bright eyes "when the president talks to god (live)"
CONOR OBERST IS A GENIUS. CONOR OBERST SUCKS. CONOR OBERST IS THE NEXT DYLAN. CONOR OBERST IS A HACK. CONOR OBERST IS AN INDIE SAVIOR. CONOR OBERST IS OVERRATED. CONOR OBERST IS A HOTTIE. CONOR OBERST IS A CRYBABY. CONOR OBERST IS A POET. CONOR OBERST IS A DRAMA QUEEN... there's a lot of noise out there about bright eyes. i won't add to it, because it would hardly convince you to change your mind about him either way. i'll just say that when i saw him at sanders theatre in cambridge at harvard, in this massive churchlike room, this song ellicited the most cheers. a roar after every other line. it has the potential to be one of his most famous songs.
supposedly a recorded version of this song is available for free download on itunes, and there's also a 12" of it circulating i believe, though saddle creek's store doesn't seem to have it. // see also--npr's stream of a recent show at the 9:30 club in washington d.c. (i highly recommend the cocorosie set as well) // lyrics
joey gray "how do you fuck a boy (without a pussy)?"
if you asked me what the message of this song is, i'd be lying if i said i knew. but i do think there is a dearth of of "gay" music out there in the world at large. and i mean gay in the homosexual sense. homosexual in that it's about having sex with men. but beyond the obvious kitsch and humor factor of the title, this is just a mesmerizing song. in another time and less homophobic place, i could hear this coming from the radio easily. who is joey gray? i'll be honest i have no idea, this is one of those tracks that i downloaded from somewhere and didn't find until years later when i forgot where it came from. but he sounds like sparklehorse or eels have been studying at the "i'm a slave 4 u" school of moaning, and when it blooms into its surprisingly floaty chorus, it makes you raise your eyebrow and press repeat, repeat, repeat.