What I've been up to:
http://download.yousendit.com/4777F63F07F69CFD
and also, this:
http://download.yousendit.com/DA906F8F1DE2B227
The new Wilco album is out--Sky Blue Sky. I heard it get criticized for being "dad-rock" but (so?) it's right up my alley. I really adore about 4 songs and the rest are sweet ditties. I do get a little tired of the Nels "The New Guy's" fancy guitar picking at times. It seems, sometimes, a little show-off-y but it doesn't really detract from the folky-soul vibe of the collection of songs.
I fucking LOVE this song...Dad-Rock or not!
And this is off of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (sorta) which was definitely much more of an album you could put on and then go lie down on the floor to listen to and go WHOA. But this song wasn't on it so you have to scavenge the internet for the YHF demos. I don't know if I miss the extreme "let's make cool noises at the end of the song" stuff that they did for this album (which was replaced by extreme guitar noodling on Sky Blue Sky.)
http://www.fluxblog.net/rem_letmein_live01.mp3
This is a beautiful but somewhat detached rendition of REM's "Let Me In" off of their Monster album. I wasn't sucked into this album when it came out like I was with most of their others but that may have been the place where I was in my life more than anything else. I was dealing with a lot of Young Adult issues back then and Let Me In was one of the lie in my apartment bedroom floor and practice breathing sort of songs. I knew it had to do with Kurt Cobain's death, which pissed me off more than anything--like a lot of stuff happening to me at the time.
...some Sinead O Connor. At least for me and mine, anyway.
This one is live, with a big loud band and pretty kick ass. I can't sing along with tearing up. I know.
And so the children come.
And so they have been coming.
Always in the same way they come --
Born of the seed of man and woman.
No angels herald their beginnings,
No prophets predict their future courses,
No wise men see a star to point their way
To find a babe that may save humankind.
Yet each night a child is born is a holy night.
Fathers and Mothers --
Sitting beside their children's cribs --
Feel glory in the wond'rous sight of life beginning.
They ask: "When or how will this new life end?
Or will it ever end?"
Each night a child is born is a holy night. --Sophia Lyon Fahs, religious educator
A cover that I like as (just about) as much as the original!
And I've never seen this video. It's good!
on New Wilco and a random old song