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W♥M232: Morrissey v Bowie

W♥M232: Morrissey v Bowie (34 mins) Read More Morrissey "Oh here is your audience now, and they're screaming: get off the stage..." - Morrissey. The Mopefather Morrissey's World Peace is None of Your Business is one of his finest album. … David Bowie There is no one closely associated with the Holiday Christmas spirit than Bing Crosby.... who could forget his rendition of "White Christmas" or his duet with the The Thin White Duke David Bowie? …

This is a bonus episode of W♥M, starring Vu, Emily and Cristina.

Random topics (warning: contains spoilers):

Emily's show of 2014 year is Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Doctor Who is out of control for nerd people.

Cristina finally on the Game of Thrones train! Game of Thrones is Vu's favorite show.

The secret history of David Bowie and Morrissey.

At one time (circa 1992-1995), Bowie and Morrissey were friends. Post-1995, Bowie and Morrissey were no longer friends. What happened? Apparently, among the 228 Morrissey cancelled tour dates, Morrissey dropped out of the David Bowie's The Outside Tour, forcing him to find an opener replacement at the last minute.

In an interview with the Times Magazine (Saturday, Nov. 6, 1999), Morrissey said he left the tour due to pressure: ""I have never spoken about this up until now because, in spite of everything, I do respect David [Bowie]. I simply have to play Star Man or Drive-in Saturday and I will forgive him for anything. But I left that tour because he put me under a lot of pressure, and I found it too exhausting."

Last year, when Morrissey wanted to use a photo of David Bowie and Morrissey together for his re-mastered/reissued of "The Last of the Famous International Playboys" single, Bowie did not grant permission... and in typical Morrissey fashion, he also added that "Bowie has no legal rights to the photograph."

Plus: extra bonus - David Bowie's teeth!!!

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W♥M231: Santa in the Ghetto (21 December 2014) Vu + Cristina W♥M230: Best of 2014 Albums (20 December 2014) Vu + Emily W♥M229: Hating You For Christmas (15 December 2014) Vu + Emily W♥M228: Christmas Will Be Magic (08 December 2014) Vu + John W♥M227: Reissues Reissues Reissues (25 November 2014) Vu + Emily W♥M226: Riot Grrrls 2014 (23 November 2014) Vu + Emily

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Emily's 2014 Best Of Lists

Read More Kelis W♥M 2014 Album of the Year Nomination: Kelis' Food, a concept about food. W♥M 2014 Album of the Year Nomination: Suzanne Vega's Tales From the Realm of the Queen of Pantacles …

Emily's 2014 Best Of Lists

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

1) Kelis, Food
2) the Afghan Whigs, Do To The Beast
3) Sloan, Commonwealth
4) the Pack AD, Do Not Engage
5) Beverly, Careers

SONGS OF THE YEAR

1) Future Islands, "Seasons (Waiting on You)"
2) Lana Del Rey, "West Coast"
3) Sharon Van Etten, "Taking Chances"
4) Eels, "Parallels"
5) Mark Lanegan, "Floor of the Ocean"

*Special mention:

- Big Freedia, "Explode"
- Old 97s, "Longer Than You've. Been Alive"
- Spoon "Rent I Pay"

SHOWS OF THE YEAR

1) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at the State Theater
2) the Replacements at Midway Stadium
3) Sloan at the Turf Club
4) the Afghan Whigs at First Avenue
5) Eels (and Steve Perry) at the Fitzgerald Theater
6) Mark Lanegan at the Bottom Lounge
7) Pearl Jam at the Xcel Energy Center

New Elvis Perkins and Sleater-Kinney next year! Here we go 2015!

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Birds of a Feather II

Please also see Birds of a Feather and Birds Fly Into My Windshield.

FALCON: Say Goodbye

FALCON
falcontheband.com

Brooklyn's Falcon released their debut album, Disappeared, on May 17^th, and you can preview a free track of "Say Goodbye" at bandcamp.com (or you can also check out the Star Wars video on youtube). As you can hear, it's a pretty rock-out-loud song.

I should also mention the name 'falcon' might be kind of hard for people to find them. Just so we're clear, the name is a tribute to band members, Neil Rosen and Shannon Ferguson, school classmate, Jared Falcon. He is currently institutionalized and left music writing behind, but Rosen and Ferguson worked on Falcon's cassette demos, found in a storage locker in 1988.

