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― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 23 March 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
Possibly a dumb question, but it needs to be asked: is "Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit" the new "Tuesday Night Music Club"?
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 March 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
(I like her album, I'm just feeling an "All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun" vibe somehow)
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 March 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
Eagerly awaiting a Soak Up the Sun about dying seals.
― how's life, Monday, 23 March 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
Raymond, I hear Sheryl Crow too.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 March 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
Right? Just a tone of "detached, bemused semi-omniscient narrator" there on a lot of the songs, with a personal "in" at times.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 March 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link
can't unhear Sheryl Crow now, will have to embrace it as a positive
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Monday, 23 March 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
oh shit what have i done
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 March 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
Still think more Liz Phair than Sheryl, not least because part of Sheryl's thing was a certain amount of jadedness -- she was old for a new pop star when she broke -- and Courtney's POV is not at all jaded.
On first time all the way through, I like the album a lot. Not sold on the slow blues, but overall it's got good tunes, nice energy, and her vocals wear well for me. (That last will obviously be people's make or break with her.)
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 23 March 2015 23:07 (nine years ago) link
She played lead in various garage bands around oz before striking out on her own, so that might very well be her on the lead. even if it isn't she's got an ear for great guitar sounds.
― Blood On The Knobs, Monday, 23 March 2015 23:20 (nine years ago) link
hearing a lot of decent aussie indie stuff lately. its in good health. i really like courtney barnett, dick diver and ausmuteants. any other good aussie stuff people can hip me to?
― tayto fan (Michael B), Friday, 13 March 2015 11:54 (1 week ago)
NZ rather than Aus, but the Street Chant/Emily Edrosa axis of bands does that Flying-Nun-via-grunge thing p.well; ditto some of the Fishrider bands from Dunedin.
― etc, Monday, 23 March 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link
I've resolved to hear her as more Barbara Manning than Liz Phair, mainly because I want to like her.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 02:44 (nine years ago) link
Not sold on the slow blues
the soloing on that one is classical, sonny-rollins-esque levels of structure
― j., Tuesday, 24 March 2015 02:51 (nine years ago) link
I'm crediting her with some of the excellent guitar work.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 03:17 (nine years ago) link
the rhythm guitar is great too, so whoever does what, it's great all around
― j., Tuesday, 24 March 2015 03:22 (nine years ago) link
I like both of them and some Sheryl Crow too. Maybe what Courtney mostly sounds like is somebody who grew up on all of that (plus Nirvana and Lemonheads etc). Anyway, I agree about her guitar playing, it has this very nonchalant flow -- like her vocals -- but then these unexpected textures and colorful spikes.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 04:46 (nine years ago) link
Tipsy, what slow blues? please don't say small poppies :)Her vocals actually remind me most of Lou Reed.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
she sounds like liz phair bc liz phair was aiming to sing like a dude iircCB sings like a dude too!
― groundless round (La Lechera), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
i mean that in the best possible way
― groundless round (La Lechera), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
The percolator line is the only thing that's put me off slightly so far. Otherwise this is nice.
― jmm, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
She was very good at the launch party last night, despite being obviously annoyed by the lacklustre crowd.
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
Tipsy, what slow blues? please don't say small poppies :)
Yeah, "Small Poppies." But when I say "not sold," it could grow on me. Most of the album is so immediate that that one has tried my patience in comparison. Maybe seeing her play it live will change my mind.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
Elevator Operator is amazing!
― piscesx, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 01:26 (nine years ago) link
she's ok, but way overrated imo
― nostormo, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 09:57 (nine years ago) link
The album is definitely too mild for me. Figured there would be more fuzz pedals.
