I am sitting in my hotel room in Jersey, with Brad Mehldau in the background, and it's making me wish I had a bottle of Scotch to pour over ice in my heavy Hilton glass. (I don't drink Scotch, but it would just feel right with this song in the background.) I am afraid to comment on your music Horrorthoners, because God knows I'm not qualified, but here goes. There was going to be an order to all this, but it's too late, and I'm not organized enough.
JSP- You were right, SFA is hard to get into. Zoom, started out sounding like a Pink Floyd cover band to me, and I never could shake that feeling.
Got to Let Go, by BOB on the other hand, surprised me. I had the same reaction you wrote about, it started out like a 60's reprise, maybe the Animals or something, but that organ...the organ changed it all. It starts out sounded all 60's pop, then it starts to change over to a funk sound, then the sax comes, then the trumpet and it had me...nice.
DCD- Is your husband afraid? 'Cause this is some hardcore girl power...
Addicted, by K. Clarkson started out very Fiona Apple. The dark start reminded me a lot of "Criminal" by Apple. I liked this album by Clarkson, it was very anti-pop unlike her first post-Idol stuff.
Fairytale, by S. Bareilles. As a man, "ouch". As the father of a daughter, "that's goddamn right my girl don't need no prince!!" It's funny, I tell Amelia bedtime stories about Princess Amelia, who rides her horse Bob around the kingdom saving everyone...nary a prince in sight...I liked this song. I also managed to avoid renting "Thelma and Louise" and felt no need to see "Sex in The City".
Landshark- You had my first "What The Fuck?". I totally couldn't get past the weird lyrics in Holland, 1945 by NMH. I may not have given it enough of a chance, but I zoned out about half-way through.
On the other hand, your other choice, Better Son or Daughter, by Rilo Kelley, was one of my favorites. It felt very Irish-pride, pub song to me. I could just imagine with different lyrics they would be playing this just before some IRA man stands on the bar and screams "Alright Lads, now let's go give it to the fookin British!!". I loved it.
Octo- Oh, Octo, I may not have seen you for years, but I knew your music would frighten me.
Sci'Fi Wasabi by Cibo Matto was another "WTF?!" moment for me. Perhaps you have a part of the ear I don't possess, but I couldn't figure out how you could listen to this one.
When Meditational Field, by Susumu Hirasawa, started I figured I was 0 for 2 with Octo songs...then...wait a minute, this isn't bad. I don't know what it was, I don't usually like the techno stuff, but there was something, (happy?), about this song. I found myself listening to it, and picturing the scenes in movies it would go with, I dug it.
Anas- Your first song was undone by American advertising. I can't remember what New Soul, by Yael Naim, advertises, but it was played every two seconds on TV for months, until even the beginning of the refrain fills me with a desire to kill.
Oh Me, Oh My, by Imogen Heap I like a lot. If I didn't know whom it was singing, and you asked me to guess I would have thought it could of been a Tori Amos song. It had the same angry beauty Amos' songs have.
That's all the typing I can take at 2AM in Newark, I will finish up tomorrow. This was fun, and it had the desired effect. I found some stuff I had never heard of that I really liked. Thanks again for inviting me to the Horrorthon party.
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I'll give you a Floyd cover band upside your head Miko! Just kidding...
Thank you for giving birth to this little experiment. I can't wait to add my 2 cents (or more) but unfortunately I have to. Just picked the 'rents up at the airport and need me some sleeeeeeeep.
hah- I was tempted to post in the wee hours as well but resisted. great kickoff miko. i will post some thoughts soon too though i haven't listened to all the songs as often as i would have liked.
how are we doing this? separate posts, or comments under one?
Separate posts! Is my vote.
I was about to comment on this at about 3 am our time and then I keeled over.
"keeled over"? What's your excuse?
Oh yeah.
Weird lyrics in NMH? What about "now she's a little boy in Spain" is weird?
Excellent reviews! I especially like hearing about Amelia's (love that name) bedtime stories!
It nice to read some reviews! I wish I had more time to comment, but JPX is cracking the whip for me to get over to his house. He has this crazy idea that I lose track of time.
I vote for separate posts too.
Newark sucks. I was working on a job in Hoboken (which ain't the Ritz neither), and we had to go get some steel stock from Newark. Can you think of a lamer place than a metal supply warehouse in Newark? Because I can't.
How bout a vacation rental near the Newark airport? Just off the runway.
Whenever I hear Newark I think of a radio show I heard back in the 80s. Some DJ did pranks, I guess, and one was to call up some poor folks a day before their vacation to FL, and say that the Florida condo wasn't available anymore, but that they'd gone ahead and switched them to a nice little cottage in Newark, near the airport.
Octo, what job did you do that required you to be in Hoboken looking for steel?
Also, pretty much anywhere in Mississippi for any reason is worse than Newark.
i have gotten lost both in newark and in jersey city.
my brother lives in nj and tells the tale of when he asked a kindly toll booth collector on the jersey turnpike what time it was, and the dude goes, "time to get a new watch."
i'll steer clear of mississippi; thanks for the warning miko.
That's pretty funny AC. Toll booth operator must be one of the worst jobs on earth.
The funny thing is Octo and my parents both grew up in NJ, but not anywhere near Newark. Beautiful farm land and the beach is what I think of when I think of NJ.
the shore and other less inhabited areas of nj are gorgeous, but i'm not sure if i'm a big fan of any of the jersey cities. to be fair i've never checked out (heh) AC.
Ohhhhhh, casinos...good idea AC, perhaps that should be like a Horrorthon field trip sometime when everyone is in town for the holidays. Even the NYC folks aren't very far from either Atlantic City or even the CT casinos.
Blackjack while discussing movies and music, that may be what heaven is like....
DCD, I had no idea your folks were from NJ!
i've never been to a casino in my life, but if there's an east coast horrorthon gathering i'm in.
Jeez, miko - after all these years there is still shit we don't know about each other? Who-da thunk?
Who's Peter? Did I miss something again?
LOL! That was me. I could not figure out what your comment meant this morning miko. I was at my sister Casey and her husband Peter's house last night and jumped on their computer, didn't even notice it posted as peter.
It was on my ride home that it finally dawned on me. Hmmm, too much wine last night!
"Casey and her husband Peter" That sentence could not look any weirder to me! She will always be stuck in her pre-teen years in my memory...funky.
Thanks for the clairification DCD, thought I had a long lost admirer.
That pre-teen has a two yr old and a one month old...
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