― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Because she sounds like Edie Brickell now?
― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Thursday, 13 October 2005 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 13 October 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 13 October 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
wow, i bet you can predict all the chord changes in ramones songs too!!
― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:05 (eighteen years ago) link
sister lovers was overproduced too, but that's part of the beauty of it. it's gloopy, indulgent, and a total mess, and i couldn't imagine it working any other way.
― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
I shall try to listen to the rest of the album without prejudice.
― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link
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i dont think thats the real cover. but its funny as hell. -- maria tessa sciarrino (mari...), October 13th, 2005 3:40 PM. (theoreticalgirl) (link)
I think it might actually be the real cover. The album was recorded with a bunch of Stax/Volt studio alumni, so they might as package it in the same sense (i.e. a lot of the original Stax art was awful, despite the label having the greatest logo ever)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Friday, 14 October 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
http://oh-audrey.com/shows/index.php?args=10
― Swat Valley High (goole), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
She looks thrilled to be on that interwebs cooking show. She's looking good, tho.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 19 May 2009 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Lookin' damn good, actually.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGMaEvhQj1E
so hey this sounds pretty good!! i tuned out but she doesn't seem to be using her ~smoky~ voice anymore, & the group sounds good
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
I'm glad she's moved out of her "Memphis" phase at least, even if this is just a revision of an older song.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
the fact that she's quoting from a soul classic is still a bad sign
― Number None, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
whenever this thread is bumped i briefly hope that something actually new is out :/
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
Admittedly I only started listening to her after learning she and Bill Callahan dated and subsequently I found Moon Pix at Goodwill, but it's been on repeat while driving since then and I'm quite taken. This track is cool and I do like a slo-mo video, but I do really respond to the sloppiness of Moon Pix which I guess is something she grew out of.
― scottfree, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
she's got a couple of real good smog covers if you haven't heard them, scott
stray cat power covers were such a cool thing, back when idk i guess i would download some from the internet. her doing sister into knockin on heaven's door, or a weird meld of schizophrenia by sonic youth into weighted down by skip spence. both amazing. there was this great paris bootleg too, with her singing what will the community think, her voice ringing out like a harmonica, all in slo-mo.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
that Skip Spence/Sonic Youth track is a B-side to "Nude As The News", I love it. also yeah tons of Peel Session/random compilation covers - "Free Bird", "Dreams", "Psychic Hearts", "We Dance", etc.
― sleeve, Thursday, 12 January 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
Oh thank god! "King Rides By" suggests she's finally back to the spectral shimmer, instead of those tepid torch songs. Hope she got a lot of listen to Let England Shake.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 12 January 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
I'll have to find those covers! Do they ever sing in eachother's songs a la Bill Callahan in more recent girlfriend Joanna Newsom's Ys?
― Diary of Anne Frank, Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen (scottfree), Friday, 13 January 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
I guess this went up on twitter last night (!)
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2t1rofDGC1qb3nrko1_500.png
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 21 April 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
HOT DAMNZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nl3Oo4-IQ4
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 June 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
Anticipating.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
September 4
Track listing:
1. Cherokee2. Sun3. Ruin4. 3,6,95. Always On My Own6. Real Life7. Human Being8. Manhattan9. Silent Machine10. Nothin But Time11. Peace And Love
Produced by Chan MarshallMixed by Philippe Zdar
― Walter Galt, Monday, 18 June 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, April 21, 2012 6:20 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I HAVE HAD ALL THE MOUNTAIN DEWS
― bronytheus (some dude), Monday, 18 June 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
Team Chan vs Team Fiona 2012?
― Grimy Little Pimp (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 18 June 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
I feel the same about both of them (temporarily interested in new things, but actually just a fan of a few songs over all).
