Stephin Merritt - Pieces of April

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so, 12 new minutes of music! "one april day" is great, the rest ok, but it's pretty cheeky to charge 14 quid for this.

― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 16 November 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

It's funny, I liked the movie, and I love all of Stephin Merritt's bands (am partial to Gothic Archies however), but when I saw the music in the movie, I didn't care for it. It was like the director screaming "OH OH AND IM INDIE TOO!"

― David Allen, Sunday, 16 November 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

stephin merritt's pop songs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> stephin merritt's soundtrack work (which i think is bordering on worthless)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 16 November 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

(and i'm his biggest fucking cheersquad)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 16 November 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

did you hear his chinese opera work? or was it japanese?

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

no, i've only heard "eban & charley" which i can't see myself listening to again.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i've only heard the song 'maria' off of that(i think that is what it was called) and i thought i remembered it as being lovely?

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

it strikes me as the first time he's spent more time on sounds rather than tunes and it doesn't work for me. it's possible that i liked a couple of the songs but as a whole it was a massive letdown.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

he's working on a magnetic fields album now.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

hurrah

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

pieces of april is a nice movie.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

keith wrote: did you hear his chinese opera work?

I saw The Orphan of Zhao - I'd say there was probably less than twenty minutes of Merritt music. There were definitely pop melodies going on, but the instruments used were a Chinese lute, a tinny-sounding one-stringed thingie (I forget the name), and an autoharp. So, it didn't sound like any Merritt recordings. One of the songs went something like, "What a lovely fucking day!", which the audience got a kick out of.

He's also working on music for an event in Amsterdam in 2005 celebrating the work of Hans Christian Andersen. Here's part of an interview that appeared in Magnet (thanks, Google):
The form of the [Hans Christian Andersen] play is even more unclear, because there’s no story to work with. At this point, I could make an episode of The Jeffersons and call it Hans Christian Andersen. Though I suppose it would have to be three episodes of The Jeffersons. With a lot of geese.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

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