McSweeney’s #7

SOUNDTRACK: BLACK SABBATH-Sabotage (1975).
Sabotage seems to be somewhat forgotten (maybe because of the creepy cover art 0f Ozzy in a kimono and fascinating platform shoes, Bill Ward in red tights with a codpiece (and visible underwear on the back cover), and Geezer and Tony’s mustaches).
But this album rocks pretty hard and heavy.
“Hole in the Sky” [...]

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McSweeney’s #6 [We Now Know Who. Timothy McSweeney's Very Intense Heated Passionate Battle/Embrace With They Might Be Giants Resulting in This, Issue 6, Which Contains a CD Soundtrack] (2001)

SOUNDTRACK:  McSweeney’s #6 comes with a CD.
Most of the music on the CD is performed by They Might Be Giants (a rather perfect fit for McSweeney’s).  Some other musicians who appear are: M. Doughty, Philip Glass, Michael Meredith. Roger Greenawalt & S.E. Willis
Instructions included with book:

#3. The compact disc contains music.  There are 44 discrete [...]

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Donald Barthelme–Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968)

SOUNDTRACK: KATE BUSH-Aerial (2005).
This was Kate’s first release in 12 years!  There’s a part of me that would expect unparalleled genius to emerge from a 12 year hiatus, but realistically, what we get is a more mature and confident singer, and songs that sound very much like Kate Bush songs. There’s not a lot of [...]

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JR Walsh–”An Insurrection” (Esquire, November 2009)

SOUNDTRACK: KATE BUSH-Aspects of the Sensual World (1989).
This was the first CD single that I can remember acquiring.  I got it from the radio station at school, and I felt like I was in on a big secret having all of these bonus tracks.
There are five songs on this disc.  The original “The Sensual World” [...]

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Steven Heighton–”Noughts and Crosses: An unsent reply” (The Walrus, November 2009)

SOUNDTRACK:KATE BUSH-The Sensual World (2009).
It was three years between The Dreaming and Hounds of Love.  And this time it took four years for The Sensual World to come out.  This was the first Kate disc that I bought as it came out.  And I was such a huge fan of Hounds, that I was really [...]

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Albert Innaurato–Gemini (1978) & The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie (1978)

SOUNDTRACK: KATE BUSH-Hounds of Love (1985).
I have a very specific memory of the first time I heard the song  “Hounds of Love.”  I was in high school and the Wilderness Adventure Club was heading towards whatever destination we were going to (funny I can’t remember the destination, but I recall the car trip there).  The [...]

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Pseudonymous Bosch–This Book is Not Good For You (2009)

SOUNDTRACK-KATE BUSH-The Dreaming (1982).
This disc focuses Kate’s intensity somewhat.  I was just reading that it was nowhere near as popular as her previous discs in England (where she had been number 1 many times), although, interestingly it made the charts in the US because of college radio airplay.
The disc is still experimental (there’s all kinds [...]

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Stephen King–”Premium Harmony” (New Yorker, November 9, 2009)

SOUNDTRACK: SONIC-YOUTH-the eternal (2009).
It was the release of this disc that inspired me to see what they’ve been up to since the 80s.  And, sometimes it’s really fun to root through a band’s back catalog to see what kind of progression they’ve made over the years.
There are three things that set this disc apart from  [...]

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Alice Munro–”Too Much Happiness” (Harper’s, August 2009) & Charles Foran “Alice in Borderland” (The Walrus, September 2009)

SOUNDTRACK: TINDERSTICKS-Donkeys 92-97 (1998).
Donkeys is a collection of singles, rarities and unreleased recordings.  It came out just before Simple Pleasure, and has tracks from the era of the first four discs.
With the reissue of those first four discs (and all the bonus tracks therein) and the Greatest Hits collection, it’s not really necessary to [...]

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Chris Ware–”Unmasked” (New Yorker, November 2, 2009)

SOUNDTRACK: TINDERTSICKS-”curtains” (1997).
“Rented Rooms” from Curtains is another one of my favorite songs. It is dark yet sensual at the same time: “We had to go find somewhere else more… you know.”  The disc itself works similarly to their first two discs.  It’s not as long, and is a little less dynamic.  But it is [...]

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