hmm

[dr4b]

Well, I went to work today for a few hours. It's always fun playing catch-up. Another guy started in our group while I was gone. He's older and likes cobol and doesn't know Perl. Scary.

I was ravenously hungry at 6pm so I left work and went to Blue C for dinner. I like how I can get 8 dishes at Blue C for the price of the 4 dishes I got at the kaiten place in NYC.

I'm probly going to try to go to sleep soon, even though it's only like 9pm west coast time. It'll be weird falling asleep without a goodnight hug from Nick, but I guess I'll survive.

I'll have to go shopping this weekend for shoes and take into account some of those suggestions.

Oh yeah, and while I'm at it, I like that "five songs you despise by bands you otherwise adore" meme, so here's my answer, mostly based on "I tend to skip this song when I listen to the CD":

1) Eddie From Ohio -- "Let's Get Mesolithic"
2) Moxy Fruvous -- it's a tie between "No No Raja" and "Sahara"
3) TMBG - the entire album Mink Car, except for "Drink"
4) Great Big Sea -- "Lukey"
5) Beautiful South -- "Don't Marry Her"

I think the counter meme would be "name 5 songs that you almost always press repeat on the CD and sing along to a second time" --

1) The Pogues, "Fairytale of New York"
2) Puffy, "これが私の生きる道"
3) Aiko, "桜の時"
4) Eddie From Ohio, "Fly South"
5) Indigo Girls, "Watershed"

Comments

[dr4b]

The whole middle of that album feels very dead to me, although to be fair, I like "Lee" as a song.

[zaph.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the production on the whole album is pretty terrible, I think. Lee doesn't suffer so much because it's basically just piano and vocals.

[dr4b]

Well, it's like, you have songs like "Michigan Militia" and "I've Gotta Get a Message to You" and "Boo Time" which are okay on the album, but if you have Live Noise, you never want to hear the non-live versions again, especially the second. Problem is, most of the other songs on the album actually BENEFIT from the lousy production, because they seem to want to be reminiscent of the 60's or 70's, like "Lazlo's Career", "The Incredible Medicine Show", "Your New Boyfriend", "Get In the Car", "Kick in the Ass", and even "You Will Go to the Moon". And yeah, oddly, I feel like "Love Set Fire" is dead weight, but "Lee" is good. Go figure.

Then again, I think Wood is their best album, and I can't remember if most people disagree over that or not. I remember it got lousy reviews, but that doesn't count.

[zaph.livejournal.com]

And yeah, oddly, I feel like "Love Set Fire" is dead weight, but "Lee" is good.

interestingly, I find they're kind of the opposite live. Love Set Fire is really amazing because the audience just goes completely silent, and it's just Murray and Dave up there playing it.

Lee didn't really work the time I saw it, 'cause it was the first song of the set, Dave rushed his way through it and no one in the crowd was quite sure what to make of it. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful song, but there's definitely a reason they've only played it live twice.

But yeah, Wood is just phenomenal. Except for Poor Mary Lane, which I really could live without.