{"id":606,"date":"2006-11-27T21:11:22","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T05:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/11\/27\/more-tracks\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T21:24:03","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T05:24:03","slug":"more-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/27\/more-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"More Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

"Had A Dream"
Bird York<\/strong><\/p>\n

MySpace doesn’t do this cut justice.\u00c2\u00a0 But you MUST check it out: Bird York<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

They must stream at about 56k, or use some kind of compression that does the music a disservice, on MySpace.\u00c2\u00a0 Because even the MP3 I stole ripped at 128 sounds completely different\/much better.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, to hear this on VINYL, enveloping the room in rich sound.\u00c2\u00a0 You can BASK in analog, you’re INCLUDED, you’re TAKEN AWAY!<\/p>\n

When I first heard this at about 2:15 this afternoon on XM’s Loft I thought it was good, but not spectacular.\u00c2\u00a0 It was the instrumentation that got to me.\u00c2\u00a0 Clive Davis says it’s all about the SONG (and now Jimmy Iovine too!\u00c2\u00a0 Ears wide open<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0), but sometimes it’s about the RECORD!\u00c2\u00a0 The production, the ATMOSPHERE!<\/p>\n

I read on Kathleen’s, yes, that’s what her Website says her real first name is, MySpace page that she co-composed the Oscar-nominated song for "Crash", but who KNEW??<\/p>\n

Her album came out on Narada, I think most people have classified it as jazz, but THIS is Starbucks music.\u00c2\u00a0 Howard Schultz should stop fucking with dead people and play stuff like THIS at his outlets, then CDs will blow out the door!<\/p>\n

Really, check this out.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the coldest night of the season in L.A.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s good to be inside, with a record that wraps you up and makes you feel warm, ALIVE!<\/p>\n

"Nightingale"
Norah Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n

This followed "Had A Dream" on the Loft.<\/p>\n

This is contained on Norah’s diamond-plus debut, "Come Away With Me", but it never registered previously.\u00c2\u00a0 It needed to be set up, by a deejay, who already had me HOOKED!<\/p>\n

This sounds like early Bonnie Raitt as opposed to smooth jazz.<\/p>\n

People have the illusion, the BUSINESS has the illusion, that it’s the single that propels you to multiplatinum.\u00c2\u00a0 Whereas it’s the ALBUM tracks that keep a record selling.\u00c2\u00a0 And keep people coming back for more.\u00c2\u00a0 If you don’t know this, you should.\u00c2\u00a0 As for stealing it…<\/p>\n

There are so many spoofs of this four year old track in cyberspace, it’s laughable.<\/p>\n

I own a CD.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe many.\u00c2\u00a0 But who knows where the disc(s) IS?<\/p>\n

But with the label fucking with me, there’s NO WAY I’m gonna buy it, certainly not again.\u00c2\u00a0 I was determined, I got it.\u00c2\u00a0 Monetize this behavior, don’t try to hold it back.\u00c2\u00a0 I only heard the track once, I didn’t know if needed to own it, lower the threshold of acquisition.<\/p>\n

"(We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet"
Blues Magoos<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I went to download this, I found out it was on the "Big Chill" soundtrack.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought it was more UNDERGROUND than that.\u00c2\u00a0 But then I realized "Big Chill" was over TWENTY YEARS AGO and this sixties hit has been forgotten again.\u00c2\u00a0 God, the THROWAWAYS were classic back in the sixties.\u00c2\u00a0 And this MESMERIZED me, ENRAPTURED me last Monday afternoon when I heard it on XM’s Sixties on 6.\u00c2\u00a0 But the real reason I’m mentioning it now is because of the FOLLOW-UP!<\/p>\n

"B-A-B-Y"
Carla Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maybe I’m not that familiar with this take, the original, because it broke in the summer.\u00c2\u00a0 A summer I went cross-country and then was interned in Boy Scout camp.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m more familiar with the remake.<\/p>\n

