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 Sufjan Stevens - Come on Feel the Illinois
  The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
 Nickel Creek - Why Should the Fire Die
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Forgive me in advance, my limited, yet appreciative audience... Commitments and catastrophes will contribute to minimal content this week. Hopefully next week will be a little less complicated, and I can put together my recipe for Chili Con Seppo. The following diatribe serves to keep the cobwebs from getting too thick. qqq
I have noticed that the older I get, the less cynical I become. This seems to be the reverse with most people, including my particularity cranky uncle, and even a lot of the girls I play with. The more that bad things happen in the world, the more attention I pay to the wonderful things around me (just self centered?). Recently, I have actually felt a few warm fuzzies over emailed power point slide shows containing puppy dogs and kitties, and even bigger warm fuzzies from the ones containing scantily clad girls clubbing in Sweden. While watching Love Actually last year, I actually began to feel wee little tears collecting in my eyes (maybe it was because I was watching it at Christmas, in Yorkshire, with a 19 year old busty backpacker).  In the last week, I have been watching season four of Scrubs. I found the whole series very soothing and heart warming, especially Tara Reid's husky interludes. I nearly began to dance around the room when the Polyphonic Spree appeared, robes and all, to perform "Follow the Day". I suddenly realized that I have not only begun to enjoy sappy tv shows, but music that I would have found egregiously CHEESY just a few years ago. Am I alone, or is optimistic pop the new truckers hat? Consider the facts, and the culprit's:
Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips has been producing strange music for over a decade, and has even made it as far as the stage of the Peach Pit After Dark on Beverly Hills 90210. It takes a lot for Steve Sanders to say, "I don't usually like alternative music, but these guys rock!" The lips have moved from making multi part albums meant to utilize multiple cd players at one time, to singing about a little girl named Yoshimi who uses her Karate powers to battle evil robots. They have even gotten away with writing songs about beauty and truth (for shame) and still managed to have their last two albums named Uncut magazine's album of the year.  Remove Coyne's somewhat molesting, and as one music journo says, "willy wanka like" demeanor, add a choir (robes and all) and the a shitload of electronic and traditional musicians, and you've got the Polyphonic Spree. Tim DeLaughter started up the Spree after his Tripping Daisy bandmate died of a drug overdose. Songs for movies (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), critical acclamation, suspected terrorist activity, and television appearances have pushed the band into the spotlight. What do they sound like? Remember Free to Be, You and Me? Add chimes and stir.
Shamelessly (and deservedly) riding on the coattails of hero to the new emo generation, Conner Oberst, and creating a very unusual sound and persona, are Tilly and the Wall. It's hard to describe the sound of a band that uses a tap dancer as percussion, but once you listen, it sticks with you. Think Grandpa Would era Ben Lee innocence, (including Liz Phair harmonies, "Away With the Pixies" stizz), and add some pop accoutrements. All in all, stuff that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.  Their are also bands out there that may not sound like ice cream and puppy dogs, like the aforementioned, but they still convey a positive message and a sense of secular humanism. While the Beta Band has recently disbanded, their back catalogue is a great representation of music with a message. John Cusaak sold us their single on High Fidelity a few years ago. Since then, it's only gotten better. Just try not to feel happy and cool while walking down the street with "Liquid Bird" on your ipod.
While 1996 - 2000 were the age of the Old 97's for me (new release out now!), the last couple of years, I have had Death Cab for Cutie playing as my personal soundtrack. Ben Gibbard's music, especially the Postal Service project, represent such an optimistic view of life, or at least an optimistic view of our relationships with each other. Think of the all the confused college kids, in drug induce euphoria, singing "I need you so much closer..." over and over again, while their emotional baggage is left in the real world. Yep, I'm a softie, and I only expect to get softer. I am, however, rotating Danzig's Circle of Snakes to keep it interesting. It's just a bit of Kubrikian self control to keep the ol' ultravoilence in check. Homework: The Polyphonic Spree - Together We're Heavy The Beta Band - hero's to Zeros The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlantism Postal Service - Give Up Ben Lee - Grandpa Would Tilly and the Wall - Wild Like Children Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Head to the Ground Old 97's - Drag it Up Danzig - Circle of Snakes
... Seppo 5:30 pm...
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