Neko Case

Mope-a-Long Rides Again from the blacky ranchette l.p "still looking good to me" is worth tracking down also Getting it Made, her duet with richard buckner from the same album.

http://www.amazon.com/Forever-Hasnt-Happened-Yet-John/dp/B0007KXVX6

Hwy 5

Weighing (such as it is) in on Middle Cyclone: I wish she'd co-write a whole album with someone who can write a melody, like say Mike O'Neill. I like her lyrics and her structures, but her melodies are Morrissey-esque, and that's meant (fan though I am of both of them) as a knock. It's all leaps between intervals and obsessively returning to the root note, and it's driving me knutz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCz3ainjlLo

o_-

yeah i admit i was dumbly entertained by it. mc chris' voice will always amuse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8-1EPeYn3A

gasoline on the lusty fire that every male Neko Case fan seems to have.

free show in SF on July 3

http://www.sterngrove.org/july-3-2011.html

also someone tell me when kelly hogan stops singing backup for neko and makes another record, fer chrissakes

Kelly just released "I Like To Keep Myself In Pain". Just listening now, sounds damn good so far.

And I just made an excellent 25 song comp of Neko's compilation tracks and guest vocal appearances.

the title track on the new Hogan is a stunner.

it definitely has some moments. i like "whenever you're out of my sight" and "dusty groove," the latter of which sounded so familiar i was sure it was a cover (but isn't, i guess - but maybe i'll figure out why it sounds so familiar to me)

I like Neko Case and all, but not enough to follow her recording journal or whatever on NPR. Whenever NPR covers a band and I actually listen to that coverage, I invariably find myself losing interest or getting mad at the tone of their stories.

My daughter loves to sing "People Got A Lotta Nerve" in ROCK BAND. But even she can't hit that high part.

Oh, there's also a tiny desk concert set with Kelly Hogan and band (yes, I hate NPR's coverage, but I'll listen to their concerts. Am hypocrite.) Don't have the URL handy but I bet Google does.

That song is in Rock Band? niiiiice

maybe a kinda loretta lynn sound on the song's chorus?? xxxp

Yeah, it's there. I actually heard it on ROCK BAND before MIDDLE CYCLONE came out. Weird world.

the title track on the new Hogan is a stunner.

Written by my man Robyn Hitchcock, no less!

And I just made an excellent 25 song comp of Neko's compilation tracks...

What's on it?

Her HUNGER GAMES contribution is quite good. Sounds like a MIDDLE CYCLONE outtake/bside.

Yeah, after hearing that I was inspired to hunt down as much as I could find (not counting the New Pornogaphers, I made a separate comp of those tracks):

Maow - How Does That Grab You Darlin'?
Maow - Mean Mean Man
The Sadies - Cowhand
My '63 (with The Sadies)
Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
The Corn Sisters - Long Black Veil (live)
The Corn Sisters - Howling At Midnight (live)
The Corn Sisters - She's Leaving Town (live)
Rolling Stone
Jon Rauhouse - The World Is Waiting For A Sunrise
The Band Of Blacky Ranchette - Getting It Made
Jon Rauhouse - River Of No Return
If I'm Gonna Sink (I Might As Well Go To The Bottom)
Buckets Of Rain
The Sadies - Home (live)
The Sadies - Hold On, Hold On (live)
The Sadies - Evangeline (live)
The Sadies - Jason Flemming (live)
Jon Rauhouse - East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)
Behind The House (demo)
Yon Ferrets Return (with Carl Newman)
Crooked Fingers - Your Control
Sarah Harmer - Silverado
She's Not There (with Nick Cave)
Nothing To Remember

Good choices and quite a few I haven't heard. Do love a bit of Maow. Some excellent double entendres. The Band of Blacky Ranchette song is one of my favourite Neko guest spots - and one of Howe Gelb's finest songs and arrangements. Richard Buckner is a great foil for Neko, even though the parts were recorded separately, and the bandoleon solo is a masterstroke. She's great as a backing vocalist on Giant Sand's Provisions too.

Oh right, Silverado is great.

*cough*uploadit*cough*

i found most of them on spotify (tho not necessarily the 'live' versions) if we wanna keep it legal:
http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/0jvy3shEyBzDm0cyTPMKlP

I was just focusing on her leading performances though I did come across a number of great backing vocal jobs. And I agree, that duet with Buckner is crazy good. And so is that Crooked Fingers song!

ILXmail me for a link.

it's cool, i can live with streaming... thanks mordy

i'm usually into springsteen-type stuff but yeah i love that crooked fingers song... can't wait to hear more

She does a pretty good duet with John Doe from X called Hwy 5.

Her Canadian Amp EP of all covers is pretty great.

usually should = not usually

canadian amp? i'll hunt it down

Yes, it's great. "In California" esp.

She does a pretty good duet with John Doe from X called Hwy 5.

I felt that her role was more of a backup singer on that one. Frankly the song came across like an X outtake where Neko was an Exene stand-in.

http://soundcloud.com/fantasylabelgroup/thats-who-i-am-neko-case/s-27i6M

i was hoping this meant there was a new album coming out but it's just her contribution to a upcoming comp/sdtrk idk

that's a nice song

Huh. I'd thought she had a new album coming out this year given her twitter output. I'd prefer not to be wrong about that.

Yeah I thought npr was supposed to be doing a behind-the-scenes thing with her new album, but there was only 1 article and I think it was almost a year ago.

I like this new track, though. It's dead solid mean, but sounds sun-shiny.

http://www.countryliving.com/homes/house-tours/neko-case-vermont-farmhouse#slide-1

looks nice

i follow her on twitter and also got the impression she'd been doing a lot of recording in recent month.

neko is so great...don't think she's made a bad album yet.

The new song, "Man," is not what I expected (lyrics aside, which seem to be written with the Neko Case fridge magnet kit)! Rockin.

link?

Neko Case ‏@NekoCase 3 Jun
Just received a text from an unknown number that says "Oops. That was for my wife."
I feel like a WHORE!

It was up somewhere then gone, alas. I heard it on the radio.

Sounds like ... Wilco doing weird psych rock with Neko? It made me wonder who was playing guitar.

lol at that tweet

more neko always a cause for celebration

That Mellencamp musical sure rounded up a whole bunch of talent for such a terrible idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95HL8XQX3vg

bah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95HL8XQX3vg

That is absolutely not the new song I heard.

damn

Very exciting!

i love her.