the asphalt world.

OK then. The. Greatest. Pop. Song. Of. All. Time.

Ever.

This is Beethoven's Ninth in D minor for pop music. Parred down from overdubbed guitars and synths and drums and samples and cymbal crashes and drugs to a piano and a cello and his voice in A minor.

Apparently before performing this and leaving, he played The 2 of Us which holds the ranking of the third greatest pop song of all time (okay, maybe second – and of course then second or third is also a Suede song coincidentally from the same album), and before that He's Gone. Someone who was at the theatre commented it was the best three-run song ever. I would have agreed had I made it through. If you really want to hear the nine-and-a-half-minute long album version, buy the vinyl and listen to it on a hi-fi as loud as you can stand. Louder actually. Much much louder.

the empress.

I listened to this song over + over + over all last night and will continue for some time strange and solemn so much I can't even go to sleep cos I want to keep hearing it despite it's late and I'm tired but nonetheless.

clowns.

Take a look at us hate where there was lust
The trip like honey but lust don’t mean a thing when all we do is shout and scream
It’s almost funny we’re like clowns tumbled into town now
Love is on its way down now it’s such a lonely sound
Mouths that once exchanged kisses in the rain
Are full of pain now it all seems so absurd
When every sentence and every word is so painful
Clowns tumbled into town now
Love is on its way down now such a lonely sound
Clowns faces with painted frowns now sat on a merry-go-round now
Such a lonely sound such a lonely sound such a lonely sound such a lonely sound such a lonely sound such a lonely sound such a lonely sound

~ Brett Anderson

As Brett sings and harps on guitar and 'cello fills the background I listen over + over + over and shouldn't but I can't seem to help it.

brett anderson.

After downloading the new iTunes 8.0 tonight and checking out the Genius feature, I pointed for some reason just to test I think to Brett Anderson's last album (which was more or less a complete drag) and up popped in the Genius sidebar a bunch of new songs. Apparently, he just released a new album called Wilderness at the end of July. It's very mellow, seemingly only some piano, guitar and cello. And of course his voice. Not as drugged as it was in the 90s, but still his voice.

I've been listening to Funeral Mantra for quite some time. And now Back To You. And now Clowns. And now The Empress.