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I think you mean post-’90s Madonna. And when has Britney ever faked a British accent, or Lindsay even tried at all? [/pedantry]](http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktfs1tzHPd1qa4b44o1_500.png)
I think you mean post-’90s Madonna. And when has Britney ever faked a British accent, or Lindsay even tried at all? [/pedantry]
jeff buckley - so real
possibly my favorite.
not my favorite but definitely a-rb.
can’t call it my favourite either, but it’s the rocking-est on the album, and the guitar is sublime in a way that the less violent parts of Grace just can’t match for someone with ‘punk rock’ tastes like myself.
Apparently that’s because there was originally gonna be a ballad called “Forget Her” in that spot on the album, but Jeff had second thoughts because he didn’t want to be just a ballad guy. Michael Tighe had just joined his band on second guitar, and had the main riff for this song written, so they went into a different studio and cut this song in an afternoon. The record company people were bummed about him pulling “Forget Her,” but “So Real” is obviously much better, and pointed the direction Jeff would go with the rest of his brief career.
“Forget Her” is on the deluxe edition of Grace if you’re curious, but it’s really not that great.
I actually outright love Forget Her, but So Real is just so much more unconventional that it made sense to include it. Though I do wonder why they couldn’t have just had 11 songs on Grace?…
Madonna - Ray of Light
Amazing song… I swear, even if I listen to it on repeat for the rest of my life, I will never get over how completely mind-bending the scream at the end is.
why is there some new random fuck yeah madonna?! I’ve been doing this since July! I’ve got it covered, thanks!
Yeah… I was going to get around to mentioning that to either one of you, somehow. Damn you Tumblr and your lack of a messaging system!
![Ugh - technically, wouldn’t this imply that all boys who are girls have nipples? And that all boys who aren’t girls, and girls who aren’t boys, do not have nipples? [/pedantry]](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2703/4098101837_1a88cd06b1.jpg)
Ugh - technically, wouldn’t this imply that all boys who are girls have nipples? And that all boys who aren’t girls, and girls who aren’t boys, do not have nipples? [/pedantry]
The only conceivable explanation is that this is where the fates aligned. Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly write a song with lyrics sincere yet easily misinterpreted as risqué, which is by chance passed on to a woman on the verge of becoming the defining sex symbol (and so much more) of her generation, whose given name JUST SO HAPPENS to be Madonna, the Virgin Mary’s most sacred of names. With so many brilliant coincidences, could it have happened any other way?
I figure I’m allowed to reblog myself once… Madonna’s classic Like a Virgin album was released 25 years ago today, so what better time to revisit my review of the single at Iconography? Check out the full article here, or a rundown of all the singles from Like a Virgin here!
May add some further, relatively brief thoughts on the album later today, too.
This cover does a lot of things good covers do:
- reminds you of what makes the original interesting (the way the DPs’ singers approach notes like a kid approaches stepping stones - each jump to the next an excitement and a risk.)- puts its own stamp on it (Solange on the other hand takes stillness, and the zen ninja song title, seriously as an idea, gliding across the song with an Aaliyah-like poise)
- points up the virtues of the covering artist (I’ve seen a couple of Twitter comments muttering that she “turns it into a typical R&B song” - well, she’s an R&B act, but this is cloth-eared: the genre is rarely this detached. The song is a good match for her art-n-B approach, off kilter enough to attract a few new listeners in to her particular niche)
I have nothing more to add - just an excellent cover, and I’d love to see more so-called “mainstream” artists attempt songs like this.
This graph makes no sense whatsoever, but I’m rebloggin’ it for the lulz.
(tomewing / yvynyl / waptronics)
STATISTICS. ahahaha
1994: James Ferraro - Discovery
Psychedelic drone. This album was released on CDR and is composed of two tracks: infinity and double infinity. This is some of the most epic drone I have ever heard. The dude uses no samples, unlike a few of the newer chillwave artists that have been surfacing lately. His music is created solely with old keyboards and whirling synth sounds. Also, the album art has pyramids on it in the middle of the ocean, extra epic.
This has nothing on NǽnøĉÿbbŒrğ VbëřřĦōlökäävsŦ. Yeah, you read that right. Their shortest album is 4 hours long, and their longest is a 22-hour song cycle about the entire birth, life and death of the universe. Since they’re free, I would download all of them, if only Australia didn’t have those pesky download limit things…
I wouldn’t necessarily say I dislike Katy Perry… and I don’t mind her as a person, but her MTV Unplugged trailer forcibly makes me point and laugh. The world truly does not need a cabaret version of I Kissed a Girl.
