I am so in love with Nerdkween - such a beautiful voice and lovely heartfelt music played against the background sounds of a Presidential Debate (2008) - an interesting audio collage technique that adds a further poignancy and emotional depth to her music. I hope she starts coming out with some more new music soon.
nerdkween performing the song “If” (by nerdkween)
A great Rolling Stones song used to very nice effect in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore.
I Am Waiting - Rushmore (Best Quality) (by padraic2001eire)
Fischerspooner proves that Wire was about 22 years ahead of their time.
[original Wire version off their 1979 album 154]
Fischerspooner - The 15th (by hapawes1)
What made you decide to go the rock-'n'-roll route?
- PLAYBOY: Mistake or not, what made you decide to go the rock-'n'-roll route?
- DYLAN: Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a "before" in a Charles Atlas "before and after" ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy - he ain't so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I'm in Omaha. It's so cold there, by this time I'm robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain't much to look at, but who's built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything's going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say?
- PLAYBOY: And that's how you became a rock-'n'-roll singer?
- DYLAN: No, that's how I got tuberculosis.
(Source: dorkatron)
I’ve listened to this song from time to time since Gil Scott-Heron died and every time I’ve been surprised at how moving and reassuring it is. And it’s complicated because the words here are not even his, it’s a cover of a Smog song, but they share his sense of humor, faith in humanity, and belief in the individual. It’s the song I want to remember him with. If there’s anything missing it’s his smart and bitter cynicism at the cruelties of power and oppression in the world. But maybe that’s just where he ended up.
“I did not become someone different / That I did not want to be.”
Gil Scott-Heron - I’m New Here (by malissa299)
It’s a year today since we lost Gil Scott-Heron. I wish I could go back just a little ways for just a little while.
Gil Scott-Heron - 1980 (by bwilliams33374)
Sad? Life not going your way? Billy Preston will cheer you up. Already happy? Smile wider.
Billy Preston - Nothing from nothing 1975 (by fritz5174)
Ted Hawkins: There Stands The Glass
Sooliman Rogie: I Wish I Was A Cowboy
Victor Borge: Phonetic Pronunciation
Nana Mouskouri: Ave Maria
(Source: sundownx2)
Roy Buchanan was a badass.
Roy Buchanan - Live From Austin Texas (by LiveFromAustinTexas)
[via metafilter]
