Virtue in Vice

[imomus]

Yeah, yeah, so the cynics will say that the reason Anne and I get 10 in Vice and Devendra Banhart only gets 8 is that I write for Vice and Dev doesn't. But I like to think it's because Dev's record could have been made in 1970, whereas ours really could only have been made now. It's the difference between pastiche and originality, between the timeless and the timely, between the classical and the contemporary. It matters, at least twenty percentile points-worth. Vice are right to point it out. Oh, they didn't. In that case, can I suggest that we got the two extra points for our unremitting European paganism, and that Dev lost his for the sickly Christian imagery. 'Rejoicing in the Hands' indeed! 'Young God Records' indeed! Harumph! Will Devendra's next album be called Ready for Rapture?



Amongst the Japanese people diverted here by Yahoo Japan the other day was an Osaka musician called Electron. I really love his mash-up of Eleanor Rigby.

Comments

[automatique.livejournal.com]

...cynics will say that the reason Anne and I get 10 in Vice ... is that I write for Vice

Come now! Tush tush! Surely not?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I AM NOT JERRY MCPHEERSON! Pirate's honour!

[zotz]

Young God was set up to release Swans records. It's named after one of their songs. I don't think it was a Christian reference.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I know. I sometimes use an 'unreliable narrator' device. I call it 'Pirate's Honour'. That's shorthand for 'Don't take everything I say entirely at face value, because I am a pirate, and am robbing you blind'. Probably.

[rroseselavyoui.livejournal.com]

Creepy.
I just read that review this morning.

Corn Rigs (Or Rigs 'o Barley)

[(Anonymous)]

Corn Rigs (Or Rigs 'o Barley)
(Robert Burns)

It was upon a Lammas night
When the corn rigs were bonnie,
Beneath the moon's unclouded light
I held awa' to Annie.

The time flew by wi' tentless heed
'Til 'tween the late and early,
Wi' small persuasion she agreed
To see me thro' the barley.

cho: (optional) Corn Rigs and barley rigs
Corn rigs are bonny
I'll ne'eer forget that Lammas night
Amang the rigs wi' Annie.

The sky was blue, the wind was still,
The moon was shining clearly.
I set her down wi' right good will
Amang the rigs o' barley.

I kept her heart, was a' my sin.
I loved her most sincerely.
I kissed her o'er and o'er again
Amang the rigs o' barley.

cho:

I locked her in my fond embrace.
Her heart was beatin' rarely.
My blessing on that happy place
Amang the rigs o' barley.

But by the moon and stars so bright
That shone that hour so clearly,
She aye shall bless that happy night
Amang the rigs of barley.

cho:

I hae been blythe wi' comrades dear
I hae been merry drinking.
I hae been joyful gath'rin' gear
I hae been happy thinking.

But a' the pleasures e'er I saw
Tho' three times doubled fairly,
That happy night was worth them a'
Amang the rigs wi' Annie.

[raku-jp.livejournal.com]

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[gorillabiscuit.livejournal.com]

i'm buying it, i just rented the Wicker Man and i want to return to that world.

do you know of any other musicians with livejournals?

the spaces between audience and musician are gone at last!

-tomas

[imomus.livejournal.com]

do you know of any other musicians with livejournals?

Just click my Friends tab. I think everybody on there is a musician.

[queersolitude.livejournal.com]

what is meant by 'organic laptop'?

dear pirate:

[(Anonymous)]

thats very true in most ways, but why did you have to point it out?
just another pat on the back?
are you nervous that dev might sell more albums than you, because people don't realize that you're more critically sound?
two things:
1. vice magazine gave are weapons a 10 as well so consider your company.
2. your work has rarely been without its fair share of pastiche.
so, here's a good healthy harumph! to you too.