― Owen Pallett (Owen Pallett), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Jon Lewis, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link
MMoH on the left
SCTV's The Last Polka - The Lemon Twins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JreEPKE7FMA
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 1 November 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm sad no one else has posted this yet. And I'm sad I'm finding out about this about a week before it's going down.
http://www.villagevoice.com/nycguide/ev121095,6.html
Mary Margaret O’Hara and Guests The Stone E 2nd St & Avenue C, New York, NY Sat, Jan 05, 08:00 pm
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
$10, baargain.
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
bargain for all 50 people who can fit into that room
I know she's modest, but that is going to be madness
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
very surprised that alex ross liked this album. i am a sucker for good drumming too but no drummer in the world can save these shitty ballads (even reckoner which may be the best song is totally annihilated after one and a half minutes by the string section).
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry, wrong thread!
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I love that bodies in trouble song but know nothing else. Is it all as off kilter and beautiful?
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:43 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQbAr1DCjYw&feature=related
if you like this, find a copy of miss america
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I actually just rapidshared one. I'll have to get sick of listening to Body's in Trouble before I listen to anything else.
You want to feel somebody, *oh* who do you talk to?
― I know, right?, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Did anybody make it to the show?
― Billy Dods, Monday, 7 January 2008 04:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I love this album, especially Anew Day and Not Be Alright
― I know, right?, Thursday, 24 January 2008 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
She's playing Saturday in a festival with AR Hacke and Tony Conrad at the Funny Farm in Ontario. http://www.electric-eclectics.com/ Here's her piece in the Hal Willner/Kurt Weill movie. This is when I fell for her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQBdxA47lE
― dad a, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 06:43 (fifteen years ago) link
ok that Kurt Weill clip
there's no one like her
― Milton Parker, Friday, 12 September 2008 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
oh WOW WOW. i need an mp3 of that. pretty amazing playing on the track even without MMO'H but she's incredible. utterly unique.
― jed_, Friday, 12 September 2008 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn you I can't find my headphones!
― I know, right?, Friday, 12 September 2008 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
still, just watchin' her twitch there
― I know, right?, Friday, 12 September 2008 02:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cms/images/20070811ohara/ohara4-t.jpg
[Removed Illegal Link] has streaming audio from a performance at the 2007 Edmonton Folk Music Festival.
― drone/a/sore, Friday, 12 September 2008 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
try this :: http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/concerts/20070811ohara
― drone/a/sore, Friday, 12 September 2008 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
that 'don't be afraid'... the kind of arrangement I wish she sang over more often.
http://www.amazon.com/September-Songs-Music-Kurt-Weill/dp/B0000029WM
there's close to a dozen new youtube clips up. including the live version of 'year in song', the john candy memorial, with the Razorbacks singing 'blue christmas' wearing angel wings, & a total improv freakout from Ontario a few months ago.
― Milton Parker, Friday, 12 September 2008 02:37 (fifteen years ago) link
i had no idea she was Catherine O'Hara's sister!
Me neither, 'til buying A Mighty Wind a coupla months back
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 12 September 2008 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link
the edmunton show is great...thanks for posting : )
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 12 September 2008 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
MMOH in London! Sounds a bit rubbish but:
Twisted Christmas11 Dec at 7.30pm
Featuring Jarvis Cocker, Sandy Dillon, Daniel Knox, Bonfire Madigan, Mary Margaret O’Hara, The Inn-Ringers, The Smoke Fairies, Foy Vance, Kathryn Williams and Neill MacColl, Patrick Wolf & more A deliciously dark evening of twisted Christmas songs.http://event.barbican.org.uk/t/853767/386952/7247/0/
― NickB, Thursday, 13 November 2008 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link
well there aretears'round your heart
― I know, right?, Friday, 14 November 2008 03:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=KOere1NrLXU&feature=related
― jed_, Friday, 12 December 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
great new song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZWjKCM9Ad8
― dad a, Thursday, 17 September 2009 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
She lists her email address (scroll down) and says you can write to her to buy Miss America. Makes me want to get a second copy.
― dad a, Thursday, 17 September 2009 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
She's in the recent music issue of The Believer, including her e-mail address, for people who want to buy Miss America.
She's one of my all-time favorites.
