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― Surmounter, Sunday, 13 May 2007 00:58 (sixteen years ago) link
From Rolling Stone:
The title is a joke: at forty, Kristin Hersh has a voice that's worn as hell -- all two-packs-a-day rasp and vinegary bite. On her seventh solo album, the former singer for poetry-addled alt-rockers Throwing Muses finds a fitting counterpart to that somewhat disturbing voice in largely dark, largely acoustic songs that toss in string arrangements and often work up smart, stormy tumult. Though Hersh outfits the waltz-y "Ice" with a great slo-mo chorus, tunecraft isn't exactly her strength, and sometimes the album slips into haziness. But the best songs are unsettling in a good way: The haunting, plaintive "Sugar Baby" builds to a cathartic climax, and "Under the Gun" conjures a long night filled with fever dreams. Like a Star proves Hersh can rock powerfully; if she had some stronger material, she might be able to make a truly killer record.
CHRISTIAN HOARD
eww
― Surmounter, Saturday, 19 May 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i had a dream last night that kristin was in my town, somehow passing through on a train, and she wrote me a note and left it on a telephone pole near the station. and then i lost the note, and i was looking for it all over town, shit scared. then i woke up and put Learn TO Sing Like A STar on, and now i'm listening to surf guitar.
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link
okay i'm sorry
i really am. but it had to be done
me and my Charms
kills.
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 June 2007 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
so Sunny Border Blue is on in my apt, with the blue screen of the Memorex CD player, and it's so, so pretty - makes me wanna have a beer and play some poker.
geez i really wanna do that n e way... maybe i'll have a poker night?
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
whoa wat just happened in song#2
this is why. now here, tho, i could stand the vox a TOUCH louder
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
wow... song3 no disappoint. haha, well i have to go to work soon sooo i'll have to stop at song 3 :-) wait song 4 sounds good...
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't find a mention of White Suckers on this thread, which surprises me even tho it seems like a run-of-the-mill song. It still really, really shakes me. "Drivin' around in your souped up jeep, like u got somewhere better to be" - totally reminds me of growing up on long island, lol...
― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 June 2007 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
So you kinda like her, huh?
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 21 June 2007 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
=P
― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 June 2007 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Me and My Charms is one of the best songs ever, I agree. I love Hips and Makers overall as well, although I haven't ventured past that for some reason.
― humansuit, Thursday, 21 June 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
aww u should venture
― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 June 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I know. The reason why tho is that I went to college and then I traveled and then I had kids, and so I am frozen in the past. All my CD money goes into 529 plans now.
― humansuit, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
oh my god
― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I used to feel this way about Tanya Donnelly, many moons ago. We were both attending the University of Rhode Island when I wrote a positive piece about the Muses for the student newspaper (this is well before their debut album). Tanya met up with me on campus to thank me, and her smile made my knees buckle. Shortly afterward the band moved to Boston, hit it huge in England and my dream of becoming Mr. Tanya Donnelly quickly faded.
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
FUCK that's so hot
i can't imaging looking at tanya smiling, i might faint
― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 June 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i still can't believe i was in kristin's face and all i could say was "What a great show tonight"
what is wrong with me?
― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 June 2007 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
What do you say? Thank you for inventing the sound of modern rock and roll? Maybe that's what you should have said, because somebody has got to thank the muses.
― humansuit, Thursday, 21 June 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
heh, i know... thank you for making me cry in my room week after week? thank you for always singing exactly what's on my mind? thank you for consistently leaving me dumbfounded?
i guess, you're right, i could have said all those things. and i didn't.
― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 June 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Touring Australia in October....
"It’ll be her first visit to Australia since 1994, so fans will be lining up for this one. Tickets go on sale on Monday August 27.
Thursday October 11: Corner Hotel, Melbourne Friday October 12: The Palais, Hepburn Springs Wednesday October 17: The Heritage Hotel, Bulli Thursday October 18: Clarendon Guest House, Katoomba Friday October 19: The Basement, Sydney Sunday October 21: Fremantle Arts Centre"
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/local/10182/Kristin-Hersh-returns-to-Australia.htm
Bulli???
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Hepburn Springs!? Sounds like she's using a tour as a neat adjunct to an Aussie holiday ;D I mean Hepburn Springs, Blue Mountains, Freo.
I'd like to go to this. I saw her '94 shows, they were entrancing. I wrote a gushy fan letter afterwards that I piked on sending her (or her label or whatever). Unfortunately I havent kept up at all since "Strange Angels" so I guess I'd have to do that.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
girl u have to listen to the new one
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 04:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Apparently the Freo gig is a support(!!!) for Sarah Blasko...
The Corner gig, for which I've just brought a ticket, is thankfully not.
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 04:34 (sixteen years ago) link
SHE is supporting Sarah Blasko? Oh for the love of... GRARGH!
Corner gig not sold out yet is it?
― Trayce, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 05:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Heh I saw the 'Muses at the Corner in 92 or 93. They did "Cottonmouth" and some guy in the audience kept loudly hollersinging along to the "YOOOOOOO snake/yooooo cottonmouth" bit. So much so, Kristin was having a hard time not cracking up laughing. At the end of the song, the guys gf turned to him between songs and loudly declared "I'm not going to a gig with you EVER AGAIN" and everyone cracked up laughing inc the band.
They also did Delicate Cutters. Sigh. So wonderful.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 05:21 (sixteen years ago) link
No, not sold out yet, but the default 'selling fast' was on the email-out I got on Tuesday.
I saw TM on the same tour, but in Perth. Fortunately, their relative obscurity made being 'down the front' a piece of cake. :)
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 09:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone planning to go to this?
Kristin Hersh is an introvert. She is extraordinarily shy. Paradoxically, she is known as an artist for her sometimes brutal emotional honesty and openness.
"Paradoxical Undressing" by Kristin Hersh is a live spoken word project incorporating film, music and essays. The show will feature excerpts from Kristin's upcoming memoir, "Paradoxical Undressing" read by the artist, with musical accompaniment.
The show tells the story of a teenage girl wrestling with issues of extreme creativity, mental illness, pregnancy and life in the music business as founder of seminal American indie rock band Throwing Muses.
The first paradoxical undressing performances will be held in the UK at St. Andrew's in the Square in Glasgow on 25 March 2008 and at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on 26 March 2008.
I've just booked a ticket for the QEH performance (though I only seem to end up making it to about 3 out of 5 events that I book in advance)
― Bob Six, Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
dang
― Surmounter, Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
will KILL to see this
― wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
werd
― Surmounter, Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link