is a real boy is the besssst, and though they've never equaled it in defense of the genre is at least a fun mess. their last record kinda sucked.
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 12 April 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
omg that's supposed to be in the fall out boy thread. what is this
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 12 April 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
I can hear Fall Out Boy doing "Step Off."
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 April 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
well yeah my country tastes tend toward "things that could be transparently covered by crossover emo bands"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 12 April 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
pop-punk cover of 'stupid' would be pretty easy to bang out in a coupla hours
― j., Friday, 12 April 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
Well, I enjoyed that very much. The Weezer cover was a little unexpected!
― Tim, Monday, 15 April 2013 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
she does a weezer cover?
― how's life, Monday, 15 April 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
Looked for you but didn't see you Tim!
Enjoyed her Mama's Broken Heart too - stripped out Miranda's camp, much more sullen. Final song that she said had never been released was amazing
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 15 April 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
Great concert! Such a beautiful voice. Not to mention beautiful looks omg I was stunned. BUT THE SETLIST WAS TOO SHORT! No "Dandelion" :( :( It felt like that boring opener guy was on for longer.
Love her so much for "Follow Your Arrow" and how she's championing it as a future single.
Best part = her ridic impressive whistling
― buenos noches, do not approach us (uberweiss), Monday, 15 April 2013 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
Not to sound stalkerish but I totes saw you there lex.
― buenos noches, do not approach us (uberweiss), Monday, 15 April 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
Likewise, the Lex (but you said you mightn't make it so I didn't scour the place). Yeah that encore was tremendous, something to anticipate on the next record I guess...
― Tim, Monday, 15 April 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
love short sets! I suppose that's one of the reasons why debuts rule.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 April 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone heard her three self released records?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
can they still be bought?
i'm jealous of everyone who got to see this show. she's opening on kenny chesney's tour but idk how i feel about going to a giant arena show primarily for an opening act.
the more i think abt it the more "follow your arrow" seems like it is destined to be a live/fan favorite that nonetheless will probably not quite work on the radio. glad she is pushing for it tho. i think "keep it to yourself" would be a gorgeous fall/wintertime radio single.
― teddy dominatrix (dyl), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
uberweiss you shoulda said hi! i was going to moot some sort of pub drinks beforehand but i had to be elsewhere and sadly missed the opening guy. thought her set was surprisingly long given the album's only 35mins - only songs she didn't play were "dandelion" and "i miss you" (hmm, the most lovelorn ballads), but she played two older songs and the lambert/weezer covers instead.
voice much less diffident than on record - "keep it to yourself" was kind of revelatory, prob my highlight, totally slanted towards the empathetic side, maybe even the subtext that she herself is thinking the same things (and of course ultimately even more ice cold for it).
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 08:11 (eleven years ago) link
this is the only trace of the unreleased encore online - it was sort of weird at the time to hear a song that i knew i might not ever get to hear again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULMDI1uRP88
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 08:13 (eleven years ago) link
In Washington, in IdahoIn Oregon and away we goTo Tennessee and ArkansasNo we won't stop 'til we've seen 'em all
vs
Man I'm out in Texas, man, I'm out in A-townThen I'm up in Chi-town or Miami shuttin' it downIt's that New Orleans, it's LA or The BayIt's New York, Philly, and the whole DMVI'm a Detroit Player, man it's North-South CackOhio, Pittsburgh, got St. Louis on deckIt's Delaware, Connecticut, it's New Jersey got hella bricksIt's Queens, Brooklyn, and yeah they wildin'Bronx, Harlem, and Staten Island
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 11:31 (eleven years ago) link
she also didn't play "back on the map"
and yeah the setlist wasn't actually short, just in that i wanted it to go on and on.