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 10:42 (nine years ago) link
i like the album but i wish more of it sounded like "pedestrian at best"
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 10:50 (nine years ago) link
The album bloomed as soon as I realized the guitar and attitude were closer to Sheryl Crow than Liz Phair.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 10:54 (nine years ago) link
i checked out her collection of eps last year (thought it was an album until now) after enjoying a one-off song i heard, but was kinda disappointed. the title and cover of this one are both supremely offputting
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 11:00 (nine years ago) link
welp that's sorted then
― j., Wednesday, 25 March 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
re: dude singing
Yeah, she really reminds me of Reed and Cobian, not just in the chord progressions and imagery, but also the way she builds an aggressive persona around feeling weak and ineffectual. Also the way she make the music pretty when you're looking for noise, and noisy once you're getting comfortable with the jangle.
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
I seem to playing Aqua Profonda the most. I like that track.
She doesn't seem perturbed that the person next lane over apparently left her to drown.
― jmm, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
her singing is talky but there are also lots of people talking in the songs, the climax of elevator operator is even when the elevator operator talks back
― j., Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
like 1 in every 3 links/headlines/tweets i've seen on the internet this week includes the words "Courtney Barnett"
― alpine static, Thursday, 26 March 2015 00:35 (nine years ago) link
Good for her! She was very humble and self-deprecating when I saw her last year.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 26 March 2015 01:06 (nine years ago) link
Yeah her persona feels very low-key (dunno where bendy gets "aggressive" from). Not my #1 favourite album of the year but it's very solid and if she blows up/becomes "the next" Sheryl Crow I'm happy for her.
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Thursday, 26 March 2015 01:34 (nine years ago) link
What Alfred said. I've been thinking a lot about why I like this album and when I think it's because she's closer to Sheryl Crow than Liz Phair.
― Robert Earl Hughes (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 26 March 2015 01:53 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i knew that would come off snarky/negative, but i'm stoked for her. love her and her music. she rules. but man she is seriously buzzing right now
― alpine static, Thursday, 26 March 2015 02:05 (nine years ago) link
Aggressive isn't the word for it, yeah. But I get a lot of pent-up emotion and defiance beneath her laconic delivery.
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Thursday, 26 March 2015 11:57 (nine years ago) link
shout out to anyone else who rides the 96 to work; kinda decided i loved the album after she dropped that line
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 26 March 2015 12:09 (nine years ago) link
i like the whole thing but "pedestrian at best" stands way out to me. i get that her appeal is as a lackadaisical chronicler of the quotidian but when her delivery is louder and fiercer and more like that of an inspired pulpiteer she becomes way more exciting to me (i mean, way to make lines like "I'm a fake / I'm a phony / I'm awake / I'm alone / I'm homely / I'm a Scorpio" sound like gospel)
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 26 March 2015 12:13 (nine years ago) link
just realised i already posted about how much i love "pedestrian at best" about 30 posts ago, sorry all
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 26 March 2015 12:14 (nine years ago) link
Wow, this is good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqP3ICzc7eg
― jmm, Thursday, 26 March 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
"Numbers stand for routes of buses" as an argument for the importance of numbers :D
― jmm, Thursday, 26 March 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link
i used to take the 96
didn't see CB on there tho
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Thursday, 26 March 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
this new album is great, thank u ILM
― sleeve, Friday, 27 March 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
i must confess, i've made a mess of what should be a small success
^^
― j., Friday, 3 April 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
i like her a lot
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 April 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link
pretty great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKQ5P7vBIwc
― that's not my post, Saturday, 4 April 2015 04:53 (nine years ago) link
cambridge show was fun, although shame we had to leave early to catch a train :-/
― but then again, who really cares? I don’t. (dog latin), Thursday, 9 April 2015 10:35 (nine years ago) link
Among the things I do now is perform a bar quiz every Wednesday evening. One of the nicest parts of the gig is I get to play music from my library when I'm not reading questions or answers. Last night I got into the sound system early and treated my patrons to the first three tracks from Sometimes I Sit... I walked around the place to make sure the speakers were working, and to hear those songs coming out loud and clear in a suburban Texas yuppie bar felt so damn good.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 April 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link