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Songs To Make Love To Your Old Lady By

CameronStewart

20:53 / 22.11.01

...Is the name of the record, by Dan The Automator's new project, Lovage.

Described by one of the local weekly entertainment papers here as "Gorillaz For Grown-Ups", it's Portishead crossed with Serge Gainsbourg. Vocals on several tracks by Mike Patton (see Tomahawk thread) and Elysian Fields singer Jennifer Charles. Damon Albarn and Kid Koala also pop up.

Contains one of the most pants-wettingly sexy songs I've ever heard, "Strangers On A Train."

Quite good, this.

Opalfruit

07:07 / 23.11.01

"Superstition" by Stevie Wonder's pretty good.

Seth

10:01 / 23.11.01

Sounds alright. Apart form the Albarn man. Any MCs?

deja_vroom

10:40 / 23.11.01

What, no "Jesus Built My Hot Rod" by Ministry on it?

CameronStewart

10:51 / 23.11.01

>>>Sounds alright. Apart form the Albarn man. Any MCs?<<<

Albarn doesn't sing, he does a bizarre short spoken word thing that sounds like an advert.

No rapping on the album, all the songs are duets between Patton and Charles.

rizla mission

13:06 / 23.11.01

sounds scary if you ask me.

Not Here Still

14:35 / 23.11.01

Originally posted by CameronStewart:

it's Portishead crossed with Serge Gainsbourg.

Have you got the Handsome Boy Modelling school album? And if so, is it anything like the Roisin out of Moloko/J-Live tune on that, 'The Truth?'

Because if so, it should be good.

How many albums does Dan 'the Automator' Nakamura bring out every year anyway? It's almost as though he is... automated.

CameronStewart

14:50 / 23.11.01

>>Have you got the Handsome Boy Modelling school album?<<<

No, even though it's the greatest name for a band ever.

Lovage is very good.

Nakamura is doing another album with Patton, called Peeping Tom.

autopilot disengaged

15:14 / 23.11.01

the HandsomeBoy album is really good, and yeah - 'the truth' just about the best on there. i've heard a track or two from Lovage too, and it all sounds eerily authentic.

i do, however, wanna take issue with whatever local rag Cameron quoted from - "Gorillaz For Grown-Ups"? - the Gorillaz are class and the fact they appeal to post-pubescents is just the cream in the coffee.

seriously: the album has lowdown beautiful dub, idiot punk and skewed pop. plus, when they featured in a special edition of Smash Hits (with Jamie Hewlitt cover), they got to write the editorial and ended it with the salutation: "Hail Satan!". in Smash Hits! c'mon... what do they have to doooo?

also: they're playing a benefit for the people of afghanistan. yeah: theGorillaz. NOT just a virtual gimmick. you heard it here first.

CameronStewart

15:55 / 23.11.01

Hey man, you're preaching to the choir. I love Gorillaz.

I think the paper meant not that Gorillaz is for kids, but that since the entirety of songs on the Lovage album are about making dirty love, it's rated "R" and therefore "for grown-ups."

hail satan!

If I've got chemically induced staying power, fairly rare these days, my fair lady and I have been known to fuck to the Neck's "Aether", ahhhhhhhhhhh!
We tried to emulate Denzel Washington and, her name escapes me, in Spike Lee's "Mo better Blues", who couple to the cool jazz strains of Miles' "All Blues", which was still snaking its way toward CannonBall Adderly's glorious rounds of saxy solos as I was reaching for the postcoital gasper.

Slow and instrumental, hold the melancholy, baby. Any suggestions?

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