The other two are EPs. The Dan Bern EP is a full-band set that was recorded in Fall 2020 with all parties remote (obviously). An old favorite on there in “Butterflies,” a song from the 1990s which gets its first studio recording here. A timely song about George Floyd.
The Mangan thing is a sampler of songs from his great release, “Nice, Nice, Very Nice.”
Playing today:
Lorde, “Virgin”
Rufus Wainwright, “Unfollow the Rules”
The Divine Comedy, “Swallows and Amazons: The Original Piano Demos”
Dan Bern and the Remote Ramblers, “Shining”
Ben Folds, “Rockin’ the Suburbs”
Dan Mangan, “Robots vs. Indie Queens”
#music #lorde #rufuswainwright #thedivinecomedy #danbern #benfolds #danmangan
The Bern album is a double CD thing that he released independently (in Canada?) shortly after his major label debut album. Some of his great early songs, including a few songs that went on to be re-recorded better with #AniDifranco on his next album Fifty Eggs.
The Divine Comedy album is definitely short, but among my favorites of Neil Hannon’s. No fat on it.
Listening today:
Dan Bern, “Smartie Mine”
The Divine Comedy, “A Short Album About Love”
Gracie Abrams, “The Story of Us”
Elliott Smith, “Roman Candle”
#DanBern #TheDivineComedy #music #elliottsmith #gracieabrams
Bern has written lots of music for TV and film projects - most prominently “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” and “Get Him to the Greek,” but bits and pieces in tons of other stuff. This is one set of that music that actually got a release.
A set of very short, cute kids’ songs - many about transportation as you’d expect from the pictures, but a lot of general stuff too.
Playing today:
Dan Bern, “The Stinky and Dirty Show!”
Dan Bern, “The Stinky and Dirty Show!: Season 2, vol I”
Dan Bern, “The Stinky and Dirty Show! Season 2”
Dan Bern, “The Stinky and Dirty Show! Song for Sender Heart of Go City”
fun., “Some Nights”
Ben Folds and ymusic, “So There”
Phoebe Bridgers, “Sidelines”
#music #danbern #thestinkyanddirtyshow #fun #benfolds #ymusic #phoebebridgers
The Dan Bern albums are a collection of songs he recorded and submitted for the Tony Kornheiser Show (a sports podcast). Not all of them aired, apparently, but the collections are full of punchy songs about sports and other stuff which is presumably related to this show.
I don’t care at all about sports but a good sports song can be as funny or affecting as a song about anything else.
Listening today:
Lana Del Rey, “Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass”
Everclear, “Sparkle and Fade”
Dan Bern, “Songs for Mr. Tony” vols 1-5
#music #poetry #pop #rock #lanadelrey #everclear #danbern #folk
The Bookie Baker song is nice. I picked up because of Bern and Shimoni. He has a cool voice - reminds me of The Tallest Man on Earth.
The Brandi Carlile album was how I discovered her, through some free MP3 of the titular single. Glad I did, as I still keep up with her.
The Duckworth Lewis Method is Neil Hannon’s cricket side project. I know even less about cricket than I do about tennis, but this is fun.
#music #bookiebaker #danbern #oritshimoni #brandicarlile #theduckworthlewismethod
Dan Bern releases:
“Tennis Songs” is an iTunes EP that is long since out of print. He’s released a longer tennis album which includes different recordings of these, but this one is a nice, folky distillation of some of his better ones.
“The Swastika EP” has a song about reclaiming the symbol. It also has a few of my favorites: the lilting “Friends” and “Lithuania,” a reflection about his family history in the holocaust and the turn of the millennium.
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