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Chapter Two wrote:

rayj wrote:

Chapter Two wrote:Okay, time has passed, and I guess I'm listening to standards tonight, but they're standards for a reason.
I'm currently listening to what is in my mind the epitome of a work of art being both very moving and completely hilarious.

Jandek?

Palace Brothers!

(Still haven't heard Jandek)

I'll admit that when I first heard There is No-one What Will Take Care of You, I didn't quite get it. I mean, there were songs I liked, and I supported the endeavor for obvious reasons, but I wasn't enthralled or anything.

Upon hearing "You Will Miss Me When I Burn" and "Meaulnes" off of Palace Brothers, though, I realized that my old friend had somehow morphed into a genius. I've been an unabashed fan ever since.

In fact, I bought that record on a trip back to Louisville and listened to it twice on my way back to Missouri. Then I turned it off and started singing. By the time I reached Springfield, I'd written three songs a capella. I had never done anything like this before. In fact, I could not even play a guitar yet and had only written songs when I'd put lyrics to other people's music. But something in those songs inspired me to the extent that I immediately began to write my own songs. The songs I'd been waiting all my life to write.

What a fine, fine record. Thanks, Will.

Radio_Birdman wrote:

John W. wrote:Yes, I'm Ready: Barbara Mason

Weird, I'm hearing that song on the oldies station right now.

Whoa.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:Upon hearing "You Will Miss Me When I Burn" and "Meaulnes" off of Palace Brothers, though, I realized that my old friend had somehow morphed into a genius. I've been an unabashed fan ever since.

This is the record by Palace Brothers for me. I love it. It just kills me.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

Chapter Two wrote:

rayj wrote:

Chapter Two wrote:Okay, time has passed, and I guess I'm listening to standards tonight, but they're standards for a reason.
I'm currently listening to what is in my mind the epitome of a work of art being both very moving and completely hilarious.

Jandek?

Palace Brothers!

(Still haven't heard Jandek)

I'll admit that when I first heard There is No-one What Will Take Care of You, I didn't quite get it. I mean, there were songs I liked, and I supported the endeavor for obvious reasons, but I wasn't enthralled or anything.

Upon hearing "You Will Miss Me When I Burn" and "Meaulnes" off of Palace Brothers, though, I realized that my old friend had somehow morphed into a genius. I've been an unabashed fan ever since.

In fact, I bought that record on a trip back to Louisville and listened to it twice on my way back to Missouri. Then I turned it off and started singing. By the time I reached Springfield, I'd written three songs a capella. I had never done anything like this before. In fact, I could not even play a guitar yet and had only written songs when I'd put lyrics to other people's music. But something in those songs inspired me to the extent that I immediately began to write my own songs. The songs I'd been waiting all my life to write.

What a fine, fine record. Thanks, Will.

An important point for me in my upbringing was meeting up with some lads who were really into hip-hop and sitting around while they free-styled, i.e., passed the microphone between them and improvised stuff off the top of their heads. The fact of bringing their imagination and consciousness into the immediate and sometimes pinning something down that you wouldn't have been able to make so clear in a hundred years of sitting around chewing on your quill was incredibly inspiring to me. The old Palace Brothers records are inspiring in the same way for me. They're beautiful anyway, but when you pick up on the fact that a lot of it is spontaneous they become something else entirely.

I'm now going to tell one of the afore-mentioned hip-hop loving friends the same thing.

I'm listening to Growing's His Return

The first side of Horses by Patti Smith on vinyl....

AIR: LateNightTales:

"All Cats Are Grey" - The Cure
"Planet Caravan" - Black Sabbath
"O'Venezia Venaga Venusia" - Nino Rota
"I Shall Be Released" - The Band
"Camille" - Georges Delerue
"Ghosts" - Japan
"The Old Man's Back Again" - Scott Walker
"Come Wander With Me" - Jeff Alexander
"Metal Heart" - Cat Power
"Lovin' You" - Minnie Riperton
"For The World" - Tan Dun
"Le Long de la Rivière Tendre" - Sébastien Tellier
"My Autumn's Done Come" - Lee Hazlewood
"P.L.A." - Robert Wyatt
"Let's Get Lost" - Elliott Smith
"Cousin Jane" - The Troggs
"Musica" - Air/Alessandro Baricco
"Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte" (Ravel) - The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra

(I can't stop listening to it! Help!)

Eric Dolphy -- Out There

I'm no jazz dork but this jazz isn't jazzy in the same way as other jazzy jazzz that jazzes up my jazz jazz.

Thom York - The Eraser

It's getting better every time I listen to it.....

Sage Francis - sea lion. featuring Will Oldham. what a great song!