Tag Archive for 'besnard lakes'

jump up, turn around, pick a bail of cotton

Published
by
gregor
on July 5, 2007
in twilight singers, wilderness and youtube
. 3 Comments

so i saw the transformers and it is glorious. it was everything i hoped and wished it could be. sure the acting was pretty lame, but this is not my left foot were talking bout here its the transformers. i loved that it took no more than 3 minutes before shit started blowing up and it didnt really let up until the ending credits rolled. besides the fact that i have been waiting for this to help me relive my youth for some time, i can say i havent see a better summer blockbuster in a very long time. i hear live free or die hard is pretty bad ass too - which i definitely need to see.

my listening habits are random at best, sometimes. i assume i am not the only though. lately i have found myself listening to to a whole bunch of jagjaguwar releases but most notably wilderness’ first record and the besnard lakes’ are the dark horse. actually there is nothing particularly random about those two records, but i dont remember when i started re-listening to the wilderness record, at least. usually there is some logical progression that one will follow when gravitating towards a particular record, or at least i would think so. in regards to the besnard lakes record, well i have been listening to that all year and its fantastic.

wilderness site / myspace

end of freedom

arkless

the besnard lakes site / myspace

and you lied to me

i make no attempts to hide my psuedo homoerotic man crush on greg dulli. i know i am not the only straight man to admit such. anyway, here is mr fantastic and his twilight singers performing at top cats in cincinnati on 10.15.00. its not a perfect recording but you can definitely pick up on the vibe.

1. twilite kid

2. clyde

3. thats just how that cage bird sings

4. king only

5. 66

6. easy to be stupid

7. love/annie maie

8. umbretta

9. dixie peach promenade

10. last temptation

11. crazy

12. a love supreme/please stay

13. twilight

14. black love

much thanks to the original taper!

twilight singers live in the kcrw studios

the whigs on letterman - love the red suit - i dont know any other white guy that can get away wearing such a pimp suit


bobs gone. he stole his car.

Published
by
gregor
on March 3, 2007
in tunes
. 0 Comments

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i know i am a bit behind the curve here, well about a month or so, but this here besnard lakes record is pretty phenomenal. if you took the best parts of my bloody valentine’s loveless, but with vocals you can actually understand, and threw in harmonies reminiscent of 60’s/70’s california inspired pop would have the besnard lakes. if jagjaguwar were a woman i would make sweet love to her just about every night. everything they put out is pretty damn fantastic.

and you lied to me

i also wanted to mention atlanta’s own the coathangers, which i discovered through the wonderful cable and tweed. they are an all girl, and quite sexy, poppy punk group with cheerleader-esque leanings. the songs are quite comical but seem to have a socially concious undertones. so check em out if they sound up your alley.

if you are feeling up to it, feel free to download or stream the third installment of the captains dead podcast. i had visions of grandeur when i woke up this morning, but those visions quickly caved to the side of laziness. there is some good shit that you may not have heard before, featuring the likes of lois, tad, jolene, mike johnson, ox, etc…. i am going to attempt to do a weekly podcast from here on out. we’ll see how long that lasts.

captains dead podcast numero tres