Disjointed musings on Life, Love, Art, Nerd-dom, and the Pursuit of Happiness (or 'How I learned to love the Internet and stop worrying about the decline of Western Civilization')
Wednesday 12 May 2010
Interlude.
Billy Bragg, "Cindy of a Thousand Lives" -from 'Don't try This At Home', 1991
just one of those ridiculously good songs nobody's ever heard. . .
Yup. Never heard it before. (She said sheepishly.) But Billy Bragg has been on my radar recently. Another name to add to the impossibly long list of artists and albums that are missing from our collection.
This is a really good song and a really interesting story behind its appearance on youtube with the photomontage and Bragg's inspiration. I love stories about people who were so moved or inspired by someone they didn't know (or their art, music, etc.), they were driven to create something themselves in response, and - if given the chance - could talk at length about how they were affected, but maybe not why. There's something universal and familiar about that kind of story, and there are lots of them, especially in music.
he's one of those songwriters you kind of stumble into. here, usually if you go to art school. he's sort of as obligatory as the smiths and the pixies. . .
as nicely put together as stuff like this is, his first couple of albums are literally just him and an electric guitar, and then later on you've got him working with the likes of wilco. . .
this just combines the great song about cindy sherman WITH cindy sherman visuals. and i was sort of obsessed with cindy sherman in art school for a long time, not leats of all her early untitled film stills series. which i think could be picked up in a lot of the stuff i've produced and am still producing. . .
Yup. Never heard it before. (She said sheepishly.) But Billy Bragg has been on my radar recently. Another name to add to the impossibly long list of artists and albums that are missing from our collection.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really good song and a really interesting story behind its appearance on youtube with the photomontage and Bragg's inspiration. I love stories about people who were so moved or inspired by someone they didn't know (or their art, music, etc.), they were driven to create something themselves in response, and - if given the chance - could talk at length about how they were affected, but maybe not why. There's something universal and familiar about that kind of story, and there are lots of them, especially in music.
he's one of those songwriters you kind of stumble into. here, usually if you go to art school. he's sort of as obligatory as the smiths and the pixies. . .
ReplyDeleteas nicely put together as stuff like this is, his first couple of albums are literally just him and an electric guitar, and then later on you've got him working with the likes of wilco. . .
this just combines the great song about cindy sherman WITH cindy sherman visuals. and i was sort of obsessed with cindy sherman in art school for a long time, not leats of all her early untitled film stills series. which i think could be picked up in a lot of the stuff i've produced and am still producing. . .