After my weekend in NYC, you BETTER BELIEVE I came back with a truckload of new music...some of it of the, ahem, less than authorized variety, if ya know what I mean (and we won't talk about those goodies)...but I also roamed the used racks at Mondo Kim's on St. Marks (a favorite scrounging ground) and made out with the following goodies:










...more details and thoughts as i digest...

Anxiety said:

fucked up, huh?

GangstaFam said:

well, it's more listenable than the cremaster 2 soundtrack i own, but yup...pretty fucked up. i like the music box stuff, though.

Anxiety said:

I really love all 3 of the Bjork sung songs. And the first track could be one of the most gorgeous lyrics she's ever written. I just wish she sang it. But then there's "Holographic Entrypoint" or whatever. That puts the entire Medulla album to shame in just the first 30 seconds.

"DOOOOOIIIIIYYYYY!!!!!"

:woodblock:

so far, the princess superstar album and the knitters are my favorites. even though i think exene's all wrong for old skool hillbilly mountain music, john doe's voice is heavenly and the music is amazing...and on the PS album, the bad news is it's a (uck) concept album with segues that break the flow of the music; the good news is, the music is HOTT.

Natisse said:

i'm a BIG nick cave fan.

oh, and i almost forgot....this was waiting for me in the mail when i got home:



i listened to it all day - LOVING it.

Anxiety said:

you HAVE to take me music shopping in New York

Natisse said:

bring lotsa cash.

It never ceases to amaze me when people post so much music I've never heard of (except for Bjork and Nick Cave). I'm going to go check out that Millie Jackson.

Thanks

Slave2daGroove said:

Hi you!

GangstaFam said:

"ARROOOO MURRRRHHH UGH!"

:woodblock:

You went to New York and didn't bother telling me?!?!!!


Shame on you. We could've met up for drinks.

Anxiety said:

Didn't you already own this?

In The Ghetto and Avalanche are my favs. The man is a deranged genius.
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Anxiety said:

Now, U are on the 1 for sure. That's what 'm talkin about.

MadameS said:

couldn't they have found a better picture for the cover, though?

i mean, she's not an ugly woman, but dang...i guess they wanted a picture of her in the middle of dropping the f-bomb.

lilgish said:

nope. i pretty much have everything from 'tender prey' onwards...i think the only other nick CDs i don't have are 'kicking against the pricks' and 'live seeds'.

Anxiety said:

Yeah, think your right. The wanted a picture that epitomizes the essence of Mille which is sassiness.
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I'm confused....what the hell is this?

Crunkin' Firemen?

And what do you think of Sufjan? I saw him in New York. Really like the Illinois CD, and they pulled it off pretty well live, but I just heard Seven Swans and thought it was a bit too similar...hoping he has a few more chord changes in him.
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MendesCity said:

the crunk firemen bjork thing is a soundtrack she composed for her hubby's new movie, "drawing restraint 9". it hasn't been released domestically yet, and i don't think the film's showing over here yet either. when they do drop in the US, i don't think they'll exactly be taking the multiplexes by storm. it's some pretty wacked-out stuff...but i'm excited to see it!

and i'm all about sufjan right now. i've been hearing complaints of his stuff being a little samey - all i've heard so far is 'illinois' (which i love) and the second version of "a son came" (which is kinda ragged in places, but i was really impressed by). i bought "michigan" but i haven't listened to it yet. i haven't had a chance to sit back and give it a good listen.

Anxiety said:

What an unbelievably strange cover, even by her standards!

Yeah, there's a few tracks on Seven Swans where I'm like, oh yeah, that's the horn part from Illinois. I guess with 50 CDs, there's gonna be some repetition, but I didn't expect it so soon!

MendesCity said:

i think a big part of her hubby's movie is about alaska and whale hunting and eskimo culture, or somesuch...i'm sure gangstafam will come in and school us both here soon, but shame on me for not knowing more, being the bjork/matthew barney geek that i am.

and gosh, maybe i shouldn't check out 'seven swans' if i'm digging the states album so much. have you heard "a son came"? i think it sounds quite a bit different than "illinois". in fact, it kinda reminded me of beck, kurt cobain and prince thrown into a blender and poured out into a rickety indie rock star smoothie.

Anxiety said:

Is it on the first CD? I haven't heard that yet, but I'm definitely curious to hear more of his stuff. He's so frickin' cute I think I could watch him sing Do Re Mi for hours on end.

MendesCity said:

no, "a son came" is a full album. i don't know when it was released in relation to his other stuff. it's really good, with some really unique instrumentation and arrangements. it sounds really lo-fi, but not intentionally so. that's the only problem i have with the album - you kinda have to work with it a little and fill in some of the rough patches with your imagination. still and all, it's a very nice listen. i don't know why he released a second version of it. maybe it was even rougher in its original version? dunno.

OH, and sufjan is ALL KINDS of pretty. i can't wait to see his concert here in chicago next month, not just because i think the music is great, but i just wanna leer at the little hipster cutie.

Anxiety said:

It's kind of frightening how attractive his entire band is. It's like some weird cult of band-nerd hotties.

MendesCity said:

i think they should do a show where they mud wrestle with the cardigans.

Anxiety said:

His latest work, the two hour and fifteen minute magnum opus Drawing Restraint 9, was shot in Nagasaki Bay on board the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru.

Its core idea is the relationship between self-imposed resistance and creativity, a theme it symbolically tracks through the construction and transformation of a vast sculpture of liquid vaseline, called "The Field", which is molded, poured, bisected and reformed on the deck of the ship over the course of the film.

Barriers hold form in place, and when they are removed, the film tracks the descent of form into states of sensual surrender and formal atrophy; this shift in the physical state of the sculpture is symbolically mirrored through the narrative of The Guests, two occidental visitors to the ship played in the film by Matthew Barney and Björk, who we first see taken on board, groomed, bathed and dressed in mammal fur costumes based upon traditional Shinto marriage costumes.

They take part in a tea ceremony in which, in the film's only moment of spoken dialogue, they are informed about the history of the vessel, and then, as an increasingly powerful lightning storm breaks out overhead, the tatami mat room they occupy floods with liquid vaseline, a fluid which we sense has emanated from The Field sculpture itself.

In a harrowing liebestod which is the climax and centerpiece of the film, the Guests, locked in an embrace and breathing through blowhole-like orifices on the back of their necks, take out flensing knives and cut away each other's feet and thighs. The remains of their lower body are revealed to contain traces of whale tails at an early stage of development, suggesting rebirth, physical transformation, and the possibility of new forms.

Having reached a state of maximum disintegration, the sculpture of The Field
is then reorganized and the ship emerges from the storm, sailing through a field
of icebergs towards the open southern ocean. In the last shot, two whales can be
seen swimming behind the ship, headed for Antarctica.

GangstaFam said:

Oh, so it's a remake of Splash!

MendesCity said:

More or less.