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The Greatest is truly the greatest. I've lived in bars, and danced on tables.Mechanical Grace wrote:What do you think of that record? I'm still so infatuated with THE GREATEST, I haven't even thought about working back through the older stuff.miss buenos aires wrote:"Maybe Not" - Cat Power
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
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I never got it because I thought it was just a compilation of singles and b-sides, songs I already had anyway. But since it was part of that New Rock Classics list thingie (http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... php?t=5054) I read some more about it and realised the recordings I thought I already had were BBC-recordings and decided to get it after all. It really is great.
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I'm a Cat Power fan since I heard Nude As The News on a Matador sampler in 1997. HOWEVER, other than the title track and maybe Where Is The Love, I don't like this new one. It's very clean and sterile and for all this talk of a stax slow jam type band, it doesn't feel like a late 60s band, it feels like a late 60s soul cover band, no rough edges. The Greatest (the song) though is fantastic.Mechanical Grace wrote:What do you think of that record? I'm still so infatuated with THE GREATEST, I haven't even thought about working back through the older stuff.miss buenos aires wrote:"Maybe Not" - Cat Power
That said, I've seen her twice live and both count as the 2 worst shows I have ever seen in my life. I always heard she could be brilliant or fall apart on stage, but the shows I saw, she just didn't give a shit at all. Huge disappointment.
Old stuff - The Covers Record is a must. Her ability to take familiar songs and make them completely her own, but taking only the pieces she wants, is amazing. Satisfaction is my all time favorite cover by anyone - first time I heard it, I went back to the original because I couldn't believe those words were in the original. She takes only the verses (I'm driving in my car, how white my shirts can be, etc), played to a bluesy strum, and makes it a song of tired desperation & resignation instead of the original's "fuck it" attitude. She does something similar to the Velvet Underground's I Found A Reason, just taking the bridge and wrapping it around a gorgeous sparepiano part.
Moon Pix is really good too, What Would The Community Think is great indie rock, but quite different from what she is now (the tortured singer songwriter).
An amazing voice, and can be absolutely brilliant at times.
Looks like I'll be playing the Covers Record next!
as a side note - there's a peel session of more covers, and she strips Freebird down to 30 seconds, so she's got a sense of humor that makes me think her wacko act is just that, an act.
we have powerlines in our bloodlines
I dont get the thing for Cat Power - I have Moon Pix and it totally bores me to tears, to the point of irritation - her voice reminds me of a watered down Beth Orton who is twice the singer and twice the songwriter. Makes me wonder if its her looks and the whole weirdo shtick that gets peoples attention.
echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
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For me, it's the sound of her voice, very smoky, etc, so when she does have a good song, she can make it better. To me, there are a lot of same-sounding songs on Moon Pix, and only the ones that are any different stand out - Cross Bone Style has a nice groove, Color & The Kids, love that one.
But to me, even Cat Power haters would probably love the Covers Record as a nice rainy night by the fire kind of album. And have you heard the song The Greatest? It's free at the matador records site, I love that song too. And I'm a Beth ORton fan too, so I know where you're coming from.
But to me, even Cat Power haters would probably love the Covers Record as a nice rainy night by the fire kind of album. And have you heard the song The Greatest? It's free at the matador records site, I love that song too. And I'm a Beth ORton fan too, so I know where you're coming from.
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Well I sort of agree with you there, although I think they're mining different veins. From the CP I've heard, it's all about the atmosphere and mood, and like, say Mazzy Star or Portishead, you like 'em or you don't. I love Beth Orton but I've heard more of a range of her stuff-- and maybe that range is bigger, I don't know! She certainly has an amazing voice. I saw her live about 8 years ago, touring around the release of Trailer Park. Amazing.Mike Boom wrote:... Cat Power ... reminds me of a watered down Beth Orton who is twice the singer and twice the songwriter.
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Although it's a compilation I still like to think of it as an regular album since only 2-3 tracks are already available on other albums and even then the versions on Substance are much better than the album versions (save for Sub-Culture).
Favourite tracks: The extended version of Perfect Kiss, In A Lonely Place and Lonesome Tonight.
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Great choice. I can only listen to:
The combination of Dear God, Please Help Me, one of the most beautiful things Moz has ever recorded, and the classic single hooks of You Have Killed is almost too much excitement for one day. A few of the songs are more ignorable, but generally it's very good.
The combination of Dear God, Please Help Me, one of the most beautiful things Moz has ever recorded, and the classic single hooks of You Have Killed is almost too much excitement for one day. A few of the songs are more ignorable, but generally it's very good.
There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more
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No doubt. I really didn't think that much of YATQ at first, now I love it all. A quality The Smiths nearly always had and that a lot of Moz has is the way each song is its own little world. It's a sense of completeness, intensity, originality and perfection. I guess all good songwriters have this, and it's one of the reasons very little of EC's output seems to me a waste of time, likewise my other faves Ron and Lloyd, but this is at its purest on Hatful of Hollow.
There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more
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Picked this up at Other Music in Manhattan this weekend, along with that Jens Lekman album pole recommended. Very different albums - this one sort of drunk and raucous pop and the Lekman more subdued and idiosyncratic (reminds me a bit of Stephin Merritt).
BTW, Other Music is a must for anyone record/CD shopping in New York. My favorite shop by a country mile - just across East 4th St. from the abysmal Tower Records (who in the world would shop there?)...
http://www.othermusic.com/
BTW, Other Music is a must for anyone record/CD shopping in New York. My favorite shop by a country mile - just across East 4th St. from the abysmal Tower Records (who in the world would shop there?)...
http://www.othermusic.com/
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