new one is reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally good, fuck yeah
― just staying (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
can someone help me transcribe? i aspire to be a GENIUS scholar, and i already have a bunch of points from a recent obsession with the pepsi looping lo-fi beats songs/community.
― just staying (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
I get by when high (?) in the sky butI can't put my finger on itI want to cry, I'm not in my mindTrying to figure it out
ModerationI can't have itI don't want itI want to touch it
Picture the party where you're standing in the modern age (?)I was in trouble with the habit of hisAnd I try to relate
I get by pushing poets asideCos you can't beat the Mother of PearlI could be out found (?)Out of my mind at the fruit of it all
Picture the party where you're standing in the modern age (?)I was in trouble with the habit of hisAnd I try to relateTo the messed up air (?)
Tell it to her (?)Tell it to the (?)?
― just staying (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
Moderation, I can't have it, I don't want it, I want to touch it
is a wonderful lyric
― just staying (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
but what the hell is she saying in that bridge near the end?
Tell it to the mass?
Tell it through a mask?
(on the modern age)(a habit of his)?
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
sorry, that's not it
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
a youtube commenter confirmed that it was "Picture the party where you're standing in the modern age"
the lyrics are up on apple music, i just don't have an account
― just staying (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
I get byOne eye on the skyBut I can't put my finger on itI wanna cry, I'm out of my mindTrying to figure it out.
Moderation -I can't stand it.I don't want it.I want to touch it.
Picture the party when you're standing on a modern age.I was in trouble with a habit of yearsAnd I tryTo relate.I get by pushing poets asideCause they can't beat the mother of pearlI quit the earth, I'm out of my mindAnd the fruit of it all?
Moderation.....
Tethered to a mess.
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
Tethered to a mess! I think that's right, thanks. And One eye on the sky, that sounds right too! I think the first line after Moderation is "I can't have it", rather than "I can't stand it". And I love "I quit the earth" but it kind of sounds like "I could be off" too? Waiting for apple music subscriber confirmation
― just staying (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
bulb after bulb's post appears copied from Apple Music
― alpine static, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:37 (two years ago) link
I thought so too, but then saw the ? after And the fruit of it all (which, I can't figure that part either!)
only apple subscribers may know! down with apple and their Big Lyrics monopoly!
― just staying (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
yes, from Apple Music, question mark and all. no guarantee of results.
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
oh, nice, thanks! I will update the genius lyrics accordingly :-o
― just staying (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
reminds me of the shins
― Bongo Jongus, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
"Moderation" is phenomenal and the other song's pretty swell too. I'm excited.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 9 December 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
yeah, i am so ready to hear the whole damn thing. "Running Away" sounds even better following "Moderation", I think. i fucking love her instrumentation on the last few releases - the steady lineup of keyboards, bass, a small woodwind/horn section, minimal guitar (if any?)
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 December 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
I'm not cold by natureThis could bring me to my kneesThe fountain that empties the worldToo beautiful to holdMultidirectional loveWith nowhere left to goThere no where to let go
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 December 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
"I'm not cold by nature" kills me, right through the heart
meanwhile, with "Moderation", i think may have actively pissed off one or more of my friends by talking too much about it, recently. I had "moderation" fever and i tried to spread it to others, but no one cared.
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 December 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
haven't read this yet, but looking forward to it:
https://pitchfork.com/features/profile/cate-le-bon-interview-pompeii/
― Karl Malone, Monday, 10 January 2022 17:17 (two years ago) link
!!
Twenty minutes down the road, in a loud, austere pizza restaurant, Le Bon seems to know everyone. The staff are elated to see her, she takes their hands in hers. Throughout the night, she strikes up conversations with most people there. To the locals, she’s known as a regular at the Joshua Tree Saloon, where karaoke nights are run twice weekly by actor Mario Lopez (aka Saved By the Bell’s A.C. Slater). “I still haven’t quite figured out what my karaoke song is,” she says. “I like to do crowd-pleasers that have really good intros, get everyone pumped, and then come in with these really low, droll vocals that can’t quite hit the spot.”
― Karl Malone, Monday, 10 January 2022 18:15 (two years ago) link
!
that would make traveling to the Pappy and Harriet's show she has coming up worth making.
