ok - i don't really have a turntable, but somehow, in the car's cd player, in the E: drive or through napster streaming doesn't sound as zippy....i am not posting any links cause i'm lazy and you're all smart enough to find them...
i posted about liking a preview of diana krall's newest record and hearing the full record confirms it. it feels like her most personal record. not just a pretty face and voice, but a real sense of personality and emotion - her best yet. love her cover of joni mitchell's black crow - like any good cover, it stays true to the original, yet diana makes this version her own...
speaking of tasty covers, i *love* joss stone's fell in love with a boy - gender switched from the white stripes fell in love with a girl. while the stripes are appropriately frantic, stone is at a slow burn...as in "is it getting warm in here?"
;-)
she's from the UK and is still a teenager and very, very pretty. my wife can't believe i like her - says she sounds like someone from american idol - and i have to admit - that is somewhat true - but she has soul to match the pipes - at least some of the time. her record is pretty good throughout - a bit inconsistent perhaps - her performance at the vh1 diva was pretty scorching...be interesting to see if and how she evolves.
speaking of the white stripes i've started listening to them - pretty cool - though they strike me as perhaps being a bit too smart for their own good - they have the style of rock down - but don't strike me as sincere... that being said, they do rock...
lastly, been listening to bob dylan - who, btw, appears in a victoria's secret commercial (he must be great if after watching a victoria's secret commercial, all i recall from it is him). i've esp. listening to mid 70's - ish dylan - blood on the tracks, bootleg series, etc...
the funny thing is, regardless of how much i am enjoying these records, i am not of the feeling that any of these (except for dylan, of course) are great... they are very good, very entertaining - but don't find any of them to be classics...i think nick hornby once wrote about how despite *knowing* what records are classics. much of pop music listening is the joy of the discovery of the new...the ephemeral nature of pop giving it much of its charm...
so, what have you been listening to lately?
Posted by Mike at April 30, 2004 02:06 PM