"i'm ashamed of bush... don't ruin my career" was lol
and yeah lex i should have! but my friend wanted to stay near the front (slightly awkward considering i was probably the tallest person in the room; people behind me must have loved me) and then i didn't see you after the show
― buenos noches, do not approach us (uberweiss), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
She's playing a one-off sort of show here before she heads out with Cornball McHammocktwang. I'm going to try to see it.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
Awesome, seeing her in a week now!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
totally slanted towards the empathetic side, maybe even the subtext that she herself is thinking the same things (and of course ultimately even more ice cold for it)
this is what i like so much abt this song (not that i saw the performance or anything but yeah)
― teddy dominatrix (dyl), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
"Keep It to Yourself" is a highlight; it's sung so tenderly (to herself?) but the words aren't; expresses the relevant ambiguity very well
― Euler, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
pretty awesome to end a song, 'mary just don't give a damn no more'—THE END
― j., Thursday, 18 April 2013 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
when i interviewed kacey she urged me to check out someone called brandy clark - i just have and let's just say i'm super-impressed. on first blush fits right into the forthright young country women axis
http://soundcloud.com/brandy-clark-music
"pray to jesus" and "stripes" are the immediate keepers in that soundcloud set but the quality is very high throughout
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
great great great album btw
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 07:13 (eleven years ago) link
She was great tonight. Special radio station show between Kenny Chesney dates. I won a nice poster. My wife left saying she bet Kacey is awesome to hang out with. So charming, lots of fun,
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 April 2013 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
VERY IMPORTANT: if anyone neglected to check out that Brandy Clark album that lex linked to it is pretty much brilliant - at least as good as the Kacey LP tbh, and well worth a listen. It's all available for free download on her soundcloud at 128 kbps and only three tracks have been released as an EP on iTunes, so I don't know what's going on there.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
pray to jesus is perfect
crazy women is great
get high is great, albeit a bit pistol annies
illegitimate children is lovely also.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
What Will Keep Me Out Of Heaven is THAT COUNTRY REALNESS
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
it's nice
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
(Clark co-wrote Mama's Broken Heart and Follow Your Arrow fyi)
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
"The Dah She Got Divorced " is wonderful!
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
thanks for the reminder on this; imagine it's going into heavy rotation for a bit.
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
The lyrics are nothing special -- it's the taunting string arrangement that kills
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, excellent album, thanks to lex for the tip here.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 April 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
Kree Harrison, a current top 4 contestant on American Idol, is best buds with Kacey, sings on her record, and is I believe the younger sister (or cousin?) of Kacey's guitarist.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 April 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
Brandy Clark album is pretty strong, especially for being, you know. free.
So has anyone heard Musgraves' earlier releases? Does anyone have any of them? What has she done between then and now?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 27 April 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
brandy clark is sad!!!
rural america sure sounds strung the fuck out on the basis of this thread
― j., Saturday, 4 May 2013 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
Brandy Clark is playing NYC this week i think
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 4 May 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
So has anyone heard Musgraves' earlier releases? Does anyone have any of them?
i was curious about these too. they seem to be extraordinarily rare. the most recent one, self-titled (from 2007, when she was 18) was apparently sold here. but now it is sold out, and, as the site notes, "WHEN THEY'RE GONE, THERE WILL BE NO MORE OF THIS CD... EVER!" however, if you would like to buy a copy, there is one on amazon for $370 rn lol. anyway, apparently the album has a few miranda lambert co-writes on it.
as for the others, idk where they were actually sold. buuut i do see them (+ the 2007 one) on this weird probably-sketchy site called soundsbox?? the preview clips appear to be legitimate... but idk whether to trust the site. it seems to be along the same vein as that alltunes/allofmp3 site from last decade, which sold mp3s for dirt cheap prices and was/is way illegal.
― dyl, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 06:13 (eleven years ago) link
also i am listening to the brandy clark album rn and it is really good!!
ha i asked kacey about them and she was pretty much THANK GOD THOSE ARE NEVER GOING ON ITUNES
she said she started off doing really traditional "yodelly" stuff and also went through a proper emo phase
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
well i need to talk to kacey musgraves about that immediately
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 13:15 (eleven years ago) link
she wasn't proud of it!
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
She's the Sunday-afternoon opener at Bonnaroo this year. Be interesting to see how she fares there. I imagine "Follow Your Arrow" will go over big.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
Honestly, watching her I was wondering how she's been faring opening for Kenny Chesney in giant arenas (stadiums?).
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
xpost Sounds like Emmylou trying to suppress her own first album! Won't stay missing for long ...
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
well idk i think there are a lot of audible connections between emo crossover and pop country so i just always enjoy seeing that connection made literal
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to "Merry Go Round" at the moment... this is really good
― far too much asshole flesh (DJP), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/34610090
^^^ Most emo-country thing I've ever seen. Surprised this sort of aesthetic isn't more widespread actually.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:23 (eleven years ago) link