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[petronia]

• 02:39 I do intend to make a real post about my life (election, mother's hospitalization, Toronto) as well as what I've been listening to lately #
• 02:40 (incl. Laura Marling and Notwist concerts) but tonight I come solely to praise "This Is A Low". #
• 02:46 Things I will always like: melodramatic Britrock about the night sea (P Wolf does this tons but no one will ever beat Fat Bob at own game). #
• 02:48 Like Charmian I want to visit some British resort towns out of sheer curiosity to see if they are as depressing as perpetually described. #
• 02:51 In latitude terms it's equivalent to standing on a beach in Labrador but the Gulf Stream makes temperatures bearable that-side-of-the-pond. #
• 02:52 (It seems like there ought to be a convenient single Latinate word for that btw, like 'transalpine'. What is pond in Latin?) #
• 02:53 (I mean you can say 'transatlantic' but you can't say 'cisatlantic' can you so that's no good.) #
• 02:54 (Stuff in parentheses = whirring constant bgm of my mind, but on twitter for some reason it comes out unabridged) #
• 02:56 Anyhoo ever since that Babyshambles album I've paid attention to Stephen Street productions but there's mostly nothing to see-- #
• 03:00 Dude is like one of those writers whose style is completely lucid and flexible for conveying information. No tics or shortcuts visible. #
• 03:02 TIAL is the only track reminiscent of said album - other way round I guess - and that mostly in terms of arrangement (also it is better). #
• 03:10 For one thing, the Shambles album markedly did not contain a BADASS EMOCORE POWER BALLAD ELECTRIC GUITAR SOLO like "This Is A Low". #
• 03:14 It rocks out but is also hilarious when one thinks too much about it, much like Graham Coxon himself. #
• 03:16 (I kind of make fun of my sister for wanting to tap that which is evol but ok srsly Graham Coxon is an Internet Person(tm).) #
• 03:22 (Note that dude's example leaves one uncertain whether Internet People /should/ become rock stars - it's about fifty-fifty.) #
• 03:24 Another possible paradigm is that this band formed along moe anime lines and Coxon is the one with glasses and pigtails only w/ no pigtails. #
• 03:28 Anyhow my point was that I'm feeling positive about the Street/Coxon/Doherty collab on that increasingly less-mythical solo album, #
• 03:30 though /everyone/ I care about is putting his/her album out early next year, because my petty cash flow concerns mean nothing to them. #

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[bravecows.livejournal.com]

I want to visit some British resort towns out of sheer curiosity to see if they are as depressing as perpetually described.

YES

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Yes you want to visit too, or yes they are? XD

[bravecows.livejournal.com]

Yes they are! I realised the comment could be misconstrued later but was going to bed so could not come back to explain. I haven't been to the big ones, but have visited e.g. the jewel of the Norfolk coast, Sheringham (or was it Cromer that was the jewel)? They are amazingly depressing!

[petronia.livejournal.com]

XDD That's nice to find out.

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Did I tell you that my mother likes Shotter's Nation? It was in the CD player while we were driving back from New York. I offered to switch on the radio instead, but she was like, no, keep this on, it sounds good! I really like this kind of melodic guitar, it sounds like the Kinks All Day and All of the Night...this one sounds like T. Rex...this one has a Motown vibe...what did you say was the name of this band, again?

Ultimately though her opinion was that the SN is "easy listening," which I really hope wasn't my fault, for not being able to resist sarcastic remarks about Doherty's theiving ways. (It is a sickness, I swear -- I mean the impulse to editorialize, not the theivery.)

Don't we have a homegrown media stereotype we can apply to Graham Coxon? "Hot geek" maybe?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It is easy listening. It's gotta be, because I like it. XD Like all easy listening it's not sonically innovative but is very good at constructing and maintaining mood and aesthetic. Don't think your mother's reaction was to your comments, but analogous to / comes from the same source as the reactions of those forum folks, maybe.

We could probably but then you'd have to do something about Alex James, who actually did walk out of a shoujo manga (I've just been wracking my brains trying to remember which one).

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

What have the forum folks been saying? My mother doesn't know Babyshambles from Adam, so if the people on the forum managed a similarly objective analysis, I'm impressed.

But wasn't early shoujo manga based on like, Lord Byron?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

More like the idea that rawness, or rocking out harder, or something, is inherently preferable to that sort of MOR cleanliness/prettiness/ease? IDK, it occurs to me I can't justify this either way as I don't know your mom. ^^;

Or Wilde, or Led Zep. Or... what else.

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

My mother is a Smiths/Lou Reed/Joan Baez/Steve Earle fan. XD; And was President of the New Jersey chapter of the Paul McCartney fan club, as I might have told you once.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Your mother has good taste! She'd probably like Peter's solo album. XD (Still looking forward to it, though not to the inevitable inability to reproduce orchestral arrangements in a live setting. The Last Shadow Puppets this outfit ain't.)

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah -- definitely much better than mine. ^^; Well, she was a self-confessed hippy for a while, so.

Eh, even if the arrangements aren't reproduceable, didn't most of these songs begin life as acoustic affairs anyway? Putting on a live show with a bunch of tape decks is no fun.