Nellie McKay: Brilliant, Crap, enh?

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So this Nellie McKay lass? What do we make of her?
(personal vote: something approaching brilliant)

― agw, Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

sounds great to me. like the "new black" norah jones.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 March 2004 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Not only does she make horrible music, but she's unbearably stupid.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I notice that she's being curiously silent in this thread...

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, back on topic. I picked up the album at lunch...disc 2 is way better than disc 1. Not sure yet how long it will hold my attention, but I'm hopeful.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried, but I find her very very annoying. She reminds me of annoying drama club girls from high school. Just way too precocious, you know?

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i just found out about her last night, and i think she's fantastic!!!!!!!!! i'm getting the album asap!!!!

― reo, Friday, 5 March 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

just listened to it for the first time and I'm actually really taken with her precociousness...i think a little precociousness in pop music certainly isn't a bad thing, even the best pop music that's out there right now seems alot of the time to be really faceless and more due to the brilliance of the producers/songwriters than the performer, so i think it's actually kind of refreshing to hear a pop singer, especially a female pop singer, forcing her personality on you for a change rather than just letting her handlers decide how she should be marketed/presented.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Friday, 5 March 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The fact that the album was originally going to be titled either Black America or Penis Envy (rather than just Get Away From Me, which was Sony's mild compromise) is hilarious.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Get Away From Me is so much the better title, since it's a preemptive strike on all the Norah Jones comparisons.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I let my roommate hear it last night. Now, this is a girl who listens to smokey jazz, a lot of hip hop, rustic hillbilly music (a la O, Brother) and a fair amound of Lilith music. I was thinking "PERFECT," right?

Wrong. Apparently she doesn't like any of these things when they're all mashed together.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess that makes some sense. I like jelly beans, pizza, and dill pickles, but I wouldn't really want a slice of jelly bean and dill pickle pizza, you know?

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it even though lyrics are definitely not her strong suit

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I like about half of it, mostly the faster songs. Very mixed feelings on the three Eminem imitations - her rap flow is remarkably similar to Weird Al Yankovic's! Favorite song is probably the ding dong goes the doorbell one, and right, even that one is obviously sort of unbearably precious, but in a catchy, sprightly, enteraining way. The slower songs are much harder to take, I think. The disco attempt is a stinker. And obviously, she's much more a dolt than she thinks she is, but you can say that about a lot of people. She's definitely way more fun than Tori Amos, Ani Difranco, Bjork, or Chan Marshall regardless. More fun than Elliot Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, or Tom Waits, too, I think. And quite possibly smarter than any of them, too. Overall, and I'm kind of amazed nodody has made this comparison, her sensibility kinda reminds me of the Roches on their first album. Which was BETTER, but then again it was also shorter.

― chuck, Friday, 5 March 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard this in the record store last weekend and I kept going between almost buying it and really wishing some one would turn it off.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The album title is great, period. And the stories of her doing entire shows in Japanese (assuming I was paying attention when I got told those stories) and increasingly wearing curlers in her hair for photo shoots and doing a new song about Columbia which she tells her record label is about vivisection at Columbia University (i.e.: not the record Co.) are also kinda amusing. I dunno. It seems she wants to make a spectacle of herself, and find new ways to do it. Even if she's no Eminem, I think she kinda understands what's GOOD about Eminem, and she kinda wants to do it, too. Which is a GOOD thing, right? Now only if she didn't like show tunes so much, jeez....

― chuck, Friday, 5 March 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

(Though then again, Frank Kogan made the Eminem/Gilbert & Sullivan comparison years ago, and it's not like Eminem and show tunes have nothing in common. Which is *another* thing Nellie M. understands.)

― chuck, Friday, 5 March 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

If you could trim the album to a more reasonable number of tracks (even at 18 tracks it's still only an hour long), what songs would you be inclined to keep?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you not a show tunes person, Chuck? Not that I assumed you would be but I don't recall any bias against same (I mean you ranked Bat Out of Hell pretty damn high in the first book, so.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm really looking forward to reviewing this for PopMatters. Best story so far: the record company was trying to get her to sign, she said "if my mom got busted for pot would you bail her out?" they said "yes," she said "I'm in."

