Ultimate Alternative Wavers [Crossed Covers]

Crossed Covers reprend du service, pour une série "comme chez mamie"

 

Cat power - Myra Lee (1996)

Built to Spill - Ultimate Alternative Wavers (1993)

Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors (2000)

Tier List "Built to Spill"

Built to Spill, ce groupe qui fleure bon le rock indé américain (bien que signé sur une major le temps de six albums). Les voici aujourd'hui chez Sub Pop, label au catalogue ô combien prestigieux.

La pierre angulaire de ce groupe à effectif changeant? Doug Martsch, chanteur, guitariste, originaire de Boise (Idaho), plutôt à l'aise dans les longs morceaux aux mélodies intriqués.

J'inclus son album solo à cette "tier list"... et mets de côté ses albums avec Calvin Johnson au sein de the Halo Benders (ce qui ne saurait vous exempter d'écouter "The Rebels Not In")

BUILT TO SPILL

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MÉMORABLES

Perfect from Now On (1997)

Keep It Like a Secret (1999) [!]

Live (2000)

REMARQUABLES

When the Wind Forgets Your Name (2022)

Ancient Melodies of the Future (2001)

Untethered Moon (2015)

AGRÉABLES

Doug Martsch - Now you know (2002)

There is No Enemy (2009)

Ultimate Alternative Wavers (1993)

You in Reverse (2006)

+

the normal years (1996)

There's Nothing Wrong with Love (1994)

DISPENSABLES

Built to Spill plays the songs of Daniel Johnston (2020)

(*) Parmi mes disques favoris, tout groupe / artiste confondu

(**) très bons albums

(***) bons albums

(****) moins réussis / plus inégaux

[!] album par lequel j'ai connu le groupe

Note : A priori, rien d'ébouriffant, dans ce classement pour qui connaît le groupe, à l'exception peut-être de "there's nothing wrong with love" si bas... et "ancient melodies of the future" si haut

Note 2 : pour aller plus loin, on pourra notamment aussi écouter

the Halo Benders

Heartbeat [Top Tape]

Une mixtape nouvelle est arrivée ! L'émission a été diffusée sur Radio Campus Paris dimanche dernier, et vous avez pu y retrouver : Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Console, Rémi Parson, Jimmy Whispers, Half-Handed Cloud, Built To Spill, Diabologum, Mount Eerie, Siskiyou, Requin Chagrin, Radical Face, Sufjan Stevens, Le Bâtiment, the Keys, Computer Magic et Yumi Zouma.

Playlist complète, Ecoute sur le site de la radio :

http://www.radiocampusparis.org/top-tape-vol-4-s7-hearbeat/

Archives sur l'ancien site de la radio :

http://archives.radiocampusparis.org/toptape/

PS I love you

Déjà l'avant-dernière mixtape de la saison ! feat. que des morceaux trop bien, par Sigur Ros, Lost in the Trees, Monogrenade, Spain, Felix, Mount Eerie, Labradford, Dominique A, Hannah, Ramona Falls, the Cribs, Built to Spill et PS I love you.

En écoute sur le site de Radio Campus Paris, ou via le player suivant
[ Accès Rapide .]


Des exemplaires de l'album de Monogrenade sont à gagner !

Prochaine et dernière émission de la saison : Dimanche 10 juin à 19h (93.9 FM)

10 ans, 50 albums (Part.8)

Ca manquait jusqu'à présent, une bonne vieille cuvée d'indie rock US. A vrai dire, le plus dur ici aura été de sélectionner un albums parmi la discographie de certains de ces groupes. Je pense à Pavement (mais la présence de Gold Soundz dans Crooked Rain Crooked Rain l'a emporté), Built To Spill, ou encore Sonic Youth. D'ailleurs pour ce dernier, le choix n'est pas encore tout à fait arrêté. A nouveau, c'est un morceau qui m'a aidé à choisir: Tunic (Song for Karen). Enfin, il y a cet album de Yo La Tengo (dont je m'aperçois que je n'avais jamais vraiment regardé la pochette), tout à fait délectable. Je mets pour l'instant de côté Weezer, Sebadoh, Guided by Voices et Modest Mouse pour citer ici un groupe un peu moins taillé pour les college radios, à savoir Jonathan Fire Eater! Que ne les ai-je vus sur scène... Disons que je me serai consolé dans les années 2000 avec les Walkmen.

Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador, 1994)
Jonathan Fire Eater - Wolf songs for Lambs (Dreamworks, 1997)
Built to Spill - Perfect from now on (Warner, 1997)
Sonic Youth - Goo (Geffen, 1990)
Yo la Tengo - I can hear the heart beating as one (Matador, 1997)

(à suivre... Mine de rien, on s'approche de la fin!)

2009, un palmarès

Top Tape Vol.7 (S2) est ligne, et avec elle, ma sélection 2009 d'albums, singles et concerts. Ca se passe ici. N'hésitez pas à partager sur l'article en question votre bilan de l'année... en plus, vous pourrez gagner un T-Shirt de the XX.

Albums
Clues - s/t (Constellation / Differ'ant)
Bowerbirds - upper air (dead oceans / differ'ant)
Flaming Lips - Embryonic (Warner)
Whitest Boy Alive - Rules (Bubbles / Differ'ant)
Mt Eerie - Wind's poem (Tomlab / Differ'ant)
Felix - You are the one i Pick (kranky / Differ'ant)
Sholi - s/t (Quaterstick / import)
Dominique A - La Musique / La Matière (Cinq7 / Wagram)
Built To Spill - There's no Enemy (Warner)
Loney Dear - Dear John (EMI)

Sans oublier :
Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth (hometapes / import)
Black Heart Procession - Six (Temporary Residence / Differ’ant)
Dial M for Murder - Fiction of her Dreams (Tapete / Differ’ant)
Doom - Born Like This (Lex / Differ’ant)
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp / Discograph)
Klub des 7 - La Classe de Musique (Encore)
Le Coq - D’arradon (arbouse / anticraft)
Memory Tapes - s/t (Rough Trade / import)
Mos Def - the Ecstatic (Downtown)
Music Go Music - Expressions (Secretly Canadian / Differ’ant)
Nurses - Apple’s Acre (Dead Oceans / Differ’ant)
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Cooperative Music)
P.O.S. - Never Better (RhymeSayers)
Rone - Spanish Breakfeast (InFiné / Discograph)
Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy (Big Dada / PIAS)
Swan Lake - Enemy Mine (Jagjaguwar / Differ'ant)
Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey / PIAS)
V/A - Can you Dig it? (Soul Jazz records)
Vitalic - Flashmob (Citizen ; PIAS)
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoumer (Sup Pop / PIAS)


Singles / EP (en plus des albums sus cités):

Annie - Songs remind me of you ; Arnaud Fleurent-Didier - France Culture ; Bill Callahan - All thoughts are prey to some beast ; Casiokids - Fot I Hose ; Chapelier Fou - s/t EP ; General Bye Bye - Alphabet ; Malajube - Porté Disparu ; Pilöt - Mantes religieuses ; Small Black - Kings Of Animals [import] ; Starfucker / Pyramiddd - Medicine ; the Rakes - Shackleton ; Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dull Life

Concerts :
CocoRosie @ L'Usine / Genève
Whitest Boy Alive @ Cigale
Rien @ l'international
Albin de la Simone + Tante Hortense @ Java
Tim Exile @ Batofar
Frère Animal @ Radio Campus Paris
Bowerbirds @ Point FMR
Jarvis Cocker @ Galerie Chappe
a Hawk and a Hacksaw @ New Morning
Dominique A @ Radio Campus Paris
Sparklehorse+Fennesz @ Trabendo
Stars like Fleas @ Beaubourg
Clues + Hold your horses @ Glaz'art
Themselves @ Point FMR
Mariee Sioux + Matt Bauer @ Radio Campus Paris

Being thirty - Day One

Wake up
Eat
Watch Flight of the Conchords, Ep.3

Bret: Hey, Jemaine. I've written this love song for Coco
Jemaine: Oh yeah?
- Do you want to have a listen? and give me your feedback?
- Yeah

[...]

