Sunday , June 13, 2010
Heavy Rotation: Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions, Grace Jones, Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions, "Blanchard"
OK, so who didn't make out/do drugs/mope gloriously to a Mazzy Star song sometime in the early 90s? If you didn't, you can stop reading this now, because you won't understand how exciting it is that Hope Sandoval's releasing a new record on September 29; "Blanchard" is the first single off it and you can download it at Brooklyn Vegan. It seems like anyone or anything related to Mazzy Star takes about half a decade (or more) to happen, which is both tantalizing and frustrating in the same way that the development of certain crushes can be. (You know who you are.) She's collaborating again with Colm O'Ciosoig from My Bloody Valentine, and I'm sure the result with be as lovely, spectral, and ethereal-earthy as Hope herself -- she's kind of been one of my eternal girl crushes since forever. I found out she's a Cancer and nearly fluttered up to heaven with delight, that's how crush-y I get on her. I love it when people are Cancers! (Kat)
Crystal Castles, "Tell Me What To Swallow"
I heard this randomly at some dude's house awhile back and was like "This is pretty, who is this?" I was told, "Crystal Castles!" I was like, "No way!" 'cause usually Crystal Castles do really abrasive, twitchy electropunk-y stuff that makes you want to dance and punch people at the same time--something that singer Alice Glass is known to do during their stage show. "Yes way!" I was told. "It's Crystal Castles!" Me: "NO WAY!" Dude: "YES WAY!" And so on and so forth--I was a little drunk. But an Internet search performed sober a day later proved that I was in the wrong. This pretty, airy piece is totally Crystal Castles, a band whose songs I sometimes enjoy and sometimes do not enjoy. I picked this song mostly because it works so beautifully with Hope Sandoval's song, and I still can't believe it's Crystal Castles, but there you go. (Kat)
Grace Jones, "She's Lost Control"
This one time I was at a fashion show and they were playing Grace Jones's cover of "She's Lost Control," and then halfway through it morphed into the original version, and it was the best thing I've ever heard in my life. BTW, I'm dedicating this track to my 87 Facebook friends who went to see Grace Jones at the Hollywood Bowl last Sunday and then bragged all about it in their status updates and made me feel really jealous. Thanks, jerks! (Liz)
Porno For Pyros, "Tahitian Moon"
And this other time, 13 summers ago, I saw Porno For Pyros and they had topless firebreathers on stilts wearing gigantically poofy princess skirts, and one of the firebreathers fell off her stilts and dropped her fire stick thing onto her skirt and then went up in flames! It was so scary and terrible, although apparently she was all right in the end. In other news, "Tahitian Moon" is a mostly great song that we often forget all about. Let's remember. (Liz)
The Zombies, "Care of Cell 44"
This is a love song written for an incarcerated woman. She is a prisoner, or, as a hypothetical sexist from the 1920s might say, a "prisonette." If I were the Vivian Girls, I'd be mad I didn't name my band "The Prisonettes." How did Colin Blunstone's girlfriend end up in the slammer? What crime did this wild babe commit? Perhaps she brutally murdered her schoolteacher with a silver hammer! That seems to be a relevant crime these days. Prison is sexy. (Laura Jane)
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart "Ambushers"
The Ambushers are terrifying! Who are they, and why are they stalking me? They are obsessed with me! And you! What are they going to do? I suppose it is entirely possible that maybe they are just nice people who want to make others happy. Maybe they are trying to "get me" so they can give me nice presents. Flowers? Chocolate? I doubt it. I get the impression they are sex offenders. But- if the Ambushers are sexy, then it isn't really offensive, is it? If they're sexy, they can go right ahead and "get" me with "their lips, their hips, their smile, their style, [and] their eyes." That sounds like a blast. (LJ)
Tags: Boyce & Hart, fire, Grace Jones, Perry Farrell, prison, prison is sexy, prisonettes, sex offenders, The Zombies, topless firebreathers on stilts
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David Roback's band before Mazzy Star was even better IMO. They were called Opal.
Their singer Kendra Smith's voice was even dreamier than Hope's.
Highly recommended!
By Derek on July 30, 2009 7:51 PM
i got a facial to a mazzy star song once; it was fantastic.
By Liz
on July 30, 2009 9:44 PM
I was seven in the early 90s. I hope you can forgive me for not doing drugs or making out, Kat.
By Laura
on July 31, 2009 12:51 AM
what a square!
By Liz
on July 31, 2009 10:44 AM