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...destroys tempo,... with a country ballad. Now THAT sounds interesting.

― Venus Glow (1411), Monday, 25 November 2002 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

no - you check yours!

― david h (david h), Monday, 25 November 2002 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

finally found a copy. purr... best complete album thus far. now, as i complete the second listening, i agree: far more 'accessable'. yet, as sean hints, there seems an absence of the one particularly heart-wrenching song that destroys all emotional barriers and reduces one to a snivelling wreck. wait! i'm... beginning to...
(*sniff sniff*)
[ brief pause ]
(*sound of me all out balling*)

― jason elliott, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Whatever happened to Leopard and the Lamb?

― Peter Parasol, Saturday, 4 January 2003 13:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

I'm loving this album. Revive.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Reminds me of Epic Soundtracks stuff.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

is it better than moonpix sterling?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 13:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

V. different I think than moonpix, much more open and melodic and piano riff driven.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Much less claustrophobic and self-consciously arty.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Like Norah Jones, but more shouty.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 20:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Though to be honest Tiffany sounds less affected than either.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 20:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

''V. different I think than moonpix, much more open and melodic and piano riff driven.''

diff is good. will buy and post.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

more shouty is good, norah jones is bad but i'll get it.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

I lost my copy and I'm not cheeky enough to ask Curt, again.

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thoughts on CP: YAF here

― jm (jtm), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 03:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like this a lot better than I thought I would... I have to admit she's got a really beguiling (yes beguiling) voice.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 20:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Do you ever get the feeling that Beth Orton would be Cat Power if she got her records right?

― S Samson, Monday, 24 March 2003 00:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

New album January 24! MP3: The Greatest.
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― La Monte (La Monte), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

great tune.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

someone started a thread about this a few days ago. i can't stand that cover! (the boxing gloves are fine, but the hot pink is burning holes in my eyes.)

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link

i dont think thats the real cover. but its funny as hell.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, so now she's Aimee Mann?!

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

the sisterlovers comparison on the other thread is pretty accurate (for this song).
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/c/clay_cassiu_iamthegre_101b.jpg

― La Monte (La Monte), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link

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― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Ummm, ha-ha?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

did you mean pubic tAimieMann?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

wow, that snare drum comes in EXACTLY WHEN I KNEW IT WOULD!!!

could the arrangement be anymore predictable?

it may as well be norah goddamned jones

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

pre-You Are Free=under-produced
post-You Are Free=over-produced?

And how come she barely sounds like Beth Orton anymore?

― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

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pCatPower = new tCatPower();
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http://duckman.pettho.com/characters/gyro.jpg

― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

kinda tom waits-y?

― 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

where's the other thread?

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link

And how come she barely sounds like Beth Orton anymore?

Because she sounds like Edie Brickell now?

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link

It's not a bad song - even with the arrangement, the Celine Dion-esque fiddling, the background chants of "greatest! greatest!" Hell, I always kind of wanted Ms. Marshall to completely and unreservedly embrace her massive ego - beats playing demure games with it.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow - I never noticed how much Marshall and Leslie Feist sound alike until hearing that track.

― darin (darin), Thursday, 13 October 2005 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link

who's playing drums? i like this a lot better today than i did yesterday.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 13 October 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

this is supposed to be all grizzled memphis session musicians, right? not a bad move.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 13 October 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link

wow, that snare drum comes in EXACTLY WHEN I KNEW IT WOULD!!!

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

post-You Are Free=over-produced?

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

she does sound like edie brickell lately

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link

she sounds like karen dalton.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link

(which, considering chan's penchant for that type of folk music, is probably exactly who she's aping.)

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

did she always sound like her? i just remember at one pt. thinking she sounded kinda like herself...and then voice changing. never thought she sounded like the horrible beth orton tho.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

chan's material used to be less blues/country, more mumbly-electric-indie. so yeah i suppose her vocal mannerisms adapted to the style of the later records.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link

post-You Are Free=over-produced?

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.

