The Waiting Room Brings Home the Bacon
My latest excursion into the murky waters of The Waiting Room saw me praising big famous bands for a change, really rather ironic given the hassle talking about those same bands has caused around here recently. Would I have done the same segment in hindsight? Would I fucking bollocks!
The Waiting Room, Wednesday 16th April 2008
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It’s weird, I feel something of a tit now for bigging up the bands that then bring down teh haterz, even though I know it’s nothing to do with the actual bands themselves. Or at least I should bloody well hope it’s nothing to do with the bands. Odd how the behaviour of someone employed by someone who employs someone to look after a group can make a band look quite so bad, really. Guilt by association. I know the band could quite easily order off the attack dogs (would a really big label even pretend to listen?) or publically condemn this sort of bollocks, but why would they? They make music, not politics. Although REM are pretty politically involved so you would expect them to have a stance on all this web madness one way or another.
Hmm, well that’s another ramble for another day.
It’s a pig themed week for some reason, so I thought I’d lob these little gems into the mix just for fun. The Sparklehorse song in particular is something of an enormously noisy, fuzzy masterpiece.
The Beatles – Piggies
Sparklehorse – Pig
If anyone has been following the show over the past month then they’d've noticed my gentle joshing aimed at The Woman of The House via a vis housework & cleaning & stuff, & how bad she is at it despite going at it like a workhouse orphan in order to get the place spotless for no reason other than that’s how it should be.
Of course, it’s all a conceit, & this week’s show (opening with the sound of a hoover – TWoTH’s birthday present to herself; yes, I know, she is sometimes a bit weird like that – & the Shake & Vac song) was a quiet comment on the chauvinistic approach I had portrayed.
So, the theme isn’t really a comment on the animal as such, more so much ‘evolution’ of man into being a pig – hence the Planet of The Apes show flyer (&, therefore, the steps of evolution flyer).
Trouble was, it all now gets a bit confusing because we had so much fun barking nonsense at each other we plum forgot to make mention of the flier or the hoover of the song. So it kinda hangs there like a non-sequitor.
So much for subliminal & liminal philosophising, especially as I’m now revealing the emaciated rabbit up the wizard’s tatty sleeve.
Erm, genius mate, just genius. In a way. Kind of.
Loved the Colorblind James Experience… Pretty good choices all round. Any chance of a list please?
DC, Could this be your stolen copy?:
http://www1.gemm.com/item/COLORBLIND–JAMES–EXPERIENCE/COLORBLIND–JAMES–EXPERIENCE/GML123911004/
I like that Colourblind James thingy too. The song sounded vaguely familiar, but I basically know nothing at all about them.
DC – you used to do a tracklist ages ago didn’t you? Any reason you gave it up?
Hooray for Kies! Excellent!
Yay Kees, indeed
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I haven’t stopped, I’ve just not got the hours in ther day to put them up as regularkly as I did – I’ll resume this weekend so yu can see who you’re listening to.
Cf&Bf – nah, but I have a cassette copy I was pointed in the direction of for $3.00 on its way & Kees has sent me all the tracks @ proper sexy bitrate & someone I know said they may have a vinyl copy I can have.
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Hoorah Music 2.0. Or something.
Playlists now up to date.
i love fuzz.
Early Sparklehorse fuzz in particular!