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like her better if she stuck to the show tunes and ditched her Weird Al rap (good call on that, Chuck).

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Ned: I kind of like *West Side Story,* *My Fair Lady,* and *Kiss Me Kate*, I guess. I definitely overrated Meat Loaf in *Stairway.*

― chuck, Friday, 5 March 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like this record. I too prefer the up tempo numbers especially David, Ding Dong, Toto Dies, and Clonie. Really is the only slow number that interested me. I would like to completely dismiss the rap too, but the chorus of Sari has been i my head since I heard it. And sometimes I find myself enjoying Inner Peace way more than I should.
I think her lyrics work really well about half the time.

― Mitchell (Mitchell), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like "Would U Please B Nice," probably my favorite of the slower songs. But I'm coming around the less conventional songs too...especially "Sari."

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, it seems to me that she wanted this to be like a record, hence the two cd's. ie getting up to change the cd is like flipping a record. The track listing on the back says Side One and Side Two.
So, C or D?

― Mitchell Wimbish (Mitchell), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, I HATE "Clonie." That one's incredibly retarded. And creepily narcisstic, too, though I suppose narcissism is its point. "Inner Peace" is actually not horrible, I don't think. I like all the songs about the Wizard of Oz and cats and dogs, if I remember right.

― chuck, Friday, 5 March 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Splitting it over two discs breaks up the weight of the album somewhat. I mean, I'm already familiar with all the songs after only having it for 1 day. If they were all crammed onto one disc, I might have gotten lost and given up somewhere around the middle.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Ned: I kind of like *West Side Story,* *My Fair Lady,* and *Kiss Me Kate*, I guess.

A fair balance. But no Gershwin?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

johnny I agree with you but I am impressed and intrigued that she convinced columbia to produce two cds when it could have fit on one.

re: clonie, i don't see how it could actually be narcisstic, when it seems like a joke about narcissism. Or am I missing what you're saying. Anyway I can understand how the music could be seen as annoying but I think it's fun. Especially whatever mallet instrument is being played.

― Mitchell (Mitchell), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

What does enh mean in the thread title?

― Mitchell (Mitchell), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Clonie, exercise in narcissism or not, is just sort of fun:

we’ll be huggable
get a publicist and show them
be the most lovable thing
since fucking Eminem
oh my friend
multiply, we’re a franchise
like Walt Disney or Hannibal Lechter
we can tell our cancer cells
are more benign than old Phil Spector
we’ll survive
side by side
we’re tougher than even Russell Crowe-y
you’re my clonie

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Reports from her live appearances say she's talking about having her second album out by October (and it will be "much shorter").

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, the whole ALBUM is narcisstic, by which I mean completely smug and full of itself (and full of shit, which as I suggest above is not necessarly always a bad thing). So "Clonie"'s supposed parody or whatever of narcissim doesn't ring true at fucking ALL. Assuming I'm reading it right. Or explaining this right. Which maybe I'm not. Either way, it's got the clunkiest rhymes on the record, and to me, it's where Nellie's preciousness goes completely overboard. Yuck.

― chuck, Friday, 5 March 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(why can't I ever spell "narcissism" right? jeez.)

― chuck, Friday, 5 March 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I maybe agree with you that the album is smug, but she certainly knows that and so I don't see why a joke about it wouldn't work.

― Mitchell (Mitchell), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so curious about this but SO not spending money before I hear a good slice of it. I didn't pay for it but I still want the TIME back that Cody Chesnutt took for his 2cd debut.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It's still at one of those low "introductory" prices for now, so waiting to find it used is kind of redundant.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I just noticed last night that she sings on one of the tracks on the Sound of Young New York.

― Mitchell (Mitchell), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"Low introductory prices" rule, by the way. Everything should be that price!

