Random Weekends are looking a lot like Elvis Costello Weekends this week.
Today’s track is another of the many bonus tracks Costello has released on the numerous reissues of his back catalog. I will let the man himself describe this version of the Imperial Bedroom track ‘Kid About It,’ as well as the story behind the writing of the song.
It’s funny how some songs drift in and out of our good graces.
When Elvis Costello released 1996’s All This Useless Beauty, I loved every minute of it, including (perhaps especially) its opening track, ‘The Other End (of the Telescope).’
Years later the song started to get on my nerves, particularly due to one lyric toward the end in which Costello sings of putting “a bamboo needle on a shellac of Chopin,” as pretentious a phrase as he’s ever uttered.
Any band that name drops ‘Harper Lee’ in a single has to earn some points right off the bat.
Little Green Cars, an Irish quintet who just released their first full-length album, enjoy the added benefit of comparisons to R.E.M. and Fleetwood Mac, among others.
Folk pop is a favorite genre of mine (and was well before its renaissance courtesy of Mumford and Sons) so Little Green Cars could well be a significant find.
If you were to listen to Iggy Azalea without seeing her, you’d probably guess she was a southern black rapper. Listen while watching one of her videos and you’d move on to southern white rapper.
You’d have to hear her speaking voice to arrive at the fact that she’s Australian. Didn’t see that one coming.
You know you’re into serious indie band territory when you can’t tell which is the song name and which is the band name. ‘The Woodpile’ by Frightened Rabbit, or ‘Frightened Rabbit’ by The Woodpile?
It’s the former, in this case. The Scottish band has released four full-length albums since 2006, the most recent being February’s Pedestrian Verse.
