Banga is surprisingly awesome!
― jalapeno kloppers (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, September 26, 2012 4:53 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
NEW THREAD BUTTON, WHAT THE HELL IS WROnG WITH YOU htosuidhPOEPLE
― paradiastole, or the currifauel, otherwise called (thomp), Wednesday, September 26, 2012 4:59 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's good? i haven't really paid attention to patti since ... umm the 90s? verlaine plays on it, right?
― tylerw, Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:03 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's really really good!
― sleeve, Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:13 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yep verlaine's on it...but it's sort of more flowing atmospheric in general, not a super guitar record or anything, but the arrangements and instrumentation is cool
― jalapeno kloppers (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:15 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i trust u guys. i was just reading an interview with lenny kaye, he seems like a cool dude w/ a lot of good stories.
― tylerw, Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― jalapeno kloppers (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 22:18 (7 months ago) Permalink
her cover of "after the gold rush" is timely
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 22:29 (7 months ago) Permalink
yeah that was the only moment where my eyes rolled a little bit, the kiddy choir and the lyric change. but the rest of this is great, my ex-girlfriend keeps emailing me "BETTER THAN HORSES" and she appears to sincerely believe it.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 22:53 (7 months ago) Permalink
her voice has held up very well...i haven't listened to anything of hers in years
― jalapeno kloppers (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 22:59 (7 months ago) Permalink
i am all about "constantine's dream." very dead can dance
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 23:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
sooo do people rate her other 'patti smith is still alive' records
― paradiastole, or the currifauel, otherwise called (thomp), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 23:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
i'm pretty sure 'look at mother nature on the run in the twenty-first century' doesn't originate with smith -- young sings it live maybe? -- that said, the children's choir is hard to blame anyone else for.
― paradiastole, or the currifauel, otherwise called (thomp), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 23:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
Gone Again is great, Peace & Love and Gung Ho are a bit uneven, Trampin' is good. All have worthwhile moments. I did not like Twelve (her "covers" album) at all.
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― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 23:06 (7 months ago) Permalink
oh my god this is the version of the song I heard on the radio, the cover is just excruciating
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 23:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
i like her Levi's advert
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 23:08 (7 months ago) Permalink
She has an NME front cover this week.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 23:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, September 26, 2012 7:08 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha that's not actually her but it fooled me too
― Liberian Girlkeeper (some dude), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 23:42 (7 months ago) Permalink
yes i know. it's horrendously awful. fulfills every cliche of twisting art into commercial 'cool'-ness
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 23:57 (7 months ago) Permalink
I quite enjoyed this on first listen a few months ago and then it sort of became my only listen. I should really go back to it.
Can't believe no one started a thread before now.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 27 September 2012 10:03 (7 months ago) Permalink
Is that Patti Smith in the Levi's ad? Or just someone "channeling" Piss Factory? Not finding anything saying it is her. I hope it isn't her but ...
― Loo Reading (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 27 September 2012 11:56 (7 months ago) Permalink
If that's not her (and surely there is no way she would do such a thing!), she surely has grounds to sue on the same basis Tom Waits did when Frito-Lay used a soundalike.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 27 September 2012 12:18 (7 months ago) Permalink
Except, two things:
1) The TomWaits fakey ad featured Screaming Jay Hawkins being himself, but doing a Tom Waits song which means Tom can say no.
2) The PattiSmith soundalike is a bit close to her style/delivery, but isn't actually using her lines.
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 September 2012 14:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
Didn't realise the Frito-Lay ad used an actual Waits song - thought it was just a pastiche. What about the Opel ad Opel ad ?
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 27 September 2012 14:22 (7 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, what about the Opel ad Opel ad?
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 27 September 2012 14:23 (7 months ago) Permalink
Oh, that SJHawkins one was for Levis. Funnily enough..
Tom Waits is opposed to his music, voice, name or picture being used in commercials. We at Levi Strauss & Co. have long admired Mr. Waits' work and respect his artistic integrity including his heartfelt views on the use of his music in commercials. From January to June 1993 Levi Strauss Europe authorized broadcasting in 17 countries a commercial for Levi's 501 jeans called "Procession". This commercial featured Tom Waits' song "Heart Attack and Vine" performed by Screamin' Jay Hawkins. We obtained the rights in good faith and were unaware of Mr. Waits' objections to such usage of his composition. We meant no offense to Mr. Waits and regret that "Heart Attack and Vine" was used against his wishes and that the commercial caused him embarrassment.[3]
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 September 2012 14:35 (7 months ago) Permalink
Wow, this album actually really is good to great. Two things struck me, even though the influence runs the other way. Kept being reminded of early to mid period Lida Husik (Mosaic particularly could totally be off of Joyride) and the spoken word bits remind me of the guys from Sonic Youth imitating Patti, which is odd. Sometimes it feels like she's channeling Lee Renaldo, and then you suddenly remember that it's the other way around. A few of the more poetic bits get a little too close to Jim Morrison for my liking, but nothing too horrible. The kids chorus on the last track isn't a great idea, but it doesn't ruin the song or anything.
She's definitely one of those people where I don't really believe it when somebody says her new album is good, so thank god for Spotify. This is definitely about 80% awesome.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 29 September 2012 01:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
There's no reason why her influences can't run in that direction though.
― Mark G, Monday, 1 October 2012 07:17 (7 months ago) Permalink
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, September 26, 2012 11:00
Eh, this number starts off ok and then goes on and on, as Patti becomes more melodramatic and reminds me a bit of the long-ago Gilda Radner parody on Saturday Night Live. But despite that, I still like a lot of the album
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 October 2012 15:34 (7 months ago) Permalink