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 June 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Hadn't seen this thread before. so just now posting my two cents on a wonderful album (later w bonus tracks, I think) review archived on thefreelancementalists.blogspot.comMonday, March 10, 2008 The Record to Beat in '08Cat Power's Jukebox. I used to find her tiresome, but she's notoverplaying the waif card here, even though this probably her mostromantic album, her most truly atmospheric, because in order to havean atmosphere, you gotta have gravity, from the right substance in thespin. Every time the music starts, her voice first reaches me as a dryice smoke ring 'round the moon, over the shining spine of historee(great and good old and newer songs coming together, and coming up injust a minute) with a vivid poise that keeps her from sounding tooearnest: it's just the right, sensuous sound (especially as it movesthrough her musical companions' reverb, echo and grooves) for hercosmic quest, for romantic and spiritual fulfillment. ( Janis Joplinanswered, when asked what Today's Youth are looking for: "Sincerity,and a good time." Hey hay hey.) The confidence as well assensitivity—so of course "New York New York," with just a simpleadjustment of its seatbelt, should have this tensile lope and sway,backbeating right past Radio City rinky-tink, with ingenue still intow/charge. She's totally at home with the Dirty Dozen Blues Band,especially drummer Jim White, of the Dirty Three and recent,noteworthy collabs with Nina Natashia; Judah Bauer of the Jon SpencerBlues Explosion(! But he does not play no fratblooze here) is alsoaboard (with Eric Papparozzi on bass and Greg Foreman's keyboards),but this little combo is less like a blues band is usually expected tobe, more like rockers who have learned much from the Hi RhythmSection, in terms of taut, spare punctuation and momentum, fittingChan Marshall's vibrant reveries perfectly (the one time she holdsback a bit, seemingly getting lost, on "A Woman Left Lonely,"Foreman's electric piano tremolo gets more emphatic, rallying her,appropriately for a song about a woman who's coming back fromrejection). The sequence of tracks is very effective: after "New YorkNew York," Hank Williams' "Ramblin Man" is recast as "Ramblin' Woman,"and the original's melodramatic, spooked compulsion is tempered by acertain expansiveness: she knows this kind of journey is where she'smeant to be, not that it doesn't matter who and what she finds. A newversion of her "Metal Heart" follows, with a confrontation, a note toself and other, that steadfastness , mettle and "metal" is in thesound, not heavy metal, but the electricity moving through naturalelements, 20th Century engine-uity revving up again in these oldsongs, which sound as timely as ever. The sleek, starlit,meta-metal's also there in Lee Clayton's "Silver Stallion" whichpractical-minded Cowgirl Chan leads from mythology or decoration, outinto her own prospects, and "Aretha" is wistfully, unpretentiouslyinvoked, to re-inspire her lover and herself, also (as repeatedlistenings reward), I think of this as prefiguring later songs, as Irelate it to Dylan's line from Tarantuala, "Aretha, crystal jukeboxqueen (the album's title from this?), I shall play you as my trumpcard." I think of that because I know she'll reach Dylan's own "IBelieve In You," with Bauer accentuating the Stonesy riff with whichDylan foresaw "Start Me Up," and White's drum leaps develop a hip hopcast, kicking off the mud of a town through which one proud outcastsearches for another. Marshall's own "Song For Bobby, " reminiscingabout various near-misses with the Master, could easily be gushy, butshe's even too grown-up for that now. She strikingly connectsDylanesque phrasing to Billie Holiday's, on the latter's "Hush Now(Don't Explain)," reminding me of D. 's description of his later songsas "overlapping phrases on an electrical grid," the overlapping ofexpression and reticence, austerity and warmth in the shadows. Whichis also where the hope and fear meet in, Jessie May Hemphill's "LordHelp," just as "We're all reborn, to face the morning sun." Uh, and soon, with some surprises: I didn't even recognize Joni Mitchell'spassive-aggressive self-pity/guilt-tripping you-dumped-me classic,"Blue," at first, cos Chan doesn't imitate her at all! Not even inthis age of girly-swirly chamber folk, not at all (and the band's justbumpin' at the walls of the break-up, you know it'll all work out asit should or will). This girl is a woman now! (But not too scary withit.) ------Don Allred
― dow, Monday, 18 June 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Ruin is great.
Mixed by Philippe Zdar
o_O
― jed_, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 11:21 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't like jukebox at all. hope the new one is hundreds of times better.
― akm, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
i don't like the new single at all. there is something mor and polished about it. i think she has lost it. she does not sound like herself any more.
― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 22 June 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
LOVE the new single, so glad she's back. Fiona AND Chan in the same year, I can hardly contain myself!!!
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
she does not sound like herself any more.
― alex in mainhattan, Friday, June 22, 2012 5:10 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^yeah i think this is okay/maybe pretty nice but i would give anything for a cat power record in which she was singing in her original harmonica-like clean ringing bell of a voice instead of her weird sultry post-you-are-free affectated slur. even the way the vocals are recorded on this is strange. too much.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
17 min into this- http://www.npr.org/2012/06/26/155705361/summer-music-preview-premieres-from-cat-power-avett-brothers-grizzly-bear-and-mo
― blossom smulch (schlump), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
"Cherokee" oddly sounds like an alternate 90s version of Cat Power, one where Chan Marshall chose drum programming and layers and trip-hop atmospheres rather than guitars and low fidelity.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
...whatever that means.
Anyway, song's kind of flat and aimless imo.
weirdest thing about it is how after an intro that sounds like nu-era-digital-cat-power it morphs into something sorta moon pix-esque - the tangled guitars and layered singing
― blossom smulch (schlump), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 11:33 (eleven years ago) link
She's always been aimless and plain but she used to have a very hypnotic, breathy voice that made the meandering passages seem worthwhile... she might have been rubbish for all I care but it sounded heartfelt and it got into my nerves in a good way. Without the hypnotic, nudity of her voice we're just left with a pointless version of her.
― Moka, Monday, 2 July 2012 08:31 (eleven years ago) link
Can't judge the full album yet but Ruin doesn't sound like it has enough going on to pull my attention or demand a replay.
― Moka, Monday, 2 July 2012 08:34 (eleven years ago) link
Without the hypnotic, nudity of her voice
this is lovely & otm, moka. i def can't get anything out of the performative tone she has on the last few.
i always try to find a live version of what would the community think that i can't find online anywhere, to post in support of my old-cat-power-best-cat-power argument. her voice used to just carry & call out.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Monday, 2 July 2012 10:31 (eleven years ago) link
ohhhh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97nNDDDUWHs
chan your voice is like a wonderful harmonica
― blossom smulch (schlump), Monday, 2 July 2012 10:36 (eleven years ago) link