― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Would be interested in hearing the new one 'tho.
― Baxter Wingnut, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― pauls00, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Started getting into Texas Campfire Tapes. Anymore of her stuff worth searching?
― Mordy, Thursday, 25 September 2008 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
i need to dig in
― Surmounter, Thursday, 25 September 2008 03:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Search Short Sharp Shocked, a very pretty, contemplative album as well as, well, beautiful at times.
― Lostandfound, Thursday, 25 September 2008 05:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, a very American record. Despite that, I'd still recommend it (so, Search, obv). ;)
― Lostandfound, Thursday, 25 September 2008 05:22 (fifteen years ago) link
(Surmounter, dig in for sure.)
"Anchorage" is a great song. And very easy to play on the guitar.
― Mark, Sunday, 25 October 2009 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hffcyJ1GAg
― Mark, Sunday, 25 October 2009 03:42 (fourteen years ago) link
All great:
Short Sharp Shocked - She and producer Pete Anderson did an excellent job fleshing out a studio sound to fit her songs & style.Captain Swing - Unexpected left turn into uptempo, brassy, swinging blues. Don't look here if you prefer the ballads.Arkansas Traveler - Very diverse, with different backup bands and guests on every song. The last 4 or 5 songs aren't nearly as good as what comes before, but the rest is choice.
I wouldn't really recommend any of the later albums to the casual fan, but search out the song "Stillborn" from Kind-Hearted Woman, one of the most heart-wrenching performances ever.
And Got No Strings, an album of Disney songs in stripped-down western swing style(!), is utterly charming.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 25 October 2009 05:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Ditto on Anchorage, great tune.
― that's not my post, Sunday, 25 October 2009 05:52 (fourteen years ago) link
File under 'did NOT expect this'
https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=michelle+shocked&src=typd
Long story short -- apparently deciding to go on a rampage against gay marriage -- to a San Francisco crowd -- is not a good idea.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 March 2013 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
I drive by the Plaza where the gay boys poseStand in their windows wearing no clothes
― everything you like is white (buzza), Monday, 18 March 2013 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
Friend on FB indicated she's apparently become born again. Great.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 March 2013 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
i saw her a few years ago in a local la dive (not by design because i never was a fan)idk she always seemed a bit crazy not totally shocked at this right turn
― everything you like is white (buzza), Monday, 18 March 2013 04:19 (eleven years ago) link
Saw her by accident in 1990 at UCLA en route to the radio station. Good enough performance, I guess.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 March 2013 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, was about to say what buzza said--would give mental instability some of the blame.
Loved The Texas Campfire Tapes back in the day. There's one moment when a car or truck whooshes by, lots of crickets otherwise. Surprised more people don't release records like this.
Short Sharp Shocked has dated production but great songs as well.
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Monday, 18 March 2013 04:26 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe not unrelated, looks like she was playing Short Sharp Shocked in its entirety for the first time in decades. Might send the head in a bad direction.
Michelle Shocked @MShockedFirst "Black Widow" in 20+ years. #shortsharpshocked
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Monday, 18 March 2013 04:30 (eleven years ago) link
Hmm, from a 2011 Christian folk festival:
Folk singer Michelle Shocked, who has in recent years publicly rejected her lesbian fan base, became incensed when asked about her “position on homosexuality” by an audience member. “Who drafted me as a gay icon? You are looking at the world’s greatest homophobe. Ask God what He thinks,” she said, before shutting off her microphone to complain, “There is always someone who wants to catch me.” Shocked was not challenged by organizers or staff
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Monday, 18 March 2013 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
yikes, this is disappointing to hear. my dad had her albums back in the day and i enjoyed them, although i've been leery of her politics ever since i read about her wanting to wear blackface on the cover of "arkansas traveler."
― a sentimental knife (reddening), Monday, 18 March 2013 05:56 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJq11taAJgY
― everything you like is white (buzza), Monday, 18 March 2013 06:03 (eleven years ago) link
RT @anile02@Murray_Burns @colecoonce @MShocked she said gay marriage would cause the end of the world. She stood on stage and shouted "god hates fags"
― my cat is an eliane radigue (get bent), Monday, 18 March 2013 06:09 (eleven years ago) link
he doesn't have to root one
― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 18 March 2013 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
fuck this woman
Michelle Shocked: Destroy & Destroy
― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 18 March 2013 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
To make matters worse, at the last minute Shocked attempted to kick Two Nice Girls off a benefit concert scheduled during the conference--something to do with her being "uncomfortable," said Shocked's then-manager at the time. The Queer Nation took this as a slap to Two Nice Girls' overtly lesbian stance and promptly posted fliers all over Sixth Street reading, "Michelle We're Shocked."
http://www.dallasobserver.com/1996-04-25/music/the-education-of-michelle-shocked/2/
that was in 1992.
