Cat Stevens is a swooner

Ugh, Stereogum, my love! Today they posted a new Cat Stevens track! I know everyone and their mamas are psyched. Or maybe just me and my mom because we talked about it for about an hour today. Neither she nor my sister believed me (given the fact that he denounced his previous geniosities). But it's true and me and my little socks are really happy. So of course today I got out my tired Greatest Hits CD and gave it a whirl. Why is he so wonderful? Even when his songs aren't sad they make me cry! I'm going to post a few because, Jesus Christ, it's Cat Stevens, and he's got a new song, and we've got a freakin war going on. In my opinion those are ALL good reasons.

+ Heaven/Where True Love Grows (NEW)
+ Wild World (old)
+ Oh Very Young (old)
+ Moonshadow (old)

Oh my god, and the Harold and Maude video? I think I'm required to rent that movie again now. Sooo good!



Check out the Stereogum article here.

Yes is my favorite answer

Once upon a time I created a playlist called "Songs that make you Cry". I didn't get very far but it's still kind of beautiful. Don't be afraid of the title, they're just some of the prettiest songs that I've ever heard. Sure, I may be late on the pretty-song-bandwagon, but that's just kind of how it goes. Now go watch a sunset or take a bath or something. And if you cry... well, honestly I think that'd be a good thing.

Cocorosie - Terrible Angels
Cocorosie - Butterscotch
Bright Eyes - Walk Away
Okkervil River - Red
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1


Cocorosie is probably the group you know least about, so I'll just tell you it straight out: They're two sisters and they're weird and have beautiful voices. That's about all there is to know. One of them plays with toys in the songs which I find kind of weird, but I guess it works to make the songs more gritty. But really, those dinosaur calls can get kind of annoying sometimes. Other than that their voices are just so incredible that I can't stop listening.

I'm sorry

I swear to god I'll post music either tonight or tomorrow, but right now I kind of have an obsession. It's called Stuff On My Cat. According to the website, Stuff + Cats = Awesome and I can't really disagree. So let the cuteness begin...











My personal fave is "Squirt" so what's yours?

A Clockwork Orange

I'm reading the book lately, which is filled with the most bizarre and delightful slang and last night came upon a passage that describes Alex's ecstacy when he listens to his classical music. It reminds me of the first time I listened to You Forgot it in People stoned. Anyways, it's pretty great and I thought it was at least partially relevent for this blog.

" The little speakers of my stereo were all arranged round the room, on ceiling, walls, floor, so, lying on my bed slooshying the music, I was like netted and meshed in the orchestra. Now what I fancied first tonight was this new violin concerto by the American Geoffrey Plautus, played by Odysseus Choerilos with the Macon (Georgia) Philharmonic, so I slid it from where it was neatly filed and switched on and waited.

Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovey sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. A then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers."

The Burning of Rome

Today at KZSC I processed one of the most interesting bands I've heard in a while. They're called The Burning of Rome (an event which lead to persecution of Christians). My first impression was that it was very "horrorshow"ish (like Primus) with clowny organs in "Hard Times". But then I heard the 80s fun feel of "Dancing Like a Dead Drunk Soldier". Then I heard the beautiful "Too Late, Too Bad" and "Less Forgotten". And THEN I heard "Dear Israel" which starts as a frightening rock delicious clash and then abruptly becomes the cutest ukelele-ridden melody which then turns back into rock 'n roll pop fun. And then "the war is over". It's an incredibly interesting track, and stood out among all the others. I suggest you take a listen just because I don't even understand them. Avant-garde? Maybe.

TRACKS:
+ Hard Times
+ Dancing Like a Dead Drunk Sailor
+ Too Late, Too Bad
+ Less Forgotten
+ Dear Israel

You can download all the tracks from the band's website and buy it from CD Baby.com.

Yayyy!

Time for a makeover! I'm switching gears over to a Santa Cruz-centered music blog. Uh-huh. It'll be awesome. I got a new file server that'll hopefully make this a whole lot easier/better. Psyched!