― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 15 October 2004 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― danh (danh), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm (kephm), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
I think so far Myra Lee is my favourite Cat Power album, despite never hearing it before. I have What Would The Community Think, Moon Pix, and The Covers Record and I think I'd rank them so:
Myra Lee > What Would The Community Think = The Covers Record >> Moon Pix
I know a lot of people like Moon Pix best but I just don't get it. Am I alone?
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/08d7e6b5ae/kids-songs-with-cat-power
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
Well, good that she can laugh at herself,
It's not exactly funny though.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3FFkIIUkAA-L5O.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 January 2017 17:45 (seven years ago) link
finally, a definitive answer to the question in the thread title
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 26 January 2017 17:48 (seven years ago) link
Oh nooo
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 26 January 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
ummm... false?
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 26 January 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link
no, wait, true - but correlation is not causation?
i give up
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 26 January 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link
holy shit no!!!
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 January 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
chan :(
omg have you followed her on twitter, i did for a week or so
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 26 January 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link
nope... fruitloop?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 January 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link
This (upthread) was clearly not watched enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubigmaH2AOE
― dlp9001, Friday, 27 January 2017 00:18 (seven years ago) link
She's being funny come on.
Or is she?
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Friday, 27 January 2017 07:19 (seven years ago) link
doubt it
― flappy bird, Friday, 27 January 2017 07:23 (seven years ago) link
Genius
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 April 2018 05:17 (five years ago) link
what kind of question is this, geniuses usually are fruitloops
― thots and players (rip van wanko), Monday, 16 April 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
Otm
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Monday, 16 April 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
wish she'd release a new album.
― akm, Monday, 16 April 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
What would the community think and moon pix are such gorgeous albums... very vulnerable and spare and her voice is what I consider the perfect lullaby voice. For a while back in the mid 90s she was the coolest cat for me.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 04:46 (five years ago) link
She kind of lost me after moon pix though... there were some good songs here and there but there was some sort of innocence lost after moon pix... maybe mine maybe hers ... at any rate I lost that connection to what she did afterwards. Those two still make me fall in love with her when I listen though.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 04:50 (five years ago) link
Her cover of sea of love is so nice
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 04:50 (five years ago) link
those two are my favorite too
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 04:56 (five years ago) link
oh how time flies...
I dont know anyone in real life who knows her music and that makes me feel so alienated. I think they are pretty much classic albums and they were an important part of my teenage years so I want someone to tell me how much they love them and shaped them too but I’m all alone on this one. I have resigned myself into thinking I’m the only person in this city who even owns those albums.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 05:19 (five years ago) link
no way those records are too popular there is someone out there
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 05:22 (five years ago) link
Not in the middle of mexico it seems :(
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 05:33 (five years ago) link
I might start printing out posters that read “have you heard me?” all over the city with the album covers and my phone number. Maybe there’s a soulmate nearby.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 05:35 (five years ago) link
it's a good idea
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 05:36 (five years ago) link
hey Moka FWIW those records shaped me a lot too, with ya there
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 06:08 (five years ago) link
Those are the two, it’s true
― alomar lines, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 06:10 (five years ago) link
You Are Free is also a very good record.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 10:15 (five years ago) link
I really love her piano playing where she does a triad in the left hand followed by the same triad an octave up in the right hand on alternating weak and strong beats. It's really effective.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 10:16 (five years ago) link
any of you know joanne robertson? she's pretty much a copycat but she's put out some great songs
― ogmor, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 10:27 (five years ago) link
Moka, you have a friend in Montreal if you ever visit!
I feel that way too about the power of Moon Pix to cement friendships.https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2011/oct/07/moon-pix-cat-power
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 13:38 (five years ago) link
i love moon pix as well. you are free is great but moon pix is just The One. during the time that i was getting really into her music, our local cd store was awful and never had what would the community think, and napster didn't quite exist yet, so unfortunately i never really connected with it in the same way.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
Thank you Ross and Sean!
Sean your experience with the album mirrors so much my own. If you change the age to 16 years and the location from canada to mexico I might as well felt like I was reading myself! Thanks for making me feel slightly less alienated... also your description about her late career is spot on. She’s in a happier place nowadays it seems and how can I demand she goes back to breaking my heart. Back then I just wanted her and myself to live through the melancholy and we have... most of time.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
I love all her stuff. I guess I fall in the genius camp, because I find even her failures fascinating.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
seems amazing and wonderful to me now that cat power releasing a video of her ambling through songs in front of some bushes for 40 mins felt like a significant cultural event to me at the time
― ogmor, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
You are not alone, Moka. My fave album of 1998 is Moon Pix. I discovered her on the tour for that album. She was mesmerizing.https://musik.antville.org/stories/1133632/
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 05:10 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv7UTCGD4hI
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 05:26 (five years ago) link
Alex: tuff choice between Mezzanine and Moon Pix for 1998... I love them both for very different reasons.
