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If you don’t have that Neon Neon sleaze banger curling around your head right now after reading that title, then you haven’t been paying enough attention to the words that I’ve been saying.
So it might be an opportune time to tell you about some of the other words you should be listening to, the ones sprouted by the kids that reside in the (always amusingly titled) blogroll of links down the side… I am alerted to this cause because todays post by John Darnielle in his brilliant Last Plane To Jakarta blog, I completely disagree with.
the album-opener, “Another Day,” is absolutely the most perfect song for putting on first thing in the morning that I have heard in ages: that piano! that melody!
he writes, showing just how different we must be as people, when the only time I’ve put on Jamie Lidell’s “Jim” album in the morning has been whilst driving somewhere, and within 2 songs almost crashed my car on the Anzac Bridge frantically trying to find the skip button/change albums function on my ipod.
The rest of the album is as good. It went directly to the year’s-best list. Nobody who wants or needs the affirmation of goodness that great pop music can sometimes give should put off hearing this record for long.
More lies! There are actually two relatively awesome moments on the album compared to the sappy pap that makes up the majority of it, those two songs are big, soulful, funky numbers “Little Bit Of Feel Good” and “Hurricane”. The rest are appalling… as though someone heard Flight Of The Conchord’s “The Most Beautiful Girl In The Room” and decided maybe that style of song was really good, and maybe they should make an entire album of songs like that but maybe less funny. “Jim” for the most part is slimy, revolting and completely everything that makes me glad I have noone attempting romance on me at present…
The reason this is important, is that John Darnielle is so often on the money. Or close to it. And you should read his blog, often.
I would talk about some of the others with a bit more depth, but its too cold for that today, Instead I will just mention briefly that I met one of the girls talked about in Matt Levinson’s “Fortune Grey” blog at a gallery opening the other week (and being reminded of Jess by this blog gave me a thrill of sorts), and that I really like Emmy Hennings writing for music magazines and so on, and her blog, Fangirl, does her justice.
