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"Why, I just think henry s has the finest name, on this or any other message board". -henry s's mother

does "Westworld" count?

getting a bit off the jazz tip, one could reasonably (or not) dub 2005 the Year Piano Broke, what with: Gonzales - Solo Piano Haushcka - The Prepared Piano Epic Soundtracks - Good Things Antony And The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now Frida Hyvonen - Until Death Comes my favorite pianist of all...

only if they did the Ikettes' "Gong Gong Song"...

Jimmy Edgar also reminds me in places of The Egyptian Lover, who apparently has a new album coming out very soon, I think...The Egyptian Lover!...whooda thought we'd ever see him again!

I'm all over this new Jimmy Edgar CD, Color Strip...(Warp just issued it)...sorta an ultimate Motor City affair, sonically combining Techno Detroit (May, Atkins, Craig and what have you) with Booty Detroit (DJ Assault, Detroit Grand Pubahs, etc.)...the beats are crisp and clinical, but infused...

speaking of retro rummages, the Rev-Ola label is on a minor roll right now...recent weeks have seen the likes of Nancy Priddy, Evie Sands, Edu Lobo and Claudine Longet insinuate themselves into my headspace, and the new John Jacob Niles thing looks pretty fetching, too...

...and yes, soul music does seem to be totally appropriate for sunny winter sunday mornings, while folk seems more suited for sunny summer sunday mornings...(something about the relative arid-ness/dessicated quality of folk music, better suited for the dry season)...

one doesn't immediately think of young white females of Jewish and Italian descent when one thinks of soul music, but Gonna Take A Miracle, the album Laura Nyro made with LaBelle, is my favorite soul disc of all time...(at least for this week)...following in hot pursuit are The Belle Album, by...

what do you have against malls?...I challenge you to get a decent aqua massage anywhere else!...(besides, I would think that with your George Romero zombie image, you'd be more be more pro-mall)...

I compared (on this very site) Boards Of Canada and Blue Oyster Cult recently, mainly because they shared an acronym and a penchant for sci-fi-esque song titles...of course, I was joking, but it made me realize: we need another Blue Oyster Cult, now more than ever...

many is the band I've avoided simply because of their rotten name...one in particular, Jazzanova, I found I liked very much when I finally heard them...another, Breakestra, I haven't heard, but I can't imagine they'd be any good...more fool me?

Belle And Sebastian I loathed them for the longest time, thought they were twee, fey, cutesy...couldn't stand their cult of fans, either...loved the scene in High Fidelity when Jack Black rips into his sensitive indie-guy colleague for dropping their CD at the shop...then, heard Dear...

what makes a western a "western"?...is it the hats?...the tumbleweeds?...the narrative?...'cos, John Carpenter's Assault On Precinct 13 is a western in all but setting, essentially a remake of Rio Bravo...and movies like The Wild Bunch and The Unforgiven are great precisely because they critique...

Lucky Monkey's the brand for me...

you serious?...it's when the singer goes all free-form blah-blah-blah-doo-doo-WEEEE-hooo...for example, if you tried to mimic a lead guitar lick using only your voice, you would be scat-singing...Ella Fitzgerald is generally the first name that comes to mind when the conversation turns, as it...

I will make an exception for that Robert Wyatt/Ultramarine song, but in general I hate scat singing!

Bongwater (in general), Too Much Sleep (in particular) got me through many an all-nighter in my grad school days...their music has such a stimulating somnambulance to it, quite appropriate for sleep-deprived states...also, Terry Riley, Rainbow In Curved Air...and yeah, MBV's Loveless, which...

this is a pretty good point...I'm all for politeness and r-e-s-p-e-c-t and all, but it seems to me there's a bit too much reverence in the ol' blogosphere...why is the "kill yr idols" impulse (which drives rock music) in such short supply here?...(again, I use this term respectfully)...

I found I was only buying it when certain writers had a piece in it...and now that they all have blogs, where you can get them in spades, I dunno... it's probably (maybe?) the case that the crowd that gets into Evan Parker, or Phill Niblock, or whoever, spends less time online than the likes of...