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Very mixed feelings on the three Eminem imitations - her rap flow is remarkably similar to Weird Al Yankovic's!

I think this hits the nail of what it is I like about those tracks -- maybe it lets me think she's not taking the rap very seriously, because ultimately what I keep coming away with, every time I listen to either disc, is "I love the album, but I don't think I could stand her," because of the smugness and preciousness chuck mentioned and the first-year-student-at-Hampshire-College-ness that he didn't (because she isn't; but she could pass for one).

It's been a good album to put on when I'm doing the dishes and end up catching about half of each song, and a good album to put on when I'm working and end up only consciously listening to every other song.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Just checked "Clonie" - I quite like that song. Maybe I should give this another shot in spite of really hating "Sari" and the other cod rap tunes.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

as noted above, i think it's brilliant. not perfect. but brilliant. far too smart for her own good. but eventually she'll find focus. there's a live recording from a st. joe's pub performance floating around that offers a nice listen with some of the bells and whistles that make the first disc a touch weaker than the second.
(mitchell: which track is she on in the sound of young new york comp?)

― agw, Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

this is fantastic!

― reo, Saturday, 6 March 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of live recordings and video clips here

http://www.nelliemckay.net/index.html

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Saturday, 6 March 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

these cds have not stopped since i got em

i'm in love with her and

i saw her tonight in chicago!

HA, bliss

― reo fordecor, Thursday, 11 March 2004 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Heard her perform live/interviewed on the Detroit public radio station yesterday afternoon. Not really my thing, but her piano playing was nice and she dropped the f-bomb in the interview, which was pretty funny.

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Friday, 12 March 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

got this album yesterday, really enjoying it; she'll be very good someday, now it's more about the shock value than it should be, and the rap stuff does come off as very sub-Princess Superstar, by which I mean still pretty great but critics need to remember they've already called PS and Northern State "Feminem"-bots. But I'll be damned if I've heard a bolder and funner debut album in a while.

my mom saw her on "The Ellen Degeneres Show" and was all like "oh you'd love her!"

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 12 March 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Saw her last night in Boston (free!) and she was terrific, I'd prefer her to be a little less cabaret-esque but the girl knows how to write a song and entertain. Pretty good piano player too.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't decide. I found this album on Friday and listened to it about a thousand times over the weekend. Sometimes I just roll my eyes, sometimes I'm like "this is amazing!' Sometimes I'm like, I think I'm gonna go for a walk.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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And yadda yadda yadda and so forth. Dunno, wouldn't mind a friendly critique.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

i like it, but you don't talk about waiter, probably the weirdest song on the album.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 20 June 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

I like "Get Away From Me", but I don't really hear it as being a blend of jazz and rock - and certainly not as fusion. It's more like a grab-bag of every style under the sun, done as Broadway-style pastiche.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

you're right about it being overproduced, or not appropriately produced, or something (sorry, geoff).

when i tried to download the live stuff from her site, it didn't work! most files were 404 and the ones that weren't were like not full songs and 64 kbps mp3s. but that was a number of months ago. maybe they work now. i would like to hear them.

― W i l l (common_person), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Despite the well-written brief for the plaintiff by Mr. Tofu, I still think this is a borderline unlistenable record, and certainly an unfunny one. Titling it Black America would have made it worse; Sony saved her from that one. I generally can't stand arch music, and this album conforms to all of the cliches of joke-rock: delivery (leaden), subtlety (none), and true musical interest (extremely sparse). The apologists never fail to note that the disc is uneven; they use that as cover for some awful, awful moments.

On the other hand, it's made me realize that music is always worth discussing, because several people who I'd expect to run away screaming from this sort of thing seem to have solid reasons for loving it.

― southern lights, Monday, 20 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

are you a lawyer?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

As strange as 'Waiter' is 'Work Song' is weirder. "Joo ming boo ah ooooo"?

Plenty of those live track shows seem available to me, Will. If you can't get them, email me; my live version of Get Away From Me is about, oh, three times as good as the original.

