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29 May 2007

Some hangover-friendly music by Scottish dream-pop group Cocteau Twins:
Carolyn's Fingers
Blue Bell Knoll
(from the 1988 album, Blue Bell Knoll)
Beautiful, beautiful album. Soundtrack of trembling nights in dark rooms with impossibly perfect girls.

Here's some similarly atmospheric stuff to carry you through your hangover. Won't use the "sh-word", since I think it sucks. Enjoy!

Celia's Dream - Slowdive

Suddently the Trees Are Giving Way - Ulrich Schnauss
posted by felix betachat 29 May | 09:01
These are both great, felix! (And I've never heard of Ulrich Schnauss before...)
posted by BoringPostcards 29 May | 09:14
Really? I never know with this place. Everybody's tastes are so interesting and so deep, I always feel about three steps behind.

So I'll send you his best song, the one that made me go out and buy everything I could. From A Strangely Isolated Place:

Gone Forever

Word is that he has a new album out now, but I haven't seen it yet. And since we're in that vein, have you heard From Here We Go Sublime by The Field? I just got it and it's lovely. Worth drinking yourself into a hangover just to recover with it.
posted by felix betachat 29 May | 09:34
This is excellent- sounds like a cross between the Cocteau Twins and Sigur Ros.

And no, I haven't heard of The Field, either, but I'll definitely look them up!
posted by BoringPostcards 29 May | 09:45
How did you guys know I have a hangover???????

I'll add something to the hangover mix:

Tin Hat Trio: The Clandestine Adventures of Ms. Merz

Tanghetto: Alexanderplatz Tango
posted by taz 29 May | 09:56
Heh, these are both cool, too, taz! Tin Hat trio esp., because it sounds like the soundtrack of an old French film.
posted by BoringPostcards 29 May | 10:07
I always LURVED the Cocteau Twins. I listened to those songs on a loop when I was in art school. LOVE LOVE LOVE.
posted by miss lynnster 29 May | 10:52
*clicks link*

pufry hair? French word in band name?

*runs*
posted by jonmc 29 May | 10:56
itunes just loaded up Carolyn's Fingers and I got a big smile on my face. THANK YOU. Just what I needed on a cranky "I need to go to work now-ugh" kind of morning. That song brings back some really, really great memories for me. :)
posted by miss lynnster 29 May | 10:57
And yes, jonmc... run!!!!! RUN FAST! It's fruity art school stuff! Be careful or it might get on you! Aaaaahhhhh!
posted by miss lynnster 29 May | 10:58
(lynnster, The Who and Mott The Hoople and T-Rex and Husker Du were fruity art school stuff too, but I love them. For some reason the 80's variety of it gives me hives. (not casting asparagus on your tunes, BoPo, since I've never listened to the Cocteau Twins, just spinning randomness))
posted by jonmc 29 May | 11:06
Someone say Husker Du? Here are some of my favorite Husker Du lyrics:

Punch Drunk

Take a look around this bar
take a look around this place
take a look around this hall
Think it's a fucking gym?
Kick and punch and kick and punch and
kick and punch and kick and punch
Who's your friend? Who's your friend?
Who's your friend? Who's your friend?
Your enemy.

Take a look around this bar
take a look around this place
take a look right in the mirror
What are you a fucking queer?
Kick and punch and kick and punch and
kick and punch and kick and punch
Who's your friend? Where's your friend?
He's over there, he's gonna fuck it up
for everybody

Kick and punch and kick and punch and
kick and punch and kick and punch
Who's your friend? Who's your friend?
Where's your friend? I guess he'd rather be punch drunk.

From the Gut

The gut, from the gut
It hurts, hurts so much
The same, quite the same
You know, know too much
It's yours, yours no more
It's mine, for the time
That I'm without you.

New Day Rising

New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising.
posted by Hugh Janus 29 May | 11:16
I will have to take exception to your calling Husker Du either 'fruity art school stuff' or 'non-80s', jon.

These tunes will be getting me laid sometime this week, so thanks all.
posted by danostuporstar 29 May | 11:17
Damn skippy, dano. On all counts.
posted by Hugh Janus 29 May | 11:17
dan-o: what I was basically saying was that the Huskers were liked by the arty kids and (at least some of) the rocker kids, too. and there were very few bands who managed that back in those days.
posted by jonmc 29 May | 11:22
My what an interesting turn this thread has taken. But since we're on the subject of Hüsker Dü, I was about 10 years too young to have seen them live. And I never got my shit together enough to see Bob Mould when I lived in Minneapolis. But I saw him about 3 years back at a solo show at the DoubleDoor in Chicago. Opening band came on, played like opening bands do, then left. The crowd turned away from the stage while a stagehand came out and started setting up for Bob. Setting up guitars, taping down cables, setting out bottles of water.

When the "stagehand" reached down and took a swig from one of the bottles, the crowd about fell over themselves turning around. Bob picked up a guitar and proceeded to fuck us in the ears for about two straight hours. No backup. Balls out. Then he sat at the edge of the stage hocking CD's (Loudbomb...don't bother) and signing autographs for another 45 minutes. Bob Mould is a hero.
posted by felix betachat 29 May | 11:33
If i had to choose between Hüsker Dü and the Cocteau Twins, I'd chose the Twins. Sonically, they had something that these ears had never heard before. That far-out guitar sound! And Liz Fraser's voice makes my brain come. The Dü, though I haven't listened to them in forever, and seems to me in the end, were just a good band that sang good songs. I believe I've read Bob Mould saying as much. They did punk-pop right, but damn them for influencing a thousand horrible bands.
posted by Hellbient 29 May | 12:29
damn them for influencing a thousand horrible bands.

I feel that way about the Beatles.
posted by Hugh Janus 29 May | 12:41
yeah, and I'll add The Clash and The Pixies while we're at it. Of course, it's not their fault...
posted by Hellbient 29 May | 12:46
You know who's a good influence? Wilson Pickett.
posted by Hugh Janus 29 May | 12:49
Depends on how you look at it. Maybe he taught my parents to shag...
posted by Hellbient 29 May | 12:56
He's the ultimate underplayer, taking virtuosity and brilliance and normalizing it, attenuating his creative greatness. Low ego, high appeal. More bands should act like Wilson.
posted by Hugh Janus 29 May | 13:02
Those are definitely qualities that'll keep you around...lack of ego shows confidence. The Duke comes to mind as well.
posted by Hellbient 29 May | 13:36
Here's my addition to the hangover recovery: Le Moulin off the Amelie soundrack, by Yann Tiersen.
posted by Luminous Phenomena 29 May | 14:49
No one is above suspicion || Joan Rhodes, strongwoman.

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