Stupidfool.org tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-8 2009-11-13T14:24:24-08:00 From pork to Prince to Project Runway. TypePad Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes Gainsbourg: Vie Héroïque tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83455876069e20128759a6761970c 2009-11-13T14:24:24-08:00 2009-11-13T14:25:09-08:00 via Stereogum There's a Serge Gainsbourg biopic, Gainsbourg: Vie Héroïque, coming out in January! I love Gainsbourg and find him endlessly fascinating, so this is exciting, and the trailer looks great. btrott

via Stereogum

There's a Serge Gainsbourg biopic, Gainsbourg: Vie Héroïque, coming out in January! I love Gainsbourg and find him endlessly fascinating, so this is exciting, and the trailer looks great.

 http://ben.stupidfool.org/typepad/2009/11/gainsbourg-vie-h%C3%A9ro%C3%AFque.html Solange: "Stillness is the Move" tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83455876069e20120a6889486970b 2009-11-12T10:51:04-08:00 2009-11-12T10:53:39-08:00 Oh, wow! Solange--whose Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams was one of my favorite albums of 2008--has covered the Dirty Projectors' "Stillness is the Move", one of my favorite songs of 2009. I love it. Via Lizzyville. btrott

Solange

Oh, wow! Solange--whose Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams was one of my favorite albums of 2008--has covered the Dirty Projectors' "Stillness is the Move", one of my favorite songs of 2009. I love it.

Via Lizzyville.

 http://ben.stupidfool.org/typepad/2009/11/solange-stillness-is-the-move.html Yep tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83455876069e20120a67733b1970b 2009-11-10T22:08:00-08:00 2009-11-10T22:11:21-08:00 “Bitte Orca feels nothing less than a modern equivalent to Talking Heads’ Fear Of Music” (Uncut) DL: That’s not my favorite Heads album. Probably Remain In Light is the one I’ve listened to the most. Fear Of Music, is that... btrott <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><blockquote><p><strong>“<em>Bitte Orca</em></strong><strong> feels nothing less than a modern equivalent to Talking Heads’ <em>Fear Of Music</em></strong><strong>”</strong> (<a href="http://uncut.co.uk/music/dirty_projectors/reviews/13236" target="_blank">Uncut</a>)</p> <p><strong>DL: </strong>That’s not my favorite Heads album. Probably <em>Remain In Light</em> is the one I’ve listened to the most. <em>Fear Of Music</em>, is that the one that opens with “I Zimbra”?&nbsp;Whether <em>Bitte Orca</em> is more like that one, I don’t know. That’s a compelling thing. Is he just saying it sounds like Talking Heads, or does he mean it in a deeper way—like in terms of the way the songs are put together and the actual arrangements, it really reminds him of <em>Fear Of Music</em>? It would be dumb of me to pick hairs and disagree with these things. So, yep. I like the Talking Heads. [Laughs.]</p> </blockquote> <p><small>via <a href="http://www.avclub.com/newyork/articles/dirty-projectors-david-longstreth-doesnt-think-the,34947/">www.avclub.com</a></small></p> <p><a href="http://www.avclub.com/newyork/articles/dirty-projectors-david-longstreth-doesnt-think-the,34947/">Dave Longstreth on the many X-meets-Y-on-Z comparisons</a> that the Dirty Projectors receive in reviews, via A.V. Club.</p> <p>Out of full disclosure, I have, in the past, <a href="http://ben.stupidfool.org/typepad/2008/04/dirty-projectors-rise-above.html">compared</a> the Dirty Projectors' <em>Rise Above</em> to early Scritti Politti (think <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010YK8CA?ie=UTF8&tag=stupidfool-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0010YK8CA">"Skank Bloc Bologna"-era Scritti</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=stupidfool-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0010YK8CA" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />). And I stand by that comparison!</p></div> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/btrott/~4/ODEXuP9DIic" height="1" width="1"/> http://ben.stupidfool.org/typepad/2009/11/yep.html Amerie: "Why R U" tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83455876069e20128757911bb970c 2009-11-10T21:54:01-08:00 2009-11-10T22:09:39-08:00 Amerie's new album, In Love & War , is really good, and "Why R U" is one of the reasons why. Related: Idolator (R.I.P.) lists five reasons why you should give In Love & War a listen. btrott <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FKyFhZsltsQ&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FKyFhZsltsQ&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480"></object> <p>Amerie's new album, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TXIEH2?ie=UTF8&tag=stupidfool-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002TXIEH2"><em>In Love &amp; War</em></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=stupidfool-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B002TXIEH2" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" width="1" />, is really good, and "Why R U" is one of the reasons why.</p> <p>Related: Idolator (<a href="http://idolator.com/5290342/its-time-for-me-to-say-goodbye">R.I.P.</a>) lists <a href="http://idolator.com/5289032/five-reasons-that-you-should-pick-up-ameries-in-love-and-war">five reasons</a> why you should give <em>In Love &amp; War</em> a listen.</p></div> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/btrott/~4/GEO90iuaFmk" height="1" width="1"/> http://ben.stupidfool.org/typepad/2009/11/amerie---why-r-u.html Corrections tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83455876069e20120a6573929970b 2009-11-05T10:01:10-08:00 2009-11-05T10:02:43-08:00 Liz Colville's "Corrections to Other People's Music Writing" series (first installment here) is brilliant. Here's a snippet from the most recent installment: Due to an unfamiliarity with HTML, our "Top 2000 Albums of the 2000s" (November 1, 2009) mistakenly listed... btrott <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Liz Colville's "Corrections to Other People's Music Writing" series (<a href="http://lizzyville.blogs.com/index/2009/10/music-journalism-corrections-october-27-2009.html">first installment here</a>) is brilliant.</p> <p>Here's a snippet from the <a href="http://lizzyville.blogs.com/index/2009/11/corrections-to-other-peoples-music-writing-edition-of-november-4-2009.html">most recent installment</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Due to an unfamiliarity with HTML, our "Top 2000 Albums of the 2000s" (November 1, 2009) mistakenly listed the albums in alphabetical order by first letter of band name instead of in long-argued-over numerically-ranked order. The resulting flood of comments about the proximity of Jay Reatard's <em>Blood Visions</em> to Joanna Newsom's <em>Ys</em> caused our server to crash, which then erased every document and website containing information about what albums came out between 2000 and 2009 and how we felt about them. We were forced to collectively recall the albums from memory and came up with the following:</p><p style="text-align: left;">Joanna Newsom - <em>Ys</em><br>Jay Reatard - <em>Blood Visions</em><br>Air - <em>Talkie Walkie</em><br><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Mariah Carey - <em>Butterfly</em></span> Was that really 1997? Man, time flies.<br>Adam Lambert - <em>Y'all Ready For This?</em> (We are not sure of the title of this one but believe we are capturing the tone accurately.)</p></blockquote> <p><small>via <a href="http://lizzyville.blogs.com/index/2009/11/corrections-to-other-peoples-music-writing-edition-of-november-4-2009.html">lizzyville.blogs.com</a></small></p></div> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/btrott/~4/4R_C-rwj7bs" height="1" width="1"/> http://ben.stupidfool.org/typepad/2009/11/corrections.html