Dave, rein it in buddy...
This article makes me barf a little in my mouth.
"Two years ago he won over critics and bloggers with “Rise Above,” a song-by-song reworking of Black Flag’s “Damaged,” the bilious punk classic, which broke down the emotional and musical rigidity of the original with razor-sharp harmonies and sinuous West African-influenced guitar lines."
"Even in a practice with Mr. Byrne, he seemed perfectly comfortable as boss and musical director, telling the women at one point to make their harmonies more “Slavic.”"
"“The music I’m making is not terribly easy to apprehend,” he said. “The people I really admire, like William Blake and John Coltrane and Richard Wagner, had these ridiculously full universes that took their entire lives to describe."
"“When I would go over to friends’ houses, and they would be zoning out to Mario Brothers, I just found it the most distasteful thing,” he said."
"For the lyrics to “Stillness Is the Move” Mr. Longstreth had Ms. Coffman watch the Wim Wenders film “Wings of Desire” and write down lines of dialogue that intrigued her; other lyrics were drawn from an Excel spreadsheet of hundreds of pop clichés."
"Two years ago he won over critics and bloggers with “Rise Above,” a song-by-song reworking of Black Flag’s “Damaged,” the bilious punk classic, which broke down the emotional and musical rigidity of the original with razor-sharp harmonies and sinuous West African-influenced guitar lines."
"Even in a practice with Mr. Byrne, he seemed perfectly comfortable as boss and musical director, telling the women at one point to make their harmonies more “Slavic.”"
"“The music I’m making is not terribly easy to apprehend,” he said. “The people I really admire, like William Blake and John Coltrane and Richard Wagner, had these ridiculously full universes that took their entire lives to describe."
"“When I would go over to friends’ houses, and they would be zoning out to Mario Brothers, I just found it the most distasteful thing,” he said."
"For the lyrics to “Stillness Is the Move” Mr. Longstreth had Ms. Coffman watch the Wim Wenders film “Wings of Desire” and write down lines of dialogue that intrigued her; other lyrics were drawn from an Excel spreadsheet of hundreds of pop clichés."
posted by furtanic at 2:40 PM
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