Tuesday, May 14, 2002
so i intended to write my own reviews of the new tom waits cds - and i still may - but i just read the pitchfork review, and all i can say is that it is absolutely-fucking-precisely-right-on. go read it. then go buy the damn things, if you haven't already.
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Saturday, May 04, 2002
so... finally getting around to posting my burn, baby, burn! cd cover art and song listing. one thing i would like to point out, by way of giving credit where it's due, is that the photograph on the cover (top, here) was taken a few years back by one of my best friends on the planet and certainly the best photographer with whom i am personally acquainted, enrique espinosa, of fort worth, texas. you should check out his website and buy some of his photos. he's that good. i didn't ask his permission first, so i'm hoping this acknowledgement will suffice to let him know how much i appreciate his work.
oh, and the picture of the road on the inside cover (bottom) is one i took on 1-55 between new orleans and memphis, sometime during college. plus a little photoshop motion-blurring action... there were so many songs i wanted to put on this disc, and couldn't fit... but i think i came up with a pretty good selection - it kind of moves from really bright, fun indiepop songs to some bright, fun alt.country songs to some slow, thoughtful alt.country songs to a kind of an odd, but pretty ending. it seems to have gone over quite well. if you did burn,baby,burn and want to trade, lemme know, and we'll arrange something.
and in case you can't read, or, well, supposing you can but you wanted to block-and-copy it, or something, here's that tracklist again:
1. eels - mr. e's beautiful blues
2. beulah - a good man is easy to kill
3. rufus wainwright - instant pleasure
4. the shins - new slang
5. garrison starr - superhero
6. dance hall crashers - cricket
7. jump, little children - vertigo
8. four tet - everything is alright
9. andrew bird's bowl of fire - 2 way action
10. son volt - windfall
11. blue mountain - soul sister
12. neko case - set out running
13. old 97s - indefinitely
14. edith frost - cars and parties
15. the magnetic fields - papa was a rodeo
16. jay farrar - barstow
17. gillian welch - everything is free
18. sarah harmer - lodestar
19. aphex twin - girl/boy song
20. tom waits - long way home
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oh, and the picture of the road on the inside cover (bottom) is one i took on 1-55 between new orleans and memphis, sometime during college. plus a little photoshop motion-blurring action... there were so many songs i wanted to put on this disc, and couldn't fit... but i think i came up with a pretty good selection - it kind of moves from really bright, fun indiepop songs to some bright, fun alt.country songs to some slow, thoughtful alt.country songs to a kind of an odd, but pretty ending. it seems to have gone over quite well. if you did burn,baby,burn and want to trade, lemme know, and we'll arrange something.
and in case you can't read, or, well, supposing you can but you wanted to block-and-copy it, or something, here's that tracklist again:
1. eels - mr. e's beautiful blues
2. beulah - a good man is easy to kill
3. rufus wainwright - instant pleasure
4. the shins - new slang
5. garrison starr - superhero
6. dance hall crashers - cricket
7. jump, little children - vertigo
8. four tet - everything is alright
9. andrew bird's bowl of fire - 2 way action
10. son volt - windfall
11. blue mountain - soul sister
12. neko case - set out running
13. old 97s - indefinitely
14. edith frost - cars and parties
15. the magnetic fields - papa was a rodeo
16. jay farrar - barstow
17. gillian welch - everything is free
18. sarah harmer - lodestar
19. aphex twin - girl/boy song
20. tom waits - long way home
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