Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Thoroughly into the cover by Chip Taylor (who wrote "Wild Thing"). I've got lots of thoughts about this song relating to the high stakes of leaving the U.S.S.R. in 1989 but the main thing is the new cover brings out new colors of the lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTNWpTEWtp0
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 27 February 2020 07:29 (four years ago) link
Two of these two are playing shows together this summer (Jones and Spektor).
Newly recorded older song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHaetZ-Vu8Y
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
I had never heard of Nellie McKay before opening this thread.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
She's great! I wish she'd get back to releasing original music.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link
I loved Nellie's first album and liked the second, but completely dropped off after that. I got a bit curious about her third not too long ago (nothing she's done since then seems too appealing) and was surprised at how scarce it seemed.
― Duane Barry, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
After McKay shared the phone number during a show of...maybe it was the president of Columbia Records or whatever her label was that she was in dispute with, she lost the visibility and PR and opportunities of a major label. But she seemed to land fine in cabaret and Prairie Home Companion world, hopefully making an OK living.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Thursday, 9 June 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link