtape for me once and I was like, "ARE YOU FOR REAL?!"
By kat on April 28, 2009 5:21 PM
Dudes just don't understand.
By Laura
on April 28, 2009 8:53 PM
ooh, I really like that metric song! I've been meaning to look up that album since you mention it the other day. now it goes on my acquisition list!
By kb on April 30, 2009 2:47 PM
ooh, I really like that metric song! I've been meaning to look up that album since you mention it the other day. now it goes on my acquisition list!
By keight on April 30, 2009 2:49 PM