It's not clear if their debut album features all or some of Jared Falcon's songs, I know it does feature original songs by Neil Rosen, who said had this to say about Disappeared:

"It is a brief and moody record, I was inspired to write the songs for this record after seeing the Sean Penn film Into the Wild. During this time I was also expecting my first child. There is a side of me that loves nature and solitude. The idea of vanishing from NYC and my responsibilities was an alluring temptation to me at the time."

PS, be on the lookout for Falcon to compose the soundtrack to Daniel Wallace's book O' Great Rosenfeld.

RED SPAROWES
redsparowes.com

Red Sparowes took their name from the old Middle English spelling of sparrow. Red Sparowes are rockish band from Los Angeles, and have been around since the early 2000's. Their last album, released last year, is called The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer, and they are heading out on tour:

06/24 Los Angeles, CA @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts **
06/29 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah **
07/12 Cologne, Germany @ Gebaude 9
07/13 Hamburg, Germany @ Hafenklang
07/14 Hultsfred, Sweden @ Hultsfredsfestivalen
07/15 Joensuu, Finland @ Ilosaarirock Festival
07/19 Dresden, Germany @ Beatpol ^
07/20 Vienna, Austria @ Szene ^

** with Coliseum, Aeges
^ with Mono

Can't believe they are sharing the stage with Morrissey, Primal Scream, and Suede in Hultsfredsfestivalen, Sweden! That's a ticket worth selling your kidney for.

BLUE BIRD
facebook.com/../Blue-Bird

Self-described as "make-out music", this 7-piece ensemble from Omaha, Nebraska, is hitting the road after their Kickstarter Project got funded. They exceeded their goal of $1,200 to rent a van and for gasoline/food/shelter. It's actually a pretty humbling amount, so if you can make it to a show, these are the dates I'm given:

6/25 Red Sky pre-festival showcase (venue TBA), Omaha NE
6/26 Big V's, St Paul MN
6/27 Elbo Room, Chicago IL
6/28 Wilbert's, Cleveland OH
6/29 Labyrinth, Jamestown NY
6/30 Hennessey's Hooley House, Boston MA
7/1 Pianos, New York NY
7/2 National Underground, New York NY
7/3 TBA, Philadelphia PA
7/5 TBA, Washington DC
7/6 Elliott's Revue, Winston-Salem NC
7/7 Rye Bar, Athens GA
7/8 TBA, Nashville TN
7/9 TBA, St. Louis MO

I live in Minneapolis, but I've never heard of "Big V's", so I had to look it up. As it turns out, the official name is quite confusing, it's listed as "Christensen's Big V Saloon Bar" and it's actually in St Paul (I have changed the city information above), it's right next to the Turf Club. I'm sure St Paul's locals are well aware of the name.

BIRD CALL
www.birdcallmusic.com

As a cover lover myself, I'm happy to see that Brooklyn's Chiara Angelicola, aka Bird Call, have just released her covers EP, Other Creatures, out now on FHC Records.

I don't have the EP, but she covers some established acts like Nick Cave, Kate Bush, Beck, and Fleetwood Mac, but interestingly enough, also Man Man made it onto her seven-track EP. But that's not to say all she does are covers, in fact, she recently won a Performance category on the International Songwriters Competition with her original song, "Waltz In The Snow".

Other Creatures was recently featured on iTunes' Home Page, and also, you can grab "Doo Right" as a free download on her website.

Hear Kate Bush's "The Man With The Child In His Eyes" on Soundcloud.

Some quickies:

KID CONGO POWERS & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS myspace.com Just quickly that Kid Congo Powers & The Pinky Monkey Birds are on tour: 06/17 - Bellingham, WA, Shakedown 06/18 - Seattle, WA, Crocodile Cafe* 06/19 - Portland, OR, East End^ 06/21 - Santa Cruz, CA, Crepe Place! 06/22 - San Francisco, CA, Rickshaw! 06/23 - Anaheim, CA, Juke Joint 06/24 - Los Angeles, CA, Echoplex $ 06/25 - San Diego, CA, Casbah % * = w/ The Intelligence ^ = w/ Cat Fancy, ! = w/ NON! $ = w/ The Middle Class % = w/ Holly Golightly		THE WOODEN BIRDS thewoodenbirds.com I've previously reviewed their Two Matchsticks album, but I wanted to pass along that you can listen to the whole album on hypem.com. Also, download a special three songs Two Matchsticks Pre-Release EP at consequenceofsound.net (which includes covers of Hall & Oates' "Maneater" and Kenny Rogers' "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town."). They are doing tour dates, see the official website for more details.
TWO WOUNDED BIRDS myspace.com Released last month, Two Wounded Birds' double A-Side, All We Wanna Do/Midnight Wave, are on limited 7" vinyl and digital download on Moshi Moshi Records. You can listen to the single on soundcloud.com Video for "Midnight Wave" is on youtube.com		VIRGIN OF THE BIRDS virginofthebirds.com Jon Rooney is basically Virgin of the Birds, a name he stole from a translation of a Salvador Dali painting. You can find out more information on Bad Panda Records about this lo-fi folky band. Check out Virgin of the Birds' song: Let Me Be Your Bride

