The Sound of This Thursday
With Wednesday’s Ash now gone to unceremonious dust, I dare not look to this day, Thursday, for the get-up that’ll permit me to go. There’s been way too many days like these. Better to look toward tomorrow, even if it never comes. That way I won’t be disappointed.So today I’ve got Friday on My Mind, and that means Bowie and his Pin-Ups, particularly his immortalizing of The Easybeats. The slab, and the song, were an integral part of my youth, not just for Bowie’s take on things that were, but for his passion for those things, and for his reverence. After all, if it weren’t for Bowie’s tributation The Easybeats might have been shelved in the dustbin of Pop’s history.
Then I wonder which of the myriad songsters currently buffering my exile might too be shelved, or covered, or heralded, or all or neither of the above. And I figure I better spill a few words while they’re here, now, and while I’m here to hear ’em.
It’s the least I can do.
Each day, like clockwork, armed with my nifty new HP notebook I hit Northern Lights for some Free Trade roast of the day and a few good downloads. I’m only permitted an hour at a time, but in that hour I bitch and moan and groan, and I make the rounds of indie offerings, some good, some real good, and some even quite great. All made possible by the generosity of concerns such as Anti, Sub Pop, Vagrant, K, Barsuk, spinART, eenie meenie, Team Love and Fueled by Ramen.
There’s Eef Barzelay’s twanging through his Ballad of Bitter Honey, a ridiculously compelling twitter, from the voice of the ridiculously compelling Clem Snide, a personal fave, whom I’ve got on hand once with Fill Me With Your Light and twice with All Green, a double shot of unjust rewards.
The devout stirrings of Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Melt Your Heart with it’s Fade Into You moodswinging (which coincidentally I first heard on Valentine’s Day), "Born Secular" with it’s Sunday schooling; the hip Lynn-like Clinings of Neko Case, and her sister-in-crime, Jessie Sykes, both of whom deserve their very own Grand Ol’ Opry, right in the middle of Manhattan.
The classicist groove of Living Things and Calla, the Collectivist trippings of Panda Bear, and their outta-this-worldly brother Ariel Pink, which segue nicely into the 10cc-sized revvings of The Sunshine Fix; Merle doing Hank’s If You’ve Got the Money after candidly Wishing All These Old Things Were New; Dashboard Confessional, who can either be blamed or praised for the rash of emo on the air; the pre-neo post wavishness of Jennifer Gentle’s I Do Dream You which could’ve been rendered by Plastic Bertrand’s niece.
Echoes of all and none the period piece Melt With You-ings of Mates of State‘s Fraud in the ‘80s, and the way the world is turned on its head and spun anew by The Fiery Furnaces' Police Sweater Blood Vow the winsome Smithsomeness of The Dears; and the new trad Melvinings of The Hold Steady, who‘s The Swish is positively delish.
“I came right over the counter just to kiss you.”
Some Tricky trippery, a Dimension Mix of Stereolab’s Mudra, the Foldsy Teenaramics of Apollo Sunshine, Koufax and The Hush; Frank Black and the Catholics bluesing through Nadine, putting on the Francis for a reductionary recap of Monkey Gone to Heaven, and the jungled relations of Bunky’s funky Monkey Song, and Low’s own knowing Monkey.
My groove is gotten with Spam Allstars and Mark Ronson’s reflooring of Radiohead’s Just (scroll to 2/20); my radio head is highed and realized via Nada Surf and Ted Leo and Starlight Mints and the Ageless Beauty of Stars; Iron and Wine and Smog provide the simple, supple sustenance my soul requires, as does -- different yet equal -- that dame known as Tender Forever.
There are The Frames, who first came to me, as most things first came to me the two years before my Scrantoning, over XPN. I can’t remember the track, but I do remember digging it, and when I stumbled upon Star Star I recalled why. The Frames have a way with song. Their Fitzcarraldo, inspired by Herzog’s heroic flickery, even makes me not mind a bit of jam.
But above all of the above finery there are three songs that have moved me to near tears and made me marvel that my belief in the power of melody is not completely without merit: Cat Power’s The Greatest, The Elected’s Greetings in Braille and A Girl Called Eddie’s Golden. I won’t say anything more about them here, ‘cause I can’t say enough.
I will say this: Just because I’ve still no View doesn’t mean I can’t listen.
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