― Squash weather (Eazy), Thursday, 17 September 2009 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
had never seen these clips before, this one is a treat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wazB8ZRuPN0
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zUu4ccvQ_I
― jed_, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
this is fucking glorious
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
lovely
― Ndamukong HOOS (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
when she starts crying in the video (2 minutes in) i get a lump in my throat. every single time.
― jed_, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqctCwhunjE
alba has seen this! has anyone else?
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, 19 September 2013 00:16 (ten years ago) link
that looks amazing!!
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 September 2013 00:44 (ten years ago) link
and so beautiful to look at even in the trailer. wow, i must see that.
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 September 2013 00:45 (ten years ago) link
it does! i didn't know about it. it was the trailer before the movie i went to see this week and i had a moment of confusion.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, 19 September 2013 00:50 (ten years ago) link
yeah i saw it last week. it's very good. the director does sort of non-narrative travelogues with some meditative musings over the top -- i was surprised by how well it was worked into a fiction film. it helps that the male lead actor is so sonorous and watchable. i was bored a couple of times -- where the camera lingers on urban scenes where i don't see the point of lingering -- but for the most part it's v warm and rewarding, and has moments of real beauty.
― zvookster, Thursday, 19 September 2013 00:51 (ten years ago) link
i love that she looks so much like her sis. cuz i love them both so much.
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 September 2013 00:52 (ten years ago) link
i could look at this picture all day.
http://www2.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Catherine+O+Hara+Mary+Margaret+O+Hara+CineVegas+XgGyDCtnyolx.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 September 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
i don't think i've been so excited to see something for years.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, 19 September 2013 00:54 (ten years ago) link
Cohen also had a hand in arranging the collaboration that recently brought O’Hara to Montreal’s Hotel2Tango studio to work with Constellation Records’ Thierry Amar, Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto (members of Vic Chesnutt’s band) and Australian drummer Jim White of Dirty Three.
http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/story.cfm?content=188372
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 September 2013 00:56 (ten years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/147145241
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Monday, 11 July 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
i just found a copy of Miss America on LP for a couple bucks stashed in the celtic music section at amoeba. incredible album.
― nomar, Friday, 6 January 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link
I was just thinking about MMOH last night because we finished watching The OA and I got some of the same feelings from it that I get from this album.
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 6 January 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
my TAAAAALE is TAAAAAALLLLLL
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link
I'd forgotten about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPtuYmYg8OU
― djh, Friday, 24 March 2017 23:34 (seven years ago) link
I didn't know this happened!
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 04:36 (six years ago) link
wow...this first improv is something else
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
Very very stoked. Just bought two tix to see her in June!
― everything, Friday, 13 April 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
ohhhh!!!!
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 13 April 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
It's the "Beautiful Tool" combo who performed a handful of shows three years ago and I don't think anything since.
― everything, Friday, 13 April 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
??Where is this happening??
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Friday, 13 April 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link
Canada. At the Vancouver Jazz Festival. Tix were $28. A bargain imo.
― everything, Friday, 13 April 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
Here's a baffled review from (I think) the last show in 2015.
― everything, Friday, 13 April 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link
Haha I just noticed she did "The Snake" - that thing that Trump performs from time to time.
― everything, Friday, 13 April 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
Man so jealous
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Friday, 13 April 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link
Show was good. A few reservations but I enjoyed it a lot. It didn't blow minds or anything. It was unrehearsed and the band could've used more direction. The starts and ends of the songs were all ramshackle, much of it was improvised and they overplayed on most songs imo. There was one bit near the end when they did a great key change and I thought "fucksake-an arrangement!"
She herself forgot the words on dozens of occasions and barely two lines in a row were ever sung straight. It was like Liza Minnelli slipping back and forth between Ella-style focused scatting and Yoko Ono making whatever noises she's feeling in the moment. Followed by some whistling or whatever. Pretty amazing.
If I'd wandered in not knowing what it was I might have been racking my brains for what Shimmy Disc act might have reformed - the only previous time I saw a balloon used as a musical instrument was at a Eugene Chadbourne gig.
― everything, Friday, 29 June 2018 05:41 (five years ago) link
She's on Bandcamp:
https://peggylee1.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-tool
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Sunday, 25 November 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
Oh wow thanks!
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 25 November 2018 02:06 (five years ago) link
New one-minute ditty
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
This inimitable bit of O'Haratude popped up unexpectedly in my Release Radar today
https://rising.melbourne/wormhole/singles-club-jim-white-and-mary-margaret-ohara
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 10 June 2022 11:58 (two years ago) link