Neko Case

Bush Hall show was wonderful. I am more than slightly in love with Kelly Hogan. They had good, sly banter going on.

NC: "This is a song about being in love when you're a tomboy."
KH: "Would it kill you to wear a skirt?"

Canadian Amp is mostly covers, isn't it?

6 out of 8 tracks, and it's good, but it's not the neko covers album of my dreams.

She doing an in-store at Amoeba in Hollywood March 6th.

Neko in-store

Or March 5, even. (and "She's")

From NYT:

Her own songs melt down structures. Instead of fixed verses or choruses there are two-chord patterns that run as long as Ms. Case wants, or as short; they might add or subtract a beat, suddenly switch chords or support an entirely new tune in mid-song. Subliminally that rhapsodic approach keeps the songs off balance and suspenseful, ready for every possibility of disaster or exaltation. JON PARELES

I only quote it because I wonder if Pareles is hearing what I'm hearing - this might explain why I have trouble distinguishing one song definitively from another song on this album (like discussed above).

And the album is selling for $7.99 starting Tuesday at Best Buy.

O_<

I've now listened to the album, acc. to my iTunes counter, 20 complete times. Still not tired of it. (Mind you, I've already deleted Marais La Nuit.)

she was on leno last night but i only caught the last 20 seconds of it >:[

I was a little meh on the album the first time through but it has really grown on me after just a couple more spins.

i like the little bows she gives to russell brand and gordon ramsey at the end

Hey, that's Kelly Hogan and Nora O'Connor singing backup there.

love, love, love this whole album - i'm with the scheft on 'the pharaohs' being my favourite by a fraction. she's playing san francisco june 6 so i think i may go.

Yeah, I love this album. I've always been a "yeah, great voice, totally see why people love her" listener, never fully falling for her myself, but this one won me over in a big way.

Debuted at #3 in this week's Billboard.

whoa!

wow, no kidding? I guess she's bigger than I thought! but I'll chime in with another rave -- this album is great. "Prison Girls" might be the one that stands out the most for me at the moment ...

44,000 copies sold. Impressive! "Prison Girls," "Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth," and "Magpie to the Morning" are the standouts for me. When she comes in with that line on "Magpie" - "fuckin' birds sing / in the middle of the night" - that just kills me.

She was so good on Sound Opinions. Not just the performance, because I figured that would be good, but she was totally funny and fun and smart and stuff. Total bro.

omg the first few lines of the pharaohs fairly sent shivers down my spine. can't believe how i love neko more and more with every album. that voice... and the dark lyrics. SO GOOD.

RFI: If Neko Case Was Singing The Telephone Book, Would You Buy It?

well i have basically every other recording she's ever appeared on including a bunch of bloodshot records comps, sadies albums (which i like for themselves anyway), band of blacky ranchette etc etc. so if that's an indication, yep i probably would.

http://www.spinner.com/2009/03/30/neko-case-brings-a-cyclone-to-the-interface-tk2/

i love the song "middle cyclone" so fucking much

^btw these are a few live perfs from the new record + an interview

Live on NPR tomorrow niiiiiiiiiiight

loooooooolz:

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Rock-n-Roll/neko_case.htm

"The band name, New Pornographers, speaks for itself. Rock-n-roll music is a religion of sexual immorality. Neko Case, a member of the New Pornographers, is a sexual degenerate herself..."

Really? Now I REALLY love her.

LOL - quoting from "Hold On, Hold On"
Now it's the devil I love (Notice, Neko Case sings, "Now it's the devil I love")
Ya know, just in case you missed it.

Glad someone's finally exposing pornography for the feminist propaganda tool that it is

She was so good on Conan tonight. Also, bizarrely, her guitarist looked like Slavoj Zizek.

I really like this album!

Yes, I saw her live a week ago. Absolutely wonderful, as always.

Aside from her New Pornographer contributions, what are Neko's best guest appearances? I nominate Crooked Fingers "Your Control".

She had a fantastic duet with Carl Newman (of the NP, so maybe this is a ringer) on one of her early solo albums. They covered an old country song, I think. Vocal harmonies on the chorus like a slower version of Sing Me Spanish Techno, but every bit as joyous and energizing.

xpost that contribution is pretty fantastic

I am seeing her play tonight! Oh yeah. :)

Oh, wow. In Australia?

Yup...http://www.thehifi.com.au/events/neko-case-7603/

If I had a spare $50 I'd be going on Friday night too!

So lucky. I hope she plays in NY sometime soon.

Was very bummed that she wasn't with The New Pornographers when they played Langerado in 06.

Aside from her New Pornographer contributions, what are Neko's best guest appearances? I nominate Crooked Fingers "Your Control".

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, August 25, 2009 9:34 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

She did a track w/ John Doe that was pretty sweet

Would you happen to remember said track?

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.