I bought some second-hand music yesterday. 6 albums for 30 bucks. I’m like a kid in a candy store.<\/p>\n
I found the old double-album Eagles Live<\/i> that I used to have on cassette – and is my favorite Eagles album. It’s the one with Seven Bridges Road leading off the second side … and it also has a live version of Wasted Time that is as good as it gets. I am not a huge Eagles fan – but I’m an enormous fan of this particular album.<\/p>\n
I bought There Goes Rhymin’ Simon<\/i> – one of my favorite Paul Simon albums from when I was a kid. It starts off with “Kodachrome”, a song I have always loved. But for me, the highpoint of the album – is “One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Floor”. LOVE that song and I am so glad it is back in my life now.<\/p>\n
I bought Hot<\/i> – by Squirrel Nut Zippers. I just love that damn band. It makes me want to have an inappropriate love affair and smoke long cigarettes and stay out all night, clicking on my heels home through the dawn light, tripping over the cobblestones. Or maybe I’d take the elevated train home back to Brooklyn, wearing a little hat with a veil. I’m a spinsterish librarian having a hot sex affair with a raggedy jazz musician and I meet him at dingy clubs in the Village to listen to him play. I don’t know – a whole world suggests itself to me when I listen to Squirrel Nut Zippers. Wonderful stuff.<\/p>\n
I bought “Welcome to the Drama Club” – by Everclear, one of my favorite bands. I guess I realized that I don’t have enough Everclear. Their lyrics!! And his voice just kills me – it’s a great one. Man, when he gets angry? God, it gives me goosebumps – he sings with such openness and passion.<\/p>\n
I bought “So-Called Chaos” by the overanalytic sometimes-annoying yet enjoyable nonetheless Alanis Morissette. I find her phrasing ridiculous, it makes no sense – she’ll add syllables just to make the damn song scan – like you have to do with Shakespeare – you know, she’ll say “I have form-ED an attachment” or whatever. Form-ed, Alanis? Why don’t you find another word that fits the damn melody that YOU WROTE??? I am annoyed. Yet I also love. I find some of her stuff really exciting.<\/p>\n
And lastly – I bought Rufus Wainwright’s album of his live concert at Carnegie Hall – where he recreated Judy Garland’s spectacular concert at the same venue … her album is one of the most successful live albums of all time. I blithered about Rufus’s project here<\/a>. I love him so much already – and I love him just for the IDEA of the project. And now to hear it? I listened to it last night and at certain points found tears streaming down my face. I found myself crying during the overture, mkay? Just the concept of what Rufus did … his love and bizarre mix of self-confidence and humility … he wasn’t trying to imitate her … It was a tribute TO her. The biggest tribute a fanboy could make. And he wasn’t doing it alone in his room, lip synching to the album. He was on the same damn stage Judy had stood on, triumphantly. Singing the same songs in the same order. My God. The balls. His rendition of “The Man That Got Away” doesn’t QUITE give Judy run for her money … nothing can compare to what the hell she does when she sings that song … but still. I put my head in my hands last night as I listened to Rufus wail: “And where’s he goooooooooone toooooooooooo?” and cried. I just want to squeeze him so tight in thanks for doing such an album … I want to squeeze him until he cries out for mercy. Love love love. Pure love. Rufus singing “Zing! Went the Strings”? Have I died and gone to heaven?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I bought some second-hand music yesterday. 6 albums for 30 bucks. I’m like a kid in a candy store. I found the old double-album Eagles Live that I used to have on cassette – and is my favorite Eagles album. … Continue reading