Sing with Aaaaaaaaaaaaaanimal Collective!

Today, I was pissed.

I am ill, I'm bored and I slept in the afternoon. I hate that.

I was angry.

I don't have any more voice, so I can't scream, anyway I don't dare screaming since I was ten or something.

I randomed the songs on my computer, and the acoustic session in Radio Campus Paris of Animal Collective began.

And I was really happy because the singer did exactly what I wanted to do, sing and scream, and I assure you it's such a relief.

Listen to it there:

Radio Campus Paris

And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when

Et si le genre hip hop était né avec Johnny Cash?
Et si les revendications hip hop et le blues avaient les mêmes racines?
Un père qui délaisse sa famille (A Boy names Sue-Johnny Cash)
Une impulisvité violente due à la drogue qui le fait tuer sa femme dans sa chanson Cocaine Blues
Un hymne aux taulards de Folsom: Folsom Prison Blues.
Par contre la seule chose qui distingue les stars du hip hop et Johnny Cash c'est l'audace d'aller jouer dans une prison.
Alors que Johnny Cash a montré sa silhouette à Folsom le temps d'un concert je n'ai pas entendu parler d'une seule star de hip hop se montrer dans une taule (si je me trompe laissez un commentaire)!
Trop de choses à faire à L.A.!
Faut croire que dans les années 60 les musiciens étaient un poil plus audacieux et dérangeants!
Johnny Cash le véritable chanteur des déshérités!
Pour écouter Folsom Prison Blues: http://www.myfolsom.com/folsomprisonblues.shtml

And if Hip Hop genre was born with Johnny Cash?
And if Hip Hop music and blues had the same roots in terms of freedom of speech?
A father who leaves his family (A boy named Sue - Johnny Cash)
Violent impulsivity due to the absorption of drugs that makes the character kill his wife in J Cash's Cocaine Blues
A hymn to Folsom prisoners in Folsom Prison Blues

BUT one thing is different between yhe man in black and hip hop stars: go to a prison and record a gig in there.
Have you ever heard about a hip hop star or even a rock star actually sing in an ultra-securised prison? (If yes please leave a message).

What a politically correct times!

Johnny Cash = the real man

Friday for a change a little more nothing

So when and where does the punk movement begin?

1976!

Nope

In England?

No

In the US?

Yes

To Jeffrey Lewis on the left,(http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com/) it begins in the 1950's in the Lower East Side. In the middle of his gigs he tells us about this and sing the early punk tunes. One is from the Fugs.

It goes like:

Monday nothing, tuesday nothing, ... Village Voice nothing nothing Harry Smith nothing Allen Ginsberg Nothing....Flesh and Sex Nothing... Carlos Marx Nothing...

Listen here: http://desaulnois.free.fr/Blog/Nothing.mp3

Thanx Dr Gonzo (http://docteurgonzo.blogspot.com/)

I love that song it means well... NOTHING to me

The Fugs nothing....

Clap Your Hands Folks and Say Yeah!

You don’t have enough money to buy a pair of converse, pointy boots or the latest trendy military jacket? Do not fear, you only have to find inspiration in your father’s wardrobe, steal his work trousers that reach well above the waist and his nubuk mocassins. There you are! Do you feel indie now? Well do you? Well at least you now look like the singer from the latest NY sensation Clap Your Say Yeah. Let’s cheer!

What were we clapping to at the Trabendo in Paris on February 13th?
A band that in only a few months became a success thanks to a few MP3’s on Myspace and their self-released albums that were sent directly to record shops.

A band that doesn’t just play the album verbatim, which is why someone in the crowd complains that "it’s not like the album", er, no, that’s why we go to their gigs. To witness the bass player break a string, for example. Then there is also Alec’s vocal off-roads who stares into people’s eyes whilst singing ‘Satan Said Dance’ with poignant syncopation. Sometimes, he strangely sings or speaks to himself too, and on "Details of the War" he gives up when he can’t sing any higher.

So the question averyone has been waiting for : Do they sound like Talking Heads live ? Well see, I don’t know because I was not born "back in the day" like many people who make the comparison. However, I was very much alive when Arcade Fire played (there’s another band compared to Talking Heads) and I did find the same honesty and zeal, the same feeling that they were a work in progress and that the show is much rather felt than just perceived.

How can one not get carried away with songs like ‘Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood’ carefully left at the end just before the encore to get people warmed up before the anthemic "Clap Your hands". They finish tenderly with Neil Young’s "Helpless" to thunderous applause, of course.

Vous n’avez pas assez d’argent pour vous acheter des converses, des bottes pointues ou la dernière veste militaire à la mode ? N’ayez crainte, allez plutôt piller le placard de votre père, piquez lui son pantalon de travail qui arrive en haut du ventre et ses mocassins en nubuk. Ca y est vous vous sentez indé ? Eh oui vous ressemblez désormais au chanteur du dernier groupe arrivé fraîchement de New-York Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, applaudissons !

