Och, stuff and nonsense! Without the backing singers what would there be for me to whistle to make people think 'Ooh, he
these first posts must get tiresome, but please endure yet another. I've been on the list in various guises for a while, but I've been too intimidated by the cool kids to post until now. I'm a texan currently living in boston, where I know not a soul and where I thus spend all my time and money on books and records and public transportation to fill in the gaps. sometimes I think it was a mistake to come here, and then I go out walking at three in the morning humming pop songs and no one tells me I'm going to freeze to death or get mugged or that I have class in the morning, and I realize I'd be unhappy anywhere, so I might as well be 2,000 miles from almost anyone who knows anything about me. and I'm just barely young enough that I can get away with saying things like that without it being completely vomit-inducing. I think. ian nicolson: likes Leonard Cohen!
What a pretentious twat'. And they provide a lovely counterpoint to our favourite randy mysoginist buddhist's tuneless caterwaul (and later growl). Anyways, he just wouldn't be as funny without his singers.
this is absolutely correct. besides, for truly obnoxious and inappropriate female backup singers, see elvis costello's painted from memory album (hi jay!). makes the backup singers on leonard cohen's records sound subtle in comparison. I read a magazine from a few years ago over the weekend that had entries for "bands you won't find in the trouser press guide" and the bit on belle and sebastian talked about the monica queen vocal being "misplaced" or "misguided" or somesuch and being rumored to have been done by isobel. I don't remember ever running across that particular "rumor," but I thought it was funny at the time. exams will do that to a person. and with that, it's time to go back to work on what my professor calls the "road to financial ruin," also known as my english degree. good night, emma __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+