“Bitte Orca feels nothing less than a modern equivalent to Talking Heads’ Fear Of Music” (Uncut)
DL: That’s not my favorite Heads album. Probably Remain In Light is the one I’ve listened to the most. Fear Of Music, is that the one that opens with “I Zimbra”? Whether Bitte Orca is more like that one, I don’t know. That’s a compelling thing. Is he just saying it sounds like Talking Heads, or does he mean it in a deeper way—like in terms of the way the songs are put together and the actual arrangements, it really reminds him of Fear Of Music? It would be dumb of me to pick hairs and disagree with these things. So, yep. I like the Talking Heads. [Laughs.]
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Dave Longstreth on the many X-meets-Y-on-Z comparisons that the Dirty Projectors receive in reviews, via A.V. Club.
Out of full disclosure, I have, in the past, compared the Dirty Projectors' Rise Above to early Scritti Politti (think "Skank Bloc Bologna"-era Scritti
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Liz Colville's "Corrections to Other People's Music Writing" series (first installment here) is brilliant.
Here's a snippet from the most recent installment:
Due to an unfamiliarity with HTML, our "Top 2000 Albums of the 2000s" (November 1, 2009) mistakenly listed the albums in alphabetical order by first letter of band name instead of in long-argued-over numerically-ranked order. The resulting flood of comments about the proximity of Jay Reatard's Blood Visions to Joanna Newsom's Ys caused our server to crash, which then erased every document and website containing information about what albums came out between 2000 and 2009 and how we felt about them. We were forced to collectively recall the albums from memory and came up with the following:
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
Air - Talkie Walkie
Mariah Carey - Butterfly Was that really 1997? Man, time flies.
Adam Lambert - Y'all Ready For This? (We are not sure of the title of this one but believe we are capturing the tone accurately.)
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I tried to get http://bit.ly/whereswaldo but it was already taken (and awesome!), so I got http://bit.ly/whereswaldo2 so people might discover the awesome version by mucking with the URL. Time to run my own URL shortener... don't trust any of them.
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New York Dolls, "Frankenstein": probably my favorite ever New York Dolls song.
And also, you know, monsters, Halloween, &c.
I like this. (also: more noise!)
The Big Picture collects some lovely photos of the recent Ares I-X launch, including this one:
Also: there's a NASA Railroad! Neat! I wish this were a thing, instead of, you know, that Thomas the train.
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