Et à quoi applaudissions-nous le 13 février au Trabendo ?
A un groupe qui en quelques mois s’est fait connaître à coup de mp3 mis gentiment à disposition sur My Space, et d’albums autoproduits envoyés directement aux magasins de musique.
A un groupe qui ne recrache pas son album d’une manière calibrée, d’où la déception d’une personne du public « c’est pas comme sur l’album », eh non et c’est pour ça qu’on va les voir. Pour être témoin du cassage de corde du bassiste, des déraillements vocaux d’Alec, qui regarde le premier rang dans les yeux en clamant Satan Said Dance d’une manière syncopée, et qui chante ou parle tout seul hors du micro, qui abandonne lorsqu’il voit qu’il ne pourra pas aller plus haut dans les aigus sur Details of the War.
Alors la question que tout le monde attend : est ce que ça ressemble à Talking Heads sur scène ? Je sais pas je n’étais pas encore née, comme un bon nombre de personnes qui les compare à eux. Par contre j’étais bel et bien vivante aux concert d’Arcade Fire (tiens, un autre groupe comparé aux Talking Heads !), et j’ai retrouvé en Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, la même authenticité, le même sentiment que rien n’a été parfaitement rodé, que le show se fait plus sentir que voir.
Comment ne pas se laisser porter par des titres comme Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood, soigneusement laissée juste avant le rappel, histoire de nous échauffer, avant de jouer l’hymne Clap Your Hands comme entrée de rappel. Ils finissent tendrement sur une reprise de Neil Young, Helpless, sous un tonnerre de claps bien sûr.

Scared of death? So are they...

These days I'm really into Architecture in Helsinki, a bunch of people who come from Australia.

A friend of mine who is also a fan of this band told me she loved the song called Cemetary, she said : oh there is this funny song about death you know, they say that we all meet one day in the cemetary, and the music is really enjoyful!

Then I remembered another band called The Unicorns (canadians), whose first album was called Who will cut our hair when we are gone? They have a couple of songs about death and ghosts in there, and their music is also really enjoyful.

I don't remember which philosopher said that people had to party to forget that they will die someday but it must be true!

The Fall of Christmas

I was listening to the radio, 5 days after Christmas and an Xmas song by The Fall have been played. I love that band but I don't know very well its discography YET.

I was excited, I wanted to hear again the words of Mak E Smith on Christmas. I knew that it would be very sarcastic and that he would say what I wanted to hear about that tradition which doesn't have any mean to me since I don't believe in Father Christmas anymore.

I went to The Fall's website, I search in the letter C of Christmas then X (of course Xmas!)

And discovered the song was called Xmas with Simon or Christmastide.

And goes like

Do not fret, rest your head, Jesus had no fear
Do not fret, rest your head, Xmas time is here

Castle in the snow, Southern white sign
No explanation for the lights
Empires were tumbling, pity the people in the desertJ
esus didPity the people who had too much dessert

JesusBig old nice old houseIt's Christmas
In old English villageJesus
It's that time againIt's Christmas
And those films again

Born in a barn
Surrounded by animals
No set amount to the number of diseases
Died at the age of 33
Which is as good a time as any

White outsideBowl of light glows
Slow marks of the humble
Wrong shall fail and the right prevail
House of goldCastle in the snow

Source: http://www.freehosting.hostrave.com/p/fall/lyrics.html

Death, boring films in TV (In France since I was born Mister Bean has won the record of broadcasting !!!) that is the spirit of Christmas!

Now I have to find the album to hear the song again!

Yes I tried to download it but there is no trace of The Fall and that reassures me. I imagine Mark E smith laughing at me while I tried to find his song and say "Ha! Stupid french girl (Mark does not like France) my fans does not have the internet".
And I think it's a good thing!

I'm preparing to go in every single cd shop in Paris to find it!

En fait c'est vachement bien Modest Mouse/Modest Mouse is really good!

J'étais en train de préparer une émission pour Radio Campus Paris sur le thème des animaux. Je suis allée sur le site de Modest Mouse et j'ai découvert que c'était vachement bien. J'avais déjà écouté un de ses albums avant mais il ne m'avais rien fait.
Son dernier album Good News For People Who Love Bad News est en écoute sur son site: http://www.modestmousemusic.com/

I was preparing a radio show for Radio Campus Paris on the animals. I visited Modest Mouse's website and I discovered that it was really good! I listened to one of his album one year ago but I wasn't enthousiastic about it.
You can listen to his last album Good News For People Who Love Bad News on his website: http://www.modestmousemusic.com/