Neko Case

"Jackie is Dan Bejar singing....?"

i meant jackie, dressed in cobras but that's a duet i suppose. i can't find a list on the net that lists who sings which newpy song. anyone help make a neko-lead-vocal playlist?

I could help later - but off the top of my head you left off the outstanding title track from Challengers.

Left out:
Challengers
Go Places
All for Swinging You Around
Streets of Fire (not technically the lead)

Neko has a great voice but does it no favors with oblique, formless story songs that don't actually tell stories.

I think that "Star Witness" is her single best bit of storytelling, though.

That makes 9-10 Newp/Newpies songs that she sings lead on. Seems like an album's worth to me.

"Hold On, Hold On" is pretty oblique, but utterly sublime, IMO.

add Your Daddy Don't Know to newpies comp

I prefer the "When I Was a Baby" cover myself!

agree to disagree. I prefer Neko when she throttles out wrt the newpies.

The Neko Pornographers

1. Mass Romantic
2. The Laws Have Changed
3. Letter From an Occupant
4. Challengers
5. The Bones of an Idol
6. The Jessica Numbers
7. All for Swinging You Around
8. These Are the Fables
9. Star Bodies
10. Miss Teen Wordpower
11. Go Places

www.myspace.com/nekocase

NEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

2009 is gonna be good.

I'm SUPER EXCITED about this.

hmm. single is ... ok.

http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Cyclone-Neko-Case/dp/B001MWGZDG/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1231969499&sr=8-1

SHE SPEAKS; LIVES ON FARM; WEARS ADULT SWIM HOODIE

Nice feature/interview piece on her in the new Oxford American magazine music issue

I kinda like the single, but was a little disappointed in the OA piece. I guess I wanted a little more point to it other than describing his play date with Neko. Which makes me wonder, does she get tired of everybody crushing on her?

OA link?

i like the new song because i feel it is a good song and i enjoy the way they play and sing the musical parts.

Hey, this "new single" on her myspace page isn't Neko Case, but a clever impostor. Hint: you can tell by WHERE'S ALL THE REVERB?

Me like, actually.

I meant to say a month ago, thanks to korn for recommending "Your Control", it's a really fantastic duet. I'm guessing with another vocalist it would have merely been an average Springsteen-style tune, but it really worked for me.

I had breakfast with Ms Case yesterday in New York. I can exclusively reveal that she opts for egg white frittatas to start her day.

I meant to say a month ago, thanks to korn for recommending "Your Control",

Finally, some recognition. I'll tell you, sometimes it's really hard being so ahead of the curve. Lonely.

Regardless, that song should really be a hit. And Bowling Green, from her first album, should have been a Hey Ya level smash.

I had breakfast with Ms Case yesterday in New York. I can exclusively reveal that she opts for egg white frittatas to start her day. Well, there goes that celebrity infatuation, then.

Because she opted for egg white frittatas or because she had breakfast with Stevie T?

People Got a Lot of Nerve is pretty sweet.

I could never abide a singin', travellin' woman who noshed on an egg-white frittata.

All I know is she is airbrushed into oblivion on that new album cover. Girl need to act her age.

She cooked my Thanksgiving dinner once.

She and I roadtripped to TJ in the summer of 2001.

she fixed my transmission with a roll of gaffers tape and a can of tuna

Lyrically, her obliqueness is both a virtue and a limitation. (I can identify.)

Anyone know what part of Ukraine her parents come from?

Nope. But in the Oxford American music issue article by Jack Pendarvis it says she speaks Russian. Alas, that article is not online at the Oxford American website (you'll have to buy it or read it a bookstore or something).

But Paste has a recent interesting interview with her and a list of 17 things she loves--http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/01/neko-case-drives-us-batty.html

This new record is sounding awesome ! What an opening track !!

I was wondering what this final 31-minute track could be ... I see ... crickets chirping.

But yes, 'This Tornado Loves You' -- goodness, this whirling propeller of a number is just about as thrilling as any Neko case track ever! and that's saying something.

Leak or review copy?

I didn't even realize it wasn't out yet
http://www.anti.com/catalog/view/122/Middle_Cyclone

On a first listen, the whole thing sounds to me roughly as good as the last 2-3 LPs, which is, again, saying something.

Uh so -- leak? Review copy?

Someone gave me the tracks.

'People Got A Lotta Nerve' is stunning too, surely the best use she's ever made of 12-string.

includes covers of Sparks and Harry Nillson - is it a Neko Case or a New Porno's record?!

Really thought this was out already and I'd missed it. Very surprised to find that for once in my life I'm actually listening to something that's not out yet.

Stevie T who had brunch with her (upthread) doesn't think much of it, so maybe no one should expect too much after all.

pinefox - in the nicest way, I hate you :). Glad that it's sounding up to scratch, though!

Carson, if it makes you feel better, I plugged in my iPod to get this LP off my computer, and the iPod has promptly died and doesn't want to be woken up again. That's what you get for messing with Neko before her day of release.

Ouch! She's stern!

Anyone read the profile in the NYT magazine?

No, can you show us?

Neko has forgiven the iPod - a friend in NYC told me how to wake it up again and now, with luck, it has the new songs on it.

No, can you show us?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15neko-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine
I love that pic of the rescued pianos.

Very interesting article. I hope Neko doesn't become one of those musicians who I respect but never listen to though--eh, maybe I will like that 32 minute looped song...