New Cat Power

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (136 of them)

View Previous Page...

more shouty is good, norah jones is bad but i'll get it.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I lost my copy and I'm not cheeky enough to ask Curt, again.

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Thoughts on CP: YAF here

― jm (jtm), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 03:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I like this a lot better than I thought I would... I have to admit she's got a really beguiling (yes beguiling) voice.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

Do you ever get the feeling that Beth Orton would be Cat Power if she got her records right?

― S Samson, Monday, 24 March 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

New album January 24! MP3: The Greatest.
ihttp://www.matadorrecords.com/images/fullsize/ole-626.jpg

― La Monte (La Monte), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

great tune.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

someone started a thread about this a few days ago. i can't stand that cover! (the boxing gloves are fine, but the hot pink is burning holes in my eyes.)

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

i dont think thats the real cover. but its funny as hell.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Oh, so now she's Aimee Mann?!

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

the sisterlovers comparison on the other thread is pretty accurate (for this song).
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/c/clay_cassiu_iamthegre_101b.jpg

― La Monte (La Monte), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

class tCatPower : public tAimieMann
{
tCatPower() : tAimeeMann() { m_fHeapAllocFaultInjectionPercentage *= 10.0; }
virtual ~tCatPower() {}
};

pCatPower = new tCatPower();
pCatPower->FaultInject();
delete pCatPower;

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Ummm, ha-ha?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

did you mean pubic tAimieMann?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

wow, that snare drum comes in EXACTLY WHEN I KNEW IT WOULD!!!

could the arrangement be anymore predictable?

it may as well be norah goddamned jones

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

pre-You Are Free=under-produced
post-You Are Free=over-produced?

And how come she barely sounds like Beth Orton anymore?

― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

class tCatPower : public tAimieMann
{
tCatPower() : tAimeeMann() { m_fHeapAllocFaultInjectionPercentage *= 10.0; }
virtual ~tCatPower() {}
};

pCatPower = new tCatPower();
pCatPower->FaultInject();
delete pCatPower;

http://duckman.pettho.com/characters/gyro.jpg

― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

kinda tom waits-y?

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

where's the other thread?

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

And how come she barely sounds like Beth Orton anymore?

Because she sounds like Edie Brickell now?

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

It's not a bad song - even with the arrangement, the Celine Dion-esque fiddling, the background chants of "greatest! greatest!" Hell, I always kind of wanted Ms. Marshall to completely and unreservedly embrace her massive ego - beats playing demure games with it.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Wow - I never noticed how much Marshall and Leslie Feist sound alike until hearing that track.

― darin (darin), Thursday, 13 October 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

who's playing drums? i like this a lot better today than i did yesterday.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 13 October 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

this is supposed to be all grizzled memphis session musicians, right? not a bad move.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 13 October 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

wow, that snare drum comes in EXACTLY WHEN I KNEW IT WOULD!!!

wow, i bet you can predict all the chord changes in ramones songs too!!

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

post-You Are Free=over-produced?

sister lovers was overproduced too, but that's part of the beauty of it. it's gloopy, indulgent, and a total mess, and i couldn't imagine it working any other way.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

she does sound like edie brickell lately

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

she sounds like karen dalton.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

(which, considering chan's penchant for that type of folk music, is probably exactly who she's aping.)

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

did she always sound like her? i just remember at one pt. thinking she sounded kinda like herself...and then voice changing. never thought she sounded like the horrible beth orton tho.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

chan's material used to be less blues/country, more mumbly-electric-indie. so yeah i suppose her vocal mannerisms adapted to the style of the later records.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

post-You Are Free=over-produced?

sister lovers was overproduced too, but that's part of the beauty of it. it's gloopy, indulgent, and a total mess, and i couldn't imagine it working any other way.

I shall try to listen to the rest of the album without prejudice.

― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

i can't stand that cover! (the boxing gloves are fine, but the hot pink is burning holes in my eyes.)
-- glasgow coma score (theundergroundhom...), October 13th, 2005 3:33 PM. (Jody Beth Rosen) (link)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

i dont think thats the real cover. but its funny as hell.
-- maria tessa sciarrino (mari...), October 13th, 2005 3:40 PM. (theoreticalgirl) (link)

I think it might actually be the real cover. The album was recorded with a bunch of Stax/Volt studio alumni, so they might as package it in the same sense (i.e. a lot of the original Stax art was awful, despite the label having the greatest logo ever)

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

I assume it's the real cover. While the electric pink is pretty crazy, it's not like it's not very indie-rock, too -- the who whole thing, in fact, is strongly reminiscent of Songs:Ohia's Axxess & Ace.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Friday, 14 October 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

it looks very much like the fake album covers on the insert included with yo la tengo's "i can hear the heart beating as one".

