Posts by maussist
Songs About The Ocean
Naturally, writing a post about Ngaire got me listening to Salty again (the album is a New Zealand classic, but it's 14 years old now, so let's just say it dropped off the radar for a while). I guess it's fair to say that one of the things one misses when moving from a city like Auckland to a city like Pittsburgh is the water, especially once the thermometer starts heading north of 30 degrees Cels
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A song about an airport
I've been spending a lot of time in airports, recently. And so, a song about airports. Or at least, an airport. I'm not sure which airport, exactly, and I'm not sure that it matters. They're all variations on a theme (except for San Juan, Puerto Rico -- I'll never return to that airport if I can possibly help it).The Mutton Birds actually did two songs about airports. The second one is on Rain, St
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Teddy and Tom (and Bob and Leonard and Conor and pretty much everything on Flying Nun)
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'In "The Curves of the Needle", a short essay on the gramophone from 1928, Adorno notes the fundamental paradox of recording: the more the machine makes its presence known (through obtrusive noises, its clumsiness and interruptions), the stronger the experience of the actual presence of the singer -- or, to put it the other way round, the more perfect the recording, the more faithfully it reproduc
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Bands I Changed My Mind About (part 2).
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News of the Arctic Monkeys arrived in New Zealand on a tidal wave of hype. Student radio endlessly repeated NME's claim that their debut album was one of the top five albums in British history. I thought then, and think now, that the Beatles made five albums that are better than Whatever You Say . . . but nevertheless my initial scepticism/dismissal/backlash reactionary-ism was washed away when th
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Toussaint L'Overture
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Bands I Changed My Mind About (part 1.)
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The Mint Chicks are a band from New Zealand that are too loud for me. I'd seen them live a few times and always felt like leaving. I knew it was good music, but it just wasn't my cup of tea. But then I heard this song off of their new album, 'Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!', and completely changed my mind. It's terrific, and they're terrific. Noisy, complex, metal-edged pop.
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