We were all Stiff-entranced.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s what Elvis Costello and his producer Nick Lowe did.\u00c2\u00a0 Elvis wasn’t exactly king, as he proclaimed on the cover of his debut, but he was QUITE the breath of fresh air.\u00c2\u00a0 He was post-punk.\u00c2\u00a0 He wasn’t polished, but he wasn’t dumbed-down either.\u00c2\u00a0 I still love the debut most.\u00c2\u00a0 But he had quite a streak for a while there.\u00c2\u00a0 I heard "Green Shirt" on my iPod the other night, and it was a REVELATION!<\/p>\n

If it said Stiff, I bought it.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only Ian Dury and the Blockheads, but Rachel Sweet.\u00c2\u00a0 Who wasn’t even twenty and didn’t write her own songs and was from OHIO for god’s sake.<\/p>\n

But Rachel’s well-worn remake isn’t even in the LEAGUE of the original.\u00c2\u00a0 Carla Thomas’ take SWINGS!<\/p>\n

The lights are low.\u00c2\u00a0 Someone has just dropped the needle on the 45 on the record player in the corner.\u00c2\u00a0 And the music, it motivates you…TO GET UP AND DANCE!<\/p>\n

Beats can’t compare with this.\u00c2\u00a0 Beats can make your body move, but they can’t make your blood BOIL!<\/p>\n

It’s like Carla Thomas is on the dance floor.\u00c2\u00a0 You can see her swinging her hips, TWISTING.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s not showing off, she’s in it WITH YOU!<\/p>\n

The Knickerbockers’ fantastic "Lies" followed this, right into my garage, but it’s "B-A-B-Y" I haven’t been able to forget, that I’ve been playing in my mind for a week.<\/p>\n

"Here (In Your Arms)"
Hellogoodbye<\/strong><\/p>\n

I got so much hate mail, I tuned into XM’s Ethel, just to see what was going on in the alternative world, the home of Coachella.<\/p>\n

You’ve got to get in the mood for modern alternative, but once a few tracks set the tone, you’re open, stuff REACHES YOU, like this.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t get out of the car.\u00c2\u00a0 I wanted to see where it went.<\/p>\n

And when I got in my house, I fired up Amazon to find out the album came out in…September?\u00c2\u00a0 And it’s number…517?<\/p>\n

It’s on Drive-Thru, it’s got the stamp of hip authority, but it’s like it wasn’t even released.<\/p>\n

And then I drove by the House of Blues Friday night.\u00c2\u00a0 LONG before showtime, the boulevard was PACKED, with people waiting to get in.\u00c2\u00a0 On the marquee was HELLOGOODBYE!<\/p>\n

In the eighties, shit like this was ALL OVER MTV.\u00c2\u00a0 To the point where we started to get suspicious, we started to believe the acts were one hit wonders.\u00c2\u00a0 Disco might have killed AOR, but at least it died.\u00c2\u00a0 MTV lived for years, until nobody believed in anything but the single, to the point where it wasn’t about the act, but the TRACK!<\/p>\n

If MTV still ruled, this would be a giant hit.<\/p>\n

If it hasn’t been in a commercial yet, "Here (In Your Arms)" SHOULD be.\u00c2\u00a0 It will not only sell the product, but break ITSELF wide open.<\/p>\n

When you can’t get \u00c2\u00a0the OBVIOUS stuff on mainstream radio, you KNOW we’re in trouble.<\/p>\n

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Hellogoodbye<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

"High And Dry"
Jamie Cullum<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know, I know, the Radiohead version is better.\u00c2\u00a0 And, IT IS!<\/p>\n

But there’s magic here.\u00c2\u00a0 The trappings are removed, the vocals are not so raw, the track is not so HEAVY!\u00c2\u00a0 It has a WHOLE NEW MEANING!<\/p>\n

The original is intimate, but this is too.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s just that it’s for a different audience.\u00c2\u00a0 One that can’t digest Radiohead, one that likes its music slicker, more akin to Elton John.<\/p>\n

This guy has gone too jazz for me.\u00c2\u00a0 At times he reminds me of Peter Allen, and that IS NOT good.\u00c2\u00a0 But he hits here.\u00c2\u00a0 Listen to this.<\/p>\n

Although you might have a hard time finding it, stealing it, there are a ton of spoofs out there.<\/p>\n

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Heard originally, on you guessed it, the Loft, with wider boundaries, encompassing more music, than even I thought the station did.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not about niche, it’s about SENSIBILITY!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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