― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 08:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― cecilia, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
Day-old boudin from the world's worst Louisiana restaurant is better than Norah.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
Kenen i would absolutely play it for someone who came over.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
It's a parallel only to the Early Years stuff. And yes, actually, that stuff leaves me mostly cold -- either finger-popping goofball Beat generation "Ha! Ain't it coooool...." crap or, what is it, 17 minutes of "Tom Traubert's Blues." Nothing before Swordfishtrombones explains why Tom Waits is a God.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
Was it Marcello who traced a connection between this album and Mary Margeret O'Hara?
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 30 August 2004 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 4 December 2005 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link
I personally think the song "Pink Flamingos" on an album whose name I can't remember right now is one of her best songs! -a fairly late record, anyhow
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Sunday, 4 December 2005 01:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 4 December 2005 05:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Really, Really, Really, Really, Really can't fuckin' stand her. -- Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, February 18, 2003
i wouldn't go that far but i am truly baffled at what people see/hear in her.
― gershy, Saturday, 19 January 2008 05:08 (sixteen years ago) link
"i like how she doesn't feel like she has to be eccentric ALL THROUGH THE RECORD... it comes and goes in a flash, like a kid keying the paint job on your car and running away before you can see who did it. and then it doesn't even feel like "look, i'm being eccentric now!" those moments are just nice little parenthetical burps that don't in any way ruin the mood she's created."
This is so right. I'm still baffled and enthralled by "Living It Up" and "Pirates (So Long Lonely Avenue)" - the way they careen dizzily from breezy uptempo soft-focus jazz rock to these sudden burst-through moments of awed and awesome solemnity.
― Tim F, Saturday, 17 May 2008 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I've listened to Pirates so much in the past year and a bit. It's probably in my top ten albums ever at this stage. The moment I refer to the above where the title track goes all eerie soft ambience is so astonishing, in precisely the way jody describes it.
― Tim F, Sunday, 9 August 2009 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
man. traces of the western slopes shouldn't work, but it is so amazing. i feel like i've actively resisted going back into a rlj phase for several years and now i fear for my psyche
― dell (del), Saturday, 14 July 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link