― my favorite cover band, crystal shit (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 8 August 2005 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 8 August 2005 06:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 8 August 2005 06:46 (eighteen years ago) link
keep in mind i'm not talking so much about natalie as i am lombardo, buck, and the others.
― my favorite cover band, crystal shit (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 8 August 2005 06:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― my favorite cover band, crystal shit (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 8 August 2005 06:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
DUCK, FIRST ROW OF THE AUDIENCE! (Second and third rows just have to lean back a little.)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
haha no, no no no! contrasting not comparing, dude!
― my favorite cover band, crystal shit (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
I dig "Carnival" and "Trouble Me." Both good sunny pop songs.
There is some excellent guitar playing by Jennifer Turner on the former, and I suspect that if I listened to Blind Man's Zoo again I might find a gem or two that I've forgotten about. The rest of Ms. Merchant's work I can usually take or leave.
That said, please please let me never again hear "Because the Night." Has a great pedigree and all and I suppose I should like it, but in its bombast it always sounds to me like a lost Pat Benatar or maybe even Sheena Easton track from circa 1983.
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
i think it just started out as a pretty typical "ilm hates any female performer who isn't a nu-bubbledisco bimbo or adorably fucked-up rap chick" thread.
― my favorite cover band, crystal shit (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
(xpost)
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
RESULT
― The Ghost of "Not" Is Such A Tiny, Easily-Missed Word (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
MPuff, It is awful. And I always assumed she got the lyric wrong and said "Love is a [picnic?] blanket, on which we feed." Or so I'd like to believe.
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Wow, I'll take "Blatant Mischaracterizations Of A Ginormous Group Of People" for $1200, Alex.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
take it up with springsteen.
(ts: natalie's "because the night" vs pat benatar's "wuthering heights")
― my favorite cover band, crystal shit (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.postmodern.com/~fi/pattipics/images/_easter.jpg
― my favorite cover band, crystal shit (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― my favorite cover band, crystal shit (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 8 August 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 8 August 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 August 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link
pete yorn? anyone wanna take a crack?
― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 8 August 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
oh, nabisco's GREAT for that. it's wonderfully subversive.
― my favorite cover band, crystal shit (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 8 August 2005 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 8 August 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link
nabisco, I was with you on those two My Favorite threads, if nothing else.
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 August 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 August 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 8 August 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 8 August 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― goodoldneon (goodoldneon), Monday, 8 August 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― my favorite cover band, crystal shit (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 8 August 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― my favorite cover band, crystal shit (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 8 August 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
1. They have similar singing voices -- a low boomy range that projects out over the whole mix.
2. They have similar quirks of diction, both in terms of enunciation and word-choice -- see "Katrina's Fair" for the line "a journal laced with sedimentary prose," which is all-Morrissey and delivered like it, too. (Conversely, imagine 10,000 Maniacs covering "Ask.")
3. They both write abnormally character-based songs about one type of character -- Morrissey's teenage thugs and Merchant's human-interest cases.
4. They're both obsessed with the working class of the middle of the 20th century -- Morrissey's kitchen-sink and teakettle Englishness, Merchant's Catholic-immigrant union-worker upstate-NYness.
5. Merchant had a personal assistant named Morrissey, Morrissey had a personal assistant named Merchant.
6. "Hateful Hate" = "Meat is Murder," overblown to the point of camp, except that Morrissey cares about cattle and Merchant cares about Africans.
7. Both were rumored, during my freshman year of high school, to be sleeping with Michael Stipe.
8. I admit that Brittle Lemon is right about "if you don't mind / I will beat on your behind" not being quite as good as "a crack on the head / is what you get for (not) asking."
9. Both started off from a point of seeming totally sheltered and bookish and awkward and virginal, and writing in a way often described as "pretentious" about their bedroom enthusiasms. Merchant went to college and therefore obsessed about bookish things (you can seriously figure out her course schedule from the Hope Chest lyrics; hello song-about-De-Chirico), whereas Morrissey, to my knowledge, stayed home and therefore mostly thought about sex and his mother and sex with his mother.
10. Their last names both start with M / I freakin' said so.
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 8 August 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 8 August 2005 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link