- It's a bit long
- Ok
- It's two hours long
- Yeah. Anything else?
- Hum... yeah. ... Ok. "I'd climb the highest mountain". Would you actually do that?
- Probably not
- Well, you're sort of promising that you would
- That's a metaphor
- Oh, is it? ok. What's the metaphor for?
- For... that i'd do anything for you
- Would you climb the highest mountain for her?
- Hum, no, i see. I wouldn't do a lot of this stuff
- Would you swallow a whole sword?
- The sword... I probably wouldn't do that one either
- Maybe you should make more realistic the things you'd do
- Like what?
- "I would hang out with you"
- Oh that's good

Exercise
Shower, et caetera...
Discover Cloud Cult

These moments are brief
When you can truly say you know yourself
You must lose your mind in order to find it
And sometimes you've just got to fall
So you can see the bottom
Or you'll never know what's holding you up

And this life feels like a dream to me
It's beautiful and it's twisted
But for right now, I don't want to wake up

So I guess this dream is for me
I guess this dream is for me

I'd tell you the truth
But my angle's always changing
I'd point the right way
But I don't think there's any such thing
I like to think that it really doesn't matter where you're going or where you're from
The truth is always moving
And it's always where you're standing
We may disagree but no one's wrong

So I guess this dream is for me
And I guess this dream is for me

I lost my way
When I was taught to follow the others
And I lost my mind
When I believed in the truth of my brothers
I believed those who told me I have to die to see Heaven
And those who said Heaven's inside me

It's beautiful that we all see it just a little different
We're the lead role in our own dream

And I guess this dream's for me
And I guess this dream is for me
I guess this dream is for me
I guess this dream is for me

Answer textos. Some not (today)
Answer phone calls. Some not (today)
Thank people
Tell them you're fine

Go outside
Open your mailbox. Thank People
Listen to the Normal Years, by Built to Spill, you've just received :

Kind of upset
but I shouldn't be
when things go smoothly invent problems
in my stupid head
what's wrong with getting by on what gets you by
I know it's no big deal
but why do I feel stupid when my head is happy
what happened to my imagination
how can things be so un-intense?
can I arrange to be deranged
thought I might be there
forgot the shortcut there
I know I won't be there
forgot the shortcut there
thought I might be there
thought I was already there but
forgot the shortcut there
...

Sit on a bench, in a sunny windy park

Visit an art gallery
Listen to an artist explaining why he's actually destroying everything he's done so far: You can no longer paint after Shoah, Hiroshima and 9/11.
Notice Picasso rejected colours while painting Guernica.
Observe the kind of people in art gallery
Do not socialize
Listen to a pianist playing something by Franz Liszt, just in case you've missed something in music.

(time to leave)
(Built to Spill again)
Enjoy guitars.
Go home
Eat an apple

Go to your part time job/hobby (Radio Campus)
Meet and train some rookie.
Eat home made cookies

Take the bus to the cinema
Watch Breezy, Eastwood's third movie as a director: the story of "Breezy", a carefree young hippie falling in love with Frank Harmon, a divorced, middle-aged real estate agent, during the 70s.

Breezy: Is it always here?
Frank Harmon: what?
Breezy : the black cloud over your head?

Listen to Frank "Black Cloud" Harmon breaking up with her, because "he can't cope with [this relationship]". He'll change his mind.

Relate Cloud Cult, Built to Spill to Alice "Breezy" Edith together, and definitely agree with them

(back home)
Eat
Change your clothes

Go to a (birthday) party in a theater
(lapin machin 's on stage)

My Parents Died Last Night and Now I Feel Alright

Party. i.e. : Drink, Dance, Socialize (in no particular order)
(on and on)
Share a taxi
Say Goodbye
Try to Sleep
Do not think
Sleep

Wake Up
...

Flight of the Conchords
www.hbo.com/conchords/

Cloud Cult - I Guess This Dream Is For Me
Aurora Borealis (Earthology, 2004)
www.myspace.com/cloudcult

Built to Spill - Shortcut
the Normal Years (K, 1996)
www.myspace.com/builttospill

Andre Elbaz - Les Urnes
www.andreelbaz.com/

Clint Eastwood - Breezy (1973)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0069822/

Lapin Machin

www.myspace.com/lapinmachin