Posted in Avail on September 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I woke up New #2 instead. I think this song is actually about a long-distance relationship that doesn’t work, so there’s that. Like i need this. Sigh. Although i think maybe the relationship in the song wasn’t working well before the split, so i can divorce it from this experience on that. It might not be about that at all and i’m skewing everything my own sadsack way. Yes. I’m not going to be much fun.
Posted in Pulp on September 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This wasn’t the song in my head this morning. It was Henry’s Dress’ The Way She Goes, but i wanted to do something nice and honour the song that was in my girlfriend’s head for a change, as though to keep something of her here, to evince her wonderful, wonderful effect on me. I’m a wreck. I’m going to try and force my mind into singing Woke Up New by the Mountain Goats as i wake up tomorrow because i cannot think of a more appropriate song for how i feel right now.
Posted in Stéphanie on September 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Because she is leaving tomorrow and i’ve often asked her to do this for me, today’s special guest BLOGGGGGGGER is my girlfriend. It was her first time hearing it (i think) and it was under duress:
“I don’t know! It’s a good song. La la la. Lalalalalala la la. I think we’re alone now… You should have done that for today. I like that song.”
I am going to miss you so much.
Posted in Girls' Generation, K-pop on September 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »
As if fulfilling a prophecy, following destiny to an inescapable end, this song is now my ring tone – something that caused no small amount of embarrassment when it went off while i was waiting in the Korean consulate office with my girlfriend last week.
Posted in Starland Vocal Band on September 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Lio on September 26, 2011| 1 Comment »
This is one of the songs that was not re-recorded for Suite Sixteen, even though it is one her best. I don’t really mind though. The further in i sink, the more Suite Sixteen seems like a dispensable novelty. It was the first stuff of Lio’s i (and i imagine a lot of other people) ever heard, and will always hold place in my heart because of that, but what is it: The Sage Comme Une Image and Mona Lisa singles and some anglicised hits with inferior Sparks production. And it doesn’t even have this song! I’m going to listen to it now.
Posted in Poundsign on September 25, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This song and the entire EP reminds me of the first time i finally made it up to a friend of mine’s bedroom after spending so much time relegated to other parts of his house. Going through his records – something i’d long wanted to do – being blown away by what i found, and then stumbling upon this oddity among his emo and indie rock repository. I owned this record. I would never admit to him i did let alone how much it meant to me, but there it was, with him, the wimpiest record in his collection and maybe the beginning of a slide into indie pop i was already well on.
And he loved it. We bonded over it. I’m not sure if it still means anything to him as it does me, but it was the most heartening thing in the world finding we had arrived at the same point through differing, discrete, undisclosed paths. The things we’re ashamed of and keep hidden from friends…
Posted in Hurrah! on September 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »
It was record fair day today and, getting up at 6, spending the day away, this is a little late. A good day, but no Hurrah! records. It would been have high, foolish optimism to have expected them. As is becoming something of a tradition, here was today’s haul, all of it reasonably priced:
7″
Call me every night – Jane Aire and the Belvederes
Red head walking – Beat Happening
Transmissions on the teen-c tip! – Bis
Sweet shop avengerz – Bis (yellow cover)
Limp – Drop Nineteens
Two more songs – Grab Grab The Haddock
Tell that girl to shut up – Holly and the Italians
Makes no sense at all – Hüsker Dü
Skillex – Kenickie
Light of day – Love Positions
Life cycle – Nausea
Paramania – The Parasites
Spitfire – Rapunzel Gets Down
Iggy Pop’s jacket – Those Naughty Lumps
Little piggies and cows EP – Thrilled Skinny
Spazz rockdance inferno – Truman’s Water
L’amour est bleu – Vicky
Two lines – Ya Ya Choral
Edsel Auctioneer/Breed split on Clawfist
Th’ Faith Healers/Mambo Taxi split on Clawfist
v/a – The 26th.
12″
Happy Birthday – Altered Images
Playing with a different sex – Au Pairs
The Briar Rose EP – Choo Choo Train
Action reaction – Get Smart! (find of the fair for me!)
Watery, domestic – Pavement
the Shop Assistants LP
A real-life story of teenage rebellion – Weston
Solid state survivor – Yellow Magic Orchestra
v/a – Stars Kill Rock
the EEC Punk Rock Mountain Sarah Records bootleg
Nothing over $20. Cool. I’m cool.
Posted in Dinosaur Jr. on September 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Tangentially related (no?! here?!), but i saw Sebadoh last Wednesday night and they were really good. I haven’t had my mind made up by that chapter in Our Band Could Be Your Life on which band i like more, but i think my endless support of the underdog may sway it to Lou Barlow’s side. Tiffany Anders sings the backing vocals on this song and, as well as a great musician in her own right, she’s the daughter of Allison Anders. Fun facts.
Posted in K-pop, T-ara on September 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I was trying to write a post giving what i think is a fair reason for my recent turn to all things K-Pop (besides it’s innate charm and excellence), but everything i write is either too sadsacky, selfish, censored or just not good enough to honour that fair reason.
Plainly speaking, my girlfriend is going to South Korea in a few days time to live and teach there for a year. My attention turned to Korea as hers did, and this all began as an effort to better understand the country she had chosen to spend so long a time away in. A year. Uh-oh. I’m moving away from plain speak. I’m a romantic after all.
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