― my cat is an eliane radigue (get bent), Monday, 18 March 2013 06:46 (eleven years ago) link
Ugh, this is so disappointing. 'Short Sharp Shocked' is one of my favourite albums; wide eyed, funny and open hearted but with enough vinegar that you don't forget her activist past. Nothing like her recent persona. Will have to compartmentalise that MS from the current incarnation.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Monday, 18 March 2013 08:01 (eleven years ago) link
That Twitter search leads to some annoyingly non-specific stuff. Any direct quotes anywhere?
― Three Word Username, Monday, 18 March 2013 08:25 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― plax (ico), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
idk she always seemed a bit crazy not totally shocked at this right turn
― everything you like is white (buzza), Monday, March 18, 2013 12:19 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this this this
― call all destroyer, Monday, 18 March 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
I read several people saying she was onstage shouting "God Hates Fags" and one or two others saying she ironically said "of course, several of you might go on Twitter saying I said "God Hates Fags"".
― ♫ don't you have your own computer? ♫ (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
At the very least, confusion runs rampant:
http://www.queerty.com/alt-folk-singer-michelle-shocked-goes-on-homophobic-rant-tells-audience-god-hates-fags-20130318/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 March 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
Confusion is sex(ual politics).
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 18 March 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
There are several other pseudonews articles like that on the web, none with better than 3rd-hand quotation. A full audience of UNREACHABLE GHOSTS, apparently.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 18 March 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
I remember when Short Sharp Shocked was getting so much critical praise; I eagerly checked the LP out from the library and prepared myself for some life-changing music but what I got was some boring shit I didn't connect to or identify with at all.
― Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, 18 March 2013 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
xpost -- the Twitter posts from last night were all clear enough, and included a slew from the guy who was apparently formally tweeting for her from the stage. He posted from his own account about how everything turned into a mess, saying it wasn't ironic and so forth. Given that and other posts I tend to think it was as described.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 March 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
Long background article on her salvation so-to-speak: http://www.leeaaron.com/john/michelle-shocked-went-for-the-singing-and-stayed-for-the-song/
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 18 March 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
I genuinely cannot tell from last night's tweets if she hollered "GOD HATES FAGS" or if she said something awkward and creepy and followed it up with "Now you'll go on Twitter and say I said..." -- and I think it makes a non-insignificant difference. I am used to Michelle Shocked being awkward and creepy (first time I heard her was in '88 in a van full of folkie punks, and "When I Grow Up" got shut off the stereo right quick by a guy who is now a professional ex-punk folkie), but subte distinctions matter.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 18 March 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
Understanding all that, but the combination of posts, these linked articles and the extreme silence from her herself since it happened -- no posts on her site, FB or Twitter -- making me less inclined to assume it was 'just' awkwardness.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 March 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
awkwardness at shows usually doesn't result in mass venue-clearing.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 18 March 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
see, Michael Richards could have repaired his entire reputation if after his outburst if he'd looked around the venue and done a sing-songy "...awk-WAAAAAARD!"
― Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, 18 March 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
i am shocked
― Heyman (crüt), Monday, 18 March 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
I am short
― Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, 18 March 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.headofrothchild.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/sharpie30001mrkr.jpg
― mookieproof, Monday, 18 March 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
woah. i wondered why the hell the michelle shocked thread was bumped.
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 March 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
she's doing Dylan's christian period wrong
― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 18 March 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
On top of everything else!
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/michelle_shocked_makes_shocking_statement_god_hates_fags
I tried calling Shocked’s representative, Cary Baker, but got his voice mail. If you’d like to let him and Shocked know what you think, give him a call. His number is on Shocked’s website.Update: Cary Baker has addressed the issue: “I have not worked with Michelle Shocked in four years,” he said via email. Told that he’s still listed on her website, Baker said “I am aware of that and I have asked her to change it immediately. A horrible comment and the last thing I need after a sleepless week at SXSW.”
Update: Cary Baker has addressed the issue: “I have not worked with Michelle Shocked in four years,” he said via email. Told that he’s still listed on her website, Baker said “I am aware of that and I have asked her to change it immediately. A horrible comment and the last thing I need after a sleepless week at SXSW.”
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 March 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
That links to here:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/folk-singer-michelle-shocked-tells-crowd-michelle-shocked-says-god-hates-fags/
With more tweets and info and etc.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 March 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
In the Michael Crichton sci-fi version of this story, Tracy Chapman will do the sane thing at a concert tonight.