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

i can't stand that cover! (the boxing gloves are fine, but the hot pink is burning holes in my eyes.)
-- glasgow coma score (theundergroundhom...), October 13th, 2005 3:33 PM. (Jody Beth Rosen) (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

I assume it's the real cover. While the electric pink is pretty crazy, it's not like it's not very indie-rock, too -- the who whole thing, in fact, is strongly reminiscent of Songs:Ohia's Axxess & Ace.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Friday, 14 October 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link

it looks very much like the fake album covers on the insert included with yo la tengo's "i can hear the heart beating as one".

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

http://oh-audrey.com/shows/index.php?args=10

― Swat Valley High (goole), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link

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I heard it casually last night and I liked what I overheard! Has a I do not want what I haven't got kind of production vibe? Considering I have no love for any Cat Power post-Moon Pix I was pretty impressed, will listen again

― Ówen P., Monday, 13 August 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link

Uh, that was not meant to be a sideways dis at 00s CP. Just mentioned it b/c I'm a specific fan of two awesome records, I can see how the new one would dismay fans of "You are free" etc.

― Ówen P., Monday, 13 August 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link

Been listening to this constantly for the last week or two. I'm still impressed by how much umphff and authority these songs have. Not something I expected from Cat Power.

― Evan R, Monday, 13 August 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link

i can't really work this album out: i like the sound, i like her voice, but a lot of the time it seems kind of blustery and empty? and doesn't go anywhere much? idk.

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link

the nico jaar remix of "cherokee" is HEAVENLY though

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

i like this album a lot

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 11:44 (eleven years ago) link

this is kinda terrible imo

― some dude, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 13:17 (eleven years ago) link

i still don't know what i think of this but "manhattan" has this glorious day-drunk vibe. more songs like that plz

― monotony, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link

the monkey on your back song rules

― spazzmatazz, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link

I think the truth is, really, I've never liked Cat Power as much as I've pretended to like Cat Power. Community and Moon Pix have the bulk of the material I like, then there's a few songs on You Are Free and The Greatest (and I like her "Hanging on the Telephone" cover for the cellphone commercial), but that's about it really. The pre-Community albums, the covers albums and Sun are all mostly in one ear out the other for me.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link

Bought this yesterday, played it once through last night, and thought it seemed awesome.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 11:57 (eleven years ago) link

the real long track on this is fucking amazing

― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 12:07 (eleven years ago) link

'nothin' but time' ??

― pandemic, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 12:26 (eleven years ago) link

the superhero one i think

― pandemic, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 12:26 (eleven years ago) link

― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 12:27 (eleven years ago) link

Does it take the chord structure from Heroes by Bowie?

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 12:28 (eleven years ago) link

this is kinda terrible imo

― some dude, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 13:17 (Yesterday) Permalink

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link

what would the community think is her masterpiece. that is the sound of pure fucking desolation, being in a hole

― spazzmatazz, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link

Started listening to this now. Don't know if it will turn out to be Tron or Field Day.

― POLLed Turkey Has Got Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

So, she broke?

― Moka, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link

four weeks pass...

should i go see her when she comes to philly?

pros: i love her music
cons: chances are good she won't finish the show?

― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 05:02 (eleven years ago) link

I don't think she's "not finished a show" in years and years.

― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link

Based on the show I saw, and what I've read of the others, these are some of the most confounding shows she's ever played. They begin really shaky (so much so that a lot of people leave) and then end triumphantly. At times the juxtaposition between the good and the bad felt deliberate, almost as if she was faking the bad parts. I tossed around some theories about what might have been going on in my review of the show, but really, I have no idea what she was going for.

Anyway, as a fan I'm glad I went, because it was an experience and when she hits her stride it's still really glorious.

― Evan R, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link

looked at a few setlists and found almost nothing from moon pix or wwtct, but a TON of covers. uninterested. love her new hairdo tho

― black redhead (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link

might be worth going just to do a head-count of all different eras of cat power haircuts the audience is miming

― kelpolaris, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link

maybe like a cat power people's choice awards, researched without having actually talked to anyone

― kelpolaris, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link

three years pass...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwray/surrounded-by-legends#.wbRYqRy7e

― 龜, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link

that was excellent, thanks

― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 21:45 (eight years ago) link

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