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Things I learned about this Lou Reed / John Cale collab from the early 90’s.
-Cale and Reed still hate each other
-The record is a song cycle about Andy Warhol
-All the songs are super simple
-Almost all the songs are duets, either electric piano and guitar, or electric viola and guitar
-Reed sings most of the songs
-Of the songs Cale sings, two out of the four are from Warhol’s perspective
-the lyrics are powerful, almost pitch-perfect, especially Reed’s delivery on “Work”, one of my favorites
-the recording is dry and essentially without reverb, and Cale’s keyboard is startlingly precise. He doesn’t miss a beat, which is hard to do when you are essentially pounding repeated patterns against Reed’s often unhinged electric thrash.
I like it. Dig.
Goon and Goonier
Listened all the way through Mount Eerie’s “Wind’s Poem” on the train ride home tonight. Sounded like classic Phil Elverum, minus the charm. Minus the attention to detail. It felt big, weighty, and murky. The immensity of the sound he tried to create in the louder moments was so blurry that the sense of scale was lost. The album also felt like it was lacking the “will-to-be” of his earlier work. His melodies and musical ideas were often carried by his voice’s gentle weariness. It seemed like he was meandering this time around. I know the feeling. The music felt like it was written in an isolated space, with a limited feeling of the expanse of the world. That strikes me as odd, especially since his works have always had a thought to the “elements.”
Ahhhh. But then again: the music triggered an emotion in me, one that I equate with a smaller sense of the world, of a certain boring depression. Of course I would have trouble with the record! More later. I’ll listen more tomorrow!
I’ve been riding the train for almost 4 hours a day for the last three months. Damn I need to get a netbook! I thought about writing things in a notebook, but I really don’t have time to transcribe thoughts on the weekends. Simply too busy!
I’m getting married in a week and a half. My internship in the City has finished, so I no longer ride the train for quite as long. I’ve found that my brain has decided to take a vacation. No intellectual thoughts have occurred. Thought about music has ceased. Especially since every waking moment is spent thinking about what I should be doing to help to prepare for what will be a stupendous and amazing day. Getting married is such a time sink!
My fiancée and I have been working diligently on music playlists. Dinner and post dancing music we’ve worried less about. The dancing playlist has been quite a task, though. I dislike dancing. It’s mostly dull, and wherever I’ve ever been dancing, there’s never any music played that I actually enjoy. Putting together this playlist meant that I (we, I mean) got to pick out music that I love… to dance to….
First things first: we are not a record label.
