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Music to mine ears
Our monthly trip to Janis, the cd rental shop, was a great success. We were greeted by new albums by Weezer and Teenage Fanclub and old albums by Elliot Smith (X O) , The Pixies (Trompe Le Monde) , Evan Dando (Baby I'm Bored), The Lemonheads (It's a Shame About Ray) and REM (The Best OF).
Weezer's lyrics are funny but the music is basically plain old rock. It's OK though.
Teenage Fanclub sounded good.
Elliot Smith is wonderfully melancholic and heartfelt. And in the light of his suicide, the songs have even more resonance: Lyrics like "I always feel shit"...
Evan Dando is nice and cool. Like a summer breeze.
And the rest is quite old. The little gem on REM is The Great Beyond, a cracking song about pushing elephants up stairs and crashing pianos...
posted by PA on Sunday, May 22, 2005
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