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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2009-02-12 02:13 am
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  • Current Music: The Decemberists, "The Rake's Song"

I expect you think that I should be haunted

Today's sole redeeming feature has been the discovery of the Decemberists' "The Rake's Song," a reasonably hard-rocking murder ballad. The circumstances of its album's conception—inspired by Anne Briggs, going to feature Robyn Hitchcock—also make me happy, but right now not as much as singing headbangingly about infanticide.
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[identity profile] alankria.livejournal.com 2009-02-12 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
Charlotte I buried after feeding her foxglove / Dawn was easy, she was drowned in the bath

I love that song. =D
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[personal profile] sovay 2009-02-12 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I love that song.

Somehow I'd missed when it was released. If it's representative of the album, The Hazards of Love is going to be genius.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2009-02-12 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry about the rest of the day--but what a deliciously awesome song. It reminds me (maybe oddly?) of "Lady Jane" by the Rolling Stones.
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[personal profile] sovay 2009-02-12 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry about the rest of the day--but what a deliciously awesome song.

I'm going to be singing it a lot . . .

(I like your icon.)

It reminds me (maybe oddly?) of "Lady Jane" by the Rolling Stones.

It's got a dulcimer!

[identity profile] farwing.livejournal.com 2009-02-12 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. That song is awesome. Such a wonderful way to start the day. (Dude, I sat here grinning. Perhaps I need help.)
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[personal profile] sovay 2009-02-12 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
(Dude, I sat here grinning. Perhaps I need help.)

I've spent a lot of the past three days singing Coil's "Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)" around the house and outside, okay? Grinning to a murder ballad is quite safe and sane.

[identity profile] farwing.livejournal.com 2009-02-12 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
ps are you going to go to the Decemberists concert on 6/9 (I kind of hate the Bank of America Pavilion, but I really want to see them in concert in light of their awesome new song so...)? My friend Jen is going to try to get tickets tomorrow-- if you don't have tickets yet we could probably snag a couple for you...

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2009-02-12 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
On that note, are you going to the concert in NYC on Sunday?
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[personal profile] sovay 2009-02-12 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
On that note, are you going to the concert in NYC on Sunday?

I didn't realize there was a concert in NYC on Sunday! Unfortunately, it overlaps Boskone. Are you going?

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2009-02-12 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes -- to hear [livejournal.com profile] shirei_shibolim wax cantorial. :) But Boskone is an equal opportunity! Wish I could be there simultaneously.

[identity profile] clarionj.livejournal.com 2009-02-12 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I have to check out the Decemberists. You're the second person who has been caught by them. When I try to download here, my computer freezes, so I'll try another route.

Heh, I just found what [livejournal.com profile] ohilya had said about them (I save these things--many of your recommendations included--on a growing list): "And The Decemberists have an album, Crane Wife. Get thee to a record shoppe and pick it up as well. You can thank me after you've wept at the beauty of these two albums later." That alone made me want to run out, but I'm trying to be practical these days :) (AND now I'm wondering what the second album was ... I've only the one listed with the quote. Hmmm....)

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[personal profile] sovay 2009-02-12 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I have to check out the Decemberists. You're the second person who has been caught by them.

I have loved the Decemberists since I discovered them in 2003—"Leslie Anne Levine" was the first song of theirs I ever heard, and it is still one of my favorites. They are imagistic, storytelling, often macabre, and it is a shame that Edward Gorey is not still around to do their cover art. Their albums are Castaways and Cutouts (2002), Her Majesty the Decemberists (2003), Picaresque (2005), The Crane Wife (2006), and upcoming The Hazards of Love (2009). They have also a handful of EPs—Five Songs (2001), The Tain (2004), Picaresqueties (2005), and Always the Bridesmaid (2008), the last of which I do not own except for the song "Valerie Plame." [livejournal.com profile] kraada and I saw them live in New Haven once and they were phenomenal. You should listen to them!

(And if sendspace continues to freeze your computer, let me know and I'll see if I can send you songs some other way.)

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2009-02-12 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you kindly!
I'm out right now, so it'll be a while afore I may listen to this, but any song with that genealogy has got to be worth the hearing. ;-)

I hope there's more redeeming features to today.
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[personal profile] sovay 2009-02-12 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm out right now, so it'll be a while afore I may listen to this, but any song with that genealogy has got to be worth the hearing.

It's worth hearing. I'm hoping the rest of the album lives up to its backstory.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2009-02-12 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm hoping the rest of the album lives up to its backstory.

I'll join my hopes to yours, then.
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