Thirsty, hungry and a little jealous of Americans.
It started with me not wanting to study...So I'm like, hey I'll think of what I can do in the holidays, give me something to look forward to...
I hear that Thirsty Merc are playing at the Metro that week, so I get on the site...
And I notice Ben Lee's playing there too, but it's sold out (there's something mindnumbing nice about his new song... the one about how "that's the way I like it")...
So I venture off to his website...
Only to find him touring the US with none other than this lovely lady...
I accidently clicked on her site when I wanted to look at tour dates, only to find that...
"Aimee Mann songs have a literary quality to them: sharp, spare short stories set to music - so it was probably inevitable that she would one day make a concept album, the musical equivalent of a novella. The Forgotten Arm, her fifth solo release, is exactly that: a dozen songs that tell, rather loosely, the story of John and Caroline as they meet, fall in love and road trip across America."
A story told on an album... how cool is that? It's the first time I've heard of the idea... kinda like a musical without all the dancing huh...
I've decided that I like it, this whole crossbreeding of different genres. It's kinda like Milo cereal... strange at first, but ingenious idea nevertheless (okay maybe it's nothing like Aimee Mann's new album, it's just my tummy rumbling... but damn that stuff is addictive).
Ben Lee and Aimee Mann. How amazing would that be...
posted by me. @ 12:59 AM
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