"REAL GONE" Lyrics

"Real Gone" is finally released today and for all of you lucky enough to find tracks off this album online, or to have a copy already, here's a link where you can find the lyrics for "Real Gone".

Go here for lyrics.



There is a great article at the Anti Records site on Waits, here.
Here is a snippet about his wife Kathleen Brennan...

He does believe, however, in the advantage of two heads over one. He writes and produces all of his songs with his wife Kathleen Brennan, a former script-editor whom Waits met while writing the Oscar-nominated music for Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart in 1982. (Waits launched his successful on-screen career the following year in Coppola's Rumble Fish.) "Her ideas are indispensable. They've definitely improved my aim and my perception. I think I used to be much more timid in my music. She pushed me out in traffic in my stroller. . . .

"She was going to be a nun, she was an opera singer, and a newscaster. She plays piano like Liberace and Glenn Gould, she's a tree-surgeon and a ventriloquist, she can even take the engine apart on the truck. And she's a bathing beauty."

THE FEATURES // "The Beginning"

The Features reel and tumble out of the speakers, drummer Rollum Haas bashing the living hell out of his kit, Parrish Yaw's organ giving us that 60's garage feel. Who the hell are these guys? Where the hell have they been? I gotta thank Daniel at new mp3 blog, Take Dead Aim , for turning me onto this band.

The track "The Beginning" reminds me of the early incarnation of The Walkmen, Jonathan Fire Eater, crashing out at you, all cymbals and sweet organ swirls. They have garnered comparisons to some heavy names in Elvis Costello, The Buzzcocks, and The Undertones among others. They have also been described as Hot Hot Heat meets Franz Ferdinand.



Check out the title track off their ep "The Beginning" - "The Beginning"
And off of their debut full length, "Exhibit A" -"Blow It Out"

*you can listen to tracks from their release "Exhibit A", through the link above. Here is a video of their track "The Way It's Meant To Be" Windows and Real Audio

*HIP/STER/EO lives!

Finally. It's been at least a month, okay, a month and a half, since the last post on *HIP/STER/EO, but now I finally got another label profile up on the page.
Go check it out and the other 55 or so brief indie label profiles with mp3s and links.

THE WALKMEN // "The Rat"

Okay, so the previous post on Hot Hot Heat's song "Bandages" mentions this song, "The Rat", so maybe I should have included it with that post. I am rectifying that error...

+ the rat

HOT HOT HEAT: "Bandages"

Hot Hot Heat hit some people like their first shot of rum & coke - familiar, but somehow 'better'... for some (like those who can become addicted to scratching their own mosquito bites) it was almost too much. Almost. If it wasn't for the joy it spread through the listener - giving them dancin' feet - H.H.H. could have been just a little too much too handle - but it isn't and wasn't.



If this song reminds me of anyone it's The Walkmen doing 'The Rat', both bands teeter on the edge throughout their respective songs. 'Bandages' swings and sways, more than any other Hot Hot Heat song. Like a large woozy drunk careening on a cruise ship dance floor - you just can't take your eyes (or ears) off it. You stand there waiting for the inevitable and the unknown, just what is going to happen and when? The song is a car crash waiting to happen, but film director, let's saaayy, David Cronenberg, seemingly cries cut at the 3:32 mark everytime.
"Alright, take 2... roll tape... speed... action!"

Download "Bandages" courtesy of betterPROPAGANDA

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion work in another era, one of 70's blues rock. Because they don't seem totally committed to the music, much of what they do can be labelled junk rock. Mr. Spencer seems, at times, as interested in the image as the music, with his vocals even echoing the image he wants to project, taking on an overblown, almost cartoonish flavour.

Some of their tunes do stand up to repeated listens without fading to the quality of background music. Some of those off their album "Orange" are...

+ bellbottoms
+ dang
+ flavor

ROGER WATERS AND RON GEESIN - "music from the body"

Roger Waters, of Pink Floyd, and musician friend Ron Geesin scored a documentary in 1970 called "Music From The Body".

THE MOD-POP-PUNK ARCHIVES: MP3s

You can spend a lot of time discovering music or reminiscing over lost music on this MP3 page... the mod pop punk archives

there are bios, pics, and the always favourite - mp3s.
have fun.

some of what you can find...

+ bram tchaikovsky + girl of my dreams
+ undertones + whizz kids