Flappy: oh wow she’s way too drunk or drugged in that performance. There’s still something endearing about her singing in that state but I would hate to be a musician trying to keep up.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 06:44 (five years ago) link
i straight up love the redo of "metal heart" that she recorded 10 years after the originalher return from the abyss of self-loathing/depression/substance abuse was really inspiring to me and that song distills the essence of what i like about her and recontextualizes a song that used to remind me of sad/bad times into an anthem. i think she is a genius.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 12:48 (five years ago) link
Never really liked her live. She expected too much from a scenester type crowd that would show up.In the mid 90s, along with Will Oldham, I remember thinking she was ushering in some new kind of dissonant blues.A top 50 artist for me. Love a bunch of her albums:
Myra Lee (1996)What Would The Community Think? (1996)Moon Pix (1998)The Covers Record (2000)You Are Free (2003)The Greatest (2006)
POX:We All DieStill In LoveGood Clean FunNude as the NewsAmerican FlagColors and the KIds (I Can't Get No) SatisfactionI Don't Blame YouShaking PaperLiving Proof
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
if any of them are canonized it's Moon Pix
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
though I feel like MP, WWTC?, and YAF are equally well regarded. seems like the split itt and at large is between pre and post The Greatest.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
The Covers Album seemed major at the time, and I might prefer it to her originals.
― Pesto Mindset (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
most of her albums, except maybe the very first, were critically well received. allmusic gives them all 4 - 4 1/2.
some notes on WWTCT:
- Michele Romero of Entertainment Weekly gave the album an A-rating, writing that Marshall "raises goose bumps on What Would the Community Think with bluesy, traumatized songs on which she whispers laments over a spare arrangement of guitar and drums
- Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield called the album "leaner and tougher" than her previous release, adding: "It's a quiet album, but the songs get more powerful the closer you listen, as Marshall testifies to her unbearable longing for an unbearable love."
- Music critic Mark Groescher wrote of the album: "Listening to What Would The Community Think is like watching a friend on the verge of losing her mind. It is a wild and sometimes disturbing ride, but it is completely honest. And like any great blues album, it is contagious."
- Biographer Elizabeth Goodman referred to the album as Marshall's "most violent, angry work, a deranged epic filled with sadness, guilt, and defiance."
- Allmusic's Heather Phares says "An intimate, personal album, What Would the Community Think makes imperfection beautiful and turns vulnerability into musical strength."
I like the earlier albums more because they're raw and less lush and beautiful sounding. There's less reverb on her vocals.
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
I feel like a sham Cat Power fan since I've tried a number of times to get into Moon Pix to no avail. "Cross Bones Style" is great, but the other tracks don't move me.
― Deontology Sanders (Leee), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
if "Metal Heart" doesn't move you then you must have...uh...a metal heart
― Number None, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
I like the Jukebox version!
― Deontology Sanders (Leee), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
oh well then you're beyond help
― Number None, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
Come on! That version is beautiful and I hope she re-records it every 10 years for the rest of her life.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
metal heart is the essence
― Ross, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
saw an amazing show by Cat Power last night in PDX. This was my 3rd show of hers and I don't think I have ever seen her as comfortable on stage before, and she sounded amazing. setlist was pretty close to this one: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/cat-power/2018/astra-berlin-germany-53960fe1.html
― campreverb, Monday, 19 November 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
Today’s email from Matador (25% off sale)(the “Nearly 15%...” line has a strikethrough):As we reach the end of 2018, it would not be an exaggeration to say we’re in the midst of many difficult moments in human history. The icecaps are melting. America is on the brink of a constitutional crisis. You can’t walk 15 feet in any major metropolis without breaking your neck on a discarded scooter. Your personal data (including everything we collect in this campaign) is being used for nefarious means. Nearly 15% of the public believes we actually told someone to “sound more like Adele.” Nearly $40 million was spent to produce “The Hurricane Heist”
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 19 November 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
lol
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 19 November 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
hahahaha
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 19 November 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
Good Song Exploder podcast about "Woman":
http://songexploder.net/cat-power
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 19 November 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
she was completely amazing tonight in Oakland. Now I feel like I've slept on her live performances for the past few years. This was kind of beyond great.
― akm, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 08:51 (five years ago) link
Cat Power/ Chan Marshall- genius or fruitloop?
― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
Err, make that "Dear Ms. Power, please sound more like Adele" - Cat Power - Artist Poll #99 - VOTING THREAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNoj4oXvQI8
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 08:19 (three years ago) link
that ending <3
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link