'Music' Category
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Jun102008
Merry Clayton – Southern Man
Merry Clayton – Southern Man (mp4 link cause that’s what I like) You’ll probably recognize her voice – Merry sang with Ray Charles as a Raelette, with Leonard Skinnard on “Sweet Home Alabama”, with Neil Young on his first album, and, probably most notably, with Mick Jagger on “Gimme Shelter.” This is off her 1971 […]
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Nov252007
Undserstaning language is important, I guess
…so here’s something you might not know about me. Even though I have a fancy schmancy music degree from a fancy schmancy university, am an indie rock snob to the point of making my daughter listen to lullaby renditions of Radiohead to lull her to sleep, I, Chip Harlan, Mister “I have no guilty pleasures […]
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Sep212007
BRB
…so my contract ended a couple weeks ago, and you’d think that this would be the perfect time for me to sit around in my underpants all day and write blog posts about the menial things that piss me off, but I’m finding I’m too busy trying to find more work. So in lieu of […]
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Aug022007
Bobby Fuller Four – Let Her Dance, Another Sad & Lonely Night
Now, honestly I don’t know much about Bobby Fuller, but this clip sounds so totally punk rock. Incidentally, Andrew points out that Bobby is playing Buddy Holly’s strat in this clip. Bobby was a big fan, and had done some work with Sonny Curtis (including “I fought the law”), and Sonny lent him Buddy’s guitar…
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Jul192007
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Jul132007
Indie Rock Lullabyes
So every night Jessica and I put Sadie in her crib, and as she looks up at us, we warble out a lullaby for her, often with passages of unintended harmony, kiss her goodnight, and then go into the living room, where we curse a lot and watch R-rated movies. Our repertoire consists of: Home […]
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Jun192007
Melodies don’t need to be complex
As witnessed by this Heatmiser tune, which has been running through my head a solid week now. The entire song’s melody (except for that little bridge there) is made from the same 4 notes. [audio:12_Not_Half_Right.mp3] And I love how on the third chord, the melody hangs on the 9th of that II7 – it adds […]
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Jun052007
A box of newports, and puma sweats
Now here I am, not even a week after writing about stealing the new Elliott Smith, and sorta vowing not to download music illegally, but there I am on isohunt, and it’s staring me in the face: 3rd Bass – The Cactus Album. I’m not made of stone! Granted, I did buy the cassette back […]
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Jun042007
SMOB – afterthought
…so when we got afterthought from the presser, we had a friend of ours pick them up form the Post Office. He left them in his car, thought, and, late-90’s Brooklyn being what it was, his car got broken into. There were copies of the CD scattered on the floor of his car, amongst the […]
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Jun042007
Sacred Monkeys of Bali – rain delay
Rain Delay is a collection of all the songs we finished from the Tin Pan Alley session, but never released (we were planning on 2 or 3 EPs, which, well, never happened). Andrew shows his producer chops on Deliberate, when he told me to sing as quietly as possible, and we double-tracked the vocals, for […]