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Monday, 18 March 2013 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
This is the first time I've thought about Michelle Shocked in like twenty years so clearly she's doing SOMETHING right
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
the written explanation is just...it's so full of handwaving it's almost unreadable.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
oy:
http://www.xojane.com/issues/on-my-confrontation-with-homophobe-michelle-shocked
― my cat is an eliane radigue (get bent), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
“Hey, can you hold on a second? I need to talk to the sound guys.”
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
bring your ball of yarnhttp://www.xojane.com/files/800px-Wild-Goose-Festival.JPG
― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
wow @ that article, great stuff glad the writer found the notes
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
Leroy says shut the fuck up, girl.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 21 March 2013 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
puppet showmichelle shocked
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 March 2013 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
She's due on Nicole Sandler (never heard of her)'s talkshow which has just startedhttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/radio-or-not?utm_campaign=t.co&utm_source=667764&utm_medium=social
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
I am kinda gobsmacked that people find a charitable reading of what happened here -- in which she is just kinda fucked up about religion and homosexuality and tried to talk about it and fucked up shit came out -- is so difficult for some folks to believe. There's kind of a "gotcha" thing going on that I find a little ugly -- notoriously overwrought and weird singer with a history of saying dumb shit spontaneously is having her ill-thought-out words analyzed at a great level of grammatical precision to prove her homophobia. Who the fuck wants to win that game and why?
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
this is so weird, she said she would speak on the phone to the talk show host but is not picking up the phone.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
Oof
http://www.spin.com/articles/michelle-shocked-gay-rant-apology-interview
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
Is anybody listening to this radio interview? weirdness
― MaresNest, Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
listening. she came on briefly and didn't sound at all well tbh. the host is being unnecessarily aggressive in my view
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
From that Spin piece:
Then, about 45 minutes into the interview, Shocked asked me to write down "verbatim" what she'd said the previous night at Yoshi's. I said that I didn't need to write it down, that I was taping with a digital recorder. Again, because I had specifically mentioned "interview" in my two messages earlier in the day, messages that she had responded to, I assumed that we were already in the middle of an interview. Shocked disagreed and accused me of recording her without consent, and insisted that I hold up my recorder to the camera while I deleted the audio file. I did so. Then, since she couldn't tell that the file I had just deleted was the audio file of our conversation, she dictated into her own recorder the date and time that I had recorded her, and asked that I verbally confirm that I had deleted the file in question. I did so. Shocked then asked me to restart my recorder and ask for her permission to record our conversation. I did.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
XP - Yea the host is kinda flapping and becoming more shrill as she goes on.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
host likes saying hashtag
― mr.raffles, Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
kinda assuming she's on a "no such thing as bad press" high here... I mean, I haven't thought about Michelle Shocked in 20 years, so she's done something right.
― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 March 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
her Twitter this morning is ugh. I mean...I'm not a doctor obv but what she sounds like is a person in a manic state headed for a giant crash.
― not feeling those lighters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 21 March 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ this. Feel like in between God Hates Fags, Occupy Wall Street and matdors this exchange is telling:
I mean, this is a meaningful thing to me, and I hear you listening very carefully.
I'm trying. I really am.
But I don't…If it's inexplicable…
― Basil Ironweed (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 21 March 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
The whole interview seems to tie together.
I don't know if that exchenge is 'telling', it's a stumble over the start of a sentence..
― Mark G, Thursday, 21 March 2013 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
The whole recording thing is a more insane version of what Jello Biafra does during phone interviews, or at least did with mine. He asks me if I am recording and when I affirm he asks me to stop, rewind and play a little back to him so he can confirm it is being recorded. Once I did that the interview continued.
/tangent
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 21 March 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
i can't believe i just listened to that whole audio. yikes.
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 March 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
The whole recording thing is a more insane version of what Jello Biafra does Charlie Sheen in his state did during phone interviews
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Friday, 22 March 2013 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
Not to excuse, but worth noting she said way back that she took the name Shocked after running away from home as a teen, then being caught and brought back to Texas for electroshock, at the behest of her Christian mother. The version of Christianity I've heard her portray/represent ect. on some live tapes seems comfortably fervent and liberal enough, in terms of early Bobby D./Arlo-type passing zingers and some passionate peacenik gospelizing. But the long and winding paper trail 'o' quotes does indeed indicate gayness as xp "a thorn in her side"; Christianity too, in terms of Old Testament fine print vs. the kind of community spirit she used to bring on stage. She follows this whole disaster (none of which *sounds* ironic; mostly amounts to "bite me", when they don't appreciate the spirit of LOVE in which her words are supposedly offered) with a aong about "trying to live without a past", and meeting a guy who's real bad at keeping it all hid, as she unnecessarily explains.
― dow, Friday, 22 March 2013 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
this happened
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 29 March 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
intense!
