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Well who doesn’t love Suede’s Dog Man Star?These songs really permeate you. I get the sense that these weren’t necessarily big radio hits but perhaps it is better that way.
Julie Doiron is actually coming to Chicago on Friday It will be my first time seeing her at S. Union Arts and I am really excited about it. Woke Myself Up is her most recent record and I find that atleast musically the songs have more of a kick to them overall and are more catchy, though I much more so prefer it when she sings in French.
Super Furry Animala: Love Kraft. I love all SFA records…I am absolutely completely enthralled with this band. This album….I put it on and listen to it over and over again. “Ohio Heat” is one that I can’t get enough of but the album starts out quite phenomenally with the track “Zoom” which causes the lyrics “I can’t get enough of it. Kiss me with Apocalypse” to get lodged in my brain. It may be missing some of the real driving catchy songs like “Golden Retriever” but it’s really an album to immerse yourself into. Also….great live band!!
Françoise Hardy’s Vogue Years is a great collection imo. It’s so full of melody and fantastic 60s French pop. It also helps put me in a good mood.
Eels Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, on the other hand, is great for sulking and I should emphasize that although this is the one for the picture, I listened to all my Eels records for the entire day Monday and then Live at Town Hall with strings repeatedly throughout the week. If you aren’t into the Eels but like Tom Waits, I would recommend them.
Leonard Cohen is really like my comfort food when it comes to music. He always settles my stomach when I’m feeling nauseous and he’s perfect to listen to on the train. Though I think some of those early albums are just fantastic (Songs From a Room, Songs of Love and Hate), this is also a perfect collection so much so that I could listen to just about every single song on repeat for hours at different points of my life.
What’s always irked me about Leonard Cohen though is how crappy synthy his music got in the later stages even when his lyrics remained fantastic. Why abandon that beautiful acoustic stye? Is this what monks do to you?
Ah yes…I’ve been listening to my fair shair of “Speedy Marie.” Seriously though, even the songs that rubbed me the wrong way off of this at first I’ve grown to love. Though this is perhaps his most commercially successful solo album, I enjoy many of his others-Black Letter Days is another definite favorite.
I have the summers off from work so I also watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I think it’s a brilliant film about the way us humans cope with our depression and pain. After watching it, the first thing I did was to wonder if a place like this clinic really existed…I think perhaps it does and maybe it just isn’t well publicised. Though I have had a couple of failed relationships, I doubt I would actually use this strategy to completely erase a person from my mind. Because it’s coping with our losses and failed relationships that helps us learn and hopefully become more insightful and able to cope with other things. I think if there was a clinic like this in reality, though, I would probably be in the minority. My guess is it would be like the lines at the free Ben and Jerry’s ice cream day.
Magnolia ia my favorite film…I mean, I am just downright obsessed even though I detest Tom Cruise (so scientology…so creepy!) I love this film so much that I refuse to live on any other street besides Magnolia Ave. I am very very passionate about it.