Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.
- Lester Bangs
I was listening to the couple of Handsome Boy Modeling School albums that I have and marveling again at how great they are. So many different influences weaved seamlessly into the same musical tapestry.
This first track is probably one of the HOTTEST tracks ever recorded, thanks to Chan Marshall and her sultry vocals. I was talking earlier in the week about the imaginary movie playing in my head...well, if said movie had a strip club scene...I'd use this to score it with.
With the release of the latest Cat Power album recently, 'Jukebox'...i have found myself dusting off some of the older Chan Marshall releases and revisiting them.
Without a doubt, 1998's 'Moon Pix' is my favorite. I had forgotten just how devastating this record is. 'Moonshiner' still gives me chills every time I hear it.
Here's to another ten years and then some of new Cat Power material...
Here is the gorgeous new Cat Power track. This will be featured on the 'Covers Record' sequel that is do out in January I do believe. I have always loved CP...but after seeing Chan live this past Autumn my appreciation has grown exponentially....love, love, love her.
...or my email is anyway! Hey, it's me Blair...the Certain Songs staff of one. I just do this for the love of the music and am in no way trying to rip anybody off, so if you are an artist or a record label and you are not happy that I am promoting your music, or you want me to take a song down, just shoot me an email and I will most definitely oblige.
And please support the artists I post here in whatever way you can if you do download a song...go to a show, buy some merch, buy an album...these songs are the soundtrack to my life and I just love to share them. But I can only do that if the insanely talented artist responsible for said songs are able to eat.
I also love hearing new stuff...so any submissions can also be sent to my email, I will try my bestest to listen to everything and get back to you all...peace,love,rock n' roll.
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I guess you're old enough to know. Kids out on the east coast. Roughly twenty years old. Got coaxed out by a certain perfect ratio. Of warm beer to the summer smoke. And the meat loaf to the billy joel. Certain songs they get so scratched into our souls.
She goes low on the seats when she gets high in her car. She looks shallow but shes neck deep in the steamy dreams of the guys along the harbor bars. She's pulling out her shirttails and jacking up her socks. Stern and stoned and confident, coming up towards the jukebox. Born into the only songs that everybody finally sings along. B-1 is for the good girls. It's only the good die young. C-9 is for the making eyes. It's paradise by the dashboard light. D4 is for the lovers. B12 is for the speeders. And the hard drugs are for the bartenders and the kitchen workers and the bartender's friends. And they're playing it again. Ellen Foley gives us hope. Certain songs they get scratched into our souls.
I guess you're old enough to know. Kids out on the west coast are taking off their clothes. Screwing in the surf and going out to shows. They get high and ride around in gtos. I guess you're old enough to know. CERTAIN SONGS THEY GET SCRATCHED INTO OUR SOULS. - The Hold Steady
