Anyone heard the Dresden Dolls CD yet?

Friends played Coin Operated Boy on their college radio station, pretty good.

The live CD is 'A is for accident', a compilation of recordings from 2001-03. I got mine from the Important Records site, and they may still have some. More ballad-oriented, and gives Amanda more of a chance to stretch out her lovely voice, but you'll need both discs in the end.

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You heard it here first, hipsters: Victorian undergarments are the new trucker hats.

I am bit biased, since they've been playing around here in Boston for the past couple years building up their following. Now they are on MTV2, unbelievable! I remember walking down Harvard Square like 4 years ago and seeing Amanda (lead singer) dressing up as an 8 Foot Bride. It was a sight to behold.

The album is more accessible then the live disc, but if you fall for one of 'em, you are going to want the other.

Yeah, I finally saw it on Subterranean last night. I think that's the best video I've ever seen on that show. I definitely need this record. Thanks guys.

braiwashed.com has the DD website with a v. active forum btw

jon, we should make noize together sometime. but not in providence, i hate that hellhole

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HA! They are named after an old song by the Fall! Maybe the Fall was making fun of NYD, I dunno.

Amanda Palmer: I am a Fall fan, I got into them way back in High School (though they were sort of past their prime by then, that was in the mid-90's). But the name references several things at once....the Fall song, a VC Andrews novel, the porcelain figures themselves, and the firebombing, which everybody knows was a disaster of epic proportions. 

six of one half dozen of the other. everyone wins-except for Sterling and his NYD thing.

we're headed into the studio today (camp street, with sean slade) to put "war pigs" onto magentic tape for posterity. there's been talk of using it on the next Rock Against Bush compilation...though i think a better idea would be to rent a red white and blue hearse during the Republican National Convention and blast it through speakers from the roof while driving around NYC. so many ideas, so little time.

The DD don't sound anything like the Fall, though. No worries there, I'd think.

Hey, a Sab. cover? Cool!

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THERE WAS A TIME, NOW VERY FAR AWAY

Were we callow young twenty-somethings, free from the burdens of context and the anxieties of influence, wrapped up in the blissful delusion that there's something innovative or unique in the music of recent favorites (off the top of our heads) Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes, or Interpol, we would probably find this Dresden Dolls review to be horribly condescending and crude (assuming that we were swift enough to notice that the urine was being retrieved from our persons in the first place, which is a big assumption). Fortunately, we are not twenty-somethings: We've heard of Joy Division,
Television, and glam. So we think it's pretty fucking great.

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fwiw, i think people will never embrace the dolls anyways. the main reason being the whole what-appears-to-be-goth-nonsense-on-the-surface- will be an instant turn-off.

but who knows, there were plenty of converted mission of burma fans at the avalon show last month. still, if they ever do get their 15minutes of fame ILM will hate them more than catpower and int3rpol but maybe not quite as much as DMB

I see your point. When I first saw the Girl Anachronism video and the white face paint I thought "uh oh, what kind of poseur bullshit is this gonna be?" My fears were assuaged as soon as that monster fucking piano riff kicked in, though.

I don't know if anyone's seen the Sensational Alex Harvey Band's performance of Brel's 'Next!' on the BBC Old Grey Whistle Test program? Imagine that, but with Nina Hagen on vocals. Sparks are in there too somewhere.

I think enough people will like it for them to have a good career, even though there will be the haters. But yeah, think of Tori Amos or someone like that. Not that I'm making a lazy musical comparison. There are some similarities there, but I mean in fan terms, when people like that like you they REALLY like you for a LONG time.

It's even cooler than the Girl Anachronism one.

i wonder if they're gonna get huge.

I swear "The Jeep Song" nearly = The Magnetic Fields "I Have The Moon".
I still like this record a lot. Maybe the second half drags a bit.
I don't think this is a GREAT album, but I think this band may have the potential to make a great one someday.

anyone know German?

It basically is just a bio on them, how they got started, where they are from, and how they have German influences (Brecht). The album has been released in Germany and they are thinking about touring there at the end of September?

I think the audio clips go to interviews of them talking. I can't go to them at the moment (at work).

BTW - Those are the most NORMAL pictures of Amanda and Brian I have ever seen.

Austria's FM4 has been absolutely orgasmic about the Dolls, although they've rightly given them shit for calling themselves "Brechtian" when they might be called "Weillian" at best -- you say Brechtian over here, and people want political content.

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