― how's life, Friday, 29 March 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
"bands Beaver Fever and Frootie Flavors"
― s.clover, Friday, 29 March 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
You're no Yoko and writing on your suit is no "cut piece," lady.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 29 March 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
word
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 March 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
The tape across her mouth said "Silenced By Fear."
So silenced that she's in the fucking newspaper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA3JUpQzOekShare
― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Friday, 29 March 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
Supposedly she's on Piers Morgan Live, on CNN in a bit.
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
"We will not be bashing Michelle Shocked," he said. "Rather, we will celebrate music, diversity and send some healing Santa Cruz energy her way."
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michelle-shocked-a-meltdown-jesus-432050?page=show
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
anybody got a bootleg of this jam from the Hollywood Reporter piece? sounds heavy.
"On stage, she was wearing a full face mask and sunglasses, and she sang this really disjointed, syncopated, non-rhyming, not-very-melodic song [about Occupy] that nobody could really follow -- and she asked everybody to sing along. She alternated between being encouraging to the crowd and telling them they were doing a horrible job. She started glaring at me as if was supposed to help them in the sing-along, and I tried to, then she leaned over and told me to ‘Shut up.’ Which I did. I handed the sound guy my microphone and watched from the crowd. There had been probably 300, 400 people at the beginning of her set, but as she started to yell at everybody, it got down to about 20. She went from manic to depressive really quickly."
― brio, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27_OAk2AWMg
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBxRKn666rs
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
I should read more local (= Santa Cruz) news! Just catching up on the whole "MS shows up to her cancelled Moes Alley gig" story. Hmm.
― Pyotr Ilyich Chai Latte (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
anybody got a bootleg of this jam from the Hollywood Reporter piece? sounds heavy."On stage, she was wearing a full face mask and sunglasses, and she sang this really disjointed, syncopated, non-rhyming, not-very-melodic song [about Occupy] that nobody could really follow -- and she asked everybody to sing along. She alternated between being encouraging to the crowd and telling them they were doing a horrible job. She started glaring at me as if was supposed to help them in the sing-along, and I tried to, then she leaned over and told me to ‘Shut up.’ Which I did. I handed the sound guy my microphone and watched from the crowd. There had been probably 300, 400 people at the beginning of her set, but as she started to yell at everybody, it got down to about 20. She went from manic to depressive really quickly." --brio
"On stage, she was wearing a full face mask and sunglasses, and she sang this really disjointed, syncopated, non-rhyming, not-very-melodic song [about Occupy] that nobody could really follow -- and she asked everybody to sing along. She alternated between being encouraging to the crowd and telling them they were doing a horrible job. She started glaring at me as if was supposed to help them in the sing-along, and I tried to, then she leaned over and told me to ‘Shut up.’ Which I did. I handed the sound guy my microphone and watched from the crowd. There had been probably 300, 400 people at the beginning of her set, but as she started to yell at everybody, it got down to about 20. She went from manic to depressive really quickly." --brio
Michelle doesn't condone the sharing of her shows as bootlegs
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
can we just change the title of the threat to Michelle Shocked: Destroy
so depressing
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
thread
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
lol silent album
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
http://blog.sfgate.com/dailydish/2014/07/29/michelle-shocked-releases-silent-album/
http://www.onthemedia.org/story/tldr-20-silence/
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/michelleshocked1
i'm annoyed at how short the run-times are, like give me a good 3-and-a-half-minute silent song so i can feel like i got my money's worth.
― it's about equality, ladies (reddening), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
bummed track 6 isn't "Chris Harrison (The Bachelor)"
― da croupier, Friday, 1 August 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
i'm annoyed at how short the run-times are
Not as annoyed as Amanda Palmer must be for not thinking of this first. Of course, she would have had to contend with the "silence" aspect first.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 August 2014 01:31 (nine years ago) link
not doing this as a kickstarter and having people pay a few thousand bucks each to have silent songs named after them seems like a missed opportunity.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Friday, 1 August 2014 07:09 (nine years ago) link
Sinead's passing gets me thinking about Michelle Shocked. I'm guessing Short Sharp Shocked and Texas Campfire Tapes will endure, even as they're barely available online. Her cancellation came from what seemed to be a manic episode, but even before then she'd called her greatest hits Mercury Poise, as in mercury poisoning, as in getting to the end of her contract with Mercury Records.
But what an amazing bunch of songs on those two albums.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Thursday, 27 July 2023 21:57 (eight months ago) link
"Captain Swing" and especially "Arkansas Traveller" are nearly as good.
And if you want your heart broken, find the song "Stillborn" from the album Kind-Hearted Woman (couldn't find it on YouTube)
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 28 July 2023 05:57 (eight months ago) link