Don’t Give Up On Us
Perhaps one of my least favorite things I hear from time to time is a friend or acquaintance complaining that there is simply not any ‘good’ music being made any more. Equally as irritating are people whom have performed in bands drunk on volume and enthusiasm, only to toss it in the can and find some so-called new concentration on Jazz music only. Well,the fact is that there is so much great music to discover at all times regardless of genre.
Luckily, rock and roll music is as vital today as it was when Lennon and McCartney were smoking dope with the Dalai Lama. I am of course 99% certain that happened. Anyway, I digress . . . 2009 has already proven itself to be one fantastic year for music.
Through Your New Favorite Song’s interview with New Jersey Band Real Estate, we learned of Brooklyn’s Woods whom recently released the full length Songs of Shame through a collaborative agreement between Woodsist and Shrimper Records. Woods calls the same scene home that gave us Crystal Stilts and The Vivian Girls and have managed to harness a sound all their own. The sound is one of rustic folk, and wandering psych-fried guitar leads with the most glorious melody focused vocals collapsing into ecstatic choruses. Succintly, Woods is like nothing I have heard this year or any other. Hyperbole be damned, this is a great, great record, and a great, great band.
I remember seeing a band in Eugene when I was traveling with Fat Chick From Wilson Phillips. They were a fucking HORRIBLE new age band. The lead guy wore a beret, played keyboards and conducted the rest of the band, who paid no attention to his pretentious waving hand. One guy had a mic on a clarinet, running it through a synth so that it sounded nothing like a clarinet. It was some of the worst garbage I’d ever witnessed. Years later I saw Mission of Burma when they reunited and immediately recognized the lead singer, Roger Miller, as the guy in the beret.
I’m sure there are plenty of people who’d take issue with my assessment of Birdsongs, but I’ll stick to my guns.
Oh, and by the way, I’m starting a fusion jazz ensemble, featuring nothing but tympani drums and didgeridoos.
Tim is it you or the Burgie talkin’?
Amazing! Not clear for me, how offen you updating your yournewfavesong.com.
More than I used too….not a daily thing, not a weekly thing…every 3 - 4 days….with a little luck and some good music