astiocles asked: Thanks so much. I love when people are able to school me on music that I post. It's kinda what I supposed, and it's nice to have confirmation that's backed up.
No problem, i can talk about Wilco till the cows come home. I’m fairly sure Jeff once said “We got to the point with the album, and we were like Candyfloss, go any play with your powerpop friends at the fairground, you’ve got no place here.” Harsh, I think it’s a great tune.
Wilco - “Candyfloss”
I’m not sure why, but my copy of this in my iTunes says it’s an “alternate version”, although what it’s supposed to be an alternate to is beyond me, since I’ve never seen another version of this song. It is an extra track on the album, however, and it looks like Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett went back and overdubbed and remixed a bunch of this album, Summerteeth, after it was done, so maybe there was an earlier version of this song that just got lost or something. Or maybe my iTunes is fucking retarded. I’m no Wilco expert, guys.
Fairly sure (as documented in Greg Kot’s Wilco book) that a version of Candyfloss was one of the first songs written to be on the Summerteeth, then as the other songs got darker, Jeff didn’t think it fitted in Jay disagreed so they ended up compromising and putting it on as a bonus track.
Presumably the ‘alternate version’ is just to (even further) mark it out as a separate entity to the rest of the album as whole. Or, considering they both went a bit mad in the studio making the album though using overdubs in Pro Tools, so there were probably several different versions of Candyfloss knocking around, and the one they chose was labelled ‘Alternate Version’.
Last Night’s Telly: New Girl and The Mindy Project
So last night, E4 broadcast the first episode of the second season of New Girl and the first…
BIOSHOCK INFINITE (2013)
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I like the period when rock music was a good enough catch-all in terms of how to describe what you do. Within that there was a willingness to go along for the ride and it could be anywhere.
What it meant was you were doing something liberated and expressive in some way - and amplified. Now there are countless sub-genres. I still think the goal should be to stake a claim to more territory for rock music as a whole.
TRACK TWO // The Quiet Parts
After years in the making, us over at Model Sister have finally got our act together and released our first EP.
There’s nothing we hate more than musicians talking about their own music, so here’s me what I think of my own music.
1. Mantra - I didn’t have a massive amount of input into the creative process of this beast, I’m fairly sure it was written when I was out of the room. One of the most fun songs to play live, the sheer relentlessness of the riff just chugs on for close to 5 minutes.
2. The Quiet Parts - This is one of mine, and one of things I’m most proud of. The lyrics took me quite awhile to get right, and now I have an excuse to neck a pint on stage at every gig (because I’m a real man). I’m not sure what I was aiming for with the lyrics, the ‘roll the dice’ section came from when I was lucky enough to be in Nashville and there were a lot of bland country songs talking about this ideal town and all had the phrase ‘Ice Cold Beer’ in them. I think I was trying to turn that cliché on it’s head, but actually ended up just using the cliché.
3. My Mother Loves Me - Another b-side in the same vein as Ethical Boss, I definitely played the bass on this one, but have absolutely no recollection of what I played, which is probably why we haven’t played it live yet.
This felt quite vain and self indulgent, I’m going to look at myself in the mirror.
Hello,
While procrastinating doing work today I wrote a song, well technically I wrote the lyrics when I couldn’t sleep last night but the chords (all three of them) I wrote today. And then I stole the melody (kindof) from a Beach Boys song. Although it…
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“We just want a different brand,” Salke, who joined NBC in July 2011, told TV Guide. “We don’t want a narrow brand in the sense of some of those shows that we inherited here, which we’re huge fans of, [but] have a very narrow audience.”
Ouch.
NBC sucks
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