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

http://oh-audrey.com/shows/index.php?args=10

― Swat Valley High (goole), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 14:55 (seventeen years ago)

She looks thrilled to be on that interwebs cooking show. She's looking good, tho.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 19 May 2009 15:11 (seventeen years ago)

Lookin' damn good, actually.

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGMaEvhQj1E

so hey this sounds pretty good!! i tuned out but she doesn't seem to be using her ~smoky~ voice anymore, & the group sounds good

― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

I'm glad she's moved out of her "Memphis" phase at least, even if this is just a revision of an older song.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:07 (fourteen years ago)

the fact that she's quoting from a soul classic is still a bad sign

― Number None, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:08 (fourteen years ago)

whenever this thread is bumped i briefly hope that something actually new is out :/

― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:14 (fourteen years ago)

Admittedly I only started listening to her after learning she and Bill Callahan dated and subsequently I found Moon Pix at Goodwill, but it's been on repeat while driving since then and I'm quite taken. This track is cool and I do like a slo-mo video, but I do really respond to the sloppiness of Moon Pix which I guess is something she grew out of.

― scottfree, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:21 (fourteen years ago)

she's got a couple of real good smog covers if you haven't heard them, scott

stray cat power covers were such a cool thing, back when idk i guess i would download some from the internet. her doing sister into knockin on heaven's door, or a weird meld of schizophrenia by sonic youth into weighted down by skip spence. both amazing. there was this great paris bootleg too, with her singing what will the community think, her voice ringing out like a harmonica, all in slo-mo.

― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:10 (fourteen years ago)

that Skip Spence/Sonic Youth track is a B-side to "Nude As The News", I love it. also yeah tons of Peel Session/random compilation covers - "Free Bird", "Dreams", "Psychic Hearts", "We Dance", etc.

― sleeve, Thursday, 12 January 2012 04:04 (fourteen years ago)

Oh thank god! "King Rides By" suggests she's finally back to the spectral shimmer, instead of those tepid torch songs. Hope she got a lot of listen to Let England Shake.

― sean gramophone, Thursday, 12 January 2012 16:25 (fourteen years ago)

I'll have to find those covers! Do they ever sing in eachother's songs a la Bill Callahan in more recent girlfriend Joanna Newsom's Ys?

― Diary of Anne Frank, Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen (scottfree), Friday, 13 January 2012 23:23 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

I guess this went up on twitter last night (!)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2t1rofDGC1qb3nrko1_500.png

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 21 April 2012 22:20 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

HOT DAMNZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nl3Oo4-IQ4

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 June 2012 16:12 (thirteen years ago)

Skipping 36 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

the superhero one i think

― pandemic, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 12:26 (thirteen years ago)

― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 12:27 (thirteen years ago)

Does it take the chord structure from Heroes by Bowie?

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 12:28 (thirteen years ago)

this is kinda terrible imo

― some dude, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 13:17 (Yesterday) Permalink

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 21:34 (thirteen years ago)

what would the community think is her masterpiece. that is the sound of pure fucking desolation, being in a hole

― spazzmatazz, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 23:22 (thirteen years ago)

Started listening to this now. Don't know if it will turn out to be Tron or Field Day.

― POLLed Turkey Has Got Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 23:58 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

So, she broke?

― Moka, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 22:09 (thirteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

should i go see her when she comes to philly?

pros: i love her music
cons: chances are good she won't finish the show?

― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 05:02 (thirteen years ago)

I don't think she's "not finished a show" in years and years.

― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 15:10 (thirteen years ago)

Based on the show I saw, and what I've read of the others, these are some of the most confounding shows she's ever played. They begin really shaky (so much so that a lot of people leave) and then end triumphantly. At times the juxtaposition between the good and the bad felt deliberate, almost as if she was faking the bad parts. I tossed around some theories about what might have been going on in my review of the show, but really, I have no idea what she was going for.

Anyway, as a fan I'm glad I went, because it was an experience and when she hits her stride it's still really glorious.

― Evan R, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 15:32 (thirteen years ago)

looked at a few setlists and found almost nothing from moon pix or wwtct, but a TON of covers. uninterested. love her new hairdo tho

― black redhead (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 16:21 (thirteen years ago)

might be worth going just to do a head-count of all different eras of cat power haircuts the audience is miming

― kelpolaris, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 18:40 (thirteen years ago)

maybe like a cat power people's choice awards, researched without having actually talked to anyone

― kelpolaris, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 18:41 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwray/surrounded-by-legends#.wbRYqRy7e

― 龜, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 15:52 (ten years ago)

that was excellent, thanks

― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 21:45 (ten years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.