Three items make a set:
- How long has it been since The Office was on? Something like 6 weeks, right? That's just silly, and it's underscored by The Office being the only show I really watch anymore that's on this sort of classical network schedule. [1]
- A week or two ago, I was looking in my iTunes library for the string "live"--for this question of the day--and found Pulp's "Live Bed Show," which I hadn't listened to in a long while, and which is gorgeous & sad: "this bed has seen it all / from the first time to the last."
- Beirut's new version of "Scenic World" (from the Lon Gisland EP) is so much better than the version on the first album that it's almost a different song: the combination of full band + slower tempo gives it the old-world weight it deserves.
[1] Everything else is a combination of reality shows, DVDs, HBO series, and the network shows that've switched over to a different (better) model, like Lost.
[this is good] That 'Scenic World' version from Lon Gisland is incomperable. I really liked Scenic World on Gulag, but the one on Lon Gisland is now, probably, my favorite Beirut song. I wish more bands would give the songs that appear on both an album and EP such thorough treatments. When I listen to 'No Cars Go' on the new Arcade Fire, for example, I
keep thinking they really lost an opportunity to rework a great song.
Posted by: mat! | April 01, 2007 at 07:43 PM