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 10 January 2022 18:23 (two years ago) link
i didn't know about her side project with her partner, DRINKS. giving that a listen today
― Karl Malone, Monday, 10 January 2022 18:35 (two years ago) link
it's ... not great.
they are both great, but not everything should be released.
imo.
― alpine static, Monday, 10 January 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link
The second DRINKS album is better than the first though neither hold a candle to her solo material
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 10 January 2022 20:46 (two years ago) link
I'm now almost unreasonably keen to hear the other 6/9 of this long-player. Counting the hours, etc, etc...
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 03:16 (two years ago) link
Wow, Karl Malone's "Daylight Matters" story from October is... wowee zowee. Bless.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 03:22 (two years ago) link
Seeing her in Woodstock, Sunday. Been too long, she's so amazing live.
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
The relative uniformity of tone is making Pompeii a little hard to crack after 2.5 listens. Though I'm pretty sure the opener, title track and "Cry Me Old Trouble", at least, will shortly unravel in a pleasing fashion, much as the singles did.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 3 February 2022 15:26 (two years ago) link
do you have the whole thing? i just now realized a third single is up now ("remembering me")
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 3 February 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link
Full 9 tracks on Tidal and Spotify. (I may be benefiting from the GMT+10 "living slightly in the future" thing though.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 3 February 2022 15:42 (two years ago) link
ah, ok! still not up for me, but I'm sure it will be soon.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 3 February 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link
"French Boys" and "Wheel" are working for me now. Not least in the bass department. Desperately need a lyric sheet though!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 4 February 2022 00:44 (two years ago) link
Belatedly realising that "Harbour" is pretty damn earworm'y. A bit of a "Home To You" in that it's the easiest to imagine hearing by chance in a shopping mall lol.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 4 February 2022 02:37 (two years ago) link
This is dripping in atmosphere. I love it.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 4 February 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link
Like her last album, this isn’t bad but I miss the more jagged guitars of her first few albums. I’m not as keen on the synths/sax combo. Just my personal taste but I rarely go for songs with saxophone
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 4 February 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
Polar opposite for me. This is the first time I'm buying what she's selling for more than a minute or two.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 4 February 2022 19:42 (two years ago) link
masterpiece imo
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 4 February 2022 22:53 (two years ago) link
the new bryan ferry
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 February 2022 13:18 (two years ago) link
And that's a fine place to aim for!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 February 2022 15:09 (two years ago) link
I keep hearing 10,000 Maniacs' "Like the Weather" somewhere in "Moderation"
10,000 Maniacs have a much better drummer
― Freeze Instr., Saturday, 5 February 2022 17:05 (two years ago) link
oh man, not comparing the drummers directly (i don't know 10K maniacs very well at all), but i love the drummer. i read somewhere about their drumming being driven by carefully placed bass drum kicks, recently, and that's what I focus on
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 5 February 2022 17:10 (two years ago) link
i'm still digesting the album. i got so, so used to Moderation leading directly into Running Away - just a casualty of the several months of 1-3 songs approach to PR, but those two became intertwined, for me.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 5 February 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link
Yeah maybe not a fair comparison. That sort of late 80s light snappy rolling feel leads in the direction of Rusted Root
It feels to me like Pompeii's drums are dragging at the tempo, as if they're intentionally slowing everything down, a sluggish almost DJ Screw effect
― Freeze Instr., Saturday, 5 February 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
the song "Pompeii" is hitting me, now, on the 3rd time through. now every corner of it feels so right, where it drifted right on past the first couple times. i do love the sound of her current line-up/instrumentation, so much.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 5 February 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link
The album is growing on me. I think I do like it more than the last album.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 5 February 2022 19:39 (two years ago) link
speaking of amazing guitar parts, both subtle and riffage, they're both in "Remembering Me"
the subtle can be heard during the chorus, the the thin wobbling snake between some of the lines and during some of the others:
Upset, and out of touchGood grief, you miss so muchOh, oh, remember meLouder than empty roomsFace down in heirloomsOh, oh, remembering me
that is positively slinking
later on, the riffage is later, at 3:00, the solo. it's like alt arena rock busts in all of a sudden but it's perfect
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 5 February 2022 21:24 (two years ago) link
the thin wobbling snake
i want to go ahead and express my regret for this description of the guitar line, lol
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 5 February 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link
the positively slinking thin wobbling snake
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