Again, I'll agree that the disc(s) are very uneven; I find it fun to watch her flail about. It's neat to see a future "major artist" misstep early on and there really is something appealing about McKay's massive missteps, especially when they're saved by their mindbogglingly good live takes ("Sari" being the biggest culprit here; terrible on the album, one of my favorite songs of all time when it's just her and a piano).

Incidentally, the one time I got to meet her, she was charming and hot as a baker. She Ain't Twenty.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Friend to the animals.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

This newish Obligatory Strangers outyses Ys.

― Eazy, Monday, 24 December 2007 05:06 (seventeen years ago)

er, Obligatory Villagers

― Eazy, Monday, 24 December 2007 05:08 (seventeen years ago)

i like it. it's like snippets from a flop musical.

i also like her christmas songs.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 24 December 2007 09:02 (seventeen years ago)

Or a good musical! I particularly like the stuff with Bob Dorough.
I'm gonna spend New Year's Eve with her.

― forksclovetofu, Monday, 24 December 2007 10:16 (seventeen years ago)

Woof, reading through this thread is an odd journey.

― forksclovetofu, Monday, 24 December 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago)

It's so dense and complicated that I'm still getting used to it.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 00:10 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Normal as Blueberry Pie is great; taking herself out of the equation is a good call, if only for one album.

― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 November 2009 21:29 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I really like it too. Recommended to fans of Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and other jazz crooners.

― o. nate, Thursday, 5 November 2009 22:01 (fifteen years ago)

i really wanna hear it. been listening to obligatory villagers again lately, i like that album.

― STRATE IN2 DAKRNESS (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 5 November 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago)

Amazingly, the live recordings are all still available for download!
http://www.nelliemckay.org/media.php

― you get ribbons when you're in 4H (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 November 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

yeah this doris day album is really good. i like how she hips it up just a little, but it's a natural sort of hipness cuz nellie's naturally hip in a way doris wasn't. reminds me moodwise a little of mose allison.

― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 12 December 2009 17:44 (fifteen years ago)

also her performance of nellie mckay doing nellie mckay doing james brown doing "Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto" pretty much stole this year's aimee mann christmas show

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 21 December 2009 04:50 (fifteen years ago)

its rly dope

― what u think i steen for to push a crawfish? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 21 December 2009 04:55 (fifteen years ago)

gonna catch her at the blue note methinks

― fictional, homosexual, Baltimore hoodlum (forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 December 2009 05:16 (fifteen years ago)

is there a couch I should avoid?

― professional log roller Lizzie Hoeschler (los blue jeans), Monday, 21 December 2009 05:51 (fifteen years ago)

oh hey it's on youtube! it's sort of more awesome when you don't know it's coming but c'est la vie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufxP1cvc8Ko

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 21 December 2009 05:53 (fifteen years ago)

seven months pass...

New album due out September 28

― 8o---e*.\\\||///.*ə---o8 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:58 (fifteen years ago)

looking forward to it.

ned raggett (does he still post here?) is seriously nearly as boring as geir. "i don't want to hear this album, and i don't feel guilty about it." i'd think he was a smug asshole if he wasn't so obviously a sad sack.

― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 01:29 (fifteen years ago)

oh he actually posted

I am resolutely unconvinced (and feel zilch guilt about that, which is always a good sign).
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, January 1, 2005 11:22 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

not quite as bad.

― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 01:30 (fifteen years ago)

ned's doris day album way better than nellie's

― buzza, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 02:49 (fifteen years ago)

Give me some time to perfect the mix.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 02:50 (fifteen years ago)

ned's doris day album way better than nellie's

― buzza, Tuesday, August 3, 2010 9:49 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i will grant him this, yes.

― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 03:41 (fifteen years ago)

five months pass...

Saw her last night, and she was great. Half on piano, half on ukelele. Three-piece session-ish guys backing her up, on drums, electric guitar, and bass. Amazing songs. And so aware of the room and responding to it in an immediate, live way.

