From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V3 #3 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Wednesday, January 12 2000 Volume 03 : Number 003 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] Mary Lou and Kevin So tonight at the Middle East [Chris Snyder Subject: [MLL] Mary Lou and Kevin So tonight at the Middle East Just curious. IS anyone else going to this. It's upstairs and starts at 8:30 with a wonderful up and coming performer named Lily. If you make it I'll be the tall guy with the camera. Chris ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 13:39:56 -0800 (PST) From: Rachel Bussel Subject: [MLL] some lovely praise from Salon and MAURA Hey...what a lovely way to end my day (I think I am going to go see that film Magnolia with the Aimee Mann music everyone is talking about). So I go visit my friend Douglas's website (http://www.lacunae.com) and I see a reference to something on the lovely Maura Johnston's webpage (http://www.maura.com) about Mary Lou, and I go there and there is a whole essay about Mary Lou's songs, mostly that very first Kill Rock Stars single with "Some Jingle Jangle Morning (When I'm Straight" and "Western Union Desperate" and a bit about "Camden Town Rain." If you love those songs, please go to Maura's site and read what she has to say - - it made me fall in love with those songs all over again. AND...Salon's Charles Taylor discusses the top 10 singles that changed his decade, with #1 being "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and #10 being..."Some Jingle Jangle Morning" - here's what he has to say, but also read the article at: http://salon.com/ent/music/feature/2000/01/03/singles/index1.html 10. "Some Jingle Jangle Morning (When I'm Straight)," Mary Lou Lord The first time I ever heard Mary Lou Lord playing in the Boston subways she struck me as the perfect girl for those sensitive guys still dreaming of finding a hippie-folkie chick of their own. Then she sang an aching-voiced cover of Merle Haggard's "White Line Fever" and I wiped the smirk off my face. On this song, rerecorded for her major label debut with a guitar solo by Roger McGuinn but cited here in the Kill Rock Stars vinyl 45 original, she refers to Nirvana's "About a Girl," Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and Jackson Browne's "These Days," as well as to her own indiscreet liaison with Kurt Cobain. As usual, the weariness in Lord's breathy scratch of a voice overcomes any potential preciousness in the delivery. This is a road song sung by someone too tired to move, and an elegy for a community that was dissolving before anyone knew it, a ragged wreath commemorating the brief moment in this fading decade when the alterna-indie scene ruled rock. He also lists The La's "There She Goes" as one of his faves, and Mary Lou sometimes sings that line before "Lights Are Changing" - I love when she throws little things like that into her songs. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V3 #3 ********************************