December 2008
It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.
– Will Oldham. The New Yorker profile (via hud)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Neil Young (28)
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Captain Anomoanon (27)
John Zorn (16)
The Beatles (13)
Alasdair Roberts (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
An additional note on the Houses of the Holy...
Couldn’t agree more re No Quarter - structure of this song always bugged me out.
artistspaid:
thedco:
7. No Quarter - 7:04 - Another chorus. And they use the song title in this one. (I’d like to step back for a second and note that Led Zeppelin made a song in A-B-A-B-C-A-B-B form last over seven minutes without getting remotely boring. This is an oft-forgotten song but is, in fact, one...
The old, often legitimate accusation against labels was that they sold entire...
– Jon Pareles, NY Times, writing about the increasing use of pop songs to pitch products, Songs From The Heart of a Marketing Plan
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Captain Anomoanon (27)
Alasdair Roberts (11)
Sun Kil Moon (7)
Brethren Of The Free Spirit (6)
Jerry Garcia Band (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr…
the greatest love song ever written
– Frank Sinatra, speaking of “Something.” (via hutterb)
Which way are we going, Walt Whitman? … Will we walk all night through solitary...
– Allen Ginsburg - A Supermarket in California (via hutterb)