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Grinderman

Grinderman - Love Bomb Grinderman Band Members ♥ Nick Cave ♥ Warren Ellis ♥ Martyn Casey ♥ Jim Sclavunos A song about a man who doesn't have a cat... http://weheartmus... I heard his song moments ago on Later with Jools Holland, which was recently described as a rare ...

Ryan previously mentioned Nick Cave's project, Grinderman, last May, and recently, I was fortunate enough to receive a review copy of their self-titled debut album.

Before I begin, I should tell you a little about Grinderman. They are basically Nick Cave's band, the Bad Seeds. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have been together since 1984, and after twenty years of writing music and touring - they begin to deviate from their normal sound to what people describe as "raw". They decided to give themselves a new name: Grinderman.

After recording the album in October 2006, the self-titled album was released domestically in the US on Anti- Records (worldwide on Mute Records) on April 10th.

The CD package is in a slightly oversized cardstock which folds out like an old record to reveal the band in, what looks like, a hotel room (all setup and ready to rock). I was ready to rock... but to be honest, I have heard most of this album via last.fm and myspace that I felt I have already known the album.

I instantly knew half the album, and the ones that I wasn't familar with, I gave it a closer listen. Of the 'new' tracks, I really liked "Depth Charge Ethel" which features a very interesting guitar sound. The song is about a woman called Ethel, who is apparently "famous throughout the land" and "people come and bath in her lake". It is like the craziest love song you've ever heard.

 

 

No Pussy Blues

Of the songs I already knew, of course "No Pussy Blues" is a given. I thought "Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)" was also really good, as usual with Nick Cave's crazy lyrics: "Ack-ack positions everyone/She's my honey bee and here she comes/Cancer rabies SARS".

"Love Bomb" is my favorite. These lyrics are actually comprehensible, you have to love the line: "I read that book from back to front/It made a deep impression/Near 20000 pages, Baby".

Do you think he was referring to the novel, Red Alert?

Look for Grinderman's self-titled album at most good record shops, as well as through these stores:

 

 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

UPDATE: Apparently Grinderman will be their usual selves as Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds on their next release, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! out on Mute Records on March 3, and on Anti- on April 8th. Cave describes their 14th album as "A hemorrhaging of words and ideas... With DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! we allowed ourselves to get expansive."

 01/26/2008 12:34:34  vu my♥posts www.grinderman.com myspace.com

A song about a man who doesn't have a cat...

 

No Pussy Blues

They say a dog is a man's best friend. Nick Cave disagrees. He is a man who wants a cat. After all, cats are friendly and loyal creatures with an edgy air of intelligence.

I heard his song moments ago on Later with Jools Holland, which was recently described as a rare piece of television that actually allows artists to mix it up or words to that effect. Regardless the lyrics are classic Nick Cave. It is not as dark as some of his works but well-referenced, mentioning Eliot, Yeats and Marcel Marceau.

I won't harp on about Nick Cave. If you know music, you know Nick Cave. He is a massive Leonard Cohen fan and the man who actually gave Kyle Minogue a good song. I am not open to debate on this point but I don't mind folks disagreeing with me, Where The Wild Roses Grow.

Where The Wild Roses Grow

 

Grinderman is Nick Cave's latest project. It contains three members of his previous band, The Bad Seeds. Their self-titled album was released in March 2007 with "No Pussy Blues" released as a single in February of the same year.

In a recent interview with BBC 2's The Culture Show, Nick stated that he started his band "because they had some thing going on musically that they just couldn't do with the Bad Seeds". This is guitar music, plain and simple - Ryan

Their album is available via Amazon UK, Amazon USA and iTunes.