unusually, i have no full albums by artists beginning with 'u' - can anyone recommend any? i discharged my duty to the project this morning by listening to the two singles i have by 'u' artists. and i did it sulkily - i really don't like the unicorns, and i don't actually know why i have this song on my ipod. i find it a bit whiny and depressing. but to give it its due, when i gave it a critical listen this morning i spose there was some interesting synth bits happening in there, and it's not as bad as i'd built it up to be in my mind.
urge overkill's 'girl you'll be a woman soon' - what to say? to be honest i'd quite like to listen to some of urge overkill's stuff that hasn't been, y'know, overkilled, on the pulp fiction soundtrack... apparently they've opened for both nirvana and pearl jam, so they can't be too shabby. and yet i only know them for one song (a cover no less) that they did for a soundtrack. naughty me.
having discharged my 'u' duties, i was blissfully free to pick whatever band i wanted for a sunny friday morning. because i knew it would be highly contrary to the spirit of my muscial adventure to listen to wilco on 'w' day, but also because it's been twenty-something days without them and i'm starting to get the shakes from wilco-withdrawals, i put on wilco's 'kicking television: live in chicago' album. jeff tweedy is honestly my hero, and the live in chicago album is a fabulous set-list. 'heavy metal drummer' is far from their best song, but it is one of my favourites so i've added some links to it here. i tried to find a decent live clip of it and was disappointed because the only one i could find was this one where tweedy looks to be (very uncharacteristically) just going through the motions. most unlike tweedy with his usual excellent crowd interaction, vibrant voice and guitars, and high energy performances. the night i saw wilco live was a truly awesome 'life-moment' - you know those moments that you kind of hope will happen and then they do and they're awesome? yea, it was one of them. in a total departure from my usual form, i did not fall in love with a drummer that night, nor even a lead guitarist. in a world first for me, i fell in love with a bassist. john stirrat is seriously talented - combining with glen kotche to form a tight and hard working rhythm section, but also chipping in with his superb backing vocals vocals. combined with keys player / multi-instrumentalist pat sansone, stirrat also formed the autumn defense another superb indie-folk duo that i highly recommend.
and just while i'm struggling to hold it all together with all of the musical goodness in the world, check out this most spectacular combination of loveliness: wilco feat. feist:
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