All that said I still like this album a lot despite the qualifiers and the cynicism coming from some quarters about her. Yes she's young, cute & signed to Sony now. I can't say I've stumbled across her on MTV yet despite all this.
I apologise to the haters for not having heard Leo Kottke, Preston Reed or Teddy Fartknocker first. Oh the shame. (p.s. plz throw in recommendations anyway)
Check the mixed reviews - http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0443/smith.php , http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002YLDIM/
I mean really!
I'm still not totally sure about whether I need the new album or not though. I expected to be either blown away or dissapointed by the lack of obvious progression on whatever was to come next so far it's leaning to the latter. But I am only going by small clipettes here. The rubbish song titles really don't help though :(
Umm. Help me out.
― latetotheparty (latetotheparty), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link
hey, we like how you play the guitar, but CAN YOU SING like avril?
― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
That thread is kinda useless though.
― latetotheparty (latetotheparty), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link
:)
― latetotheparty (latetotheparty), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
whoa, seriously. gorgeous. what a slow burner.
― Emily B (Emily B), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 02:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― save the robot (save the robot), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Interesting that she's off Sony too. I passed this up at first but perhaps I'll give it another go!
― rollin', rollin', rollin', keep them dogies rollin', rawhide! thread (fandango), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― rollin', rollin', rollin', keep them dogies rollin', rawhide! thread (fandango), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― xhuxk (xheddy), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― rollin', rollin', rollin', keep them dogies rollin', rawhide! thread (fandango), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link
New one is pretty swell, too.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, I loved-loved-loved Until We Felt Red. Enjoyed the promo video for "Pull Me Out Alive" when it was featured on YouTube a couple of weeks ago -- is that an indication the new one's more vocal and indie-ish?
― briania, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 01:20 (sixteen years ago) link
The songs are a little songier, but the album's still more than half instrumental.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 01:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice to have some words & voice in there, but she's one artist for whom more instro is more better, I think.
― briania, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 01:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone else listening to the new one? Mostly sounds like its predecessor -- with a couple of exceptions (the last track, for instance, remind me a little of An Horse's "Camp Out," which she's covered) -- but I'm not complaining.
― jam master (jaymc), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't even know she had a new one out! I'll have to keep an eye out for it. Love her.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
It's called Junior.
― jam master (jaymc), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
(No Royksopp.)
― jam master (jaymc), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, how did I not know she covered Justin Timberlake, too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQdo_UrnO9w
― jam master (jaymc), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Just picked up Junior yesterday, haven't listened to it yet but I needed to bump this thread to share this random image I found while trying to read more about her:
http://blogs.walkerart.org/teens/files/2009/04/2pac_kaki_king.jpg
I was very confused as to why that might even exist, but it turns out The Hood Internet did a mash-up called "Bone Chaos in the Ghetto".
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 April 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
I haven't listened to Hood Internet in a while. A lot of their mash-ups are kind of ~shrug~, but there's a couple that I love.
― jaymc, Thursday, 22 April 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
shes pretty PRETTY BORING
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 April 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
ownd
Gawd, my friend made a mixtape for me years ago with one tune of hers on it that had this really sweet Nashville pedal steel part and she only sings a very little bit in a super wispy voice and it's pretty much perfect. But searching around for that song I can't seem to find it. It's not on any of the albums on that pesky iTunes store anyway. Did I hallucinate this song? Sure want to hear it again.
― twice boiled cabbage is death, Thursday, 22 April 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, it's this (warning: lolzy lame video):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AehP9BgXF6E
― twice boiled cabbage is death, Thursday, 22 April 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Its actually on Legs To Make Us Longer, which I'm pretty shocked about not being on iTunes... especially since they have her first album there.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 April 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, "Hallucinations From My Poisonous German Streets" on the new one is very awesome. Love the drums.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 April 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
New one is instrumental! Seeing her this Friday.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
Lol @ me saying "new one" every two years.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 05:53 (eleven years ago) link
Show was great, and the album is really starting to sink in. Lots of range, from Eastern ("Bowen Island") to bossa nova ("Kelvinator, Kelvinator") to straight-up Celtic ("King Pizel"). Accomplished fretwork, as usual, but nothing too showy for its own sake.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2p_6lFlasA
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Thursday, 21 May 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
you don't have to be afraidof the pain inside you
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 12 March 2022 16:12 (two years ago) link