Anyone who knows me knows I’m a big fat Weezer freak, so you can imagine my excitement this morning to discover that none other than Weezer’s lead singer slash songwriting genius (excusing those last two albums) Rivers Cuomo has been posting some solo mp3s up on MySpace. The songs are all covers (weird choices too: John Denver, Annie the Musical, whoever the hell Ann Poonkasem is), recorded in super stripped down lo-fi mode. The Annie cover is my immediate favorite for the ridiculous New Order octave bassline, painfully over-the-top vocal delivery notwithstanding. This is not the sound of Weezer’s first two albums, but it’s more interesting/quirky to these ears than the last two.
June 17, 2004
June 15, 2004
This is pretty interesting. It’s a game in which you play the president of the USA and you have to allocate money to military, business, social services, and foreign aid. Not sure what the point is, but it’s thought provoking.
June 14, 2004
Paul Morley writing on Brian Eno Reissues: “In Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry was not likely to ask a headless chicken how much kicking its teeth could stand, as Eno did on this album. Ferry’s discussion topics were a little less random. He would never, ever wonder if his girl prefers him or the guy who can set things on fire by breathing on them, as Eno did. Eno sang on this album, not in the way that Ferry would sing. Eno sang as if it never occurred to him that anyone would ever hear him. He sort of sang to himself, for the sheer hobgoblin hell of it, and to someone he once met in a bar in Madrid who couldn’t hear very well.”
That’s good (and funny) writing. And it’s absolutely fantastic (and funny) music.
