Song Of The Day

Superb!

Jenny don't be hasty and Grant my last request, are AMAZING songs.
 
Yes, both are great songs and the two that I would pick out of them all. I wasn't impressed with many of the others though, and that kind of disappointed me.
 
My song of the day: Angus & Julia Stone - Mango Tree. It's Australia Day today, and later I'll take the family into The Rocks, under the Sydney Harbour Bridge to see some live music, including these two. Coincidentally, they are supporting Donavon Frankenrieter in the UK shortly.
 
And it's summer down there too! You lucky devil. Music under the stars.

It's going to be 18 degrees F tomorrow in NYC with some light snow. No chance of going to Central Park for a live concert anytime soon.
 
My choice for today, Jose Gonzales' Lovestain... the guy is brilliant, and his album Veneer is beautiful. I love feeling a singer-songwriter's influences coming through and especially like it when someone brings something different, like Amos Lee's gospel influence or in the case of Jose, his flamenco roots... works great with a contemporary outlook and lyrics.
 
For me its The Cape by Guy Clark.

I discovered him when I was given a CD of a live show he did with Steve Earle and Townes Van Zandt, I find it hard to believe that someone with so much talent and raw emotion in their music evaded me for so long. The song is kinda whymsical, kinda touching and a lot of fun.
 
Love Earle. Have for a long time. And Van Zandt as well. Add Gram Parsons to that list and I'm good for an afternoon.

Today, my song is Americans In Cordoroys by Jeffrey Foucault. The whole cd that it's on, Ghost Repeater, is excellent.
 
Earle is a legend, I've managed to see him live with the Dukes and with the Del McCourey Band, both times I was blown away, though interestingly the highlight of both shows was Copperhead Road. Interesting to see it done acoustically around a single mic.

I'm not familiar with Gram Parsons, though I'm guessing if he's on that list I should do something about that.
 
The song, Return of the Grievous Angel, was one of his best and most evocative. It's been redone so many times, but the version I prefer is David Crosby and Lucinda Williams'.

He died young. Way too young.
 
I have to admit that I totally love this thread. It is so much more enjoyable than the one I just bowed out of on the Lotus Lyceum - a bunch of pompous assholes, it seems to me! Lofty discussions of lit-er-at-ure. It seems a pissing match to me sometimes. What is it with these types of discussions? We can talk about music for months, all of us with different likes and dislikes, and no nasty words, no stupid critical comments about our choices. Just appreciation.

I guess it's the personalities, not the subject. Some people just seem to have something to prove all the time, and I guess those sticks up their asses make them cantankerous.
 
That Jessop guy sure hates you, Gary.

You're obviously not cool enough for him.

In his honour, I'd like to nominate the song Soul Suckers by Amos Lee.
 
Good choice.

It's kind of like if I looked down my nose at you because I'm a classical music enthusiast and you like alt/rock. Arguing the intrinsic value of one over the other!!! Rubbish.
 
I have a natural aversion to anyone who perceives their own work as art... I'm not sure why, it just seems so arrogant, especially in writing and music.

Just get on with it but save the whole 'my art' diatribe for someone who cares. I have a huge trunk filled with respect for Jeff Vandermeer and his books, but I couldn't give two sh*ts for its artistic content. I though Veniss was spectacular, I loved the experiment of the POVs and the structure... City of Saints was just as good in parts, boring as hell in others.

Snobs and elitists hate me, becuase I want to be entertained rather than educated... I also write to entertain and nothing deeper... I'd rather be in a room with entertaining people than a bunch of elitist literati...

And I don't class myself as an idiot... I have an MSc and a few academic essays to my name, but I don't class myself as a genius either... I definitely don't consider myself an ar-teest... I am a musician and a writer... nothing more and nothing less.

To me, it's a bit like the guys who go on about how cool they are and try and define what it means to be cool... if you think you are... you ain't... same with these so-called artists.

Yawn.
 
My sentiments exactly. Have a discussion. Leave the ego at home.

I just posted there again because I'm a masochist. I find Tomas Mann entertaining. Enetertainment is nothing more than a definition. I watch Indie films, I'm not big fan of Hollywood. But I enjoy smaller films. I'm entertained by them. They may be smart, but then smart entertains me. But it's a choice, not a prescription.

Jeff V sometimes sounds like he thinks he the big daddy of them all and that his word is the last word. I like him too, but that infuriates me.
 
You are a masochist... if there's one thing that bores me more than reading elitist snobs discussing their elitist snobbery... it's having a debate with them about it.

I think Gaiman has the balance right... he KNOWS he entertains people and he knows a large segment of his audience are only in it to be entertained... I think he also has a sneeky suspision that he is creating something special... but he leaves the debate to the snobs... whilst he cashes in the royalties.

Stover has the arrogance to carry off his online persona and he will mess with anyone's head who cares to challenge him on the psychology and analogies hidden in two cool blokes kicking three shades of crap out of each other with light sabers... but he won't compromise on his work being damn enteraining and challenging... I don't mind challenge by the way, just keep your 'art'.

China Mieville just keeps to himself and lets his books do the talking... I respect this in my fighters too... keep it in the ring.

I'd take Lynch and Abercrombie over any of the New Weird crop... they make me laugh and I can't put their books down.

If Cormac starts harping on about the art in The Road I think I will cry... it doesn't need to be debated does it?
 
Agreed again.

The value in discussing the success of something as extraordinary as The Road is that we all might learn something in the process. But much art is simply spontaneous and you can't learn it. Much s**t is too. Figure that.
 
These guys trying to create 'art' will never succeed. It's like trying to catch your shadow.

And I have to say, my sexuality aside... seeing those guys discussing writing as if it were an orgasm makes me want to a) never read their books and b) never have sex with them!

Give me a break!
 
I think you should try writing a song based on a formula. You'd end up with a formulaic song. But where would the heart be?

I'm getting so tired of battling for my enjoyment. I can battle for money. I can battle for love. I can battle for my children. But to battle for intellectual credits? Where can I cash those in?
 
Just to break-up the snob rants... I'd like to nominate the song, Freewheel by Duke Special... one of the best albums out last year in my opinion. Very original singer-songwriter, with unusual instrumentation (piano being the lead instrument for the whole album) and he sings in a brilliant Belfast accent too!

Check him out HERE...
 
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