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speaking of things eastern european, darko rundek & cargo orkestar's "mhm a-ha oh yeah da-da" from this year is really nice. sort of croatian (?) hedonism. hints of pere ubu and beefheart but it also evokes august darnell if he were from croatia and living in paris. very unusual tone. "wanadoo" is one of the best things i've heard this year.
ghostfinger, a nashville (actually murfreesboro, tn.) band, does really cool country-rock pastiches. the singer sounds like jagger or arthur lee or some white guy trying to be soulful, and it's mostly funny. they get doleful and sometimes the rockers don't quite work, but "moon" alternates sections of fake-rock and country-rock quite effectively. can't make out what it is they're exactly trying to express, but get the feeling they're a bit more than the usual history lesson. it's been a good year for nashville pop bands--lone official, the features, ghostfinger and i guess lambchop, too, have all released good records. certainly, lone official's "tuckassee take" made my no depression top 20 new releases.
and i have to say that i've listened to neko case's record (which also made my ND list) as much as i have anything this year; the songs are better than i initially thought, and she sustains a *mood* throughout that sorta skirts desolation--the line about driving past the beautiful flooded fields resonates as they say with my experience. and it's one of the great records in 6/8, a time signature she manipulates savvily and which suggests, i guess, the timelessness (or the immersion in memory) she's going after.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Darryl Worley album on this week's
AOL listening party, though I'm not going to get the chance to hear more than a couple of tracks before I fly to Connecticut tomorrow. Track one he equates drinking and being free of his old record label (he presents both as positives). Track two uses acoustic blues for good sharp riffs.
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, Neko made my ballot too. It under-achieves but what it achieves is still her own.
So this Dixie Chick flick, Shut Up and Sing, is playing in town. Should I go? That whole brouhaha seems like decades ago.
― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Thursday, 23 November 2006 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link
its done by the woman who did harlan county usa, so its got a good pedigree
did the ND Ballots go out already?
― pinkmoose (jacklove), Thursday, 23 November 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Thanks Anthony. I'll go this weekend (I'm supposed to see Casino Royale tonight, but maybe I'll talk my date into the Chicks Flick). ND Best Of voting is just for regular contributors, mostly Contributing Eds and Senior Eds, but they expanded the comment section this year beyond just the latter--which is cool.
Do we know yet if the Scene poll is dead? Is Himes gonna do it elsewhere? I mean, he's got the rolls...
And I know this has been chattered about elsewhere, but I never got a clear answer: what's to become of Pazz n Jop?
― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Thursday, 23 November 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
two years pass...