a coherent collection of random statements regarding God, words and tunes

How Lo Can Lo-Fi GET?

 (Kinda looks like me, actually.... minus the sailor cap,
                                                                                                                                        mind you....)

     Anyway: Go to http://www.bigdork.org/MP3.htm#Cosmic and find out the answer to the above musical question. If Byrnes can do it, well heck, so can I. (Of course, he charges more for the privilege for a reason. ) It's been circulated among friends on CD for a few years, but now total strangers (and friends, enemies, and other casual acquaintances I'd been keeping it away from) can check it out too. Thanks to Carl Spacone (aka Big Dork) for making the dream real.

     Ranging from laugh-out-loud funny (well, *I* think so, anyway) to dead serious, Cosmic Bud and the Librarians (i.e., 3/4 of inter-and/or-post-Byrnes' Tension Envelopes) were -- in contrast to Lou Reed's Television -- a sloppy, fun and sometimes danged witty garage band. And then there's just ol' Cosmic Bud jumping downright moribund on acoustic in several places. Not to mention some on-target musical parodies that would send Weird Al running for cover. Read the liner notes, if you don't believe me. (And I would suggest you read them first.)

     For the more sensitive among you, it's worth noting that this covers the years 1983-1990 (which, in my world, means both B.C. and A.D.). Don't say you weren't warned. Of course, born-again South Park fans will feel right at home here. (The viability of that is, of course, a separate discussion. )

     Anyway, it's rather surprising how applicable a lot of these songs still remain to me. The faces change, but the things that move me and the things that tick me off royally remain more or less the same. Rather than say more, let me just close with the final paragraph of said introductory liner notes:

     "For some odd reason, I’ve always taken it as a compliment when someone says, 'That sounds like you.' Well, a dozen years later, this still mostly sounds like me. And maybe that’s the main reason for doing this. It’s not often you can look back at yourself and not cringe, and for the most part, despite warts and more warts, dropped notes and all, I like what I did then. If I never do it again I still have this, and that’s a good thing."

    Enjoy. Or be offended. Or cringe at the lo-fi-ness of it all. Or.... well, that's what makes it art, dunnit?

Posted by: burninglight at 17:24 | link | comments (2)

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#1  20 June 2006 - 16:40

 

Lou Reed's Television?

I thought it sounded more like Tom Verlaine's trouser press. And I mean that in a good way! Been busy moving (just down the street, will email w/details soon).

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#2  31 August 2006 - 18:51

 

I'm really doing this more to see if the comments sections works -- I updated my profile and now all my "recent comments" are gone from the side of the blog (at least that's my current debugging theory) -- but anyway, now that I think about it, the correct analogy is probably Envelopes > Cosmic Bud = Nirvana > Foo Fighters. :D

burninglight

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