Oh, and half the songs were reggae.

― An Artily Shot Sesame Street (Eazy), Friday, 28 January 2011 15:59 (fourteen years ago)

I saw her about a month ago and it was pretty much as you described. She is funny and comfortable onstage. Wacky and zany, but in an entertaining way. This was right before Christmas, and she sang a seemingly sincere song asking people not to have a Christmas tree - asking us to think of the trees and kind of tying it into animal rights somehow. The audience was not sure how to react to this - I thought it was a pretty punk-rock thing to do.

So, no commentary about Home Sweet Mobile Home on this thread? I guess maybe there aren't that many Nellie fans on this board, or maybe it's just hard to think of interesting things to say about it. I guess I preferred her previous couple of albums which were more jazz-oriented, but Mckay never makes a boring album.

― o. nate, Saturday, 29 January 2011 22:47 (fourteen years ago)

I have listened to her new one once. I liked it pretty well. I think I need to give it a chance to grow on me. I wish I could see her play live!

― Rocker Brian (Abbbottt), Sunday, 30 January 2011 01:39 (fourteen years ago)

I really like Home Sweet Mobile Home! Same level of quality as Obligatory Villagers, just presented in a totally different way. Hope to see her play again soon.

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Sunday, 30 January 2011 02:54 (fourteen years ago)

I saw her in Threepenny Opera in like 2006 but haven't actually heard her music yet.

― one day you're here...and then you're banned (San Te), Sunday, 30 January 2011 03:48 (fourteen years ago)

i like vivisection

― velko, Sunday, 30 January 2011 04:03 (fourteen years ago)

thought the new album was really underwhelming

― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 30 January 2011 21:24 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

On March 20, Nellie McKay will premiere her new show, “SILENT SPRING – It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature,” a tribute to trailblazing environmentalist, Rachel Carson. To mark the 50th anniversary of Carson’s iconic book Silent Spring – the first major expose of pesticides in the environment – McKay and her four-piece band will tell Rachel’s story through the music of Dave Frishburg, Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, Neil Young, Charles Mingus and more. The tribute will run from March 20 – March 31 at Feinstein’s with a running time: 75 minutes.

hmmmmm. Who knows how this will be?

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 16:19 (thirteen years ago)

I missed the capital punishment show, I Want To Live!, she did a few months back. Is this her new thing - topical musical stage shows?

― o. nate, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 16:51 (thirteen years ago)

i saw I Want to Live!, it was v v good
i think she'd like to do musical theater, yes.

― drop these whiners on a island (Surviver style) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 19:09 (thirteen years ago)

nine months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNxR-pzwhPo

― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

Just got the new album and have not listened all the way through yet, but it seems possibly awesome. Nice set of '60s covers, inna McKay style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPam_epuyso

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 1 May 2015 17:07 (ten years ago)

She also does "Hungry Freaks, Daddy."

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 1 May 2015 17:10 (ten years ago)

I like it. Even when the songs are pretty well-known I like to hear her take on them, and she digs up some worthy tunes I hadn't heard before.

― o. nate, Saturday, 2 May 2015 01:27 (ten years ago)

seven months pass...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtzv7PlHIKg

― (please no long guns of any kind) (Eazy), Thursday, 17 December 2015 03:51 (nine years ago)

two years pass...

Her new noir-y album of standards is real nice.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 4 June 2018 19:43 (seven years ago)

Good showcase for her piano playing alongside her singing -- both have gotten more sophisticated and subtle over the years.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 4 June 2018 19:44 (seven years ago)

It's pleasant now

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 14:31 (seven years ago)

eight months pass...

she gave an extended interview at a local library last night. she left the interviewer dizzy, most of her responses landing far from the original question. it was funny. there are a few songs mixed in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS2D5KozDg4

― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 11:27 (six years ago)

Thanks! Liking what I’ve heard of this latest album.

― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 11:36 (six years ago)

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